The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-01

been believed to embody deliberate re-
solves upon the writer's part. For in
stance, the President expressed hope
that the insurance business might be
brought under the laws relating to inter
state commerce. he evinced, too, an
inclination to see given by Congress to
the Interstate Commerce Commission a
power Of fixing railway rates, at least
temporarily, and he also bespoke care
full attention for forthcoming report
by Commissioner GARFIELD report
with which Mr.. ROOSEVELT must have
been acquainted beforehand, and which
was to submit a proposal nothing short
OF revolutionary, from political and
economic viewpoints, tho proposal,
namely, that corporate ons should be
required to procure Federal licenses, as
a sine qua non condition of engaging in
interstate commerce.
As TO the first of these three sugges-
tions, that favoring tho subsection Of
insurance business to interstate COM
merce legislation, 1t Is pretty evident
that the President is not disposed to
press it, inasmuoh as he must have seen.
and taoitly or explicitly approved, that
part of Commissioner GARFIELD's report
which points out that the Federal courts
have insisted upon drawing distinction
between interstate business and inter-
state commerce and have classed in
suranoe in the former category. AS for
clothing the present Interstate Com
merce Commission with authority to
fix railway rates. subject to review as
Mr.. ROOSEVELT in his message seemed
to recommend, or comforting such au-
thority upon new court created for the
purpose, as Senator ELKTNs has advised,
it is plain that the Administration has no
intention of debating to Congress on tho
subject by propounding any measure Of
its own 1t takes for granted that the
Federal legislature is amply qualified
to deal with the subject With regard
to Mr.. GABFIELD's startling project for
compelling State corporations doing
interstate business TO take out Federal
licenses we may say that as yet the
President has not given the faintest
indication Of belief in the constitutions
atty Of the plan, but has vigorously con-
fined himself to impressing upon Con-
gress the intense wide stretchingFepoch
making seriousness Of the proposal.
The Presidents approaching visit to
Texas for the purpose of attending
reunion Of his Rough Rider" regiment
may be expected to elicit the cordial
expressions OF welcome characteristic
Of our Southern brethren. In spite of
the resentment provoked by some Of
Mr.. RoosEvELT's acts, such "a the hos
pitality casually offered to BOOKER
WASHINGTON at the White House and the
CRUM to the Collectorship Of Customs
at Charleston. it is now beginning to be
recognized that they were prompted.
the former by a generous impulse and
the latter by conscientious recognition
of the fact that Chief Magistrate can
not refuse Systematically to acknowl-
edge the equality conferred by the Con-
stitution on our colored citizens Upon
individual Southerners who, like Mr..
THOMAS NELSON PAGE, have been brought
into personal contact with Mr. RoosE-
WELT, he has made a most favorable i'm
preston, and they are unanimous In
averring that the South will revise it's
opinion Of the President when the
breadth OF his sympathies shall be
better understood. 1t is the truth that
no Republican Executive, not even
GRANT. whose ohivalrous conduct toward
LEE is likely long to be remembered,
has treated Confederates and their de-
with more respect and consid-
Grafton than has the present tenant of
the White House.
To mention only three examples, to
which he himself has felt at liberty to
direct attention, we may point out that
he has bestowed the Governorship of the
on a Confederate soldier,
LUKE WRIGHT, who married daughter of
Admiral SEAiMEs of the Alabama; that
he has offered cadetship at West Point
TO a son of 4Stonewall' JACKSON, and
that he has made a son Of Gen. STUART,
The distinguished Confederate cavalry
the United States Marshal
Of the District of Virginia Such proofs
Of an enlightened patriotism, compre-
nensive enough to embrace all sections Of
the country, and TO condone differences
of opinion, although these may have led
10 civil war, will not be undervalued, we
.hink, by clear sighted and fair minded
men in Texas or in any Southern COM
nunity. Nor will such men fail 10 OBJ
serve that from the Executive Mansion
has come not the faintest sign of APP
prevail of the movement started by Mr..
TRUMPACKER in the House OF Repre-
to enforce the Fourteenth
Amendment. These are some OF our
reasons for believing that the coming
twelvemonth may witness a profound
OF the sentiment with
which Mr.. ROOSEVELT personally is re-
garded at the South and we should not
be surprised If such n Transformation
should eventually be followed ~ a re-
vival Of the inclination TO organize q
white Republican party in some OF the
Southern States. That which MCKIN-
LEY achieved in Maryland, West Vir-
GINA and Kentucky and what Mr.. RoosE-
WELT has accomplished in West Virginia
and Missouri may not hereafter be be-