Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-13
ROOSEVELT REbUKED
BY VOTE OF 212 To IS

plies, will be judged now and in the
future, according to the accepted in
terpretations of the English language.
This house, charged only with respon-
sibility to the people of the United
States and it's obligation to transmit
unimpaired to the future the repre-
sentative institutions inherited from
the past, and to preserve its own dig
nifty, must insist on its own capacity
to understand the import of the presi-
dents language.
Criticizes the President.
1--WE consider the language of the
president in his message of Dec. s,
1908, unjustified and without basis OF
fact, and that constitutes a breach of
the privileges of the house; therefore,
be it,
Resolved, hat the house in the ex-
ercise of its constitutional perogatives
declines to consider any communities
ton from any source which is not
in it's own judgment respectful; and,
be it further,
Resolved, That the special com
mittee and the committee of the whole
house on the state of the union be dis
charged from any consideration of SO
much of the presidents annual mes
sage as relates to the secret service,
and is above set forth, and that the
said portion of the message be laid
on the table; and. be it further,
Resolved, That the message of the
president, sent to the house ON Jan. 4,
1909, being unresponsive to the in
quiry of the house and constituting an
invasion of the privileges of this
house by questioning the motives and
intelligence of members in the exer-
else of their constitutional rights and
functions, be laid on the table"
At the conclusion of the speech of
Mr. Perkins, presenting to the house
the report of the special committee
on the presidents messages, Con-
gresham DENLY, also member of the
special committee, said that the house
was confronted with the most painful
duty that had fallen to its lot since
he had been member. 1t was great
ly to be regretted that the president
should have seen fit to mention by
name in his message certain men,
bers of the committee on appropria-
tons mot with a view to expose cor
ruption, but merely to criticiSe them
for their official action in their legis-
lative capacity" The president, he
declared, did not agree with the COM
mittee, but surely, he said, he could
not claim the right to hold up to pub
lie ridicule, in state paper, every
member whose views did not exactly
accord with his own AS matter of
fact, he said, whether always right
mendations, I think I voice the gen
eral view when I say that the chair
man and members of the committee
on appropriations, bearing as they do
untainted and undisputed credentials
from intelligent and patriotic COM
munities, have won and have desired
the respect of the American people"
To-day" he continued with calm de-
liberation, -four special committees of
fer a resolution intended to make
clear the attitude of the house toward
the president when in the exercise of
a constitutional privilege, he strayed
from Che path of recommendation
and just criticism into the realm of
personal abuse, suspicion, and innu-
endo.'
Interruption of the debate occurred
as Mr.. DENLY concluded when the
doorkeeper announced a message
from the president The house burst
into laughter and Speaker Cannon
could not re,tore order for full min
ute to recognize Assistant Secretary
Latta. For a minute after the receipt
of the messages, for there were three
of them, the house seemed stunned.
Debate was resumed when it was
learned all of the communications re
lated to routine matters.
Representative Bennett of New
York, predicted that the action of the
house on the resolution would play no
part in the record of Theodore Roose-
velt than did the rebuke of the house
to President Tyler or the action of
the senate in the case of Andrew Jack
son. He pointed out that no longer
than two years ago a committee of
the house had inserted in the Burle-
son bill. to punish the giving away.
prematurely, of information concern
ing crop statistics, a clause making
it applicable to congressman, and yet
the house had taken no offense at the
suggestion. that there might be Grim
inals among congressman.
Addressing himself to Mr. Perkins,
aIr. Bennett declared that his col
league did not do the president exact
Justice in stating that the meaning of
his words was that the majority of the
house was controlled by motives
which were or which might be cor
rupt. He was discussing the presl-
dents language in connection with
the debate which occurred when the
legislation was up last year, when he