The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-28
WAR IS ON BETWEEN
 THE HOUSE AND SENATE

leaders said virtually the same thing. Re- pupHcans who were not specially invited | to conference called upon the President and volunteered opinion that to call an extra session would be a mistake. But ms clipping clerk handed him pieces from newspapers which reminded nIm of his pledges to Cuba. The newspaper utter ances scared him. Then, consonant with his nature, like precocious fiedgling n business, itching for reputation of his own, after having gone through the form or courting counsel from older and wse persons. ne turns round and follows nesolong nothing but an impulse born of nes Carmack's aphorism; he takes the bit | In his mouth and runs away
 lie calls an extra session toward his | own undoing
 The wise old men af the Senate are going to shov him a thing or two i,, Americal politics hot dreamed of in h, { strenuous philosophy. They have put In hrordSa ms rSao , that over which the loftiest oroncno Vaulter cannot jump. They have opened wide the talk-fiood- gates of a De- rennial reservoir of loquacity. They T q sad fsakding nssa things with decorous and unruf-
 House Leaders Fret.
 MeanwhiIe, Iof suo" o. S, s,ulpathy win the President that tight and terrible coterie. Speaker Cannon, Dalzell. tjros. yenor and Payne. who alone lead "r or arive the House, are fussily dissembhng
 
 Will forsooth show that absurd old Sem ate that 1t Is frittering away precious Llme and affronting the administration by uiissresaTolng uisr thc Presidents call to spe- ly indignant. Tn reality, from the heart they are ,tickled clean to the toes. Men with an litical acumt as Your Uncle Joe sIan nG pc can but look upon Roosevelt ns an ,,r, U, possibility of statesmanship. Men wi, h so large and varied resources of pollti,ai cunning and so robust in pretensa o s Payne are not to be bafied by this sIt,,aS aS tloh brought on by so near-sighted n late conner in politics as Roosevelt, I, Icts- Wsnss sos so unc9,nscionable as GrosI enor adaptability to trouble and triumph aIiLe hts him to play any part of the cast are not worried at all by the execution uS id ime program. Protectlonists sn remorse- leges, by, law. as Daizeli. the faithful in,i friend. champion, defender and advocata ta or the steel trust and all the other irdus tres ta that cilng to protective tarifr, aiA m happy that nothing is doing and nothing Is possible along the line of tariff tinker ing. They may get all their people hack on the reservation and do a fierce s,unf tha 4b war 1 da1ncing. defiant of the Senate, but Three-fourth of the House Republicans were at heart opposed to the Cuban reci9 procity bill when they voted for it. They are are sun against it., and, therefore, are no rney eompiacent and resigned to the ig-
 Don't Like Roosevelt. 'O''
 It's prese... ....pJ.en.e o.4n.s no heart pangs to Republican politicians, because i'aIp neIPupncan politicians don't like Roose- too much about "deoencv" and ."iv,e righteousness" for their comfort of mind 1T not tnelr peace of cohsclence. T. e Sc |. ate Republicans appear magnanImousIv willing to take all the blame of the Jis- comhtture of the executive leaders of inc Republican party while they placidly pro- ceed to do as most preclously pleases
 There Is another cause to serve in this merry war. Rashly about the Senate diI Your Uncle Joe Cannon talk the last day plars of senatorial department and ex- aIted parliamentary propriet3 Messrs Hale and Allison. were moved to g. eat grief as they with awful solemnity 'e ehoice for Speaker. Like as not tho House mandatins Cannon. Da zel, Payne and Grosvenor. are to be taught nely and salutary lesson, the text of whiLL will be revealed in told type as soon as th:s bootless extra session shall have ex- pired.
 It is indeed a merry war, a comedy of cross purposes, with an inevitable de- nouement-the humiliation of President Roosevelt. There is much fun in 1t for the Democrats, the fun of a Republican Cong ess having to deal with PresCent of their own party whom they do not wish to lead them. and whom they must take to lead them, unless a most improbable politio"' "eVN'''t'N~ ''''-rva~es
 The Hope of Their Hearts.
 with .-o ~om- .U no st. the most of the Republicans in Congress arc praying for the Democrats to nominate some man so acceptable to the business interests" of the country that Roose- Velts election will be impossible, for t ey have not been asleep to the fact that the business interests" are not at all gen orally attachable to the fortunes of MT. Roosevelt. No class of men underst nd this better than the Republicans in Con- gress.
 In short, the merry war could be turned into a very serious conflict that would effect something. but the chances are overwhelmingly against 1t. They could pass the reciprocity bill and go home. They simply don't want to do what President Roosevelt wants them to do. If they did, they would do 1t, because they are quite able to do it. Not Democratic Senator has made an objection. They have as yet had no proposition to pyO-