Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-10-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

I Inc IfeSluenCS return TO the capitol
| has operated, as usual, to give impetus
J to the national government and every
| thing seems be moving more bris1ly
under the stimulous Of his energy,
! One of the Chief Executive, and one
! which exhibits his characteristic fair
ness, was to announce that he would
| formally approve Of the Oklahoma
| convention WEIGH will add five mem
bers to the House and two to the Sen
ate at the coming session. Mr.. Roose-
welt made it very clear that he did not
approve of the convention personally,
that he shared the very poor opinion
which Secretary Taft expressed of the
instrument. In fact, he told some of
his friends that were he to put his per-
sonal opinion of the constitution into
words it would not be fit for publica-
ton. But he examined it in the light
of the discretion conferred on him by
Congress and finding. no ground on
which to reject it, within such circum-
scribed limits, he will formally approve
it as soon as the certified copy and the
certificates of its adoption reach him.
| Oklahoma has already elected her Of
| ficers and members of Congress. The
latter include two Democratic Sena-
| tors, three Democratic Representative
and two Republican members of the
lower house. The chief opponent of
the admission of Oklahoma has been
Speaker Cannon but the President
believed that he had no right to take
political considerations into account
when he passed on the problem.
The President is keeping very quiet
regarding his coming speeches which
are said to be very interesting and
straight from the shoulder, as his ut
terences usually are. Neither will he
reveal anything regarding his coming
message to Congress except that so far
| as he now knows it will not contain
any suggestions Of amendment of the
antitrust law. The Attorney General
has some ideas on this subject, how
ever, and when he has laid them before
| the Executive they may appeal to him
so strongly as to lead to their being in
corporated in the message. 1t is prob
able that the President will take ad-
vantage of the great prosperity of the
country and the extraordinarily pros
porous condition : ~ T asury to
urge a considerable addition to the
navy and the enactment of the navy
pay bill, which will give to the enlisted
men and officers of both the army and
navy, material increases of compensa-
| ton, running from 80 per cent. in
crease for the enlisted men of both
arms of the service down to 10 per
cent. for the higher ranking officers
National Committeeman Ward and
Brooker, of New York and Connecti-
cut respectively, took luncheon with
the President the day after he reached
| Washington and reported on political
conditions in their respective states.
They told the President that every
| thing in both states looked most favor
able for great Republican victory
| next Autumn. Mr.. Ward said that
New Workers. were delighted with
| Governor Hughes administration and
would renominate him and reelect him
governor. He also expressed the be-
lief that the New York delegation
would cast solid vote for Secretary
| Taft in the national convention. Mr..
| Brooker told the President that he was
certain Connecticut would send Taft
delegation to the convention. The
President expressed the utmost graft
fication at this news.
1t is regarded as noteworthy that
never since the President announced
! that the battleship feet would go to
the Pacific has a cross word been heard
| from JapBn. 1t is known in inner cir
cles in Washington that the japanese
| legislation of the last session has sig
nally failed of its purpose, the exclus-
ion of Japanese laborers from this
country and it is regarded as almost
certain that the United States will
be obi ged to seek an exclusion treaty
with Japan during the coming winter.
OF course battleships are not diplomats
but it is the experience of every diplo-
mat that they have much to do with
making successful the work of the
most accomplished diplomatist. 1t is
a fact that during the last quarter of
the fiscal year something over 10000
Japanese secured admission to this
country and while many of these came
in as teachers and merchants, most of
them were found doing manual labor
within very short time after their ad-
mission, while the government was OBJ
liged to expend $4,000 for railroad
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