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THE SENATE'S RIGHTS.
BACON THINKS |U>I>\ ENTITLED
TO I VKOItM VI ION.
liitwiesuciiii a itc^Jiitlon and t all* for
Declarattor of It* lnrcrognflve of \. -
ee** to t\ll KcoinU of lK |uirtiiK iU*.
Washington Jan. II.?Senator Ba?
ien) of Georgia today Introduced a res?
olution declaring that "atiy and every
public document, paper or record, or
copy thereof, on the files of any de?
partment of the government relating
t-? any subject whatever, over which
eoagree* has any grant of power. Jur-*
Bjetstllctloa or control under the constltu
^ tlon, and an;/ Information relative
thereto wlthli the possession of the
officers of the department li subject
to the call or Inspection of the sen?
ate for its use in the exercise of Its
constitutional power and Jurisdiction."
a. Mr. Bacon said it waa of especial
r Importe nee because of the recent men
Ufa of the president, in which he
stated that be had directed the at?
torney genenl not to give Information
as to what he had done In the bring?
ing of a suit ignlnst tin- I'nlteYl St ites
k Steel corporation for its absorption of
? the Tennessee* Coal and Iron Com?
pany.
Complaining that the language of
president In his steel corporation
message had not been * distinguished
oy ttc extreme courtesy," Mr. Bacon
a proceeded: "This Is the first time that
? the der.'al of the right of the senate
has ever been made In such unlimited
and emphatic language as that now
employed by the preside nt."
Senator Hale expressed the opinion
that the president has not taken a
^ square ground on the right of congress
to direct the? transmission of papers
by the head of departments.
Mr. Bacon said the president did
not stop st questioning the senate's
reason for its inquiries, but that he
had said the heads of the executive
h departments w?r?i subject to the con
stltutloo. to the laws passed by con
ares sad to the direction of the pres?
ident of the Unite l states, 'and to no
other direction whatever."
? That." said Mr. Bacon, 'Is an broad
ss human Itnguage cart make It."
Senater H opkins challenged Mr. Ba?
ns contention on the ground thai
not congress but the senate alone re
ceatly ask'* for the m for .nation re?
garding the iieJou of th? attorney gen?
eral and Mr. Lodge asked whether
* congress In the Judgment of the sen
w gtor from Oeorgia, had a right to de?
mand papers from the state depart?
ment.
"As an absolute right." Mr. Bacon
replied. "Yes, but of course while
congress hai the right It exercises Its
discretion Id such matters."
Mr. Be ->n I that the president
had but one royal power and that was
the power of pardon. All other p >u
erw. he said, the president exorcised
In conjunction with congress.
Senator Fulton declare that while
the congresn had the right to com?
mand heads of department <, it had no
power to er.force Its oomamnd*. He
said. "We '-ho'il,' provide ;t way to
enforce our power to 0 'inniand."
Mr. Bacon did not axreo with this
view that there was no way to enforce
Ulis power. He sugK<?ted that the
power of congress to Withhold salaries
wss one wty to emphasise this en 1.
but ssid th?% fact that the power to
enforce may he difficult does not af?
fect the power.
Senator Teller asked thnt Mr. Ba?
con's resolutlc n be allowed to he on
the table thai It might be di i
later. He referred to s statement by
Mr. Hale that cabinet I fflcers are not
mere clerks and said that It depends
upon who Is at the heiid of the gov?
ernment.
? It also depend* upon the kind of
men the pieildent ha- under him. '
said Senator Vlllman.
"I do not tnlnk any self-respecting
secretary would take orders from the
president. " said Mr. Teller.
The resolution was .aid aside for
the day.
shed April, 1850. *Be Just ai
1. 8UMTE1
UFT SPEAKS AT ATLANTA.
Hi: M ( LAUFS 1 HAT THE SOI Til
II \S WON HIM.
_ I
I*?mlsc> Southern People that Mak?
ing Aj>poliitincoli In the Souili 11 *
Will Select .Men Who Are Accepta?
ble to Their Fellow Citiions. and
Whose Presence lit IntpOftOQl POOl?
