Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1906-01-15

has been injected into the various con-
troYersies. Even "Uncie Joe" Cannon
has caught the Injection and he is swing
ing the big stick of the administration
with a merciless hand and those whose
heads have been cracked are preparing 10
give him as good as he sends.
In consequence there is not only a very
bad tempered President, but an equally
bad tempered Senate and House of Rep
resentatives. What wonder is that
party anarchy reigns? What wonder is
it that the Republican organization is
hopclessly divided? In the Senate this
week the administration will put for
ware Sengtor Clay, a Democrat, from
Georgia, to reply on the question Of rail-
road regulation 10 Senator Foraker, a
Republican from Ohio. The President is
getting recruits wherever and however
possible. He is creating his own party
as rapidly as he can. He is reaching out
TO capture state organizations whenever
the opportunity presents itself.
The Indiana episode of last week, in
which he gave TO Senator Beverage the
only piece of patronage remaining and
which belonged TO Jesse Overstreet, the
secretary Of the congressional committee,
who promptly resigned, is an instance Of
how the power OF patronage is being
used.
1t now becomes a free for all race, with
several months of strife ahead. There
are already questions on which there are
sharp points of difference. Aside from
the Statehood and Philippine bills and
the two canal investigations undertaken
/ by the Senate there are the Santo Do
mingo treaty. the Isle of Pines treaty,
the Pure Food bill, which is an admins
/ tration measure: the difference between
the Executive and Congress over ex-
trayagance and the enormous deficiency
bills being introduced to carry them to
the end Of the present fiscal year; the
bitterness that is being engendered in
each State delegation over patronage,
and, finally, the contest over the regua-
tion of the railroads
But there is a new contest coming, to
which perhaps these other things will
seem as but minor matters. This will be
over the tariff just at the time when
I Speaker Cannon and Senator Aldrich
/ thought they had buried tariff revision in
a deep, deep grave il comes up in an en-
tirely new form through the insistence
| Of Secretary Root that a maximum and
minimum tariff shall be enacted. It is
not proposed to lower the present duties,
but to raise another wall twenty-five
per cent higher than that which now sur
rounds the country and to use this
/ against Germany.
The instant this is seriously attempted
the demand for tariff revision will break
out anew. The "stand pattersn viii be
caught at disadvantage. The men who
echo the inquiry of Representative Nc.
Call, III we won't revise the tariff when
we have a two-thirds vote in the House
and Senate when are we TO revise itg'
are likely to exclaim the minute maxi.
mum and minimum tariff bill is reported
'Now is the time" Hence, before this
session is much further advanced there
is likely to be the warmest sort of fight
as to whether this Congress shall 90 on
record by solemn vote of standing pat
a little longer, or whether the whole
tariff question shall be opened TO dis
| cussiOn.
Then it would seem that the opportV
nifty for which the Democrats have beer
waiting will present itself.