The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-04
ECONOMY RULES
IN EXPENDITURES
Thus Far the Public Treasury
Is Guarded With Watch
full Care.
TALK OF PARTY DIVISION
NOT HELD TO BE SERIOUS
Matter of Consistency Doesn't
Trouble the Statesmen
Very Much.
spcclul TO The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune.
| WASHINGTON d. C. Feb 3.-If the
demand for economy shall continue dur
| ing the entire Congress, and the men who
| arc watching the treasury are as vigil
| liant as they have set out TO be during The
| first part of this Congress the appropria-
| tions ought to be kept within the rcve
| nucs. There Is a natural disposition TO
| be liberal with public money among those
| who have lived on the public money Take
all our army and navy officers and most
| Of the Government employees who have
| drawn their sustcnancc from the Govern
ment, they are oil liberal Spcnders OF Gov
crnment funds There Ia q demand for
| moro officers In the army and fora very
great Increase in the number OF artillery
soldiers. Plans Tor more extensive forti-
nCationS are made, and with an increase
of troops there would be more barracks
and quarters needed our army friends
would add an additional forty million dol
lars TO the army appropriation bill. our
navy officers gre equally liberal ana
would be glad to see three battlcships
provided each year and officers and sail
ors provided to man them. In the civil
service there is constant demand Tor
promotion, for more clerks more meSsen-
gers. for additional bureaus and new
equipment, as well as new departments,
with all the expensive machinery they
entail. our civil officers arc asking Tor
more money for all kinds OF service and
wise. There is a demand for enlarged
postal facilities and the pressure for In
creased rural free delivery service is IRE
siStlble. The men who are drawing Gov
oInmcnt pay seem 10 think the golden
stream is incXhaustiblo. But the Congress
iCDal economists are going to try to really
save tho Government money, and II they
keep up the work as they have begun
II may be possible TO make good show
ing. Meanwhile, those who wunt river and
harbor appropriations have received only
ff.1A IIrl ger
must have public buildings are In cave
of gloom. 1t Will be interesting to note
whether or not the economic wave Will
wear itself out before the end of the
session.
President Roosevelt's Promise.
There are a lot of prominent Rcpub-
licnns all over the country who VIII help
Theodore Roosevelt keep the promise that
he Will not again accept nomination Tor
the Presidency
That remark was made by an observing
politician. by man who has been watch
Ing tho trend OF politics In this country.
1t was made by the way. some weeks be-
fore Jacob RIis, the great admrer Of the
President. saw fit to bring prominently
before the country the proposition that
the President would be elected for a third
term in order to carry out the policies OF
tho Roosevelt administration. In connec-
ton with the above quoted remark II is
n fact, well known that there can be
no dispute about 1t. that there arc Repuo-
lican politicians about the Capitol who
Will be much pleased when the present
administration Is brought to a close and
that a third term for Roosevelt would be
the one thing in politics that they would
not like. Conceding the popularity of the
President with the people, and feeling
that any opposition to him Is sure TO
bring condemnation upon the Senators or
Representatives who voice such opposi-
tion. these representatives OF States and
people are naturally uneasy and would
was the possibility Of another term for
the present active occupant of the White
House
Party Divisions Not Serious.
"Our party Is wreck; 1t is going to
pieces as fast as II can" was remark of
a Republican Senator. and he continued:
we are split wide open on several I'M
portant measures, with little chance of
getting together. We are split on state
hood; we are split on the Philippine tar
III we arc split all TO pieces on the rail-
road rate legislation, and we are split
on the Santo Domingo policy Of the ad-
ministrntion.'
'It has always been supposed that on
the Santo Domingo treaty the President
had behind him the solid Republican
strength OF the Senate" interjccted
listener
'IIe may have the votes. but 1t does
rot mean that we agree with the policy
continued the Senator In fact We are
not so vitality interested in Santo Do
mingo as in these other matters in which
We arc divided as a party"
II the Democrats he continued,
want to take advantage OF our plight
now Is the time for them to do it'
This pcsSimistic utterancc from a Re
publican sounds doleful enough, but at
the present writing no public utteranco
has been made to back up the statement
Nor is 1t true that the Democrats have
any great confidence in any real rupture
among the Republicans over various
measures now In dispute
'Wo have been trying to taunt them
into saying something publicly against
Roosevelt" said one OF the bralnlcSt
Democratic Senators. but they won't do
It When we had Cleveland In the White
House they could taunt some of our fell
lows until they would get up and de
rounce MIN, which kept our party con-
stantly at war"
Cleveland was also on pretty good
terms with the Republicans" II was sug-
gested
Yes" asseated the Senator HE used
a majority of the Republicans and a mi
nority Of the Democrats to carry out his
policies, and kept us apart all the time