The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-11
THE PRESIDENT
WILL WIN OUT
That Is Current Opinion, in
Spite of HuflineSs of
Some Senator's.
ILLUMINATING DEBATES
A TREAT IN THE SENATE
Senator Carter'S Keen Hit Oh
Desirability of Long Sena-
tOrial Service.
Special 10 The Tribune

Special 10 The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, March 1o-The great
battle begins in earnest next Monday.
There has been some preliminary spar
N ring, few warming bouts, but In dead
earnest now Will the Senate take up and
II consider the railroad rate bill The Hep
II burn bill. 1t is called, the Hepburn-Dolli-
III yer bill by some, and officially 1t is
known as III. B. l2.9S1" but 1t is the
II Roosevelt bill surely as II Is any
II thing. What if Hepburn reported II in
II the House and had charge OF II there.
II what II DolliYer and Clapp fnthered IL
n and forced its favorable report from the
n Senate committee. what II Uillman re-
ported it' Don't we all know that there
n would not have been any bill at all ii
II Roosevelt had not been behind it2 Don't
H We know that 1t would not have passed
4 the House In IFS present form II the
4 power OF the administration had not been
Il behind it2 Don't we know that II the
\ President had said amend it in commit
4 tee that 1t would have been amended
4 Why not give credit whore credit is due?
/ OF course the men in Congress. like Hep
burn, Townsend. Dolliver. Clapp and
4 many others. who stood squarely in favor
| OF legislation demanded by the President
and fought all amendments arc entitled
I to credit and will get IT, but those who
know how things done In these days
are aware that the President has been
the power for rate revision legislation.
Let us take another case in point. The
irrigation law was known as the Hans
ough-Newlands act II was introduced
in the Senate by Hansbrough and in the
House by Newlands, after 1t had been
carefully prepared by a conference OF
men from arid-land States But II was
because Roosevelt had recommended the
legislation. because he had urged II upon
the leaders of Congress that IL received
favorable consideration He did not htei-
tate TO tell the men who controlled the
business Of Congress that he very
much desired TO have the bill passed, and
II was given hearing and had the votes
behind II to put 1t through For score
of years the Western men had been
fighting for aid to reclaim the arid lands
but II was not until Roosevelt was Presi-
dent and his earnest interest enlisted that
West know this. They know TO whom
they most indebted for the irrigation
work that Is now going on with plenty
of money behind IT.
The President Will Win.
OF course some men chafe under the
executive domination. Getting back to
the rate bill we know that influential and
important Republican Senators have been
alienated on the rate bill. Five OF them
were members of the Committee on In
terstate and Foreign Commerce, and
others In the Senate were equally pro-
nounccd. This fact led men TO make pre-
dictlons such as 1.-The President is riding
to a fall" Roosevelt luck cannot last
and has turned" the President is ma
king his great mistake. and lot more
similar expressions But they have been
heard ever since he President and !
Roosevelts career has been covered with |
predictions of political suicide" from
the time he first entered public life So
let 1t 60 The best prediction Is that he |
Will win out in this railroad rate leg
man ever had the people so solidly be
hind him as President Roosevelt. and |
when the vote is finally taken on the rate |
bill II will be found that the Roosevelt |
luck Is still there. and that the prestige |
OF the President is as great as ever. And |
when the bill is signed IT will bear the |
name to which il is really entitled. no |
matter by what other name il may be |
called.
Movements Postponed
Not long since the Senate Committee on |
Library reported a number OF bills, pro-
Yidng for the erection Of monuments for |
certain distinguished heroes of the past |
or to commemorate battles fought In the |
Revolutionary OF early Indian wars, |
These monuments arc TO be erected In |
the States where the heroes DISTINGUISHED |
themselves or the battlehelds where |
glory was achieved. AS n consequence |
they will not be sccn by many people, |
only by these who live in the neiGhbor- |
hood or those whose patriotism leads |
them TO make pilgTimages to these |
places. But stiil tic monuments not |
built, and just because the bills have |
been reported does not mean that they !
Will finally become laws. Even II they |
pass the Senate they may have trouble |
in getting through the House. In fact, |
these bills have been reoortcd many |
times but arc yet I'm our midst
The bill for site and the erection OF |
| a pedestal for the poet Lougfellow was |
reported faVorably in the F1fty-sixth Con- !
gress and each succeeding Congress since |
The same is true OF a bill for a monu- !
Tent TO Dorothca Dynda DIX who was |
celebrated as philanthropist in Maine |
The bill for a statue OF Commodore John |
j. Sloat at Monterey. CAL goes back to |
the Fifty-fourth Congress Coming over |
{r ON the Fifty seventh Congress Ia a bill |
for a monumental column to commemo, !
rnte the Sattle OF Princeton, N j. The |
bill TO appropriate $4,000 for part OF n !
contribution 10 erect a monument at |
Provincetown. Mass 20 commemorate tho !
landing Of the Pilgrims from the May
flower was reported in the E7ifty-eighth |
Congress. as was a bill to erect monu- |
ment at Point Pleasant w Va where
one of tho most important fights with the
J&dians occurred In INA before the Revo-
1ufion Among the historians who have
written of this battle was Theodore |
Roosevelt. who says that ut kept the |
Northwestern tribes quiet for the first two |
years OF the Revolutionary struggle, and
above all II rendered possible the settling
OF Kentucky and the wiring of the Nest
Had 1t not been for Lord Dunmore's war
1t Is more than likely that when the Colo. |
I MES achieved their freedom they would |
have found their western boundary fixed