Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-09-17
WASHINGTON
Spicy New Setter Giving List
of What Is Doing at
the Capital

HiG UApAsui
81 Washing Sept. 15---.. Roosevelt
and Roosevelt alone will be accept
ed by the middle western and north
western states as the republican can
didate for president in 1908. This
in effect is the statement given out.
by Senator Clapp of Minnesota, who
dropped into Washington this week
after vacation trip down the ST.
Lawrence river. He is now on his
way home. Senator Clapp declares
that the people of Minnesota and the
middle west and northwest gener-
ally have not abandoned the hope
that President Roosevelt will recon
slider his expressed determination
not to accept another nomination.
They are convinced that if Mr..
Roosevelt can be shown that his ac-
ceptanee is the undivided desire of
the American people generally, he
cannot well refuse. The senator
declares that this undercurrent of
feeling for Roosevelt is growing
stronger every day. The Minnesota
statesman declined to forecast what
congress would do at the coming
session, but he believes that it will
have enough on its hands to occupy
a. Ia3x iy,to h "A
matter of tariff revision. He be-
lieyes it is not the part of wisdom
to disturb business conditions on the
eve of a national campaign by dis
cussing proposed new tariff laws.
There may be, he says, some modi-
fcation of existing schedules.
Federal officers are watching with
much interest the plan being tried
in Alabama for the upbui1dfng of
the steamboat traffic of that state.
1t seems the Alabama Railway come
mission, under a recent state act has
taken control of the traffic with a
view to developing it. lis made a
part of the fight on the railroads
by the state administration to the
end that freight rates may be kept
down through the development of
river commerce. 1t is a noteworthy
fact that Alabama has adopted the
view of the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress that the develop
ments of water transportation will
do more to regulate freight rates
than all the legislation that can be
| devised. This organization is plan
ming for its annual convention to be
held here just prior to the conyen-
ing of the sixtieth congress in De
cember. Captain J. F. Ellison, sec
rotary and treasurer of the associa-
ton, is expected here within the
next few days to perfect the arrange
ments. He is also putting forth
strenuous efforts to increase the
membership of the National Rivers
| and Harbors Congress to the end
that the convention may carry all
the more weight in bringing the
problem of waterway development to
the attention of the national legis-
llators and the federal government.
| The organization has contended
that the country should expend not
less than $50,0OO,OO0 year on this
/ special wor kof improvement.
Representative =, A. r. Hull, OF
Iowa, chairman of the military af
fairs committee of the house, be-
lieves that the Filipinos need a
spanking more than they do the bal
lot. In an interview this week he
4 protested against what he termed
"the Internal talk" that encourages
! the Filipinos to believe that theil
i independence is close at hand. Like
i a number of the Oriental races
4 said Mr.. Hull, the Filipinos reach 3
certain point in education only tx
iFstagnate. They are children in ev
cry sense of the word and have t.
/ be rteated as such; if they are goot
Uncle Sam will reward them, bu5
4 if they are bad they are to be placed
across the parental knee and sound
1 ly spanked. Mr.. Hull was emphatit
in his statement that there is alb
soIutely no reason why the United
States fleet should not be sent to thu
Pacific. He sees no reason why an!
explanation should be made to japan
i or any other nation.
The national capital is face to fac,
Il with the yellow peril. z The cit.
Z was invaded this week by a party o
young Chinese, both men and wo
men, who have come here to ents
American schools and universities
They enter the country under spe
lcial permission from the department
Of state and will remain until grad
mated from the American institution
Eof learning Several of them vii