The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-26

| In the eastern section of the country
| these criticisms on the President are
having considerable influence and prob.
ably will be of increasing weight be-
cause the agitation is deeply rooted and
promises to spread on account of the
strong intellectual forces behind it. In
the West the people are so much in
earnest about securing results in the
crusade against corporations that they
are not paying much attention to the
means. Therefore they do not take as
much stock as their eastern brethren
in the structures on the President.
Mr. Roosevelt himself has always
been rather Indifferent to the criticisms
that he encroaches upon the legislative
branch of the government or that he
does things by overstepping laws and
precedents. He is terribly in earnest
in getting upon the statute books be-
fore the end of his present term laws
which he regards as very urgent and
regards as unfmportant the criticisms
that are raised against him. Some
students of the administration have
compiled a list of the statutes the
President seems to have broken since
he entered the White House. The vio-
lations were very plain in some cases.
The House has had two or three field
day debates on them, especially in the
matter of DETECTING appropriations
from the purposes for which they were
intended. A specific instance was the
construction of a new building for the
Department of Agriculture. A large
appropriation was made for building
but it was not as much as the Pres
ident thought it ought to be. Congress
specified where the building should be
placed but the President wanted it
placed elsewhere, because he thought
it would better conform to artistic
plans. Instead of erecting a building
within the cost, however, the President
directed that two wings be built with
the money on plans SO that in the
future a central building could be plac-
ed between them. Therefore two mag
nificent structures. separated by a long
space to be occupied by a central build
ing when Congress will appropriate for
it, have been erected here and are now
well along toward completion. They
are not on the site Congress directed
but several hundred feet away from
there
The President is spending most of the
present week in Washington. He re-
rain and for a few days thereafter has
been busy catching up with the routine
work of his onlee. A few politicians
have been coming to town for confer
ences with him. They are talking pol
itics and patronage, especially the lat
ter, for every Republican Congressman
every little while has offices to fill and,
of course. wants to urge the President
to appoint this or that man. And as
a matter of fact good deal of the
Presidents time, now as generally, is
devoted to hearing what Congressional
and other callers have to say about
the fitness Of candidates for offices. In
the big bundles Of papers that come
out of the Presidents office, the broad
parchment sheets-which are commits
sions for office--constitute a conspicu-
Gus portion. The strife for office is just
as keen as ever in every State of the
Union. There are the inevitable quar-
rels and controversies, growing out OF
aspirations to office A considerable
of the appointments, of
are made without friction but
often the fights are made with deter
nination. Candidates come here to be
presented by their members of Con-
gress or others and while each candi-