M?ns Will Remoter IDC Sense <?f
Alienism i\\ the Government,
Atlanta. Oa.. Jan. 15.?President?
elect Taft has been In the cordial and
hospitable embrace of Georgia all day.
Recognizing e climax of the varied
and cont'naous demonstration In the
brilliant and imposing scene presented
at the biU'i.h t hare tonight, he ex
Claimed with evidences of greut feel?
ing:
"I had not hoped to win the South,
the South has won me."
The banquet was tho most ambiti?
ous event of its kind the city has ever
undertaken. Though participated in
by more than five hundred of the city's
representative men. it was gloried in
by the entire population.
Atlanta's welcome to Mr. Taft be?
gan in the railroad yards, where all
locomotives tied open their whistles
and ceased only when he had retired
for the night at his hotel. Thousands
mto at the station, thousands follow?
ed him through the streets as he was
drawn by four cream-colored horses
t > the capltol. Governor Smith and a
committee of seventy gave him a for?
mal reception, after which the gov
? or proeCOlCd htm to the tremen?
dous crowd, and Mr. Taft once more
voiced his reciprocity of cordiality and
good feeling at this reception. He was
it once escorted by a squad of mount
e l police to the Piedmont Hotel,
where he w'as tendered a reception by
the Chamber of Commerce, the Ohio
Society and Yale alumni.
(Jovernor-elect Drown came with
Mr. Taft, Governor Smith received
him. and the officials of the city and
State generally participated in his wel?
come.
Mr. Taft will speak to the negroes
here In the morning, go to Athens to
make an address at the State Univer?
sity and return for the reception at
the Capital City Club tomorrow night.
On his trip here he made speeches
at Thomson, Crawfordsvllle, Greens?
boro, Madison, Society Circle and De
cat ur.
The features of the banquet includ?
ed not only the striking appearance of
the high, pillared room, with Its white
walls and flag scheme of decorations,
but a quaint programme of old-time
negro songs, illustrating the primitive
life and tastes of slavery days, sung
as solos by preachers, doctors and
Judges.
The tables were the streamers of
two huge flags, the field of each being
formed by the speaker's table, set be?
fore a forest of palms ind ferns. Di?
rectly behind the guest of honor was
an electric flag, which iot only waved,
but flashed forth a likeness of Mr.
Taft when the President-elect arose to
speak.
After the 'possum, 'taters and 'Sim?
mon beer had been served, and the
many other courses of the feast, the
guests, led by the orchestra, broke Into
song. Judge Taft Joined heartily in
tho merriment.
He was presented with a "Billy
?possum," constructed after the man?
ner of the "Teddy bear," to be the em
blam of his administration.
Hi v. as also mad.- th-> recipient of a
llhref pocket water lla*k, bearing the
? -at of arms of Georgia, the gift of
Mrs. James Itongstrect
H' sUlus Mr. Taft, the speakers were
Asa G. Candler. toastmaster; dovernor
Moke Smith. Mayor 1'.oh. it I<\ Mad
doa and Judge Tohmai O. Jones, Ala*
hama. of the Federal bench.
What was taken as the most lastin?
i satisf letoiy feature of Mr. Taft's
perch was ills expressed d ? d re t0 ap
p dal t > Federal poaltlonf in the south
only BOCk men us stand high as clt!
iis In the localities In which they
live.
Judge Taft ha 1 n care to the
; I? i .ration of hi- hau |U< t . |.ch,
ir irdlng It as his Important utterance
Of the ilny, und In its deliv. I y he fol?
lowed his manuscript closely. He ha 1
in.' South for rest to tired nervi -
Itter a strenuous political campaign,
he began, but when he reallaed h< had
fallen im.? the hands of the itn nuou
Atlantlani he began la realise thai hli
rest was to hf sOllOQsljf broken.
v.r. Tuft said with feeling that he
was proud to have bOOfl Ihi hist rev
olutlon candidate for the prestdcno)
who bad carried his canvass South of
Mason's and Dlxon's line.
