Speech #570045181

Every other recommendation either lies dormant in divers committee rooms or is suspended between the House and the Senate. In a desire to carry any of these xecovnmendations has the President exercised the wellknown pressure that he has exercised in this matter to bring about its culmination by the enactment into law of his recommendations? He has not summoned members of his party to the bar of his court to pass so important a measure as a law for the suppression of anarchy in this country. though he himself became President as a result of the fact that anarchy had robbed this Republic of the life of his lamented predecessor. he has not called to the bar of his court members of his party on this floor to press the passage of a law to supervise the trusts and suppress them in this country. though the American people are groaning under the exorbitant exactions of this commercial anarchy. he has not seen fit to call his leaders on this floor to demand that they create a new Cabinet office. that the commerce and the industries may have a say and a vote in the council of his official family. no pressure to pass the eighthour law for Government employees. no pressure to pass immigration laws demanded by organized labor in this country. no pressure to reduce the revenues which now increase the surplus in the Treasury daily. jeopardizing the commercial interests of our people. no pressure to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission. no pressure for economy in Government expenditures. none for the protection of our forestry. none for the passage of irrigation laws for our brothers in the West. nothing to protect the public lands of Porto Rico. nothing to furnish the wherewith to construct the isthmian canal demanded by every section of the country and by every citizen of the.Repnblic. - In fact. the whole power of this Administration has been devoted. in so far as it has the power to compel legislation in this body. for the one single purpose of passing this measure. and yet there are Democrats who stand on this floor and contend that this is a Democratic measurel For myself I can not understand that a Republican Administration should exercise all of its influence. bend all of its efforts. use all of its powers. to pass a measure that was not in keeping with the doctrines and the policy of its party. but intended to further the interest of the opposition party. But gentlemen say that this bill is in keeping with tariff reform. I deny that.