The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
WANTED TO SEND It BACK
The Presidents Secret Service
Message Provoked Laughter,
CONGRESS HOTTER THAN EVER

The Second District Congressman
Voiced the Sentiment of a Great
Majority of Both the Democratic
and Republican Members. Drastic
Action Will BE Taken and Stiff
Blow Dealt to Roosevelt.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Unusual
attention was paid in the house of
representatives today to the reading
of a message from the president re-
plying to a resolution of that body,
calling upon him for an explanation
of the intimation in his annual mes
sage that members of congress were
afraid to be investigated by the Sc
cret service. The galleries were
packed to the doors.
The Presidents specific references
to certain speeches by Messrs. Taw-
ney, Minnesota; Smith, Iowa; Sher-
ley, Kentucky, and Fitzgerald, New
York, when the provision for the re-
striction of the operations of the Sc
cret service was up for discussion,
and also to Mr.. Busby, the Speakers
private secretary, created storm Of
laughter. The Speaker several times
vigorously raped for order.
Laughter Greets the Message.
In commenting on the presidents |
reference to him in the message Mr. |
Busby said:
Il am an employe Of the house of |
representatives, 1t would not be APP |
prOpriate for me in any way to make |
any comment on the matter now be-
fore the house. | will say, however, |
that the article quoted from the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean in the presidents |
message was prepared in the regular |
course of work as newspaper cor
respondent when | was the repre-
sentative Of the Inter-Ocean. | |
doubt if a dozen members Of congress
ever saw the article or heard Of it
until today"
AS the reading of the message
proceeded, many of the members
others laughed outright,
while some were prone to joke with
their neighbors.
When the reading had been con-
cluded Mr.. Perkins, New York chair
man of the special committee which
considered the matter,
moved that the message be referred
to that committee
Return It," Says Griggs.
els an amendment in order to that
notion" inquired Mr.. Gr.ggs, Geor-
gia, in a deliberate voice.
1t is, replied the speaker.
Then said MI Griggs," | move
that this message be returned to the
president"
ooh, no, oh, no." shouted a num-
Der of Mr.. Griggs' colleagues. Mr..
Perkins insisted that the message
should go to the special committee,
and in the meantime Mr.. Griggs
withdrew his motion, saying that he
took that action at the request OF
his party leaders. The message was
referred
In spite of the fact that the house
was uproarious when the presidents
message was read, it was Judge
Griggs who really voiced the senti-
ments Of the great majority on both
sides of the house when he moved
to send the message back to the
president
The president reiterated his
charges against the members of con-
gress and rubbed it in" All that
was done by the house was to refer
the message to the spanking COM
mittee," which had the first message
in charge
But this did not satisfy Judge
Griggs. He withdrew his motion at
The solicitation of Champ Clark, dem
Ocratic leader, who told him that it
should be left with the republicans
and not resented by the democrats.
"All right" said Griggs, and with
drew his motion, but to a number of
newspaper men outside he remarked:
when personal integrity is at
stake it is no time to play politics"