The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-19
somE nnrunLrcAN OPINIONS.

of dissatisfaction on the part of Repub- iican newspapers in connection with the course of the President and Speaker Cannon on the Statehood bill. The Kansas City Journal is about as con- sistent supporter of the party and the administration as any. and in recent issue it says:
 If President Roosevelt has any. in- fluence over Speaker Cannon, which ne him to "caH down" the autocrat who dominates tho House n so high hand ed a manner The whole country re- eognizes the justice of Oklahoma claim to admission at this session of Congress and wants the claim honored Tho Senate has voted for 1t unanimous- ly. The House is overwhelmingly Tn favor Of it. and will so vote if it is not tactics. The American people will not patiently witness the defeat of the will of Congress and of the country by the arbitrary commands of mulisr presid- ing officer. IT Cannon drives the House into rejecting the SenAte's bill admit ting Oklahoma to- the Union the admin istration will have to share the blame. Tn pressing the omnibus bill the Speak or was supposed to be carryinug out the Presidents wishes. and if he, to spite the Senate. prevents all Statehood legislation 1t will be assumed that he Is still representing the President. unless the President shall take some step to correct either the impression or the Speaker, or both.
 The Journal very well knows that in forcing the bill through the House as he did the Speaker was but carrying out the wishes, not to say demands. of the President The bill in it's original shape was strictly Roosevelt measure, and Cannon was obeying orders when he applied the whip and sent the bill through the body over which he pre- sides. As to whether the President can or will ''call down the autocrat who dominates the House. that may or may not be. Cannon has shown no evil dence of yielding and the President. so far as we are now informed. has not slgnifted any intention of interfering, If MT Cannon can force or influence the House to stick to it's original form of Statehood bll that will probably end it. The Senate is not going to yield, and If both Houses remain firm it means that there will be no new State this session. That. in our opinion, will suit Roosevelt better than the senate's program will
 The New York Mail is usually one of the most rabid Republican organs on our exchange list, and is supporter of the President in everything. It has no patience with those who criticise him. and can always find defense for any thing he does or says. But even The Mail cannot swallow such a dose as Cannon and the President are trying to force on the party, and remarks:
 Why not take common -sense view of the Statehood question? What Is the political or moral necessity for the House of Representatives to adhere to- any other vtew2 The sentiment Of the House is overwhelmingly in favor of the admission of Oklahoma. So is that of the Senate. and of the whole country Then why not admit it?
 The only reason advanced for adher- ing to the House bill is that the House is committed to it. and that to sur render would be to acknowledge the mastery of the Senate The mastery Of the Senate Is an undesirable thing in itself: but if the House has taken an utterly wrong and tndefensible posi- tion, as certainly is the case in this Statehood matter, the sooner the Sem ate gets the mastery the better
 Some one has said that there is no nobler victory than to confess a mis- take frankly and retrieve It That Is the kind of victory that the country now wants to see Speaker Cannon and There Is no better way to retrieve this Statehood mistake than to pass the Senate bill--that. is to say. to admit Oklahoma and let New Mexico and
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 The angry condition of mind into which the Speaker has suffered himself to be led. and his ill., tempered remarks about the Senate, are wholly without excuse. re read some of his express ions one would conclude that the Sem ate is merely subordinate attachment of the government. and that It's only duty or prerogative is to carry out the designs and obey the commands of the House. We don't know in what school MT. Cannon learned such foolish ideas, or who is behind him in the untenable position he has assumed. but 1t wouldn't be hard to guess.
 Next we will make one extract from The New Bedford Standard, which, al- though not as rabid as some others may be classed as an administration paper. It says:
 We have never yet been able to see why the administration should have assumed to dictate on what conditions Arizona and New Mexico should be ad- ntted to the Union of States; and even supposing that it was matter for the President to push as one of his pet measures, why he should have been in- sistent that the admission should be on terms so repugnant to a very large share of the persons who were most directly concerned. That the President might have views which were peculiar ly his own on this subject is easily eonugh 60 be conceded. And any man, even a President, is entitled to that. But there does not seem to be any good reason why he should have attempted to impose his way of thinking on oth- CTS, and particularly on others who saw, or thought they saw, good reason for disa RreemPnt The Statehood bill was pushed through the House of Rep resentatiVes on the plea that 1t was party administration measure, and Re- publican members were expected to vote for it. not because they individ- ually approve of it, but because 1t was understood that the administration de- sired it. And yet. the admission of Arizona and New Mexico combined into one State was no well-defined princi- pie of Republicanism. Some Republi- cans favored it and some opposed 1t; but the masses of the party were en- tirely indifferent Nevertheless a Re- publican member of Congress who in- sisted on having a mind of his own in opposition to the supposed decrees of the administration was dubbed ''in- surgent," and almost considered tral- tor. Now the Senate has enphatically expressed its disapprobation of the measure as 1t came from the hands of the House. so far as the Arizona New Mexico sections are concerned, leaving