Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
ROOSEVELT
SCATHINGLY
DENOUNCED
TRADE AGAINST PRESIDENT
is STOPPED
REPRESENTATIVE COOK TALKS
ON SECRET SERVICE
Says Chief Executive Thinks He. Is
the Whole Government and His
lpse DIxlt Must Rule
Everybody
LBy Associated Press.1

M ASHINGTON, Feb 25.-The
w house, it was announced to-
night, probably will vote next
Monday on the senate ocean mail sub
sidy bill, which today was ordered re-
ported favorably.
careful canvass of the house is in
progress. Not until the poll is COM
pleted will the rules committee con-
slider rule for the vote on the BILL
During the consideration of the sun
dry civil bill in the house, Mr.. Ben
nett's amendment, striking out the pro-
vision limiting the field of operations Of
the secret service, was rejected Al to
153.
Vitriolic denunciation of the secret
service Of the treasury department was
uttered by Mr.. Smith, Republican, Of
Iowa, during the consideration of the
bill. He likened the secret service men
to common liars,'' charged that they
were unable to unearth gigantic land
frauds recently detected by the secre-
tary of the interior. He said McKin-
ley was shot down at Buffalo while a
secret service detective stood at his
side, taking no notice of the approach
ing murderer. He said further that
that secret service man did not even
capture the murderer, but it took q
man with black skin to do so
The discussion arose over the amend
ment offered by Mr.. Bennett of New
York, striking out the provision limit
ing the field of operations of the secret
service.
A similar paragraph in the last ap-
preparation bill is what gave rise to the
presidents criticism of congressman.
Mr.. Bennett strongly defended the
secret service detectives. Mr.. Smith
replied that one Of the requisites of a
detective was that he should be a
common liar
Scores the Government SIeuths
Respectable men, he said, would
take places as postoffice inspectors and
as special agents of the interior de-
partment, although occasionally they
might have to do some detective work,
but, he asserted, 1.-The idea that some
three or -dollar-a-day man who is
willing to be a detective can familiar
ize himself with all the laws and
therefore become more useful than a
specialist is simply absurd"
'"The only president assassinated
since the secret service men were de-
tailed to watch the president said Mr.
Smith, was when President Mckinley
was shot down at Buffalo with a secret
service man by his side who was un-
able to observe the approaching muir
derer with his bandaged hand. That
man did not even capture the muir
derer.''
Mr.. Cook, Republican, of Colorado
also discussed the provision and re-
ferred to the president as follows:
ut is unfortunate not only for Presi-
dent Roosevelt but for the country that
he has not a legal mind and no equi-
poise of reason, riding through and
around the arena of political action on
his bronco of arrogant, egotistical i'm
pulse, pretending to throw his lariat Of
execution at the heels and broad horns
of capital for the delectation Of voting
labor. and ending the scene with the
cunning catch of prairie wolf or a
gopher"
Mr.. Cook that he was denied the privi-
lege of continuing his remarks after he
had spoken but few minutes.
CoIoradoan Scores Roosevelt
In the main he was addressing him
self to the work of the secret service
agents in Colorado in certain alleged
land fraud case one of whom, he stat
ed, was horse thief. The case, he
said, had come to the United States
supreme court, and was unanimously
decided in favor of the defendants.
Mr.. Cook declared that Gin all this
fuss and feathers Of the whole admins
tration the president and his plant at
torney general have not sent a single
plutocrat to the penitentiary''
"Such a keen political speculator and
political and financial strenuosity." he
said, ''has never been seen before in
this republic, and let US fervently hope
that his like shall never be seen again.
Look at the paragraphs of his ratified
messages and you will be startled to
see and read the insinuations and
abusive phrases against the legislative
and judicial departments of the govern
ment.''
president Roosevelt" he continued.
'seems to think he is the government
and that his ipse dixit must rule every
body. He runs the government on the
same principle that the beef trust runs
a sausage factory, from a personal
standpoint, using executive and judi
cial pork to advance his fanatic ad-
ministration.
while initiating Rienzi and Crom-
well in foOling the people he is prac-
ticing the hypocrisy and dictatorship
Of Cleon, and Dionysius, and has built
up a Roosevelt in the army, navy and
civil service, all for his personal and
dence and vanity, arrogance and inn
perial egotism.
His veto messages are made from
the impuls1ve and ignorant information
of his cabinet clerks. and the vacillat-
ing attorney general is a weak legal
reed of the Rough Riders dependence,
who even recently gave false state
ment to the president upon the joint
resolution passed by congress deter
mining the question of the boundary
line between the states of Colorado and
Oklahoma, and the territory Of New
Mexico