UNITED STATES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9342, 11 January 1909, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

PRESIDENT ROO SEVELT AND CONGRESS. United Press Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. New York, January 9. ’ Daring a bitter struggle between President Roosevelt and Congress, Mr Roosevelt intimated that the Senate was not entitled to direct members of the Oabinetgto furnish information, inasmuch as the Cabinet is solely under Mr Roosevelt’s control. President Roosevelt assumed the entire responsibility of the question of allowing the Steel Trust to purchase the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company’s stock a year ago to prevent a panic. Opponents emphasised the danger of the Trust, and said that the Trust’s only competitor had thus been absorbed.

The Senate yesterday resolved, largely a£ Senator Outhbertson’s instance, to instruct a Judiciary Committee to report as to whether President Roosevelt was authorised to permit the absorption. The London Times’ New York correspondent states that the resolution has been interpreted as a sop to the Democrats, rather than a desiro on the part of the leaders of the Senate to press matters. The House of Representatives, by 212 to 34, resolved to ignore any disrespectful communication from any source, that President Roosevelt’s. language in regard to the secret services was unjustified and without basis, and that this fact constituted a breach of the privilege of the House. They therefore laid on the table the obnoxious portion of his December message. -

Many Republican speakers condemned the President’s language as a libel on the House, and the Democrats demand a withdrawal and an

apology. The sensational day was culminated by President Roosevelt publishing the details of the investigation by post office inspectors and secret service agents, which showed senator Tillman’s connection with' the alleged land grab in Oregon. President Roosevelt declares that Senator Tillman used his influence as a Senator in an effort to force the Government to compel the Railroad Corporation to relinquish the control of land grants which they had obtained from the United States to enablejhim and his family, and his secretary to profit by the purchase of the land.- It is also alleged that he frequently used the granting of his Senator’s privilege in the conduct of his private business.

Senator Tillman replies in open Senate on Monday.