Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-08
Georgia Representative Criti-
cises the Roosevelt Policies.
DEBATE ON PENDING BILL
Former Presidents Attitude on Anti.
Trust Law Condemned.
DEMAND FOR HIS OVERTHROW
Discussion of Census Office Item,
Effort Made for Temporary
Clerks Recently Dismissed.

Representative Bartlett of Georgia
took up arms against Col. Roosevelt in
the debate on the legislative. executive
and judicial appropriation bill yester-
day afternoon after The Stars report
of yesterday had closed. and called the
attention of the House to the fact that
there is considerable danger to the
country on account of Col Roosevelt's
alleged aff1liation with certain inter-
ests- The debate at the period was on
a section of the appropriation for the
Department of Justice.
Representative Bartlett said:
I'VE have seen in the last few days
and in the last few weeks that the
good trusts like the harvester trust
and the United States Steel Corpora
ton. are furnishing the campaign
funds with which to nominate the for
mer President, and if they are success
full in nominating and electing the for
mer President who uttered these words,
and you shall have a republican Con-
gress, you can have the Sherman anti
trust law either repealed or so modi-
fed that something will be 'substitut-
ed for Ii, in which event the gentle
men who compose the harvester trust
and the steel trust can become the con-
tro1lers of the business of the country.
are now furnishing money and cam
paign funds for the purpose of having
him renominated. and If renominated l
doubt not all the money and campaign
funds necessary to secure his election,
if that be possible.
Alleged Attack on Sherman Law.
Now that we have reached this part
OF the bill relating to the Department
of Justice. where we provide the money
for the purpose of enforcing the law and
carrying out these various prosecutions, I
have thought it proper to call the atten-
ton of the country to the fact that the
President of the United States. in 1905
began his attack upon the Sherman anti
trust law and favored the substitution
of something else for it: that he was inI
favor of railroad pooling. and il he shall
be reelected. l appfehend his accustomed
consistency will induce him to take II Re
position.
May 1 inquire OF the gentleman" said
Representative Hammond. 1.-THE name of
the President who declared that another
law should be substituted for the Sher-
man law?
Mr. Bartlett said he did not believe
any one could forget who was President
in 1908.
NO democrat can forget it, interposed
NO democrat will forget 1t. and there
are some republicans who would be glad
to forget it, was the quick response.
Hopes for Roosevelt's Defeat.
Continuing. Representative Bartlett
gave full expression to his wish for Col.
Roosevelt's defeat.
ed" he said, mot the fear that he can
not be defeated. but fear for the good of
the country and the safety of its institu-
tons IL he should be elected / believe
~ rx-srl ~ 1fr.o Tod md m
may be elected: but nothing so bad ever
happened to the country IL he should
be. i call attention to the fact that IN
place Of the Sherman antitrust law he
desired to have something else substi-
tuted. and he desired that the courts
should not have any control over the
enforcement of the law, but that the pow
er should be granted to the President to
enforce that law instead of having 1t
enforced by judicial proceedings. This
same President did undertake to decide
questions which the courts should have
decided, and on the 4th of November,
trampled the Sherman antitrust law be-
meath his feet and permitted the great
steel corporations to take over and absorb
its only competitor in this country, the
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company"
Census Item Considered.
matter close to many former clerks
Of the census office was discussed at
length during the afternoon, and Repre-
sentative Mann of Illinois attempted to
do gallant thing for many of the young
women who had been on the temporary
roll of the census office. A provision in
the bill calls for $4,000 for temporary
work. to clean up the odds and ends in
the bureau. Mr.. Mann wanted a provi-
sion inserted which would give the right
of way in appointments to the former
clerks who had been discharged. Repre-
sentative Johnson of South Carolina, in
charge of the bill, informed the House
that the provision stood as the director of
the census had recommended it-namely,
to take extra clerks for the extra work
from the eligible list of the civil service.
The suggestion by Mr.. Mann was de-
feated by small margin, the vote being
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