"In tin i nee of I ?crii.il rats and
Republicans here at a non-partisan
banquet expressing the welcome of the
whole community, It would neither be
courteous nor appropriate for me to
id Fear not-^Lct all the* ends Thou Ali
X. S. G . WEDNESDi
go Into a partisan discussion." Mr
Tuft continued* "I can only refer to
the fact With gratification and con?
gratulation that today the expression
! of any political view in the South is
possible without involving social oa
traoism or any of the penalties with
which It might have been visited In
earlier limes. Ten years have made a
great difference in the attitude which
x the controling people Of the South oc
1 cupy tOWUrdl the Korth and the gov?
ernment."
The- pn sident-eioet then summariz
?d the causes which had worked and
wire affecting this change?the Span
Mi war; the attitude of McKinley, his
lovable character and the principles
he ttQOd for in his campaign; the suc?
cession of Roosevelt with his Georgia
mother; and finally the wonderful
busim m development! of the south.
0 "I am a Republican but I concede
fully the great advantage of the coun?
try of having a Democratic party suf?
ficiently powerful at times to win the
presidential elections and always tc
put the Republican party, when it
control, In fear of a possible or prob?
able defeat. And so in the South nc
'?ne can deny the advantage that will
arise in local and State governments
when there is a substantial and intel?
ligent minority, "which may become s
successful majority in punishment ol
the abuses that are likely to grow oul
of the long continued and undisputed
control of one party. Added to that,
the uncertainty which may attend the
result of national elections in a State
is certain t ? give it additional Impor?
tance to the councils of the nation.
"I oh erve that among some promi?
nent members of congress there Is a
disposition to charge me with an at?
tempt to win the South over to Re?
publicanism and a somewhat contem?
ptuous expression of opinion that this
is utterly Impossible. To them 1
would say that I am not hopeful ol
winning the South over as they siy
but that the South has succeeded in
winning me.
"If my coming had been partisan
no such meeting as this tonight would
have been possible, and so I may say
of all the receptions and expression*
of good will and welcome that I have
received from point to point through?
out the Southern country. The very
success of my trip, the very reason
why it gives me so much satisfaction,
Is the pronounced non-partisan charac?
ter of the welcome which has been so
kindly extended to me
"Now If this indirectly makes, not
for a partisan advantage, but for a
continuance of the movement in favor
of Independence of speech and action
and political tolerance, Its result Is one
that all citizens of whatever political
party must rejoice to have brought
about.
"The direct local effect of a nation?
al administration upon the South Is
chiefly through Its local officials, ap?
pointed and exercising their functions
through the section, and therefore the
expression o* the administration to?
ward the Southern people takes its
color in the character of those officials
and there the administration may be
properly held accountable and Its pol?
icies determined by the qualification?,
fitness and standing of the men ap?
pointed to represent It in the districts
and States of the section. I realize,
therefore, that expressions of sym?
pathy with the South and an earnest
desire to bring it closer to the cen?
tral government in thought and action
and feeling will have comparatively
little weight unless this expression is
accompanied by such appointments in
the South as shall prove this sym?
pathy to be real and substantial.
"All I can say with reference to the
future policy of the administration In
the South on this subject is that I
expect to spare no effort to find out
the facts in respect to the character
of the proposed appointees, and so far
as in me lies to select men Whose
Oharacter and reputation and stand?
ing In the community commend them
to their fellow citizens as persons
Mualiti. d and able to discharge their
duties well, and whose presence in Im?
portant position! will remove, If any
such thing exist, the sense <>f alienism
in tin- gov< imnt nt whtoh tin y repn
sent."
N- said thai the work of the next
administration is to be a work of cre?
ation nnd construction.
? < M* couree, ?the Immediate great
work of the administration must be
the revision of the tariff," he said.
"In tint work the South is quite as
muoh interested as the North, and
Would have an honest and genuine re?
vision such el has been premised by
the pany in power."
