The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-10
THE POSTOFF|CE
APPROPRIATIONS
Predicted That They Will Reach
Five Hundred Millions
a Year.
NO DOUBLING UP
in ELECTIVE OFFICES
Consideration of Some of the
Cabinet Presidential
Possibilities.
By Arthur w. Dunn.

WASHINGTON, June 9.-Wheu Senator
| Penrose. chairman OF the Senate Commit
tee on PostofiiGes and Post Roads. pre-
dicted that the postoffice appropriation
bill would in time-the senatorial life OF
men then In the Senate. he put it-reach
the enormous proportions of 5oo.OoO.Oo0 q
! year. he startled some OF those who heard
| MIN, while others did not take him seTi-
| ously. When the United States Govern
| ment was 100 years old, when IL entered
upon It's second century pf its present ex-
| istence. when the FIfty-first Congress ap
| propriated $500, 000 a year for the ex-
penses of the Government, there
prolonged cry about the Billion Dollar
| diets that the Postoffice department will
cost a billion dollars every two years,
| just what the total expense OF the Gov
| ernment was less than twenty years ago.
The present appropriation bill of nearly
| 500, ,rO,OOO no doubt encourages the belief
| that the appropriations to be rapidly
increased within the next few years Al
| ready Ii Ia predicted that the rural free
| delivery service will cost nifty million dol
| lars year. and, OF course, other services
VIII Increase In proportion. The prophecy
| of Penrose might also he realized f the
| movement for 4 telegraph systom owned
| and operated by the Government should
be adopted. The movement in that d.
| rection Is slow. but II may come. We own
a cable to Alaska, and are going to own
| another to Panama. Cuba and Porto Rico.
| II we own sea telegraphs why not land
|
| ful2 II we should adopt such system
we would find II very expensive at first.
the building OF the lines and installation
| OF the service but those who have
| looked into the matter are convinced that
1t will be selfsustaining and that the peo-
pie Will get a service which Will be less
| expensive than what is now paid by the
people TO the telegraph companies. Then
| there is tho parcels post proposition,
| meaning that the Government shall carry
small packages by mall at a very small
| That Wnn1I odA
| tional expense to be added to the post
office appropriation bill Tho prophetic
soul of Penrose may have seen tho fu-
ture better than we can guess when he
| predicted half-billlon dollar postof1lce
bills. There are certainly possibilities.
| and the country is growing. Besides there
by the general Government. Many people
9eem to think that this great, rich, pros
porous country ought not 10 stop at
! small thlnge, that II ought not to be pc
nurious. and parsimony should have no
place in Its management with all the
prospective expenditures for the postal
| service We NAV roach the figures of SEN
ator Penrose in a score of years.
Doubling in Offices.
The unwritten law in number of
| States is that man shall not be a can
ddate for two offices at the same time,
That is If he is a member OF tho House
| Of Representatives he cannot continue
| TO be q candidate In his district and also
make the race for Governor at the samo
time. In the same States IL Is also true
! that man cannot be candidate for
Governor with expectation OF being q
candidate for the Senate when the Leg
islaturo meets in the winter, Many men
have fallen between two stools by trying
10 hold on to one good thing while reach
| ing for something better Several men,
| bers OF the House arc now trying to de-
eide whether they viii be candidates for
| reelection this fall or relinquish their
seats In tho House In the hope OF land
Ing In the Senate g.. tho LeNt session of
Legislature or being elected Governor be-
fore the expiration OF their terms.
The Interpretation put upon this Idea
that men shall relinauish the Offices they
row hold in order to be candidates for
something better is carried to consider
able lengths In some States. For In
stauce, the suggestion Is made that John
Sharp Williams. the present minority
leader OF the House, should not be a can
didate for recollection to Congress II he
intends TO be a candidate FOR the Senate.
although there will not be a vacancy In
the Senate from Mississippi until March
s. 1911. But there will be Legislature
elected in about two years and the cam
paign for the Senate by the primary sys-
pected that Williams will yncate his scat
for at least two years yet and that no de-
sires to go through the campaign in the
hope that the next House Will be Demo-
cratic in which event he would be can
didate for Speaker. Tho opponents OF
Williams are insisting that he shall not run
for Congress-. for the Speakershlp and the
Senate at the same time, but that has
not disturbed him. He will go before his
people, for election to the House. II
March g. 1909. There would be a period OF
two years between the date OF the ex-
piratio1 nf his next torn In tho House
and tho beginning of his term ns Sem
ator II he should be chosen. Naturally a
nan does not want to sacrifice four years
of active political life for the chance OF
a scat in the Senate which Williams would
ravo TO do II he should give up the
House now and make tho race for tho
Senate.
Williams and the Speakership.
Speaking of Williams and the Speaker.
vhip 1t is naturally assumed that he would
be Speaker if the House should be Dem
selected as the minority leader OF his
PARTY would have the prestige which
yould go long tSs Tsy toward tis carving King
are Democrats who think that Champ
Clark of Missouri would be better
Speaker and Clark might be selected,
Clark is a man who has grown rapidly
in the estimation Of his party and the
House and II seems TO bo well understood
that he might have been elected minority
leader at the beginning OF tho Fifty
eighth Congress II there had not been
two candidates from Missouri. 1T seoms
TO be assured, and we arc now supposlns
that tho Democrats have. carried the Con,
4 CT, ssional elections this fall. that "
Williams Is Speaker, Champ Clark will
be chairman OF inc NAYS ys,o6S ana onnsnls Mesns
| him with tho statement that man had
better be chairman of tho Ways and
| Means committee. md have his nh,no as
l ISOLATED with 4 tariff bill than to be
Speaker II Is even said that there are
more possibilities for q nan who has beer
| chairman OF q Committee on Ways and
Means than In being Speaker, These
friends OF Clark refer him to the facl
that when Read and Mckinley contested
| for the Speakershio, Reed won, but NC
4 Klulcy became President because M
4 name waa associated with q tarin bill
md defeated Reed because the peopl'
thought he more nenrlv represented thu
| Republican Idea of tariff than tho Speak
| or. 'Tt Ia better To hive your name at
/ II Is not passed rather than TO be Sneak
v CT" is the assurance which Clark
N friends give him Besides" they add
II There are Presidential possibilities 70
men who are ohairTnen OF Woys am
| Means and make tarlnf bill" Prohabl,
| lhis does not exotic Clark Nery huch