Amador ledger., 1906-04-06
Washington
Letter.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.

Washington D. G., March "a, 1906.
Senator Tillmann says the debate
on the rate bill will last six weeks
more and that the Hepburn bill will
be materially amended before it passes
the senate. Senator Dolllver says
that the bill will be passed without
amendment and the debate will not
last more than week or ten days
longer. Anyone who is interested
can draw their own deductions from
those divorce vIews. at tho rate the
debate is now progressing and from
the number of senators who still
want to speak, it looks as though
senator 'EiIlman's forecast would be
more nearly correct. Of course it is
impossible to toretell what may
happen to the rate bill and the friends
of the railroads are TRYING hard to
put some Ioop-hole in it that will
render the proposed legislation of no
effect. But it can be said that if the
bill goes to the White House in such
shape as to not meet with the presi-
dents approval, he Will veto 1t as
surely as he can sign his own name
and will call an extra session to
thresh out the whole matter again.
But it is hardly to be supposed that
even the enemies of fair legislation
will go to such lengths and there is
always in the background the fear as
senator TiIlman bluntly put it when
he said that if the present congress
could not turn out a fair rate regula-
tion bill, the people would sec to it
that the next congress was composed
of men who were differently minded.
The statehood bill has gone to con-
terence. There was a strong show of
resistance to submitting it to confer
ence at all, but now it is out of
the way for the time being, and it re-
mains to be seen whether the house
in the end will have the temerity to
defy the senate and the obvious wishes
of the people of Arizona and probably
the majority in New Mexico.
Everything has been Professionally
arranged for secretary Roots trip to
Rio Janerio in July. Normally he is
to be present at the Pan American
conference. But in reality it is under
stood that he will be charged with
mission to the Brazilian government
for the establishing of what amounts
to an international alliance with re-
spect to the Monroe Doctrine. This
was the matter on which Judge Pen
field was sent to Brazil last summer.
He looked over the ground and de-
clared that conditions were ripe for
such move. He was an official in
whose judgment the president reposed
great confidence, and his report was
that not only would Brazil welcome
such an agreement but that European
politics were so moving as to make 1T
most desira BILE. 1t has been known
that ever since the overthrow of the
Empire in Brazil that Germany has
been colonizlng the country as we'll
as she could and not only in Brazil
but in most of the other South Ameri-
can countries she has been establish
ing a commercial foothoId that is al
most as important as political foot
hold would be.
She has tried systematically to dis
credit the Monroe doctrine in the
eyes of the world both in Europe and
in South America. She has limited to
all of the smaller South American
states that the United States was only
waiting an opportunity to gobble
them politically and that Brazil was
all ready for revolt against the Mon
roe doctrine and was only kept in
line by force. Naturally all of this
was untrue and it is thought that II
Brazil can be induced to quietly ar
range an entente with this country
that has for its basis the formal recog