Show SENATE KEEPS BA TILE Southern Senator Argues for Three Hours on the Refusal of the President to Give Information Information Information In In- formation on Steel Merger J SENATORS ARGUE THIS IS DEFIANCE NCE BY ROOSEVELT Report In Wash Washington Is That Thai the President Will Will Send in Another Dynamic Message to Congress on the Subject I SENATOR i HALE IS PACIFIC Ot t M t t M t t t M t t M t f fM M T M C f- f f 1 Washington ff Jan 13 Senator Senator f t p ft t f Bacon Dacon argued for tor nearly three three three-t- f ft t hours hour t today day on tho the question of oC the thet t- t authority of direct congress to f f 1 cabinet officers to furnish with it f 4 4 documents re to government f ff f business The question was f 4 brought up Ut by President Roose- Roose f ff f 4 volts volt's of 44 4 message last week in legard re- re 4 4 gard to the Jenn Tennessee Coal Iron f ff f merger after aCter 3 Senator Culberson f 4 f had bad caused a resolution to be f 4 4 adopted asking nc Attorney General t- t Bonaparte why he had not prose- prose f 4 f cut d the steel trust because of its 4 absorption of the Tennessee Coal 4 4 Iron company r 4 t- t M 0 M M f M t M MM M 4 M M i t H t o to Q President Roosevelt apprised yester- yester tIny n of the line pf pt criticism th that t would woul today and moreover Informed that ho would bo be the subject of ot debate debato for Cor tho the next several oral days quit the capitol and rod rods over Into Virginia Virginai Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the da day His friends say today that h he got gt t away to tho the countr country that h ho might t tun un undisturbed think out a n. plan llan otto ot or to combat om at those thos who arc after him That another m message more moro dynamic than Uan any he yet has hus sent will bo be read either Friday or la is now tho ru rumor mor Senator resolution and upon whim lie he spoke today asks If any pub pub- lic ho document paper or record or cop copy thereof on tho the files tiles of or any lep of ot tho government go relating to an any oui whatever over WhIch congress has any great Jurisdiction or ur control under the constitution and an any information mation rC within tho the j pus pus- o session of ot tho officers of or tho department depart mont ment In is subject to 10 trio call pf of t Inspection of or tho the senate torn for uio u o In the tho or ot Ug n rs j a I L- L O k 4 1 r bun rod 11 COli gre 81 lI Ci called upon departmental for I information In- In formation Now tho the contradicts contral contra contra- diets It l l Is the open t c defiance gnal of any l a of of our such hl legislative privilege prerogatives s he declared Senator Hale Interrupted b by saying Baying that lie he did not believe the tho l President ns- ns uny any such right ht as to refuse the senate an any public document that might be in tho the possession of at tho the government l I 1 do not know leno tho senator said Id h hesitatingly IY but I cannot bring m my mind to think that he would go that far tar I hope and I trust rust tho the senators senator's construction of his mes message le Into an attitude of defiance Is mistaken We o cla havo tue tho right to demand o of cab cab- inet met officers Information In their pos pus possession possession session said Senator Fulton Senator Culberson referred to the tho act of congress creating a n. department of ot commerce and labor which President Roosevelt Roose had hail signed Tho The In law w provides provides pro pro- vides that the tue secretary shall from time timeto to time timo make such reports as congress may demand Maybe tho ho President doesn't regard ca cabinet officers other than more mere head hend clerks of the office Interposed Interposed Inter Inter- posed Senator Halo The Thu trouble IB Its gravely bravel remarked Senator Money oney of ot Mississippi l that tho the statutes are not analyzed Intelligently The rhe laws lawn of or the country should bo more thoroughly hl read and examined and the tho meaning of or words better studied If It such were done the tho necessity of ot our attemptIng to Interpret the tho vocabulary of or a certain gentleman wo would ho bo obviated ob ob- ob Wo We owe It to the states we represent and tho people who sent us here to assert our prerogatives and anti to be b by any man p |