The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-13
All Washington Talks of Slap
 al President
HAS REVOLT ON HIS HANDS
Senate Has Heretofore Been DoclIe and in the Future is Expected to Stand squarely by
 Its Rights.
BY PATTERSON sTEALEx.


 Washington, February 12.-CspeciaL)- The turndown of the President yesterday In his attempts to bluff the Senate into accepting treaties exactly as he sends them in continues to be the talk of leg islative Washington. Right al the be- ginning of his administrator the Presl- dent finds himself with revolt on IS hands, and not quite as big 0 man as he was. The President has been running things with such high hand that tne action of the Senate really came in the nature of surprise.
 The republican congressman have for the last three years been so busily en- gagged picking up the scraps the Presi- dent would choose to throw to them that it was almost the general opinion that a fight could not be gotten out of them, that they would resent nothing. Having once shown little resentment af executive usurption it will probably be easier to do the same thing over again next time and from now on it Is not likely that the President will have che same easy sailing.
 Mckinley Always Succeeded.
 President Mckinley always succeeded In getting through Congress pretty much what he wanted He never failed to consult those senators or those members of the House interested. He would re- quest them to come to the WLite House and talk 1t all over, and nine cases out of ten when the obdura. member left Mir. Mckinley's smiling presence he be- lieved he had made an honorable sur- render.
 President Roosevelt takes an entirely different view of such matters. Practi- cally all of tic republican members of Congress never know what is happening unti. tNeg pick up their newspapers. A reaGc,' II The Age-Herald is as much in the colldcnce of the President as a great majority of the republican membership of the Senate and House.
 This policy carried to such a degree as 10 make 1t a good deal more than in dependence" as the Presidents friends love to call it. naturally angers the re- publican congressional leaders. It Is un- doubtedly true that the Senate has been very lenent with the President.
 It was against General Wood, yet he was confirmed by the lnslstent demands of the President. The negro Crum had no friends in the Senate. There we're few who did not realize that the appointment was unwlse, but the President continued to send 1t in. an to please the President he was finally confirmed The Presidents appointments have in general displeased the Senate, yet they have made no fight. The President over his signature virtual ly says that even a congressman has no right to control the postoffices in his dis trict, that he Mir. Roosevelt, makes ap- pointments, and what are you going to do about it2
 Goes at it Hammer and Tongs.
 When 1t came to legislation 1t was the same thing When the President gets an idea that he wants q bill passed or has to reluctantly admit that Congress- ional assistance is necessary in the fur thering of some ambition he goes at 1t in hammer and tongs fashion. and na- turally there Is some one in the capitol who gets his feelings hurt. The Presi- dent is often right and the republican leaders wrong. as was the case in the Cuban reciprocity fight. but right or wrong the President has the same It. tie regard for the legislative branch of the government.
 The Santo Domingo matter especially offended the Senate and the hard fall of the President yesterday when the Senate finally went back on him was partly due to that incident. There is not the slightest thought of sending it to the Senate. Few in the Senate and prac- tically none in the House had any idea what was going on until one morning they read in the newspapers that the United States was about to take charge of Santo Domingo. Naturally there was such a howl that 1t was finally stated unofficially that there was never any in- tention of Ignoring the Senate. but there was and the Senate knew 1t. When the letter to Cullom struck the Senatorial sore spot yesterday a yell went up. and 1t was almost unanimously agreed that things had gone about far enough.