Arizona republican., 1906-01-15
business man is admitted even b! those close to him.
 MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.

business man is admitted even by those close to him.
 MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.
 Even as this review of the presi- dents activity is being prepared, two of the ablest men in the cabinet Secretaries Root and Taft-are anx- iously discussing the nature of the ac- counting which shall be made to con- gress regarding many acts in connec-. ton with the construction of the Pan- anna canal Everything that has been done there is an act for which tae ad- ministration must take responsibility-
 The "lid" is to be taken off Pan anna. All the expenditures are to be uncovered. If the men acting as agents of the president have been prodigal with the money of the government, the president and his secretary of war. in whom he vested supreme authority. are answerable. Yet while most of this money was being expended and things yet to be exposed by congress were be-. ing done, the president was resting at oyster Bay and his secretary was on the other side of the world, conducting tour of statesmen to the Philip pines.
 SANTO DOMINGO "A PROBLEM.
 Panama matters may be satisfactor- fly explained, and if anyone can get out of an awkward position MT. Ttoose- welt can. But then Santo Domingo. What is he going to say about that? The Dominicans have placed in an al- most ridiculous light the president of the United States, who was seeking to help them upward and onward" In view of the light of recent events. all any senator needs to do to enbarrass the president is to read on the floor of the senate his message on the Domini- can question, on which the ink has only been dry since December ,. There are other matters which go to make up the crisis which the presi- dent is confronting. One of these is the expressing question of the reguia- ton of railroad rates. This the presl- dent insists on keeping before the pub lie and before congress. The agitation has gone so far there is now no pros pect that congress will fail to pass some sort Of a bill. The question now is. how can a bill be framed which will satisfy public clamor and at the same time prevent great injury to the railroads and to commerce?
 MT. Roosevelt's party Is split up into such as MT. La Toilette, of Wisconsin, and Governor Cummins of Iowa; the middle ground men, one of whom the president has evidently become, and the railroad element.
 LOSING SOME SUPPORT. MT. Roosevelt has been counting on she support he could command in the middle west to force congress to act, out he seems to be in a fair way to lose much of that support. The nat ura1 leaders in the railroad fight in the middle west are Messrs. La Toilette and Cummins. And it is plain to be seen that MT. Roosevelt can get no law which takes the middle ground with Governor Cummins making such attacks on the Deliver administration bill as he did last Friday, and with MT. La Toilette coming to the senate next week to see there is no compro- mise.
 This naturally leads to the subject of he exact popularity which the president enjoys at this time. There are many men wno declare that his hold on the great American public is waning. This may be disputed. be- cause there is at this time no means