The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-12
Roosevelt's Rough Riding Be-
 coming Aggravating.
The Renewal of the wood Appoint { meat and the Panama Busi-
 ness Are Sore Points s with the Legislators.
Advertiser Bureau.
 Colorado Building,

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 Advertiser Bureau.
 Colorado Building,
 Washington. Dec Ii.
 The Republican party leaders are the victims of hero-worship. They see their party nenaced imminentiy with over wheiming disaster and their own individ- cal fortunes put into jeopardy by the same cause. They fully sympathize with the people at large and are we'll aware that
 The commonwealth is sick of their own Their ovsr-Ereedy love hath surfeitsd.'
 The truth is that the Republican party never occupied so anomalous position as that which now 1t holds. A nomina- ton for the Presidency was never in this hufnor wooed. nor in this humor won. as 1t is to so to Roosevelt. The foremost men of ability in his party do not want him. The thoughtful men Of affairs and reputation for couimon-sense fear his administration almost as much as the Presidents detectives fear the cranks who visit the White House.
 Mark how little sway over Congress- which Is controlled in both branches by the Republican party has been. is and win be exercised by President Roosevelt. The extraordinary session which he caif- ed to do the simple thing of passing the Cuban reciprocity bill upon which the whole country embracing, both parties. was practically agreed, met in pursuance to his call, and did nothing.
 There never was anything in the way of passing the bill within two weeks of the beginning of the extra session. except the entire lack of disposition in both Sem ate and House to do what Mir. Roosevelt wanted done. simply because 1t was lie Congressional leaders have signaiiy thus demonstrated that they are not imbued with the same enthusiasm for magnify ing his importance that possesses the President himself. They have given him notice that there is limit to his power when 1t essays to rule Capitol Hiil.
 Roosevelt,s Campaign.
 If President Roosevelt does not com. prehend the full import of the procedure controlled by the men of his own party in the two houses of Congress, he seems at least alive to threatening contingen- cies outside. He has not been more ac- tive in all hla maddened pursuit after office than. within the past week or ten days. Regardless of the presence and the professions of the Ohio members or conrreaa he has summoned to the White House sundry local Ohio 1 Gers to tell fim about the situation and NVhether, if Hanna should be persuaded to run for President, the State would so back on It's endorsement of Roosevelt.
 More than this, he has done several things which have plainly aggravated the strain of the already far from truly agreeable relations between the two ends of the Capitol and the White House. The Executive Chief and the congressional powers that be are sharp at outs on sev- eral points. They may be small matters to Mir. Roosevelt but they. are very con- can stagers of Congress who never ex- pect to be anything but Cohgressmen and Senators. Having no other ambitions, they realize are possible of qualification. they do not at all relish seeing their leg islative prerogatives belittled by the head strong boy in the White House. There is undoubtedly in the Senate at least an ill-coneealed annoyance that possesses both parties at the ready and bumptious presumption of the President in sending to the Senate so-called recess appoint ments when everybody knows no recess has intervened. t. - that a thousandth part of a second con- stitutes q recess, even though 1t occur between the breaths of the presiding of- fice of the Senate. and he declares that the extra session ended and the regular session begun
 Action Looks Ugly.
 With the Republican Senators, the &C., ton of the President Is all the ugiier because they sought to make the session continuous to the instant of the begin ming of the regular session for the sole purpose of gratifying the wish of the President as 1t was understood, relieving the administration from the charge, as far as it could, that his extra session was unnecessary and failure.
 The administration hastily concludes that it shah not be circumvented. as 1t fancies Is the purpose in the Senate, and sends in for confirmation a huge bunch of nominations as recess appointments. Senators regard the Presidents perform ance as preposterous He might as well send in a thousand as one appointment on the assumption that there has been a re- cess of Congress. Preident Roosevelt surely must know that but for the obsta- cle of the regular session arriving at the hour and date fixed by the Contitution. the extra session might have proceeded indefinitely. His assumption. therefore, is regarded as an arrogant defiance o1 fact.
 What is to prevent him from construins that a recess has occurred for his pur. pose and just keep on sending in appoint ments and at the same time holding that the beneficiaries Of hiB choice are entitled to enjoy the honors and emoluments of ofice? What becomes of the constitu- tional provision for appointments to of- fee made with and by the advice and consent of the Senate?
 The President has oYerdone things in his zeal far moro than he has appeared to realize. The worst of 1t for him is that he has made more trouble for the men of his own party in Congress than they have ever had to encounter from an administration they were expected to de- fend. The Republican party is bound to be under terrific pressure of warding of attacks upon palpably- vulnerable spots in the administration.
 The Panama Business.
 Not the least of them is the way Roose- welt has proceeded in the Panama busi- ness, wholly without consultation with the leaders of Congress. to say nothing of the lack of the usual legislative war rant for acts of war against a friendly foreign country He has proceeded to fix the terms of a treaty and to have 1t negotiated for ratification by the Senate of the United States as though 1t were to be a mere pro forma trihe of Ieglsla- ton soon dispatched.
 Partisan Republicans who feel the otraos oF honest obliRHtion tO stand by