Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-01-18

questions before the Interstate COM
MERGE commission he will not consent
to have deferred. There have been
many conferences between the Presi-
dent and members of congress on this
subject and no one has ever left the
White House without being impressed
that the president considers this ques-
ton the INST important one before
congress and worthy by itself of an ex-
traordinary session. The interstate
commerce committee is in session the
greater part of each day and the mem
bers realizing the urgency of legisla-
tion are working night and day to
have the bill ready by the end of the
week.
The senate during the early part of
the week has been at work on the
ever-present Statehood bill and man
aged to make a little Roadway with it
in accepting some of the amendments
suggested by the committe on Indian
affairs Another accomplishment was
an appropriation bill, one of the inter-
esting provisions Of which was a re-
strictive act regarding the use Of
government vehicles. 1t provides that
only the president and members of the
cabinet and the secretary Of the presi-
dent shall have carriages furnished
them by the government and that all
other vehicles used by officials of the
government shall bear conspicuously
the full name OF the branch of the
| public service to which it belongs.
This is g severe blow to many officials
who have enjoyed the custom of using
government carriages for private
purposes, and maintaining elegant
| stables at government expense.
Their families which have been accus-
toned to the luxury of private equi-
pages of correct appointment will feel
sadly the descent to a conspicuously
| labeled vehicle, or the street car
President Roosevelt's hospitality is
generally conceded to be of equality
and kind never known in the White
House before. His pleasure in meet
ing strangers seems to have flo abate-
ment even during his busiest and most
perplexing periods and be appears to
find rest and relaxation in constant
entertaining. One Of his ways of meet
ing and talking with friend is by an
invitation to breakfast at eight O'Clock
This is a test Of man's enthusiasm
for the president but it is an invitation
rarely refused. For luncheon and
dinner he almost invariably has guests
and if by chance he has no reception
, or state dinner for the evening he
takes party of friends to the theatre.
No president has been so generous
with invitations and though the names
found in the congressional directory
are on the White House invitation lists
there are as many others which have no
official connection. Heretofore, under
the al administrations OF Cleveland, Har-
rison and Mckinley the dinners at the
White House have been entirely for
NAL and for that reason much to be
dreaded President Roosevelt though
appears to find pleasure in having
strangers at his table and Washingt ton
people, representative Of official or re-
sidential society may be summoned at
any time to dine with him. These in
vitations are regarded as commands,
for much as Americans boast of their
democracy the principles of society are
always aristocratic and monarchial,
and our own people love to fancy
themselves commanded to a presence
which is in all but name, royal.
The attempt to blow up the statue of
friedrich the great presented by Ger
many to the United States and recent
ly unveiled at the War College here,
furnished excitement In the city Tues
dao. Many stories were ia circulation
regarding "a wholesale anarchistic
plot" and until the affair had been
thoroughly sifted it was supposed to
have been very bold and daring in
fanny. It developed. however, to have
been ,au absurd and numbering effort
that had it succeeded to the utmost
would have resulted in nothing more
than the destruction of the fence
that surrounds the statue Some
cheap patriot opposed to the erection
of the statue of a monarch in this
COuntrv or some yellow newspaner