Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-31
ohaoan Yearns to Disersdit Mr.. Roose-
vslt liz Eyes Of the Nasion-Fisht
viii BE Resumed in Earnest When
. Congress convenes Next Thursday
important Measures Await Con-
uress.

1ation which has been considered dur
4 1ng the long session, and In passing
the big appropriation bills 1t will be
that way now. The Short session does
not afford time for the threshing out
Uf entirely new questions, and few
u presidents have had the courage te
+ 1dggest them. or few congresses te
ackie them.
The action Of the president in dis
nalssing without honor a battalion OF
the Twenty fifth infantry (colored)
from the army has been injected into
tho present session by Senator Foraker
md : good deal OF time probably will
4 ~ occupied during January with
Il 1peeches pro and con, Foraker leading
{: the attack on the president and Lodge
Il leading the defense. In the end 1t Is
& likely that the senate will pass reso-
dution providing for the invastiga-
hon Of the merits Of the discharge.
Politics Dragged In,
anticipating such action, the presi-
Dent, a week ago sent Milton D. Purdy
n assistant to the attorney general, to
4 Brownyille to secure affidavits and
Y other testimony going to show that the
dfsmissal was fully warranted. The
Imposition to the president will depend
Ion the Negro Independent league In
& New York for It's data. The president
B has held that the data already fur
Z l,aished by this league were insufficient
to cause a reversal of the executive
order.
Unfortunately, this question has been
dragged into politics, and as a result
4 great deal Of bitterness has already
been manifested and still more Is I'M
y doubteily to come. Northern states
+ having considerable negro population
are inclined, thru their representatives
4 III congress, to oppose the president,
while another class OF members, men
! long opposed to him in secret Is help
ling gitat ton along with, the hope
4 that 1t may prevent him from con-
TROLLING the next presidential nominal
tion. The agitation already has devel-
oped that the negro, as a class, Is In
clined to cast his fortunes in with those
+ of negro criminals and their associates.
President Stands Pat.
There can be no legislation regard
ILLS AlldlE ny NOA6HCSS WAASA w AAA
3 bS effective, and probably none will be
Attempted. for the president has an
4 nonnced that he will veto any bill seek
ling to criticize him. and il passed over
his veto. disregard 1t. The supreme
court, he holds, will not dare NEEDLE
i with matter OF mere administrative
y detail, but IL 1t should so NEEDLE, 1t
10 understood that he will defy the SUI
preme court also.
]: The issue is thus Joined, with the
president standing like rock Of ada
mant on his original ground and invit-
aak attack. The most that can come
out OF 1t will be the stirring up OF
!: much bad blood among the negroes ana
q postponing OF the time when the ae-
z gro problem can be considered soberly
with q view to its ultimate solution.
Should the senate order an investiga-
kflon. the committees report would
come SO near March as to prevent
action. The most that Foraker and his
supporters are striving after 10 NOR
n Victory
Court Public Opinion.
They want the agitation Of the ques-
4 ton to cause public opinion to convict
The president Of having done something
he had no right to do, either In law or
4 Il, morals. and having done this they
will rest content.
In some form or other the car short
I age question is to come before the
present session. The interstate COM
merce commission is to make report
to the president with conclusions and
recommendations and that report is to
go to congress. Whatever may be done
will depend entirely upon the charac-
ter of the commissions recommends
tons. Should those recommendations
embrace the further enlargement OF the
Z commissions power by amendment Of
the new state law, it is almost certain
that nothing can be done until the long
session Of the new congress, next De-
cember, by which time the railroads,
thru fear OF such legislation, probably
will oppose action of a hasty character.
which alone is possible between now
and March 1.
The interstate commerce commission
expects to have its findings of fact
with regard to the car shortage ques-
ton written up by the middle Of next
week, Jan. 10.
These reports, both as to fact and as
J to findings, will be turned over to the
president, who will transmit them to
congress with such comment as he may
deem necessary.
MOTHERS LIES HIS DEFENSE.