He gave assurance to the Southern
people thu! "no Interest of the south,
whether It share that interest With the
North, or whether It has a peculiar in?
terest of Its own, will be neglected In
the OOndUCt of the government In so
far as that conduct shall be under the
ms't at be thy Country'3, Thy C.od'a ai
!lY. JANUARY 20. 19
ROOSEVELT'S PEFTY GRAFT.
BIO stick MAKES government
PAY s\l\kii:s or personal
attendants.
President's Barber, on Navy Yard Puj
Holl as nn "Accounlniit."?His
Wife's yu seenger Paid n.s an "En?
graver"?TUlroan Ignorant of Facia.
Washington, Jan. 15.?President
Rooosevelt's taking Senator Tillman
to task for abuse of the franking priv?
ilege and the general row between the
president and congress over secret ser?
vice investigations of congressmen has
led to the rather startling revelation
that the president's barber is on the
rolls of the government as an "ac?
countant" in the navy department,
and that while not accounting any?
thing he is getting a salary from the
government of $1,600 a year for shav?
ing the president and occasionally cut?
ting the presidential hair.
It has also developed that Mrs.
Ro?soVelt'l messenger is on the pay
rolls of the bureau of printing anu en?
graving,, anil that he draws now $020
a year. The only thing he engraves
is an occasional footprint on the
san(\- of time, Both the account-hor
ber and the engraver-messenger went
to Oyster Bay last summer with the
Roosevelt family.
Thesa revelations have caused a
considerable stir here today. The
members of the house appropriations
committee who replied last week to
the president's charges against them
express regret that they did not know
Of the president's misuse of the civil
service when they spoke, and it is
practically certain that Senator Till?
man would have mentioned them in
his speech if he had had the facts.
Notice will bo taken yet of the sen?
sational revelations.
Spanking the president is still the
order of the day.?The State.
twenty-four people hurt.
Two Trains on Missouri Pacific Rail?
way Collldo Head-on Near Coffey
vilie, Kan.
Coffeyville, Kan., Jan. 17.?A south?
bound train on the Missouri Pacific
ailroad collided head-on with a
freight train near Coffeyville today.
Twenty-four passengers were hurt.
Only two, Mr. and Mrs. P. s. Ho well
of Nowata, Okla., are In a serious
condition.
The locomotives were demolished.
control of Its chief executive." In con?
cluding, Mr. Taft said:
"I beg of those of my hearers who
differ with me politically not to sup?
pose that their cordiality and courte?
ous reception are misunderstood by
me. I know that my spring from an
earnest and patriotic desire to pay
proper respect to the great office to
which I have been elected, and that
they grow out of a sincere wish and
proper assumption, that having been
elected to the chief magistracy, I shall
become the president, not of a party,
but of a whole united people."
As a prelude to his written speech,
Mr. Taft who began to speak shortly
before midnight, paid his respects to
those who had spoken before him. He
then told how he had enjoyed the
'possum, notwithstanding he had to?
day received a letter from Chicago
begging him for the nation's sake, for
his own sake and for God's sake, not
to touch the 'possum, referring him
to the 11th Chapter of Leviticus.
Mr. Taft's speech was received with
great enthusiasm. When he had fin?
ished his health was pledged with a
hearty cheer.
Governor Hoke Smith touched
slightly upon the question of "political
solidity" in his speech, though his re?
marks related to th;> New England
States, rather than to the South. Af?
ter referring to the fact that Georgia
had never furnished a president ?f the
(Jnlted States, but that she claimed
in part President Roosevelt, "whose
mother was a noble daughter of this
statt'.'' Governor Smith said:
"We have not furnished a president
from the South of th<; Ohio river in
recent years, but neither has New
Bngland furnishes one. nor the States
we d of the Mississippi. We are sorry
for New kfingland, Those Statt s wil'
never have another president until
they cease solidity, to stock to one po?
litical party, I d<> nol know what Is
t)i.' matter with the West. I suppose
they are just naturally too far from
tii.' state of Ohio, which is Virginia's
rival as the mother of presidents."
Turning to the president-elect, gov?
ernor Hoke Smith said:
"As our senators and congressmen
have supported President Roosevelt
In many of his measures, so we ex?
pect them to support you in every
measure, which will lift our public
standards."
id Truth's."
