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Show HOUSE REBUKES CHIEF EXECUTIVE One Message and Offensive Portion Por-tion of Another Laid on Table by Overwhelming Vote. Congressmen Decline to Consider Any Communication from Any Source That Is Not In Their Judgment Respeciful. Washington. After having mado him tho tnrgot all day for criticism, with hero and thcro words of commendation, com-mendation, tho houso or representor tlves Friday night, by a voto of 212 to 35, censured tho president by tabling tab-ling so much or his messages as reflected re-flected on niombors ot congress in connection with his recommendations regarding tho secret sorvlco detectives, detec-tives, and also declaring It to bo tho senso of tho houso that It shall do-cllno do-cllno to consider any communication from any sourco Hint Is not In Its own Judgment respectful. With feelings of outraged dignity on tho part or many of its members, tho houso Friday gavo itsolf up entirely en-tirely to n discussion of Its functions as a legslatlvo body In contradiction to thoso of tho executive. Tho report or tho special committee appointed to deal with tlio language In tho president's annual mcssago and In his special mcssago of January -1 bearing on tho secret servico wns used as tho Jasls ror some of the most enrnest mid vigorous speeches over heard In tho history of the house. In expectation of tho report thora wns ono or tho largest attendance ol members or this senson, whllo Uio gal larlcs wero crowded. Thcro was nol n moment during tho dny that the diplomatic gallery was not fully occupied. oc-cupied. This ulso was truo of the president's gallery, although no mem her of his Immediate, family wero present. Neither was his son-in-law. Hepresentntlvo Longworth of Ohio, In his scat during any part of tho day Mr. Gardner (Mass.) vainly endeav orcd to securo the ndoptlon of n sub stltuto for tho resolution in tho shnpt of on amendment, confidence In the commltteo of appropriations nnd' the Iostponemcnt of tho whole matter nn HI Monday, but ho was overwhelming ly out-voted. Caustic speeches woro mado during tho session by Representatives Per kins, Tnwnoy. Slicrloy, Smith nnd Fitzgerald, who had been assailed bj tho president. Washington. Tho senate onThursda passed a. bill providing conditions tin dor which tho thirteenth census wll bo tnken. Tho houso bill was amend ed to allow printing and binding ol census reports to bo dono by private contract if found deslrablo by tho dl rector of tho consus. An amendment putting tho nppolntnicnt or 3,500 census cen-sus ofllcers nnd clerks under tho civil sorvlco commission wns defeated Senator Culberson's resolution, asking for tho Information If the president had Uio nuthority to permit tho nb sorption or tho Tennessco Coal nnd Iron company by Uio Steel corporation, corpora-tion, was adopted. |