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The President’s “Secret Service”
Message Provoked Laughter,
GONGRESS HOTTER THAN EVER
The Second District Congressman
Voiced the Sentiment of a Great
Majority of Both the Democratic
and Republican Members. Drastic
Action Will Be Taken and Stiff
Blow Dealt to Roosevelt.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Unusual
attention was paid in the house of
representatives today to the reading
of a message from the president re
plying to a resolution of that body,
calling upon him for an explanation
of the intimation in his annual mes
sage that members of congress were
afraid to be investigated by the se-|
cret service. The galleries \\'m'p'
packed to the doors. |
The President’s specific l‘wl'«-runu:sf
to certain speeches by Messrs. Taw
ney, Minnesota; Smith, Iowa; S]u:l‘-l
ley, Kentucky, and Fitzgerald, .\'cwi
York, when the provision for the re- |
striction of the operations of th(-'se-i
cret service was up for discussion, |
and also to Mr. Busby, the S;u-uk(;r'si
private secretary, created a storm (,)1"
laughter. The Speaker several times
vigorously rapped for order. l
Laughter Greets the Message,
In commenting on the president’s
reference to him in the message Mr.
Busby said:
“I am an employe of the house of
representatives. It would not be ap
propriate for me in any way to make
any comment on the matter now be
fore the house. I will say, however,
that the article quoted from the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean in the president’s
message was prepared in the regular
course of work as a newspaper cor
respondent when I was the repre
sentative of the Inter-Ocean. 1
doubt if a dozen members of congress
eyer saw the article or heard of it
until today.” |
As the reading. of the nn»ssng(f!
proceeded, many of the nu-:nh(-rsl‘
chuckled, others laughed (nm'ight.]
while some were prone to joke with
their neighbors. ‘
When the reading had been con- |
cluded Mr. Perkins, New York, (‘hail'-‘
man of the special committee which
originally considered the mattm‘,’
moved that the message be referred
to that committee. , I
“Return It,”" Says Griggs. [
“Is an amendment in order to that |
motion?” inquired Mr. Griggs, Geor-|
gia, in a deliberate voice. |
“It is,” replied the speaker. ‘
“Then,’’ said Mr. Griggs,”” I move |
that this message be returned to the
president.”’
“Oh. no, oh, no,’”" shouted a nume
ber of Mr. Griggs' c)lleagues. Mr.
Perkins insisted that the ::u‘s:—‘zl;:v'l
should go to the special committee,
and in the meantime Mr. Griggs
withdrew h’s motion, sayving that hLe
took that action at the request of
his party leaders. The message was
referred.
In spite of the fact that the house
was uproarious when the president'
message was read, it was Judge
Griggs who really voiced the senti
ments of the great majority on both
sides of the house when he moved
to send the message back to the
president.
The president reiterated his
charges against the members of con
gress and ‘‘rubbed it in.”” All that
was done by the house was to refer
the message to the “spanking com-!
mittee,”” which had the first messagvl
in charge.
But this did not satisfy Judge
Griggs. He withdrew his motion at
the solicitation of Champ Clark, dem
ocratic leader, who told him that it
should be left with the republicans
and not resented by the democrats.
“All right,” said Griggs, and with
drew his motion, but to a number of
newspaper men outside he remarked:
“When personal integrity is at
stake it is no time to play politics.”
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The Judge was the center of inter
est, and the center of a dramatic mo
ment for a while.
“There’s a time to be insulted,” he
said to the newspaper men with em
phasis, ‘‘and a time to fight.' He
was not the only one, fer the house
is hotter by far than it was before
Christmas, but he is the only one
that made an open effort to resent
the president’s charges. The general
[ feeling here is'that the president has
lsent a strong document to the house,
and that whatever the members may
think of the injury to their honor
and dignity, it is decidedly their
move.
Griggs’ Motion to Be Carriet Out in
Effect.
