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Show SEN. CUMMINS I ASSAIUWILSQN i President's Indianapolis Speech Hj b Vigorously Attacked and 68 Ship Purchase Bill w Denounced. HS m PROGRESS TURNED BACK H Attitude of Executive Mediae- val in Character and Destruc- S tive in Tendency. fiyj Washington. Jan. 22 A vigorous f3j! attack on President Wilson's lnflu- ence on legislation and of the sentl- !fg ments expressed in the president's Bog Indianapolis speech was made by Sen- fvB ator Cummins today. In the course V-j of debate on the administration ship pun basS bill. jfeS "One of the moBt reactionary and dangerous proposals ever made pub- w lie," was his characterization of the iCrJ bill. The president's speech he at- j" tacked at length. "Its effects has been and will continue to be, to W'ty strengthen the Republican cause," he . said. "I predict it will pass into his- t tory as a lamentable attempt of a M;? president to forget the courtesy and dignity always looked for In one who raj? occupies the most exalted office in the world, and the dismal effort of a man of maturo age to change the Mlg habit of a life time in order to win fjifo : momentary applause." L?5 He declared it to be his "deliberate fcfjj I judgment that, taken as a whole, the pif I course of the president has, In two tf ' I years, turned back the hands upon k ! the dial of progress so far that his i party will not again be trusted with H.; the time piece of the twentieth cen- fe tury." Pj-At Pj-At length, he attacked the presi- t, ' dent's influence on congress and de- Ifo" clared that, with the exception of the mf-tariff mf-tariff law, all measures of general I" Interest considered since the begin- j nin of his administration had "been initiated in the White House or in the office of a cabinet minister " I "Somehow the spirit of our institutions insti-tutions has been transformed," said Senator Cummins, "and the legislative branch of the government has become a mere recorder. What the president presi-dent really wants is a journal clerk instead of a congress.'' The attitude of the executive, the senator asserted, was "mediaeval in its character and destructive in Its jj tendency." Senator Cummins attacked all of n1 the principal reform measures of tho Democratic administration, and said. If the shipping bill should become a law 'we will have imposed upon the people the most reactionary, Inde- 1 fensiblc legislation which, so far as I my knowledge goes, has ever ap- ii peared in congress. |