TUE TOI
09. :>vWSeri(
TO PROVIDE FOR IMMENSE IN?
CREASE IX COST OF THE
CAXAL.
'Over S170.000 000 Already Spent in
j Panama?Lock Canal May Cost
1100.000.000--Double First El 11
matcs.
Washington, Jan. 14.?The reason
for the proposed immense bond issue
is that the Administi ation has at last
oome to the realization that the Pana?
ma Canal will cost not less than $300,
000,000, and possibly half a billion dol?
lars, and financiers say that it is well
to prepare to issue bonds in the
spring that time being considered op?
portune because of the expected re?
vival of commerce and trade coincident
with the incoming of the new Admin?
istration.
The $135,000,000 bond authorization
has already been exhausted by the
canal expenditures, and hence the
early action extending the limit of
cost of the canal and the provision for
an early bond issue.
Senator Hopkins, of Illinois, who
offered the bill authorizing the issu?
ance of $500,000,000 of bonds, is an
Administration Senator and a mem?
ber of the Finance Committee as well
as of the Sonate Comittee on interoce
anic Canal.;.
While Senator Hopkins declares em?
phatically that he does not think the
canal will cost more than $300,000,000,
the fact that he has introduce a bill
asking for an incras'e of the bond is?
sue to $500.000,000 would indicate
that the real cost of the canal will be
nearer the latter figure than the for?
mer.
Senator Hopkins says there is noth?
ing serious in the financial situation
for the canal, and that the Treasury
Department has not yet Quite exhaust?
ed the entire amount authorized under
the Spooner act. The excess of ex?
penditures on account of the canal
over the amount of bonds issued has
been paid out of the general funds of
the Government. But it is not deemed
wise to authorize the Secretary of th<.
Treasury to issue bonds.
'The measure is to meet a future
and not a present need," said Senator
Hopkins. "Unexpected difficulties in
the way of excavation and making
perfect the sanitary conditions in the
Canal Zone have greatly increased the
cost of the canal. The work now be?
ing done is under the authorization of
the Spooner act. That act did not pro?
vide for the building of the Panama
Canal specifically, but offered an p.l
ternative proposition between the
Nicaragua an Panama routes. The
Panama route was chosen under the
conditions named in the Spooner act.
That act limited' the cost of the canal
to $135,000,000. Now we know a great
deal more about the needs of the canal
and are able to tell after having dis?
posed of a goodly part of the work at
a maximum of the possibilities what
the expenditures will be. I have no
idea that the canal is going to cost
anything like $500,000,000, but mem?
bers of the Appropriations Committee
and other with whom I consulted sug?
gested that we make the limit high
enough to meet any possible develop?
ments. My Impression is that the cost
will not exceed $300,000,000. The is?
suance of bonds for the purpose of the
canal has general approval. This
grows out of the generally shared
belief that posterity, which will en?
joy the fruits of the canal, should
share in the burdens of its cost of
construction."
In spite of the optimism of Senator
Hopkins it is believed that the cost
Of the canal will be very close to
$400,000,000 for an 85-foot level wa?
terway, and if a eea-level canal is at?
tempted that the cost will be over
$500.000,000. The recent report of
Liu et.-Col. George W. Goethala chair?
man and chief engineer of the Canal
Commission, showed that up to May
27. 1908i the total appropriations for
canal construction have been $120,
964.468.5S. and the total expenditures
up to July 1. 190?, $S4.572 998.55.
h aving a balance of $36.391,470.03 un?
der the appropriation! for 190S and
1909 available for the current year,
None of these flgurei included the
140,000,000 payment to France and
the $10.000,000 paid to Panama so
that the total amount authorized up
to June 1 last was over $170.000.000.
The engineering committee not longer
than four years ago?February 14.
1905?estimated that the cost of a
60*foot level canal would be $17S,
015,406t and that a sea-level canal
would nol cost over $240,000,000. It
is now apparent that the canal is go?
ing to cost twice as much as original?
ly estimated.