Drastic measures are being consid
ered by the Perkins’ special commit
tee of the house, appointed to rec
ommend to the house action in de
fense of the body in reply to the
criticism made by the president in
‘his annual message in referring to
the secret service legislation of last
year.
After a meeting of that committee
a report spread that the committee
would recommend to the house that
that portion of the annual message
referring to the secret service be ex
punged from the record.
Another report was that the re
cent message in reply to the request
of the house for more information
on the subject would be returned to
the chief executive. Neither report
could be confirmed, as members of
the committee refused to discuss the
probable action,
Other Editors’ Opinions.
ABUSE OF THE JURY BOX.
From the Macon Telegraph.
The Telegraph does not know all
the merits of the matter for which
Judge Spence excoriated the Baker
county jury that acquitted a deputy
sheriff and another citizen of offense
in visiting the house of an aged ne
gro and maltreating him and mem
‘bers of his family, but the case must
have been a glaring miscarriage of
justice to provoke a judge to utter
such sentiments from the bench or
to tustify him in doing so.
That glaring miscarriages of jus
tice through the failure of juries to
observe the obligation of their oath
are 11(‘1[“(’1‘ unknown nor \111('()711111(‘&1]
the Telegraph is aware, and we con- |
gratulate society and the stiate on!
the evidence cropping out from timu!
to time that there are judges on <mx"
bench who will not sit dumb and see |
these things done without indignanti
and righteous protest.
It is the province of the jury toi
deal with the facts in a case. In|
finding these the jury is snpreme,f
within the restriction of the jurors'l
oath to find in accordance with the
law as given them by the judge and’
the 9\‘idun(~u. :
There is no one better situated or)
qualified to judge of the facts in a
case before him than the trained oc-}
cupant of the bench, and_where therel
can be no mistake—where no mis
take is even pretended—in the cir
cumstances of an ocutrage, but only
a bare assertion of innocence re
turned by the jury as the result ()t"
refusing to apply the law to the facts,
as appears to have occurred in thel
Baker county case, a judge must be |
either more or less than a man to
st silent and not rebuke the reckless
blow thus dealt to society itself.
There is no more fruitful source
of crime than the jury box itself
where juries deliberately disregard
the law and evidence in cases and
find verdicts as their sympathies or
inclinations may dictate. There is
no longer any certainty or even rule
for punishing crime, and the man
with a wicked and depraved heart
quickly realizes he is free to pursue
his vicious propensities so long as he
keeps on the good side of the ele
ment from which the juries are
drawn.
THE COWARD'S DEFENSE.
From the Augusta Chronicle.
The tragic and disgraceful affair
in Ocilla, Ga., in which three lives,
and probably a fourth, were ruth
lessly destroyed, can affect the right- |
thinking citizens of Georgia only '
with horror and shame. The spirit
of southern chivalry recieves a se
vere shock from this affair, and a
hard awakening to the fact that un
til a war of public opinion is waged
relentlessly against the indiserimi
nate carrying of concealed weapons
we may not hope to protect the fair
name and reputation of our state
from the imputation of barbarous
lawlessness. The habit of carrying
concealed weapons is the first step
in the direction of ‘‘night riding” and
other forms of shameful lawlessness.
The concealed weapon is the most
potent enemy of civilization, and
'should be accepted as the badge of
cowardice and treachery. It undex‘-!
mines manhood and prompts youths
and men to a reversion to savagery.
‘The hip-pocket armament is a vir
tual acknowledgement of weakness
and a want of courage. The man
who gets his own consent to go about
secretly armed must acknowledge in!
his own heart that he is preparing
-—not for a fight, but for a treach
|erons and cowardly advantage, which
is the purpose only of the bully or
the weakling.
Had the young men in Ocilla not
been armed the suffering and sorrow
!of their death and the disgrace of
their lawless, undisciplined character
would not now rest upon their fam
ilies, their community and their
state.
FORTUNATE MAN.
From the Griffin News and Sun.
The editor of the Columbus Ledger
reports having seen a July grasshop
‘]wr in that city last Saturday. If
that’s all he saw the day after Christ
lnms he was a fortunate man.
