The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-17

members from Missouri refused to be coerced. and said that they would vote in the House according to their convic- tions. even if tho President did not make single appointment for them. So they agreed to disagree, and there are no more pronounced insurgents" than some of the representatives from Missouri.
 Dehes the "BIg, Stick.
 Another instance was the appearance of Representative Stenerson. of Min nesota. at the White House. MT. Stem crson is with Senator Babcock in op- posing joint Statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. The President tfied to convert him. He failed. Then the President alluded to an appointment he had recently made for Mir. Stener- son.
 If I had known your attitude on this bill.' the President is reported to have said. T should never have ap- pointed him"
 whereupon Mir. stenerson left the White House. Hours afterward an angry man might have been seen pae- ing around town waving his arms and making exclamations. It was Mir! Stem erson. He was trying to quiet himself so that he could appear in the House. He Is working might and main against the Statehood bill.
 Similar facts are being pursued with reference to the Philippine bill. The men who oppose the plan of the Presi- dent and the Secretary of War for free trade with the Philippines in every thing but sugar and tobacco. and free trade in those products after 1869. are vigorously described and contemptu- GUS remarks are passed upon thera by administration spokesmen. It Is the application of the 'big stick" policy again. If man does not agree with the administration knock him in tho head and drag him out. These tactics instead of making tho situation in Con- gress any better are making 1t intol- erabla from q Republican standpoint.
 It is an axiom that brutality, begets brutality. The men who are being att tackled by the President and the Presl- dents spokesmen with such vigorous candor are replying in kiLd. Bitter- ness has been injected into the vari- QUE controversies. Even Uncle Joe" Cannon has caught the infection and administration with a merciless hand and those whose heads have been cracked are preparing to give him as good as he sends.
 In consequence there is not only very bad tempered President, but an equally bad tempered Senate and House of Representatives. What wonder Is It that the Republican organization is hopeIessly divided? In the Senate this week the administration will put for ward Senator Clay, a Democrat, from Georgia, to reply on the question of railroad legislation to Senator Foraker. a Republican, of Ohio. The President is getting recruits wherever and how ever possible. He is creating his own party as rapidly as he can. He is reaching out to capture State organi- zations whenever the opportunity pre- sents itself.
 The Indiana episode of last week, in. which he gave to Senator Beveridge the only piece of patronage remaining and which belonged to Jesse Overstreet, the Secretary of the Congressional Com mittee, who promptly resigned, Is an instance of how the power of patron age is being used
 Constant Strife Ahead. It now becomes a free for all race, with several months of strife ahead. There are already questions on which there are sharp points of difference. Aside from the Statehood and Philip pine bills and the two canal investi-
 
 are the Santo Domingo treaty. the Isle of Pines treaty, the Pure Food bill, which is an administration measure; the difference between the Executive and Congress over extravaganza and the enormous deficiency bills being in troduced to carry them to the end of the present fiscal year; the bitterness that is being engendered in each State delegation over patronage, and, finally, At.,. IafN Nr.4 aF 4Ia railroads
 But there is a new contest coming, to which perhaps these other things will seem as but minor matters This will be over, the tariff. Just at the time when Speaker Cannon and Senator Ald rich thought they had buried tariff revision in deep, deep grave it comes up in an entirely new form through the insistence of Secretary Root that maximum and minimum tariff shall be enacted. It is not proposed to lower the present duties, but to raise an- other wall 25 per cent. higher than that which now surrounds the country and to use this against Germany. The instant this is seriously attempt ed the demand for tariff revision will break out anew. The stand patters" will be caught at a disadvantage. The men who echo the inquiry of Repre- sentative Mccall, '"If we won't revise the tariff when we have a two-thirds vote in tho House and Senate, when are we to revise it?' are likely to ex- claim the minute a maximum and min imum tariff bill is reported, Now is the tirne" Hence, before this session is much further advanced there Is likely to be the warmest sort of fight as to whether this Congress shall go on re- cord oy solemn vote of standing pat" a little longer, or whether the whole tariff question shall be opened to dis cussion.
 Then it would seem that the oppor- tunity for which the Democrats have been waiting will present itself. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Itching Blind Bleeding, Protruding Piles. Druggist are authorized to refund money fl l PAZ0 OINTMENT fails to cure in to IA