The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-20
ROOSEVELT HAS
BEEN CONVERTED
Will Be No Tariff Legislation This
Winter.
MUCH BLUSTER A YEAR AGO
NOW THE SUBJECT is BARRED AT
THE WHITE HOUSE.
Especial TO The HeraldO

Washington, Aug. 1e-Now that
President Roosevelt has yielded on the
question of the revision of the tariff,
there is much discussion as to the at
titude he will take during the coming
session of congress on that other vital
question which is before the country
namely, the regulation o. railroad
freight rates. 1t is stated on very t.
liable authority that the prss1en. lIas
abandoned the idea OF securing tariff
revision and his views on the question
have undergone considerable n1odifiSa-
ton The president was as emphatic
earlier in the recess of congress on the
question OF tariff revision as he was
on the railroad rate legislation, and 1t
is argued If he allowed his backbone
to weaken on the one question he is
likely to do so on the other.
They Accept FaVors.
There is scarcely a member of con-
gress who during the present recess
has not been or VIII not be the reeipi-
ent Of "courtesies' from the railroad
companies in the matter OF free trans
portation: so 1t has been also with
nearly every person holding a ipromi-
nent place in the government service.
Free transportation "cOurtesies" have
also been literally extended TO men,
bers of the press generally. In addi-
tanned an efficient bureau to dissenin-
ate Information statistics and litera-
ture favorable to their side OF the
question. They have as far as possible
eliminated the rate regulation question
from politics and the most strenuous
efforts on the part of the railroad com
panies have been in the direction of
convincing the south that II would not
be to its interest at this time to place
the regulation of freight rates abso-
AlT.~ T. -
All of this will be bound TO have an
effect which viii be manifested when
congress again assemblies, and II any
railway rate legislation is secured It
can be looked upon as a certainty that
it will not be seriously inimical to the
railroads.
Hint Of Revolt.
It is possible. during the coming ses-
sion OF congress. that there will be q
revolt In the house against the one
man power OF the speaker Mr.. Can
non has announced broadly that he
viii not allow any tariff revision legis-
lation during the next session of con-
gress. 1t is predicted however. should
there be a revolt IL would not seriously
endanger the power of the speaker,
| who under the present rules has au-
| thOrity to name the committees. and
in doing this he has the opportunity
to define. the limits of a new members
usefulness. and Cor this reason the
new member is rendered amenable to
discipline.
Suicide of Crlsweli.
There has been much comment here
over the suicide OF Robert w Cris-
well. editor OF the New Yorker who
recently was held by the grand jury on
a charge Of criminal libel. in which
the names of friends of Miss Alice
/ Roosevelt figured prominently Girls
We'll had long and varied career in
I = y.
1 States. He was the original humorist
Of the Oil City Derrick, and attracted
wide notice for the pithy articles he
wrote for that paper About a year
ago ne secured an interest in the New
/ Yorker, which had been esta blished
five years before by Tammany poll
/ tician. Criswell changed the character
of the paper and ran il on the lines OF
Town Topics. He wrote bitterly and
ssvaRely, and was called upon fire.
I ouentiy for retraction and apologies
He was evidently of too fine a fibre for
the work he was doing. and while he
managed to get out OF personal Difficult
ties. he could not make peace with his
own conscience. and TO stop its tor
( lures be took his own life.
Baron Resen's Family.
Baron Rosen, the new Russian am
bassador, has brought to this country
an interesting family in his wife and
young daughter. Although Mile. Ro-
sen. ls Just II, and consequently too
young TO be declared IN society. she is
enjoying a great many pleasures and
attends many luncheons and dinners
with her mother. Washington will
welcome this new hostess of the Rus
sian embassy and her daughter. In
Russia young women do not enter So
ciety until presented and as MTs
Rosen is too young for that ceremony
Washington will have TO wait for he's.
in the official set, although she win
have no lack oSgood time in the young
er set.
Walsh of Colorado.
Thomas r Walsh of Colorado is get
ting a lot OF glory out OF his recent
law suit, in which he practically drrSS
out of court the claimants to about
half his fortune. MIR. Walsh has sew
eral other law suits on hand, with good
prospects of winning them. one OF
these Is apparently an extensive black
mailing scheme. and Mr.. Walsh is re-
oeiving great deal of praise for the
firm stand he is taking against the
sharks OF this character
Mics Siegred Peterson, soloist. at
Lagoon, Sunday, August 90.