The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-17
CONGRESS- OPENLY
 DEFIES PRESIDENT
WAVE OF HOSTILITY BREAKS INTO
 REVOLT IN BOTH HOUSES.
"Big stick" Policy is Boldly Resented. Pretensions of Mir. Roosevelt to Dictate Arouses Undisguised Anger--Party Rupture is
 Feared.

HE tOU. 1l IS uOl IUDc q pNeiSNAdA tion after all. The decision of the Senate to curb Mir. Roosevelt and keep him in his constitutional place is being resented at the White House. The obs jections of members of the House of Representatives to the Philippine tarin bills and the joint Statehood bill have only called down upon their heads ex- travagant expressions of Executive wrath and numerous blows from the "big stick"
 The hostile situation, which has been foreshadowed in The Herald from week to week, has advanced from that or secret hostility to open revolt, until there is condition now prevailing that promises the most serious results for the Republican party.
 Higher and higher each day for more than six weeks have arisen the waves of revolt against the pretensions of the President to dictate rather than to rec ommend to Congress. The storm is raging at both ends of the Capitol The great dome resounds with Republican denunclation of Mir. Roosevelt. The White House offices echo with the out pourings of an impulsive and undis- mayed President against the Senators and Representatives who thwart his will.
 Out of such condition only one thing was to be expected and that has about been realized. The Republican party, which at the last National election car- ried every Northern State and swept the great State of Missouri away from its Democratic moorings, is split wide open. The administration is detied in, the House of Representatives and is under searching and unrelenting inves- tigation In the Senate. More than that, the Senate has definitely decided that hereafter things shall be done diff ferently in Washington and that .he President shall consult it in the matter of making treaties, appointing persons to office and digging the Panama Canal.
 Senatorial determination to take position of a corrective character to- ward the President seems to have it's inception in the course pursued by the Executive in reference to Santo Dom'n- go. The Senate forgaye MT. Roose- welt and Secretary Hay for negotiating the Sanchez-Dillingham secret treaty because the administration promptly back tracked. But the Senate has not forgiven Mir. Roosevelt for entering into the debt collecting arrangement with Morales last March immediately after the Senate adjourned. There seems to be no prospect that the Sen ate will ratify the treaty with Santo Domingo, and there is in this case an almost complete and significant par allel with the fight General Grant had with the Senate over Santo Domingo early In the seventies.
 Senate is ResentfuI.
 President Grant became impressed with the idea of having control of San to Domingo immediately after the Vir- ginius affair He desired to annex the island in order to get q military foot hold in the Caribbean, and for that purpose, without the knowledge of Sec retary Fish. sent his private secretary, Mi. BabcCck, to the island to negotiate a treaty. This instrument was negoti- ated by Mir. Babcock, who returned after expending something like $l50,- 900. It provided, for our taking over the island on the payment of $1,000.00O. President Grants Cabinet was so op- posed to what had been done, especial ly in view of the general belief that he had been made an instrument by speculators and adventurers, that he could not get 1t to discuss it. He sent the treaty to the Senate, where it was bitterly opposed by Senator Charles Sumner
 President Grant resorted to the same tactics now being employed by Mir. Roosevelt to get the treaty through. He sought the votes of Southern Sena- tors, used patronage and all his infiu- ence, but the treaty failed.
 The opposition of the Senate to MT. Roosevelt is by no means confined to what he has done in Santo Domingo, as was the opposition to President Grant, and 1t is much more deeply rooted. On the other hand 1t is perhaps not so outspoken yet as was that which was manifested toward President Cleve- land in the fight over the Wilson bill, lad bvy against the nomination of William B. Hornblower and Wheeler H. Peckham to be Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States Nor is 1t so ran corous as that which led to the at- tempt to impeach President Johnson. But it is on so many different topics that at almost any minute an explosion in an entirely new direction may oc- eur.
 As to the Panama Canal, the oppo- sitlon of the Senate has been taken calmly and after much thought. This investigation means that many matters that are now managed by the Presi- dent shall be taken back and held by Congress This was indicated clearly by Senator Hale in his speech delivered imm ediately after the Presidents Pan anna message was read.
 It is reported that in order to obtain his confirmation MT. Shonts, Chairman of the Canal Commission, has consent ed to resign his position as the head of the Clover Leaf Railway, and that he has informed the Canal Commission of the Senate that he is now engaged in winding up his connection with that property. This will result in the con- firmation of MT. Shonts.
 Not so MT. Bishop. who was the $10,000 press agent and who was ap- pointed by the President to be a Canal Commissioner after the Senate insisted that the position of press agent be abolished. It is said that clear ma jority of the Canal Commission Is now in favor of making an adverse report on MT. Bishop.
 President Stands Firm.
 The exasperation of the President seems tc be about equally divided be- tween the Senate and the House. The Senators last week were inclined to nurse the expectation that the Presi- dent would "abdicate" from his posi- tion of abselutism without making d rumpus. It is only necessary for a caller to name almost any Senator to the President these days to have the Senator criticised by the President
 The motives of any man who is op- posed to the way the President has been acting are liable to be handled without gloves One of the Senators, who not long ago defended the Pres ident. was told only yesterday that when the President was told of some chance expression of criticism that he had indulgcd In private conversation the President said: :--
 Now that man is disappointed be- cause l would not appoint so and so to office"
 When II fig explained that this Sena-