Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-12
BlsBEE DAILY REVIEW, BIsBEE, ARIZONA.
THE iMPOTENT "RiG STICK"

"BiG STICK"
 It seems that all the talk and blus- ter indulged in last year about what the president was going to dc to the trusts when the present Congress took the legislative bat has amounted to nothing; the talk of using the "big stick on all who refused to support the administration measures has gone ~sor nothing so far and the president is gradually backing away from those aggressive contentious in the interest of the people about which so much was said.
 If there ever was need for display and use of the "big stick" it is now. The Senate has already trimmed the railroad rate bill until thero is little left in it which will be of relief to the
 bnntry, or act as a check to the
 reediness of the combined railroad
 terests of the country; still we hear
 bthing from the president except his
 leading for the passage of the rail
 bad bill in some form. He is no
 nger aggressive, and has accepted
 hendment after amendment proposed the representatives of the railroad Interests, until the democratic Sena- tors, who were disposed to assist the president in securing needed legisla- fion. have become disgustod- with the Concessions of the president.
 The democrats have always been Heady to support any efficient meas
 re proposed by the president, but
 .ey are justified in refusing to be
 he parties to compromise with
 he railroads and trusts which is being
 rranged to bolster up the republican
 rty in the fall elections. without re- L. yd to the interests Of the people. If the president were honest in his recommendations, made in his mes sage last fall, touching railroad legis- | &tion. he is showing no disposition 1 o energetically contend for what he jeiieves to be right, and his present | position can only be accounted for cn l 1Ae, theory that Ee is impressed with | the fact that a failure of his party to pass a railroad rate bill during the present session of Congrass means the l loss of the House this fall, and that | he is willing to accept anything in the way Of such bill. whether it be ef- fectiye CT beneficial or rot.
 The present Congress has been re, narkable for its lack of accomplish, nents; there has not been 8 single l Pleasure passed which received any | Emphasis in the presidential message in December.
 All tue White House measures were | whipped through the House, but in the HQuss, under the whip of Speaker Cannon. the passage of a bill in that body cannot be accepted as evidence HhaE Effre: members favor it. The rail Eoa6 rate bill passed the House by lSraa aically Gn unanimous vote, which rA be accepted as representing the sediment of the country, and with this@strong endorsement it is the more sJrHising that President Roosevelt hasR consented to mutilation of the He&urnE bHl jn the Senate. The ac tlorE of the1 Hcusss however. on the sta&hoodl biAowss procured by the pol&c Izsh4 4ssnfsagainst the judg. meA and censciencrse ,of a majority of Ee members of that body. snc the sauk may be said of the Philippine tarE bill. A large BfajoFity of the Fofe are noy. spsiqus7 to- pass the amssded statehoed tiiY. admitting only OkA Ahoma as ,a state butsuade- the don anation Of Speaker Cannon they are ienied the privilege.
 TS Se Hgislasi9e ness nov prevail inS tn Washington, should further i'm pres the country that the republican par5 does sptS inteSd to enaspachJ on the Governmental .favors being en- joyea by those wh6 have filled the republican campaign sack. during the last ten years If the people desire