West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-07-03
WAsHiNGToNLETTER.
The Fight still ON Between the Presi.
dent aud the Republican Senators.
The Naval Department Makes Another
Break.
Delightful Jnnkct Planned ny Senator
Foraker.

are to be treated TO a new expert
ence during the coming campaign
aud many of them do not relish the
prospect. The President has an
nounced to his friends that he has
not given up the fight for Cuban
reciprocity and that he intends to 90
out into the states whose members
OF Congress have opposed his Cuban
policy and preach his doctrine of
reciprocity with Cuba to the great
discontinue of those members and
senators who will stand for re-
election. Not content with having
caused a split in the party which
already augurs i'll for the coming
elections, Mr.. Roosevelt will carry
the fight into the very bailiwicks of
his opponents and, as a republican
member from Minnesota said,
pathetically, yesterday, "The result
will be that the President will stand
fair to have a democratic con-
stituency in the House, at least, to
carry out his pet schemes, and he
added, significantly, "But you wait
until the national convention.
Throughout the past session re-
publican senators and members
have grown accostumed to being
sent for from the White House and
to being scolded and upbraided, but
it never entered their heads that
their strenuous" President would
go even further and ally himself with
forces bent on their obstruction in
their own states and now that they
are face to face with that prospect
they are aghast. For the present, the
President has given up all hope Of
reciprocity legislation and, deeply
Inundated at the outcome of his
efforts in that direction, has left the
city with the expectation of return
ing for period only long enough
to permit of his signing the many
measures which will be rushed
through Congress during the closing
hours of the session. Without
waiting for the sanction of his plans
| by Congress he authorized the
carpenters and masons to proceed
with the renovation of the White
House and they have now made the
old mansion uninhabitable and,
therefore, Secretary Cortelyou has
rented private house on Lafayette
Square where the President will
reside and transact business when in
Washington, between now and the
first of October. With the White
House torn to pieces there ii nothing
for Congress to do but appropriate
the funds which the President has
demanded for its renovation.
With the passage of the Spooner
amendment for the Nicaraguan canal
bill last Thursday, the Senate COM
pleted all the more important work
before it and is now chilling time"
pending adjournment. The bill
providing for the Appalachian
Forest Reserve was passed this week
and day set for the consideration
OF the Omnibus State hood bill, Dec.
10, being named, these being the
only important matters with which
the upper chamber had to deal.
The canal bill is still in conference
where it will have to be somewhat
revised, for the measure as passed
reflects little credit on Senators
Spooner and Hanna who are,
presumably, its authors. The House
conferees have agreed to accept the
amendment, with some changes in
phraseology, which means the con-
struction OF the canal along the
| Panama route.
TT
Tuesday in the House OF Re
| representatives. marked the close OF
general debate on the Philippine
bill and was notable for the eloquen,
arraignmcnt OF the republican party
for its Philippine policy, delivered
by Representative Williams OF Miss
issippi, whose oratory crowded the
chamber even drawing in all Of his
opponents. Mr. Williams character
lied the republican Interpretation OF
the treaty OF Paris as supporting the
principle "that despot had the
right to sell the independence Of,
and nationality of, a free and
independent people to a free re-
public. Concluding his remarks,
Mr.. Williams said that never before
had the American flag "gone any
where where it was not hailed as a
harbinger Of liberty and as a
protector Of helpless and defense.
less people against savages and
foreign power" The vote on the