VOLCANO BEEN RUMBLING FOR
A YEAR. MORE POWERFUL
THAN VESUVIUS.
Earthquakes fall under two class
es: (1) Those which occur in the
neighborhood of active volcanoes,
and (2) those which happen where
there are no volcanoes. The present
earthquake, unlike that of San Fran
cisco, is of the former class.: Its
origin is undoubtedly to be sought
in the great volcano, Mt. Etna, which
towers almost directly over the de
vastated city of Messina. There have
been warnings of impending activity
in Etna for at least a year past. It
is incomparably more powerful than
Vesuvius, and earthquakes around its
feet, or within its sphere of influence,
have caused greater destruction than
has occurred anywhere else in
Europe; only it has.not had an im
mense city like Naples to terrify, or
centers of art and culture, like Her
culaneum and Pompeii, to over
whelm.
Under a great volcano the condi
tions are such that the overlying
rocks must, from time to time, be
shaken. The gathering of volcanic
forces is a gradual process, and the
upshot is not always an eruption of
the volcano. More frequently the
THE WHITE CONVICT PROBLEM.
From the Savannah News.
When the legislature decided to
break up the convict lease system it
didn’t take into consideration the
fact that there might be difficulty in
providing for the white convicts.
Under the new convict law the con
victs are to be distributed among
the counties that apply for them, but
none of the counties want the
white convicts. The reason they
idon't is apparent. White convicts are
more difficult to manage, and white
}und black copvicts cannot be handled
together without additional expense,
since two sets of quarters would be
necessary. Public opinion wouldn’t
tolerate feeding and sheltering white
‘and black convicts together,
It is stated that the authorities
think it will be necessary to pur
chase a farm and put the three hun
dred white convicts, on it. We
haven’'t investigated the question,
but would the law permit the black
convicts to be put to work on the
roads, under the supervision of the
counties applying for them, while the
white convicts were cared for on a
farm? This discrimination in favor
of white convicts might present a
question for investigation. If it
wouldn’t be legal to make’ this dis
crimination there should be legisla
‘tion that would make it so.
There will in all probability be
other questions raised before the new
convict system works smoothly. If
legal objections to it can be raised
there will undoubtedly be such ob
jections. There are those to whom
the change in the method of caring
for the convicts is not satisfactory,
and they will miss no opportunity to
pick flaws in the law. I a white
man and a negro are convicted of like
offenses can the court sentence one
to a state farm and the other to work
on the public roads? If both are
sentenced to the penitentiary is there
authority lodged anywhere for dis
criminating in favor of the white con
vict?
“HE IS ALL IN.”
From the Savannah Press.
His Excellency, President Roose
velt, seems to be in a perpetual state
of irritation. To use the phrase of‘
the New York Herald, ‘“‘the presidentl
is tired of his office, disgusted with
congress and reckless of conse
quences.”’
Developments show that the presi
dent is not in good humor. And yet
he is too young and strong to be
broken down by the ordeal of the
white house. Older men have left
the executive chair wrecks in phy
sique, with good humor torn to tat
ters. Grover Cleveland had a rest
between his two terms and took
plenty of exercise. He stood the
strain better than any man since the
war unless it was General Grant.
President Roosevelt is feeling the
nervous effects of a strenuous life.
He has tried to be the whole thing
during the seven years in the whitei
house. As assistant secretary of the
navy he used to sink the Spanish'
fleet every morning, even before war
was declared, and had a report oni
the president’'s table for the cabinet
by 11 a. m. During his occupancy of
the presidential chair he has with his
own hands helped to dig the Panama
canal, led the army in practice
‘marches and cannoned into the Ger
'man ambassador at polo. He attend
ed the nominating convention in his
ikhaki suit and has been more or less
spectacular ever since. :
In fact, Colonel Roosevelt has
probably been burning the candle at
both ends. He has drawn heavily
upon his nervous energy and finds
himself, in the ldnguage of the
sports, at the end of his seven years’
term—*‘all in.”
