Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-07
No CONGRES,
Leaders Plan to Choke of All Legislation
Except Money Ellis
FIGHT ON PRtS.O.NT is PROMISED
strong Group of Senator's IL Forming
who Oppose Taft simply Because
of His Friendship with
Roosevelt.
From a stan Corresnondentl }

(from stan Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-(Special.) big
politics will be played in the next two
months in the congress of the United
States. for that is all the time congress
will have to play politics until by opera
ton of law the F1fty-ninth congress ceases
to exist.
Already the leaders in the senate and
house are taking counsel with one another
with view to reaching an agreement upon
program that will choke of all general
legislation except the passage of the big
money bills and a river and harbor measure
wherein the pork will be pretty gener-
ally scattered about. But even should the
leaders, and that means the representatives
OF the administration, reach an agreement
as to the legislation to be passed, 1t is
thought the anti-administration crowd I'm
the senate will make it mighty interesting
and put up a fight that will be worth
coming miles to see.
Senator Foraker, since the introduction
Of his resolution calling for congressional
investigation of the Brownsville affair, has
been, figuratively speaking, Saving wood"
He has done no talking, but has quietly
been marshaling facts to support his con.
tention that the president, under the con.
stitution, had no power to discharge with
out honor" three companies of the Twenty
fifth infantry for alleged participation in
the Brownsville riot.
On the house side, II is expected Rep
resentative Rainey, democrat will have
considerable to say on much the same line
and with the Brownsville affair as the
leading issue. accentuated by currency re-
form, the encroachment of the executive
on the legislative branch of the govern
ment, hot time in Washington is con-
fidently looked for.
The division between leading members
| of congress and Mr.. Roosevelt seems not
to be upon any public issues, but to be
confined almost wholly to the presidential
succession. The opposition to Secretary
Taft by Senators Kean of New Jersey,
Penrose Of Pennsylvania, Foraker of Ohio,
! Scott of West Virginia, Hemenway of
| Indiana, and Dolliver of Iowa, is not per-
| sonal, but is due to their desire to elm
mate all hen who are regarded as tied
| by friendship to the president. Although
| Vice President Fairbanks is not anxious
for an early frost to strike him, the new
shaping of political affairs has found his
| neutenants to the front, and they are
steadfastly at work in many of the middle
states. Apart from the case of Mr.. Fair
banks, there is a strong group of corpora
| tion senators determined to control the
| HtAL udllOUdi convention IN lH6 nope OF
nominating a man who VIII have the sup
port of interests antagonized by President
Roosevelt
Bear Grows from Ink Blot.
! You have no doubt seen Clifford X. Ber-
ryman's bear. The cute little animal which
accompanied President Roosevelt in his pic
torial travels in the Washington Post, Ber.
ryman being the cartoonist of that paper.
| b0x he
into existence? Almost like all creations
which have brought fame to their Gre
ators. Mr.. Berryman's Teddy Bear" was
an accident pure and simple. The cartoon
ist was drawing a picture of the president
In the cane brakes of Mississippi. 1t was
full of life and color, the president, in
hunting costume, ready to meet bruin at
! any stage OF the proceedings. The picture
was finished when wholly by accident a
great drop of ink fell on the cardboard and
splattered about, much resembling the out
lines of a bear. Rather than take the
| trouble of erasng the ink blotch, Mr.. Ber-
ryman put a head on the black spot, and
thus the bear that has made the cartoonist
famous was born. Since that time he has
been doing yeoman service, for the bear
usually expresses the things that are In
the presidents mind. Serious or humor.
Gus, grave or gay, he has become the trade
mark of one Of the gentlest satirists in the
country who leaves no sting behind.
Ticks that Hail the New Year.
"Tn put a girdle around the earth In
seven seconds" was not the exclamation
OF the late Prof. William f. Gardner, wher
he began his experiments in time controlling
systems some thirty years ago, but his
inventions, which were first patented ir
1888, have enabled the people OF the nava
observatory In this city to do that very
thing.
Five minutes before midnight on Decem.
ber 81, when the instruments for recordins
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