Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-01-16
Accuses Them of
Ingratitude.
BUT FOR ROOSEVELT THEY
WOULD BE H0EING POTATOES
InsurreCtion Is on the Wane and
Cannon Still Has Cards Up
His Sleeve.
correspondence Morning Journal.

Correspondence Morning Journal.
Washington, Jan 12.-It is never
safe to prophesy unless you know"
but there is not much prophesy In
saying that if the insurgents" sue
ceed in defeating the Joint statehood
bill this session. they will not be
troubled with the question of state
hood in any form for a long time to
come. OF course there is a strong
sentiment, no one knows just how
strong, in Arizona and IN Indian Ter
ritory against joint statehood with
New Mexico and oklahoma, as provid-
ed by the Hamilton bill. But as the
case stands, if the insurrectionists
should win out in the house. they will
bpyc killed all statehood talk for
long time ahead. 1t looks Just now as
though the insurrection were on the
wane and there would never be an ac-
tual revolution. But the speaker and
his stalWarts have not yet played all
the cards ut their disposal even II the
detection I'm the republican ranks Is
more serious and lasting than II APP
pears on the surface Uncle Joe"
got bunch of the new members to-
gethcr this week and talked to them
i'm a fathorly way that was a revelation
TO new men in congress. He tiptilted
an unlighted cigar i'm one corner of
his mouth and disbursed his thoughts
in this WISE
"You are a fine lot of people. Here
you come into congress on a wave Of
Roosevelt popularity and the first thing
you do is to bolt and tie up two meas
ures i'm which the administration is In
terested. If It had not been for the
president, the most of you would
still have been hoeing potatoes or
practicng law I'm some unheard of
backwoods township And the first
thing you do when his personal popu-
larity lands you here in Washington Is
to run athwart his plans ON the state
hood and Philippine tariff PROPOSE
tions. You make me tired"
That Is no apocryphal conversation
either. The only thing that has been
done TO II is to render II little more
fit for publication, which those who
know "Unele Joe" viii understand.
That is the way the case stands
now. The president may not be vi
tally interested I'm the Hamilton bin
for joint statehood. The chances are
that he would about as willingly see II
tabled as he would any other party
measure for the president, all said
and done Is Il good party man. But
when It comes to the Philippine tar
if bill, he is really interested. He be-
licvcs that the future well being OF the
islands Is dependent in large measure
on the passage of the Payne bill, and
II there Is n serious threat against
that measure, the administration Is
likely TO get busy in such way that
several members will hear some
things not at all to their advantage
Uneasiness In Navy.
There is considerable uneasiness in
the navy over the outcome OF the
hazing trials at Annapolis. It was a
good piece of stage management, from
the viewpoint Of the naval officer, to
have an investigation that would not
bring down n lot Of hostile congress-
men on the academy. But the navy
happened to have a secretary who was
a good deal moro OF an iconoclast as
regards navy traditions than any OF
his predecessors for several admins
trations, and he has forced the haz-
ing trials, through the commandant
Of the academy. till every first class
man and a good many second class
men are trembling. Good old naval
officers In the department are Won
dering whore they are going to get
junior officers for even limited NUM-
Der Of new battleships II the trials 70
on as they promise TO do TIL they
have taken in the majority Of the flrst
AQnd second class.
~ DlsmissIng close TO hundred first
class men and some second class men
would be heroic treatment for haxlhg.
and it would make long line OF va
eancies In the service that It would be
lnconveniont to I'LL But Secretary Boz
naparte Is just rough and rude enough
20 do Il II he thinks II Just. And Il H.
safe 70 say that by the time he gets
through with the academy II WIN havo
received such jolt that there viii be