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THE DAWSON NEWS.
mustering of energies ends in quak
ings of the rocks, by which the forces
are dissipated before they have been
sufficiently concentrated to drive out
the plug which always forms in a
voleanic vent after a gréat eruption.
Some of the dispatches from
Sicily intimate a fear that an erup
tion of Etna is about to occur. This
may happen, but if it comes it is
likely to come days later. The earth
quake indicates that the forces have,
for the present, expended themselves
outside the mountains. A readjust
ment of pressure has taken place, and
as the disturbed strata settle more
quakes are to be feared rather than
an immediate outbreak of the volca
no. It is rare that a great earth
quake occurs without minor shocks
succeeding it. This is particularly
true of the volcanic type of earth
quakes. But if an eruption of the
volcano follows the earthquakes gen
erally cease.
It has often been suggested that
Vesuvius and Etna, being situated on
the same great line of fractures of
the earth’'s crust, respond to each
other with alternate outbreaks. If,
in the present instance, an eruption
of Etna should follow the resem
blance to the great outburst of Vesu
vius in 1906 would be very striking.
That eruption was preceded by dis
astrous earthquakes which ceased
about the time that the volcano was
ready to come into play.
This disaster shows again the un
satisfactory state of seismology, as
far as the prediction of great disturb
ances is concerned. It is the con
fessed aim of that science to arrive
at the possibility of such prediction,
but the consummation is still far off.
Preliminary tremors can always be
detected, but the observers are un
able to tell whether the warning im
plies a serious sequel or not.
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. That serious kidney troubles fol
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. That diabetes, Bright's disease
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You will gladly profit by the fol
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S. H. Gurr, living at W. Twelfth
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’pzn't of my back for weeks and the
action of my kidneys became very
!irrognlar. Learning of Doan’s Kid
lney Pills T procured a box, and they
l(:ured me of the attack. I am
pleased to recommend them to oth
ers, as I fee! very grateful for the
benefits derived.”
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‘; KANSAS PLANTS MANY TREES.
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‘Many Thousand Distributed Through
l the Treeless Section of the State.
| In the last year 127,600 trees from
‘the Kansas forestry station at Dodge
}City have been distributed through
out treeless western Kansas.
" These include osages, honey locust,
"catulpa, Russian mulberry, box elder,
and ailanthus trees. The distribu
‘tion took in all of the districts west
of a line drawn north and south
‘through Hutchinson.
H. C. Cooper, commissioner of for
estry at the station, has just made
his annual report to the governor.
Heretofore the forestry station has
done little or nothing toward investi
gating the values of the different
trees in the western part of the
state.
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CAROLINA CONGRESS CONTESTS.
Three Defeated Negro Candidates
Have Been Ti=ned Down. ‘
Three congressional election con
tests from South Carolina were prac-‘
tically decided Monday, when elec-|
tion committee No. 1 reported to the
house in favor of the permanent seat
ing of Representative James O, Pat
terson, democrat, of the Second dis
trict, over Isaac Myers, republican;
Representative Asbury F. Lever,
democrat, of the Seventh, over Alex-|
ander Dantzler, republican, and Rep-‘
resentative Geo. S. Legare, demo- |
crat, of the First district, over A. P
Prioleau, republican. All the defeat- |
ed candidates are negroes. The vic-‘
tors are now sitting in the house. I
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Jaded Palates of Millionaires Are |
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Millionaires Yearning for rare deli- |
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smart hotels and swagger restaurants
never before was kangaroo served to
the New York public. A Silz of New
York city deals in game and poultry.
He received twenty-nine kangaroos
from Melbourne, Australia, last
week; they were frozen in cold
storage during the voyage, and are
now. Also came the information
‘from the dealer who sent them that
he is about to ship 200 more kanga
roos; he says he is certain kangaroo
will jump into favor in New York, as
it has in the best restaurants in Lon-‘
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