The Lamar register., 1909-01-13
LAUGHS AT 'REsUkE;' RoosE-
WELT is HAPPY.
Feels He Has Accomplished HE
Purpose by His Secret Ser
vice Messages.

Feels He Has accomplished HhI
Purpose by His Secret Ser
vice Messages.
Washington, Jan. 9.-Idle talk of
impeachment of the President, more
resolutions providing for investiga-
tion of the secret service. the Sen
ate threatening to hold up" nomin-
ations, notice of speeches attacking
MIR. Roosevelt, are the latest phases
Of the war between the executive and
the Congress, which has now reached
a stage of bitterness unparalleled in
the annals of the national capital
since the days of Andrew johnson.
Amid all this orgy of malice and
misunderstanding President Roose-
velt is as calm as a May morning.
His friends found him to-day smiling
and 'nperturbed. He laughs at the
"rebuke" administered to him by the
House OF Representatives yesterday.
is not afraid of the Senate's mvesti-
cation of the absorption OF the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company by
the steel trust, does not care a hang
how much they investigate himself
or the secret service or any other
branch OF the government and thinks
Congress has made itself ridiculous
in the eyes of the people by getting
SO much excited.
President Roosevelt has no reply
to make to the action of the House
laying his secret service messages on
the table. There is nothing more to
be said. The President has achiev-
ed his, purpose. He set out to attract
the attention of Congress and the
country to the evil effects of legis-
lative Interference with the work of
the secret service and he has sue
ceeded beyond his fondest hope. Pres
ident Roosevelt remarked to-day that
he was not so much concerned about
the dignity OF the executive or the
dignity Of Congress; what he wanted
was results-to do something, TO
have the public business go on in
an energetic fashion. Ii Congress
would give him the reforms he ask
ed for 1t was welcome to lay all his
messages on the table or put them
under the table or in the waste pap
er basket. A caller suggested that
it did not matter what Congress did
with his messages-the people had
read them. The White House view
is that IL all OF Mr.. Roosevehs 9th
er messages have been forgotten by
the people the parts of these two doc
smeots which the House has solemn
ly laid upon the table will be long
remembered
Mr.. Roosevelt does not go so far
as to say the House has made an ass
Of itself, but his friend William Dud-
ley Foulke of Indiana was with the
President for some time today, and
on leaving the White House made
this statement:
THE demand of Dogbewy to be
written down an ass was pale and
colorless when compared with the IN
extinguishable longing expressed by
the House OF Representatives to be
insulted by the President and to
have it inferred from language which
had no such meaning that a majority
Of its members were corrupt.
At the White House it is semi-of-
ficialIy said the war with Congress Is
over SO far as the President is con-
cerned. He is satisfied to let 1t rest
where it is. II Congress takes any
action making it necessary for re
pey ne may be heard from later. But
Just now he has nothing to say.
Apparently Congress is not so wehl
satisfied 1t is still thirsting for bat
tie. Up on the hill there is great
deal of loose talk about impeachine
the President. 1t does not come from
the leaders. No one is willing to
father it. But 1t is just talked a
round" that If matters get worse
Congress may find it necessary TO
have recourse to its constitutional
uowers of impeachment OF the exec
utiye. No one believes any such
thing will ever be attempted. Ihese
mutterings only indicate the bitter
ness of feeling which recent events
have aroused in certain breasts.
Even the most excited and violent
enemy Of the President is unable to
point out anything he has done Tor
which articles of impeachment wouhd
be other than ridiculous. Certainly
the President could not be impeached
for insulting" Congress when he pup
licly declares he meant no insult. IL
1T could be established that the Pres
dent violated the law in permitting
the absorption Of the coal company
that might be made ground for action
But no good lawyer anywhere pre-
tends that the President violated the
law. He not only had the official
opinion of the Attorney General that
no law was violated by that aosorp-
tion, but he has the facts, as well as