Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-01-09

cross listens tamcly and timidly to
objections upon the character of its
,nombers and its honesty Of purpose.
:, win deserve, and it viii certainly
receive the contempt, of the public.
we feel that the suggestions in the
nresidcnt's message are such as the
congress should refuse to meekly re-
coive and mildly to consider
r-non the conclusion of his remarks,
Mr. Perkins submitted the commit
toe's report. which, after quoting from
mo presidents message, VAS as fol-
lows;
understanding this language to be
q reflection on the integrity of its
membership and aWarc of It's Own con
stitutional duty Us TO its membership.
fine house. in respectful terms, called
nm. the president for any information
mat would Justify the language of the
message or assist ii in the constitu-
tional duty to purge Itself of coffup-
ton.
"Thc president in his message of
January 4 denied that the paragraph
of The annual message casts roilec-
tions on the integrity of the house,
attributes to the house an entire fail
IRE to understand his message, de-
clares that he had made no charge Of
corruption against any members OF
this house and by implication states
that he has no proof of corruption OF
any member of this house.
whether the house in its rcsolu-
ton of December II, 1908, correctly
interpreted the meaning of the words
used by the president in his annual
message or whether it misunderstood
that language, as the president IN
plies, will be Judged now and in the
future according to the accepted IN
terpretation5 of the English language.
This house, charged only with its re-
sponsibility to the people of the
United States, and its obligation to
transmit unimpaired TO the future the
representative institutions Inherited
from the past and to preserve it's own
dignity, must insist ON its own capac-
lty to understand the import of the
president in his message of December
S 1908, unjustified and without basis
of faat. and that it constitutes a
breach of the privileges of the house;
therefore, be 1t
"Resolved. That the house, in the
legislature of its constitutional pre-
negatives. declines to consider any
communication from any source
which is not in its own Judgment re-
s~pectful. and be it further
Resolved, That the special commit
tee and the committee of the whole
house on the state of the union be
discharged from any consideration of
so much of the presidents annual
message as relates to the secret serN-
ice 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
uary 4, 1909, being unresponsive to the
inquiry of the house, and constituting
an invasion of the privileges OF TINS
house by questioning the motives ana
Intelligence of members in the legisla-
ture Of their constitutional rights and
functions. be laid on the table.
When Mr.. Perkins concluded he
yielded time TO his colleague on the
committee, Mr.. DENLY, who said the
house was confronted with the most
painful duty that had fallen to It's lot
since he had been a member. 1t was
greatly to be regretted that the presl-
dent should have seen fit to mention
by name in his message certain OF the
members of the committee on appro-
priatiop mot with q view TO exposure
of corruption but merely to rrltlclse
them for their official action in thclr
legislative capacity The president
he declared. did not agree with the
committee but surely. he said, he could
not claim the right to hold up to pub
lie ridlcule in a state paper every
member whose views did not exactly
accord with his own.
Today he continued with calm de-
liberation, your special committee Of
fers a resolution intended 10 make
clear the attitude OF the house Of rep
resentatives toward the president
when in the exercise Of a constitutions
al privilege he strayed from the path
OF reason and just criticism into the
realm Of personal abuse. suspicion ana
innuendo.r
a ludricious interruption of the de-
pate occurred just as Mr.. DENLY con-
GUIDED when a doorkecpcr announced
Mr.. Speaker. "A message from the
president of the United States.
The house. led by the democratic
siae, burst into laughter as it bohcid
assistant Secretary to the President
Latta standing in the center aisle with
Z document in his hands. Speaker
,annon could not restore order for a
lull minute to recognize Mr.. Letta
ror a time. after the receipt of the
messages, for there were three OF
unem' the house seemed stunned The
uenate was resumed when it was
"arned that all the communications
referred TO routine matters.
AIR Bennett CNcw York; predicted
mat he action of the house on the
..solution Will play no more part IN
'ne record of Theodore Roosevelt Than
va the rcbuke OF the house TO Presi-
N'Ht Tyler or the action of the senate
m me case Of Andrew Jackson.
ne pointed out hat no longer than
s"o Years ago a committee of the
mouse had inserted in the Burieson
o"i 10 punish the giving away pre-
"aturely OF information concerning
Up statistics. a clause making it ap-
pD'able TO congressman and yet the
"0"se had taken no offcnse at the
tion that there might he Grim
mus among congressman.
ADDRESSING himself to Mr.. Perkins