Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-16
They Do Not Like il Said Of Them
That They Are
Coerced.
DESIRES OF THE PRESIDENT.
Enter Largely Into All Important Leg
islation Despite Certain Dcnials---
Voted for Bill without Reading.
Special Correspondence.

! Special Correspondence.
Washington, Feb. l2.--It makes sem
ators very angry to read day after
day how the president Is forcing them
to take this or that position: that
he Is debating what shall or shall not
be done; that he is bribing them with
| patronage ana dozen other similar
assertions that are seen In print week
after week, OF course these senators
| do not like IT, and denials are semi
| officially made from the White House
that there is any dictation, while the
| published reports of dctation are de-
nounced or scoffed at by senators. At
the same time the president is forcing
through the rate regulation bill on lines
acceptable to him; without his activity
| and influence the statehood bill could
| not have passed the house; without his
| persistent efforts and insistence neither
the statehood nor the Philippine bill
would have any chance In the senate.
| Whether senators like 1t or not IL II a
| fact that the desires of the president
enter largely into all important legis-
| laton.
SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT.
II voted for the railroad rate bill, I"
| said n member of the house, but |
have not read IL yet. III take a day
of some time and see what is In It."
do you think you are fit man TO
leglslate for this country?" asked a
senator who showed plainly that he
was disguised.
Perhaps not" replied the member,
"but | am representing my people II
did otherwise | would not get back
here again They want me to support
the president, and that is what | am
doing. | find it easier on my con-
science to vote for these measures be-
fore reading them. / might find some
thing that l could not stand for II
gave them too close a scrutiny"
DOESN'T PAY TO BE DRUBBED.
Speaking Of some petty graft which
was proven against an oiilceholder
Senator Burkett of Nebraska said: "a
man might better spend three or four
hundred dollars out of his salary for
necessaries rather than be put In the
attitude OF doing something that can
be criticized, even II It Is not dis
honest. IL Is not worth the drubbing a
man will get. That is one reason why
do not accept passes, 1t cost me
perhaps Ave or six hundred dollars a
year TO pay my railroad fare, but |
don't either have to explain or stand
the drubbing OF the fellows who do not
like the idea of public men riding on
passes. | voted against the mileage
bill for the same reason. ! think we
we're legally entitled to il, and Il would
have meant six hundred odd dollars for
me. but wouldn't vote for It,"
NO LAUGHING MATTER.
Senator Frye called up for passage
bill to establish quarters for light
house keeper at Cape Mondoclno, Cal.
Does Il provide lighthouse for the
senator from California;" asked Sem
ator Kean OF New Jersey, with the in
tention OF putting little laugh on
Senator Perkins.
mo, SIR It does not" snapped out
Frye, who did not relish any levlty.
ut is for n house for the light keeper"
And Kean subsidized.
DE ARMoND WAS RIGHT.
The day II was decided TO bring IN
the rule TO put through the joint state
hood bill there assembled In the speak
er's room the committee on rules, con-
sistins OF Speaker Cannon. Dalzell,
Grosvenor, Republicans, and Williams
and De Almond, Democrats. The rule
was presented and Williams proposed