The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-01-09

HIT BACK At
ROOSEVELT
Rejects Secret Service Message
BY Vote Of 212 to IS
PERKINS VIGOROUS REPORT
Spanking Committee" Denounees Ac-
ton of Chief Executive in
Strenuous Language.

Washington, Jan. 9.-After having
made him the target all day for critl-
cism with here and there words OF
commentator, the House of Repre-
lsentatives last night, by vote of 2l2
to 50, rebuked the President by tabl-
ing so much of his messages as re-
| flected on members of Congress In
connection with his recommendation
regarding the secret service, and al
so declaring it to be the sense of the
House that they shall decline to con-
slider any communications from any
source which is not in its judgment
respectful.
With feelings of outraged dignity
and pride on the part of many OF its
members the House today gave itself
up entirely to a discussion of one Of
| the most momentous questions that
ever came before tits functions as
a legislative bOdy-in cOntradistinc-
ton to those of the executive branch
of the government
As had been forecasted, the report
of the special committee appointed to
! utdA Win lllN III AAAC ANoA
dents annual message and in his spe-
cial message of last Monday bearing
on the secret service affecting mem
bers of Congress, was submitted and
ii was used as the basis for some of
the most earnest and vigorous speech
es ever heard in the historic chamber
The House was in no mood to treat
the subject otherwise than seriously
although in the remarks which were
made the references to the President
almost invariably were couched in
parliamentary language. Nor was the
President without his supporters.
After making a vigorous speech
Chairman Perkins of the Spanking
committee" submitted the following
report;
Understanding this language 1.-THE
President's) to be a reflection upon Its
members and aware of its own con
stitutional duty as to its members
the House in respectful terms called
upon the President for any informa
ion that would justify the Language
of the message or assist it in its con
stitutional duty to purge itself o
corruption.
The President in his message o
January denies that the paragraph
of the annual message casts refec
lions upon the integrity of the House
attributed to the House an entire fai
ure to understand my message, Thi
House must insist on its own capaci
ty to understand the import of tn
Presidents language. We conside
the language of the President in hi
message of December s, 1908 unjusti
fed and without basis of fact, an,
that it constitutes a breach OF tn
privileges of the House; therefore b
it
Resolved, That the House in tn
exercise of its constitutional pre-
negatives declines to consider an,
communication from any source whicl
is not in it's own judgment respectful
and be il further
Resolved, That the committee o
the whole House on the state OF tn
Union be discharged from any cor
sideration of so much of the Pres
dents annual message as related u
, the secret service and is above Sc
forth, and that II be laid on tn
table; and be it further
Resolved, That the message OF tn
President, sent to the House on Janu
! airy 4. 1909. be declared unresponsiv
, to the inquiry of the House and con
shutting an invasion of the privilege
of this House by questioning the me
tives and intelligence Of members ii
the exercise of their constitutional
rights and functions, and that 1t b.
laid on the table.