Arizona republican., 1912-04-26
Brilliant Mississippi Sena- tor Uses Apostles Creed to Enforce
 Argument
PERKINS, LETTER
 CAUSES DEBATE
Session of Senate Was En- livened Yesterday by Display of Real
 Oratory
GASS0ciated Press Disbdtch1

Associated Press Dispdtch1 WASHINGTON. April 25.-The first sensational political debate that has occurred in this session of con- gress broke today over Col Reose- velts official correspondence about the International Harvester com pany, when he was here in 1907. Senator Bristow of Kansas was the principal speaker in defense of Roosevelt. and Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, was the as- sailant
 Williams characterized the former president as a Modern Caesar, will ing to seize power by any means while BristoW defended the colonel as the modern tribune of the people, and warmly criticised President Tafts administration. The debate became ultra sensational when Will Hams read to the senate a parody on the apostles creed as follows: "I believe in Theodore Roosevelt. maker of noise and strife, and in ! ambition his only creed (my Lord); he was born of the love of power; i suffered under William H. Taft; was : crucified, dead and buried; he i descended into Africa; the third year 1 he rose again from the jungleS; he 1 ascended into favor, and sitteth on 1 the right hand of his party, whence i he shall come to scOurge the licked and the dead. l relieve in the holy ] Outlook. in the big stick, in the 1 Ananias Club, in the forgiveness of political activity, in the resurrection of presidential ambitions, and the | third term everlaStingly. Amen, : amen, amen"
 The debate was precipitated by Bristows return to his charge of l-yesterday that collision had existed between the senate and the depart
 ment of justice in sending for the 1 official correspondence yesterday and
 that partially had been shown in that
 only the correspondence regarding
 the course of President Roosevelt's
 administration had been sent to the senate. while papers relative to the l Taft administration had not been
 sent. He asserted again that Attor- ney General Wickersham had had his
 reply ready to send when Senator
 JOhnston's resolution of yesterday
 reached him, and referred to the
 fact that two similar resoutions-by
 Senators Overman and Lea-had not
 been compiled with.
 Johnston denied there had been
 an understanding. He said he had
 seen neither the attorney general
 nor the president for a month Sen
 ator Clark of Wyoming. pointed out
 that the Johnston resolution differed from the others in that it called for
 specific information. He and Sena- ! olr ,,, hial,
 Roosevelt, when president, withheld correspondence from the bureau of , corporations. Bristow remarked there
 evidently was no disposition on either
 side of the chamber to criticise
 President Taft to which Williams z protested vigorously If the senator can show me the present president
 has travelled the same way as the , former president, I'll condemn him
 as strongly as I would Roosevelt" } he declared Tt would be a matter of grave public concern in which Q vital interests could be affected" re- I turned Bristow before I would dig ! ! up confidential correspondence of my l predecessors secretary and cabinet officers with regard to matters, r. which he had a perfect right to be-
  f fidence of the department, and print ,, them for political campaign pur- q poses" Williams speaking from the Q center aisle of the senate, touched a on the third term Are you going e to come out for the third term?" he Q demanded. Are you going to forget O. what Washington, Jefferson; Jack
 son, Lincoln and Mckinley did, and
 said? Are you going to put all that
 behind you because of a little key
 note phrasing?" He referred to the
 former president as Saint Theodore
 and said when Roosevelt had spoken
 of good trusts and bad trusts, he had
 meant to imply the trusts supporting
 his administration must be dealt with r. leniently. while those that fought fl is must be treated severely. Perkins e- had said he would fight the ad- is ministration and said it out loud, :" said Williams He was not willing i- to play in President Roosevelts back l. yard if the president would not play e- right" Bristow closed the debate
 with a defense of Roosevelt.
 OYSTER BAY, April 25.-Talb
 about suppression of the report is
 nonsense, said Colonel Roosevelt to- a night in statement setting forth N his connection with the International ie Harvester case Roosevelt asserted V { =