Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-01-19
REPRESENTATIVE wlLLETT OF
NEW YORK MAKES MOST SEN
sATIoNAL ATTACK EVER MADE
ON AN EXECUTIVE.
BENEFICIARY OF
ASSASSINS HE SAYS
PRESIDENTS POLITICAL RISE DE.
CLARED TO BE "FLUkE" BUIED.
ED ON FAKE HALO OF SAN
JUAN HILL.

Washington, d. c., Jan. 1S.--Charao.
terizing President Roosevelt as Gar.
govic and as "his pigmy descendant
OF Dutch trades people" and charging
him with having established a court
in the White House which would have
delighted the hearts Of his admired
Alexander Hamilton Representative
Willett of New York in the house today
made the most bitter attack on chief
executive ever heard in that body.
An Unusual Attack
Willet took for his theme the
Passing of Roosevelt and in a
speech of great length dealt with num-
erous of the presidents acts since ha
came into Office and scathingly da-
Eounced them. After declaring that in
the face of all sorts of conditions,
Americans were possessed of univer
sal sense of humor. Willet said that to
such people ut must be confessed that
chief magistrate who has himself no
sense of honor moving like a horse ted
der over the bayfield, of American ac
tiyities and stirring UP every drying
blade OF the once green grass to let It
fall drier than before; quarreling one
day with practical politicians, then
with the part-your-hair-,n-the- the-middle
reformers, then with socialists, then
with great industrial corporations;
wrestling in agony Of spirit with Noah
Webster and our glorious English
! tongue; taking a fall out OF nature
takers; exhorting our women to avoii
race suicide, cannot but be an unmixed
nuisance
| HE tries our patience but he is all
ways good to laugh at. Thank Heaven
! for the things that make US laugh
he said
WiIett Sees Only Luck.
Willett gave brief biography oil
| Roosevelt's life, beginning with his ex-
! perience as a cowboy down to the
present time, accused him. in his early
manhood CT having had preposterous
notions Of having "knifed" Secretary
Long, of being warrior alone In
Cuba" of having won the governors
ship OF New York by a mere fluke
when the false halo Of San Juan hill
was above his head The beneficiary
of assassins and, last and crowning
piece Of luck, the nominee for prasi-
dent when all the aggressive elements
| of passion wanted to see thsiS nnn
| candidate defeated Mammoth, jocu-
larity has got to laugh with every ap-
| pearance, Gargoyle has been funny
from the hour it left It's native quarry"
In conclusion Willett severely criti.
cises and denounced many of the presi
dents acts.
Congressman Call Halt.
Several times in the course Of Will
lett's remarks he was called to order
| by Hughes of West Virginia.
II call him to order,' Hughes ex-
claimed. "He is going ahead with d
lot Of rot that neither the house nor
the country is interested in"
| Butler of Pennsylvania in the chair,
ruled that Willett was speaking under
the license of general debate and that
he was not called upon to indicate in
advance the subject of his remarks.
Willett then proceeded and frequent.
| ly elected applause from his Demo-
cratic colleagues. Willett's reference
to the defamation of Schley," CEASED
| CARRIER of Mass, to object After a
good deal of sparring the chair ruled
that the words were offensive.
BY this time the house w=5 IN a
| furore. Above the babel Of voices
| Gardner was heard to make the point
that member, having been found out
Of order in debate, he is no longer
entitled to the floor.
Voted of the Floor.
| Hepburn of Iowa and Mann of ILL
nois with copies of the rules in their
hands appealed for recognition. Hep
| burn insisted that Willett should take
his seat. Mann in the meantime was
reading some rules on the case. The
chair directed Willett to take his seat,
which he reluctantly did, Gambler of
Miss, moved that Willett be allowed
! to proceed in order" On that motion
vote was taken with the result that
| by the party vote, 7S to 1876, the
house refused to further hear the New
| York member. Willett had practical
| ly concluded his remarks. He received
l fho yardiot of tho houca xyi4h ar,;l.,