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tlio houso from tho Twenty-seventh
Now York district and Is a close
friond of Vico Prcsldont Shonnan.
"In tho two appointments ofllcial
Washington found food for specula
tion and many politicians thought
thoy saw therein tho first stop of tho
administration to straighten out the
tangled skoln of Now York politics.
No effort was made ly tho president
to conceal tho satisfaction with
which ho vlowod tho appointmont of
Mr. Stimson. Not only has ho tho
highest personal regard for tho in
coming mombor of his cablnot, but
ho is well aware that tho appoint
mont will bo acceptable to a largo
faction of tho republican party in
Now York. Whilo tho selection of
Mr. Stimson was made after only a
fow days' consideration, Senator
Root and other leaders woro con
sulted and gave it their unqualified
approval.
"Former President Roosevelt was
not called into conference, but there
is no question ho must approve tho
naming to suclr an important post of
a man for whom ho worked tooth
and nail in tho recent governorship
campaign."
some timo ago, and later received
tho acceptance from Kentucky. The
match probably will bo played on
tho Chovy Chase links May 20.
Senator Galllnger, of Now Hamp
shire, was unanimously nominated
president pro tompore of tho United
States senate in republican caucus
to fill tho vacancy caused by tho
resignation of Senator Fryo, of
Maine.
Twenty-five farmers, members of
tho national grange, addressed Presi
dent Taft telling him that the Cana
dian reciprocity treaty, if passed,
would loso the republican party a
largo part of tho farmer voto.
By G6 to 5 the United States senate
fixed as unfinished business the joint
rosolution for election of United
States sonators by direct voto. Sena
tors Brandegee, Burnham, Gallinger,
Heyburn and Penrose voted against
tho proposal.
committees on resolutions of Inquiry
and tho committee on territories
which earlier in the day had ap
proved tho sub-committeo report
recommending statehood for both
territories after they shall .have made
certain constitutional amendments.
Arizona asked to resubmit the recall
provision of its constitution voting
an amendment which eliminates the
judiciary recall. New Mexico asked
to vote an. amendment making its
constitution more easily amendable.
The joint resolutions reported, by
Chairman Flood of tho committee on
territories will be called up later.
A petition was filed in Washing
ton to have adjudged insane Stetson
Hutching, multimillionaire founder
of many newspapers.
Representative Hill of Connecti
cut, republican, attacked tho demo
cratic free list bill. The Associated
Press says: "Mr. Hill assorted that
tho bill revised by the democratic
leaders removing tho tariff duties
from many food products and manu
factured articles was- so crudely
drawn and so indefinite in its terms
that no ostimato could bo made of
tho revenues it would cut off or
the effect it would have on business
and commerce. He said that instead
of $10,000,000 reduction in revenue,
as tho democrats expected, it might
i" mako a reduction of $50,000,000,
and that Its effect upon business
would be to transfer many flourish
ing industries to Europe.
"Chairman Underwood of the ways
and means committee interjected
that Mr. Hill's whole argument was
from tho standpoint of the Ameri
can manufacturer; that its real pur
poso was 'to reduce the prices and
cost of living for the American
people.'
"Mr. Hill said that the reductions
would in almost every case be taken
up by the big corporations that con
trol the markets. Tho speech was
enlivened by many Interruptions and
much partisan comment from both
sides of the house.
"Mr. Focht of Pennsylvania, also
against the bill, had an amusing tilt
with Mr. Sims of Tennessee, -who
objected to Mr. Focht's statement
that tho tariff debate in the extra
session was costing the country
$10,000 a1 minute. Mr. Sim3 said
the expense to the country would be
the same, whethor the houso were in
session or not.
" 'Wo did not call the extra ses
sion,' Mr. Focht retorted. 'You had
to mako your agreement with the
white house that you would pass the
reciprocity bill.'
" 'Whoso white houso is it?' asked
Mr. Sims.
" 'You claim that and everything
in sight,' said Mr. Focht.
" 'Who owns the white house?'
persisted Mr. Sims.
" 'You act as if. you did,' Mr.
Focht returned, 'and you act as
though you really thought you had
tho president now.' "
Pensions for $5,000 a year each
for Frances Folsom Cleveland, widow
of president, and Mary Lord Harri
son, widow of President Harrison,
are provided for in a bill introduced
in the senate by Senator Root of New
York. The bills were referred to the
committee on pensions.
The Washington correspondent for
the Louisville Courier-Journal says:
"Is a disappearing bed in an apart
ment house an article of manufacture
or is it merely a species of architec
ture? Tho supreme court of the
United States will be asked to con
sider the question A company
which purchased a patented disap
pearing bed from Lawrence Holmes,
of Los Angeles, Cah, claims it is a
new and novel article of manufac
ture; Edward Arnaelsteen, also of
California, claims It is not a patent
able article, but a style of architec
ture. The former, in a brief filed
in the supreme court, says that if
the patent is not sustained fully
50,000 other patents would be open
to attack."
