The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-14
PRESIDENT
vs.. SENATE
Open Rupture Coming In
Apace, Unless All Pres
ent Signs Fail.
Crozier's Case and Wares
Appointment Bringing
It to a Head.

Washington April 14.-Indications of an
open rupture between the president and
the senate, not unlike that which char
acterized the last Cleveland administra
ton, are increasing in number. The
president is entirely too Independent to
suit the confirming body. He makes ap-
pointments without regard to Its wishes,
and even without consulting 1t in the
majority of cases. He declines to pay
serious attention to the suggestions of
the party leaders, and in a general way
regarding appointments has made himself
rather offensive. It probably would not
be Roosevelt had there been any other
result.
The warfare seems to have been started
with the unfavorable Recommendation on
the nomination of the proposed new chief
of the bureau Of ordnance, Captain Gro
zier It seems probable that the senate
will adopt the report of the committee on
military affairs and turn the Crozier pic
| ture to the wall.
Wares Appointment Slap.
The appointment Of Mr.. Ware to be
!
the senate. The Kansas powers in the
senate were solidly back OF certain we'll
known politicians Of that state and would
have been satisfied had either former Rep
resentatives Peters or Blue been selected.
But the president goes around these polit-
ical recommendations and picks out a man
who has no political record and is prac-
tically unknown to- the vast army Of work
ers in the sunaower state. Ware will
probably be confirmed because of the Pc
culiar circumstances surrounding the pen
sion office administration, but his appoint
ment has served to intensity the feeling
of opposition to the president.
The other day Senator Burton called at
the White House in the interest of Peters
or Blue, and almost jumped out of his
seat when told that Ware was to be ap-
pointed. He was asked to support Wares
confirmation, and is said to have promised
to do so, but 1t was with poor grace.
The Ware appointment, it is said by
certain senators, will probab bly, turn out
to be the poorest the PRESIDENT has yet
/ made. 1T is assumed thas Ware will con-
ti,lue the policy OF Commissioner Evans,
A which will renew the fire. tof criticism
which has been burning so f1ercely for
difference; Evans acted as lightning rod
and drew the fire away from the White
House, but everything that Ware does that
fails to satisfy the old soldiers will be
charged up directly against the president
So it Is figured by some of the senators
and Ware will probably be confirmed with
; little opposition.
Just the Man for the Office. "a.
Captain Crozier is probably the best
man in the country for the post of CHIEF
of ordnance. He has given many years tt
the study of ordnance questions, and is {
highly developed expert. He has ex.
pended his own money freely in secur-
Ing patents in this country and abroad
and turning the patents over to the gov.
=, eminent. But he is marked for slaugh
ter, and the senate military committee
has even gone so far as TO give as one
reason why he should not be confirmed
the fact Of these foreign and domestic
patents, limiting quite broadly that the,
, have resulted in personal profit to him
!. Just how much prospective candidates
for the presidency, now in the senate
= are behind this movement against tn
president, It is impossible to say; but it i
easy to understand that these prospective
:; candidates will benefit through any polio
: which will serve to break the force of tn
= Roosevelt prestige.
> Fortunately for the president, this feel
ing of hostility is confined to the "prac
tical' politicians of the party, and is no
yet widespread. 1t is local to Washing
=, ton. But with the adjournment of con
:, gress it undoubtedly will find it's way int
= every congressional district of the coun
. try, where the practical" fellows in tn
:, local fields will probably take it ur
J. echoing, as they always do, the opinion
- of their leaders. Whether the people wi
= indorse it is a question. Thus far the
y stand by Roosevelt, and seem to admir-
~ him all the more because Of his sturd
). honesty and independence Of machin
! rule.