The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-15
DON'T BELIEVE IT!
All You See Print d in the Summer
on Presidents Plans.
IRRIGATION FOR WYOMING
The Airship of Benboyv of Montana
ID. Tariff and Cuba Agnin-"Par-
.~-' ;amount' Issues. s- Is


From The Journal Bureau. Room, s5. Post
Building, Washingto,i.s - - - -a-
Washington, July 15.-The Washington
correspondents and the president are hav
ing hard time to agree as to what the
latter's policy is to be towards the trusts
and Cuba The president says one thing.
the president says another. Perhaps the
difficulty of getting together grows out OF
the fact that the president is now at
oyster Bay, while the correspondents are
still in Washington. A choice lot OF mis-
information has been sent to the country
within the past two weeks covering the
presidents trust and Cuban policies 1t
may be accepted as fact, for instance,
that the president has no intention OF Gre
ating division in his party by making
Representative Littlefield over prominent
in the house as the White House mouth
piece. He has consulted with the gen.
tleman from Maine, because the latter has
q lot of exact information regarding the
trusts and Cuba, growing out of his close
study of those questions. But that con-
sultation does not mean the unhorsing OF
the recognized house leaders, on the
republican side, nor any radical depar
lures in the way of proposed legislation
1t is no doubt true that the presidents
messag eto congress next december will
deal with the trusts, and probably also
true that bills will be introduced in both
houses seeking to carry out his ideas. 1t
ght he said further that the president
will probably favor some one or another
of these bills and exert himself to get 1T
enacted into law. But that any bill which
he will indorse will be of the radical
character suggested in Washington special
dispatches of late, is preposterous On the
face of the case. Trust the president to
do the right thing when the time comes.
By the time the fifty eighth congress
meets, December, 1908, the courts will
have had time to pass upon the sutficiency
of the existing laws. 1t will then be time
enough to talk seriously about new legis-
lation. Nothing important can be accom-
plished during the short three months Of
the session next winter OF course,
special session is possible after March 4,
and there are some reasons for believing
that it may be called, but it is too early
now to discuss it definitely. Should it come
the tariff will be the chief reason; the
trusts might also come up for consider
alton. The Cuban question will be the
only one to be pressed hard at the short
session next winter. If the president can
get reciprocity with Cuba at that time,
as he probably can, he will be doing all
he can we'll hope for.
"Paramount' Issues.
The democratic congressional campaign
managers in this city are publishing in
terviews in which they say that the
paramount" issues Of the year will be
imperialism, the trusts and the tariff. AS
for the first named, it has miserably failed
and the democrats who forced it in the
senate this year are under condemnation
in their own party. AS for the second, 1t
Is the exclusive property of no political
party, since the president took his deter
mined stand. AS to the third, the demo-
Gratis never can get together on it in the
world. A large proportion of the party
adheres to the principle of moderate pro-
lection, the difference between 1t and the
republicans being one of degree rather
,than of kind. If the democrats were in
control of Congress andzsthe White House,
it is safe guess that they would not pass
anything like free trade bill Even tariff
for revenue no longer suits them entirely.
They would undoubtedly revise the Ding
ley law but the republicans also are COM
mitted to such a revision. .
Prof. Hinton's Work.
Professor Charles X. Hinton, few
years ago an assistant professor in
ma thematics in the University of Min
nesota, has been given position in the
patent office here. For a couple of years
past he has been in the naval observa-
tory. doing the heavy mathematics on the
naval almanac Some time ago he took
out his first naturalization papers, and
became a full-fedged American citizen.
Clair ". .Fairbank of Minnesota has been
In the interior department.
t. c., Benbow's Alrship.
T. C. Benbow of Carbon county, Mon
tana, is creating good deal Of a stir
In the east with his newly patented
dirigible airship. His challenge to M
Santos Dumont has attracted much at
tention and newspaper comment has been
very general for the past week. Ben
bows company is capitalized for $3O,o00
and the incorporators are all Montana
men. It will cost $4,000 to build one
of his ships. He was ranchman before
Il turning inventor, and for years was a
good deal laughed at by the good people
in and around Red Lodge, who called him
crank. 1t took ten years to perfect
his patent, and if, as he claims, he has
solved the problem of dirigibility, he has
a big future ahead of him. His chal-
1enge to Dumont calls for a series OF
hurdle races, the contestants to fly their
ships over and under the hurdles at will
This would be a supreme test fol
dirigibility
''The Lame Ducks.o
The lame ducks" are again in evidence
A year ago, after the adjournment of con.
gress, President McKinlty was fairly
compelled to make up the st. Louis ex
position commission of men who had fall
en- outside the breastWorks in their at
tempts to come back to one house of con
gress or the ether. The present com
mission is made up almost entirely o
these gentry. Now, there is an Isthmia1
canal commission to be named, and while
some of it's members are. to be experts
from the engineering. corps Of the army
the rest will be civilians. For these ci
william positions the applications are be
ginning to come in already. Senator
Jones of Arkansas is one, and Represen
tative De Graffenreid of Texas is an