The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-04-12
PEOPLE WILL NOT ABIDE
BY PRESIDENTS DECISION
More Emphatic Every Day in De-
manding that He Stand for
the Presidency Again.

for their places, necessarily retiects
the views of the people, and 1t is
we'll known that the great general
public is with the president In his
desire to regulate railway rates. On
the other hand the senate represents
to considerable extent the great
corporate interests of the country,
and as a body 1t will be no more in
clined to pass the railroad bill at
the coming session than 1t was at
the last. The new house of repre-
sentatives will in all likelihood pass
a rate bill as easy as the last one.
but it will be in the senate that a
blockade can almost surely be pre-,
dicted. There are senators from the
greatest states in the UuiOn who rep
Washington, d. c., April 7.--Spe-
cial Correspondence the eX-
ira session of Congress, called in Oc-
tober, the president will present for
it's consideration the two questions
which were passed at the last session
without legislation; that is, railroad
rate legislation and the revision of
the Dingley tariffs in certain sched-
ules. The action of the two bodies
comprising Congress on these mat
tiers Is not difficult to prophecy. The
lower house, the members of which
are dependent on their constituents
resented in the senate not the people
of their states, but the private cor
pOrate interests, and it is these cor
pOration senators who will be re-
sponsible for the defeat of the bill.
One thing alone can prevent the mis-
carriage of these reforms, and that is
Tor the corporation senators to be
made to understand in no uncertain
way that they are in the senate to
represent the people, and that they
must fulfill their wishes. During
the summer months the people will
have an opportunity through the
press and other sources to inform
their senators what they desire in
the matter, and to find out as well
where their senators stand on these
important questions. Men who are
representing great trusts in the SEN
ate, whether they be the express
company trusts, railroad trusts, coal
trust or any other monopoly should
be catechised by the people, and be
made to declare themselves. If rail-
way rate legislation is to be effected
In this or any other Congress, it can
emily be by the people forcing the
senators to represent the states
Alright and not according to the die
tates Of the companies for whom
they act as agents in the senate.
1t is announced by those high in
authority that Herbert w. Bowen,
the American minister at Caracas,
Venezuela, and who is said to have
been responsible for some of the re-
cent troubles with that country, will
be removed, President Cipriano Cas-
tfo. the Venezuelan president, and
Mr.. Bowen have been enemies for
some time, and the i'll feeling be-
tween them, it is alleged, has pre-
vented an understanding between
this government and Venezuela. The
special diplomatic envoy Of Vene-
suela has reached Washington, and
II is fought likely that he has in
timated that the removal of Mr.
Bowen would be very acceptable to
President Castro. The government g
reply to our demand for arbitration
On the asphalt question has not yet
reached this city, but it has been
characterized by Mr.. Bowen as i'm
pertinent and insulting, and If this
Is found to be the case change in