The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-07

xA WASHINGTON, December 6.-When AAE Tom Reed was speaker. or rath- HW CT Car, of the house of repre- sentatives. some one, if I remember aright, either said or wrote that while z the constitution had divided the govern ; ment into three departments, executive, legislative and judicial, Reed had practi- acally added fourth one to the list, name ly, Reed himself. To this forcible criti- e sm on the condition of affairs as they then existed in the southern wing of the capitol, l heard a new term given the other day. It came from a western re- publican member of the house, who is earnestly interesting himself in the efforts ,. to secure a reduction in some of the tariff schedules during the present session. Se- verely eondemning the obstructive policy of the republican leaders in the senate on this question he said: T am seriously l..iklng of proposing an amendment to that clause of the constitution when al- Yides the government into three branches, by adding d fourth one-the junta in the senate which is more powerful just now than the executive and legislative bodies eomDined Less than hall a dozen men in that body he continued in bitter ,Jnes, have :. set up their judgment against that of the majority of their fel- low members in the senate and the house, openly serving notice in advance that no legislatron can be enacted of which they uo not approve. Such an assumption of power is outrageous. No wonder the senate is losing more and more the conn., dence of all but the protected corpora tions.''
 j. While many republicans are equally 1outspoken iii their condemnation of the senate, the majority are secretly, if not openly. in hearty sympathy with the poli- ey of non-action, especially those repre- senting manufacturing districts. They all concede that tariff revision must come but they wish to shove the date as far into the future as possible. Antitrust legislation is quite another matter. In that direction they seem to feel that something should be done, that whatever < amendments to the sherman law are ne cessary should be made in order to quite public agitation, and convince the people if possible, that the trusts do not own the government.
 President and Mrs. Roosevelt, owing tc the increased accommodations in thl White House by the removal of the ex ecutive offices to the adjoining building especially erected TOT lheni' are ehdple' to indulge in good deal more hospitalit! than was possible under the old arrange ment. Small house parties are now pos sible, and two or three of them have al ready been given, mostly to young people During the coming season many nor will follow, made up of persons of nor mature years from various parts of tn country to whom the president is sociall, indebted. The president likes to hay .4ln na0pla arollnd him. DartiCularlV thOS who are fond of outdoor life and can sym pathize with him on his hobby of sport and hunting adventures. It is said tha some of the visitors to the White Hous are not infrequently bored with presi dential dissertations on "big game, ranch life and cowboys. To a congress man who recently spent a night and par of a day in the executive mansion, I pu the question; what kind of a time al