When the canal matter \ws pend?
ing before the senate the late Senator
John T. Morgan, who possessed a
von.
IE SOCTHROX, rm?MMll< Juno, 186?
BS?Vol. XXVIII. So 24
THE ASYLUM IKVESTiGATi 0W3
FHtST RSPORT? WERE GREATLY
EXAGGERA FED.
There Seen? to l>e BO (.rounds for
B> mational Reports und the Cliarges
Made Indicated Nothing Mote Seri?
ous Tiiiin BrataHtf aad a petty
(.raft.
Cojgmbia, Jan. 16.?A petition has
been placed in the hands of Senator
Christensen, drawn up by Attorney
Hunter A. Gibbes of the Columbia bar,
for presentation to the legislature
asking that a commission be appoint?
ed to investigate conditions at the
State Ho-ptlal for the Insane on the
strength of a number of affidavits ac?
companying the petition alleging bru?
tal treatment of male patients, that
insufficient food is furnished these pa?
tients and that the hospital farm is
contributing too many perquisites to
persons not entitled to them, '' here
is no charg? or intimation that there
baa been any irregularities or misman?
agement regarding the finances of the
institution.
The past few days there has been a
number of wild rumors circulated
among members of the legislature,
among others that there had been
charges of improper conduct of keep?
ers toward women patients, but in?
vestigation reveals that there is noth?
ing whatever on which to base such
charges. The petition makes no al?
legation of the kind, according to
those interested in its being drafted.
In fact, owing to circumstances sur?
rounding the making of the affidavits
it is seriously doubted on the part of
members of the legislature whether*
there is really any foundation for any
of the charges. The greatest confi?
dence has always been felt in the
ability and painstaking care of Super?
intendent Eabcock as well as in his
unselfish devotion to the interests of
the patients, and it is not believed that
there is not really anything serious
the matter with the management of
the institution. It is a fact, however,
generally admitted that the appro?
priation allowed for the institution
has not for a number of years been
sufficient to properly provide for the
steadily increasing number of pa?
tients that have to be cared for. In
tnis connection it is figured out that
the pppropriation that has been
made the past several years provides
only about 30 ;ents 1 day pei patient
for his maintenance, clothing as well
as food, it is a matter of common
knowledge that the State's convicts
are better fed than its unfortunate
wards in the hospital for the insane.
There Is a great reluctance on the
part of the major portion of the leg- '
islaturc to subject those connected
with the management of the institu?
tion to a public Investigation un!- ?
there is a strong probability that some
of the charges are true. Naturally
they conclude that this would cause
needless anxiety and pain to relatives
of patients and place the State in an
improper and foolish light before the
world.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 17.?There has
been a marked increase in the cholera
in this city. Fifty-nine oases and 21
deaths have been reported in the last
24 hours.
Herbert Code, colon, d. was killei
by an Atlantic Coast Line train near
Darlington, while beating a ride.
clearer Insight into the interoceanic
canal question than any other human
being within or outside of congress,
declared frequently upon the floo.- of
the senate that the canal proposed by
the Roosevelt adnilnheiratloa at Pan?
ama could not be built for the sums
claimed in support of the administra?
tion project and that the Nicaragua
route would have been both cheaper
and wiser In the end. He vie ?rously
opposed the selection Of the PatUUSAS
route. After the adniinist:ation in?
sisted upon that route he fought con?
sistently for the adoption of a seu>
level canal. The ROOM veil forces un?
der Senator Hopkins secured the
adoption of the Bt-fooi level lock ca?
nal project.
a number of s/ell-tnformed men in
congress among them Senator Kitt
ridge, believe that before the lapse of
another two yean it will be discover?
ed that Senator MorggfPNras right In
his declaration that iftho canal were
to be built at Panama it should be of
the sea-level type. Whether the ad?
ministration sees this situation arising
already cannot be Confirmed, but it Ik
now strongly believed that the appeal
for $r>00.000,000 as the limit of the
bond issue Is nothing less than an an?
chor to windward to pro\ido for emer?
gencies in the event of the change
from the lock type to the sea-level
plan.