Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-27
RAINEY ACCUSES
PROMINENT MEN
BITTER ATTACH IN SENATE ON
w. N. CROMWELL
WiIIett's Arraignment of President
Roosevelt Is Expunged from the
Record Under Protest of
New Yorker
rBy Associated Press.l

WASHINGTON. Jan. ga bitter at
tack on William Nelson Cromwell,
President Obaldia of Panama and 9TH
ers by Mr.. Rainey of Illinois was made
in the house today.
The postoff1ce appropriation bill was
under consideration, but Mr.. Rainey
spoke under license of general debate,
and was unsparing in his charges of
corruption against the persons named.
A speech by Senator Davis of Arkan-
sas favoring legislation to prevent
dealings by exchanges in futures" in
products of the soil and a maiden
speech by Senator Cummins Of Iowa
against the passage of the potsal saw
ings bank bill, as reported to the SEN
ate by the committee on postoffices
and post roads, were the features IN
the senate today.
Mr.. CumminS spoke in favor of the
deposit of postal savings in state and
territorial banks.
Recommending that the speech deliv-
cred in the house last week by Repre-
sentative Willett of New York, in
which the president was severely criti-
cised, be expunged from the Congress
siona1 Record, the select committee
appointed to consider the speech, SUBJ
mitted it's report to the house today.
WiIlett's Appeal Ignored
A letter written to the committee by
Representative Willett urging that his
speech should remain on record accom-
panied the report.
The report declares that it would
seem that "the peculiar constitutional
duties Of the house in relation to the
power of impeaching the president do
not include clear line of distinction
between that criticism of acts and con-
duct necessary for performance of the
constitutional duties of the house and
criticism merely personal and irritat-
ing"
1t also claims that it is especially
the duty of the house itself to pro-
tect the president from that personal
abuse, innuendo or ridicule tending to
excite disorder in the house itself and
to create a personal antagonism on
the part of the president toward the
house. and which is not related to the
power of the house under the consti-
tuition to examine into the acts and
conduct of the PRESIDENT
In his letter to the committee Mr.
Willett claims that he did not trans
cend the rules of the house.
The resolution recommended by the
special committee for adoption by the
house reads:
Resolved. That the speech of Mr..
Willett printed in the Daily Congress
sional Record of January 1S, 1909. con-
tains language improper. and in viola
ton of the privileges of debate. and
that the same be stricken from the
permanent record"
One Bill Favored
Claiming that the enactment of the
bill "is both wise and necessary" the
house committee on public lands has
reported favorably a bill introduced by
Mr.. Mondell CWyoming) authorizing
the secretary of the interior to have
surveys or retracements of public lands
made whenever he may deem it essen
tial after investigation.
1t was formerly the custom to accept
the sworn statements of surveyors
without first examining the survey and
the work was often carelessly done.
Because of the inability to define boun-
daries the government finds it difficult
to dispose of some of it's public lands
without a resurvey.
Under the present law one must re-
sort to a private bill before congress
to have a certain piece Of land re-
traced, and it is the purpose of the bill
to put the matter of resurvey at the
discretion of the secretary of the in
terror.
1t is provided that no resurvey may
be. executed which would impair the
bona fide rights of any claimant affect
ed by such survey.