The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-02
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Nav p. 1905.

there Is not a suggestion OF spIlt
as a result Of the conflicting views
OF the President and some of his
advisors on the subject OF tariff
readiustment. This may be true
and il may not For instance.
Secretary Taft has just told the
Ohio Convention that the next
Congress must make some provi-
sion TO prevent the continual pillng
up of a deficit aud the Secretary
proposes. without committing him
self 10 either alternative a return
10 the old war taxes. or read
iustment of the tariff schedules
along lines which will produce
more revenue as the two methods
of preventing further deficits aud
recouping the Government for the
amount il has already expended
in excess of its receipts. Secretary
Shaw. on the other hand. speak
ing for the administration. has
just told the newspapermen at 81.
Louis that. we are not worrying
about the deficit" OF course it
NAV be said that Secretary Shaw
is not the type of mau 10 worry:
that he could go through the
world treading on volcanoes with
smile on his countenance. or en-
iOv his afternoons smoke and his
siesta in a powder magazine. en-
tirely oblivIous of the probable
consequences. On the other hand.
Secretary Taft is by no means of
the worrying kind, and when Mr..
Taft declared that Congress must
take some action 10 prevent its in
crease be was not worrying but
merely stating a bald proposition
which must appeal 10 every bust
nessman who has heard or read
his presentation of the case.
If the truth were known, il
would probably be discovered that
it is Secretary Shaw who is doing
the worrying in this instance.
however He is really much wor-
ried because, being a violent stand
patter, he fears that the people
will demand in no uncertain tones
that the sacred Dingley schedules
be reduced. He knows that would
be the logical course for his party
but be wants TO slip into the White
House with the votes and the as
sistance of the protected monopo-
lies and be greatly fears the result
TO his presidential aspirations if
the tariff is touched. Consequent
~ Mr. Shaw will not admit in
public that there is anything in
the nations financial affairs TO
worry about aud he hopes that it
will all come out right in the end.
In any event, Mr. Shaw will retire
from the Treasury next February
and if disaster follows his retire
ment he will be able to charge the
blame TO his successor. but if the
tariff schedules are reduced by the
administration of which he hap
pens to be mem Der of the pro
tected interests viii. not contribute
those golden sheckels so neces
sary to procure the votes of 1.-The
colored brothers" who come as
delegates to every Republican
National Convention.
After perpetrating one OF the
most extraordinary farces ever
witnessed in Washington. til e
Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce has adjourned to meet
again two weeks before the next
session of Congress. The com
mittee has taken an imm. nse
amount of testimony which no one
will ever read, most of it favorable
10 the railroads and that which
was not, so distorted by Interrupt
tions and so mangled by the per.
sistent brow beating of the wit.
nesses opposed TO the railways.
that its force Is lost. After the
committee adjourned Senator
hean had the temerity to go to
the White House and advise the
President not to convene Congress
IN special session next fall because,
said the Senator, 1T would do no
good" So far as can be learned
the President has not altered his
purpose of calling Congress into
session on October 16 although,
between the stand patters who
fear some change of the tariff
schedules and the railway men
who fear some legislation which
will curtail their prerogatives.
there is tremendous pressue being
brought TO bear on Mr.. Roosevelt
pressure to which he NAV event.
ually yield.
For some inscrutable reason a
number of the sensational news.
papers of the country, and some
not ordinarily so, have taken TO
publishing lurid stories about the
desertions from the navy. 1t mas
been alleged that there are hun
dreds of desertions each year and
that the navy officers are dis
traught in their efforts to end
such decentralization of the servioa