The Washington correspondent
, lor the- Louisville Courier-Journal
says: "Governor Wilson, of Kon-
tucky, is coming to Washington to
play golf with President Taft. The
president challenged tho governor
The Washington correspondent for
the Associated Press says: "Acting
upon instructions of the caucus held
early in the session the democratic
leaders brought two resolutions into
tuo uuubq ior paBsage, cutting off
scores of employes and rearranging
the basis of committee clerkships
upon a more economical plan.
"The first resolution, that cutting off
$82,000 worth of employes, went
through without much trouble. The
Second one. hflWAVor nrnvlrllnir oc
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slon clerks for several committees
broke up the democratic ranks, but
was finally passed.
"In the resolution waa a provision
for an assistant clerk to the com
mittee on territories, a new position,
which was eliminated from the
resolution on protest of Mr. Rucker
of Missouri. Representative Garner
ul -i.tw.ua, a democratic member of
tho Committer nn nnnntn r.r.i.j
the republicans in criticising this
creation of an adidtional place. Mr.
Rucker said the trouble with the
democrats was they were attempting
too darned much economy.' "
Minority Leader Mann said he had
been nicely treated by the democrats,
had been given a good room with a
pretty red carpet" in it. Ho had
been given no janitor, however, to
take care of the room. "When I
made a requisition for a carret
sweeper so that I might more easily
clean my pretty red carpet," Mr.
Mann said, "this distinguished ag
gregation of economists turned It
down."
TIDE DRUMMER WHOSE NAME IS
WAJR SCARE
The drummer whose name is War
Scare and whose line is armaments
is turning towards himself an
amount of hostile attention that
means no good for his firm, the
makers of guns and armor plate.
Peace advocates are zealous and
some are zealots. If they success
fully can raise the protest that mili
tary establishments are the result of
the influence of armament syndicates
they may interfere mischiveously
with the moderate defense plans of
the United States government.
Armament makers in this country
havo been contributory to hysteria
at one extreme, and so far as they
have been responsible for inflaming
public sentiment they merit the con
sequences of their acts. A nation's
military precautions cannot be devised
sanely under the influence of either
the extreme peace idealist on the
ono hand or the manufacturers who
find profit in preparations for war on
the other.
The drummer whose name is War
Scare has talked his line of goods
too much for his own advantage In
this country and too much for the
country's good, if he has furnished
to the disestablishment advocates the
argument that a nation puts itself in
a defensible position merely to pro
vide dividends for men who gain
when their fellows fight.
The case against the foreign arma
ment syndicate is clearer, but it is
not conclusive. The capitalization of
the six great English makers of arms
and armor is $137,000,000 invested
in plants which depend on prepara
tion for and the making of war for
their profits. Among the owners of
Vickers & Maxim, one of these firms
are two dukes, two marquises, fifty
earls and barons, fifteen baronets,
five knights, three members of par
liament, twenty-one military and
naval officers. Other companies have
a like composition and the figures
are quoted by peace advocates to
reveal what an influence is exerted
to keep Great Britain crowded to the
edge of an economic breakdown In
preparation for war.
Granting- the -force of this influ
ence, it is disingenuous not to con
sider tho fact that Great Britain wel
comes the international arbitration
treaty with -an ardor "little understood
in America, and that Germany has
said "No" to proposals even vaguely
offering the possibility of limitation
of naval construction.
A case against the armament" syn
dicate may be found in South
America, "where Brazil was persuaded
to undertake the establishment of a
modern fleet, only to find itself the
first victim of their guns, and only
to force Argentina into a program
of duplication or excelling the Bra
zilian establishment.
"The unseen empire of finance has
two rules of action," says David
Starr Jordan in a recent letter to the
San Francisco Argonaut, "to make
good its pledges and to 'play no
favorites' among its clients. It
finances Russia and Japan, England
and Germany alike, and up to the
limit the traffic will bear. The credit
of America is still good and this, the
most peaceful of all countries, with
out an enemy on earth, so strong, so
rich, and so isolated as to be above
all thought of attack, is still the most
fertile field for war scares."
The isolation of America is afford
ed by two oceans plus battleship
fleets on them. A conspiracy which
sends the drummer War Scare out
for business at the risk of involving
the country in war approaches
treason. A propaganda which uses
that fact to influence legislation
against proper military precautions
may be guided by a large humanity,
but certainly by a poor patriotism.
President Taft, with a knowledge
of military necessities and a sincere
desire that military establishments
shall not be ised, is a conspicuous
type of the real friends of peace
whose efforts advance the cause and
do not injure it. Chicago Tribune.
DEFINED
"Champ Clark, even when a twenty-three-year-old
college president,
had a sense of humor," said an in
structor at Marshall college. "Dur
ing his presidency here," lie resumed,
"an undergraduate was once strug
gling through a definition of Human
nature when Clark, entered, the class
room. The college president listened
for a moment to the undergraduate's
lame and halting phrases. Then he
said: "Listen, my lad. Human na
ture is best defined as the excuse
that a man offers for acting like a
hog. "Kansas City Star.
DDPLOMA.TIO
Baron ''Did I hit the hare, game
keeper?" Keeper "Ah, but the kind heart
you have, your Highness! You have
mercifully, spared his life." Flie
'gende Blaetter.
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Mexico has been considered in the
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