Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-12
At THE WHITE HOUSE
House Not Likely to Concur in
Senate Amendments
TO THE STATEHOOD BILL
Gen. Grosvenor Talks About Third
Term for Roosevelt.
ON GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
Ex-senator Pettigrew Says It Will
Come Sooner Than is Thought
of as to Railroads.

What will the House do with the state
hood bill?" was the query put to Speaker
Cannon as he strolled out OF the Presi-
dents rooms today.
do with 1t? Why, we will stand just
where we stood before; that Is, If my vote
will count for anything. Why. the House
is not going to stand for all this business
THAT means, of course, that there VIII
be no new states at this session of Con-
gress?"
Go ask the Senate said the Speaker,
somewhat fiercely 1T is for that body TO
determine whether 1t will prevent state
hood"
Later on Jim Watson. republican whip
of the House, walked away from the presi-
Dental offices. He has just been out to
Indiana, and ought to have been feeling
good. as there has ken most satisfactory
juvenile addition to his household. But
question about the statehood bill set him
off like 1t did the Speaker.
II wonder what the Senate takes us for!
We are not a lot of ba bies. The railroad rate
bill has been emasculated SO that 1t would
not be known. The Philippine tariff bill
has been killed outright and now the state
hood bill is fattened out like pancake
There is no probability that the House VIII
concur in the Senate amendments TO the
statehood bill"
President for Third Term.
Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor of Ohio indi-
rectly nominated the President today for a
third term. He did, so, too, right after he
had talked with the President about some
stories that he should have federal job
He told the President that he was not
pauper and was not hunting a position
The third-term talk came about in curl
Gus way. Gen. Grosvenor said he had just
come back from Ohio, where the state leg
isiature was. he said passing some unusu-
ally radical legislation and doing 1t, too,
by practically unanimous vote.
1T just shows which way public thought
is tending" he said. IF this sort of thing
had been proposed ten years ago the men
faVoring ii would have been denounced as
anarchists or socialists and they would not
have received the least support. Now 1t is
taken as matter of course that they should
be passed.
who'll poll the most votes at the next
presidential election-Roosevelt or HearstY'
asked a newspaper man.
why, Roosevelt OF course, if ne wants
the nomination and should run The Pres
ident Is radical enough for almost any or
them, and at the same time would poll
the conservative vote of the country. And
while / am on the subject / might say
that the American people reserve the right
to elect a man for the third presidential
term If they want TO do SO. All this talk
about public sentiment being against It IS
bcsh, according to my opinion. washing
ton, who is popularity supposed to have de-
clared against the third-term idea. did moth
ing of the sort In word or in writing so far
as I could ever learn. True he declined
& third term for himself, but l defy any
one to show anything in his writings where
I'm he made any declaration against the
third-term idea as a policy for the nation.
Even If he did, conditions then were vastly
diff erent from what they are now. During
his first term he threatened to resign: in
his second term he said he wanted no more
of 81, and then he declined 10 run for a
third. l don't know whether any one urged
linn to run again, but the fact remains
that he did decline to do IN his fare
well address Washington talked about
everything on earth. almost, and said many
things that showed marvellous gift of
prophecy, but he failed to touch on third