PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 320, 11 January 1909, Page 2

PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS

A lUll'Jiii SI'HL'UUWi. SENATORS ON THEIR JHCi.MTV. LI'ULOOi I-KMaXDED 1-T.OM THE PRESIDENT. HE PRESIDENTS REPLY: A SENATOR IMPEACHED. Received 10, 4..W p.m. . New i'ork, January 0. A bitter struggle between President ;oosevell and Congress is proceeding. President Roosevelt intimated to IUo iciiiile that it was not entitled to direct iieinbers of Cabinet to furnish inforimiion, iiiasmiieh as Cabinet was solely inder Picsidcut Roosevelt's control, and hat therefore lie (President Roosevelt) issuined entire responsibility in regard to be question of allowing the .Steel Trust !o purchase I lie Tennessee Coal andiron Jompnny's stock a year ago to prevent i panic.' , ist.\ ilis opponents emphasised thai the Trust's only competitor had thus been absorbed. The Senate yesterday resolved, largely tit Senator Culberson's instance, to instruct the Judiciary Committee to report as to whether i'resident Roosevelt was authorised to permit the absorp* lion. London, January 9, The Times' New York correspondent states that tho resolution is interpreted as a sop to Democrats rather than a desire on the part of the leaders to press matters. New York, January 0. The House of Representatives, by 212 votes to 34, resolved to ignore any di«< respectful communication from any source, and declared that President' Roosevelt's language in regard to the suggestion that secret service men should be employed to watch legislators was unjustilied, and without basis in fact, and as such constituted a breach of the privileges of the House. The House therefore laid on the table the obnoxious portion of the President's December message* and also his subsequent nvessage justifying his allegations by referring to the records and speeches of members themselves in tire debate preceding the reduction of the secret service vote, allegations which on inquiry made by the , House were found to be without founda- . tion. t Many Republican speakers condemned the President's language as a libel on y ! the House. Democrats demand from the , President a withdrawal of the allegations and an apology. \ The day's sensation culminated by President Roosevelt publishing the dc- ' tails of the investigations by post office inspectors and secret service agents of ' Senator Tillman's connection with an alleged land-grab in tho State of Ore--1 80n- ( President Roosevelt declared that ' Senator Tillman used his influence as o Senator in on effort to force the Government to compel a railroad corporation, " to relinquish control of the land grants \ from the United States to cnnble him, \ his family and his secretary to profit by • the purchase of the land; also that the '• same Senator frequently used his senatorial privileges in the conduct of hispri- '' vnte business. )7 i Senator Tillmon replies in open Sen,Jj ate on Monday.