The Detroit times., 1908-12-21

detectives hired BY the war depart
ment had got an alleged confession
from Boyd Conyers, one OF the DIS
missed troopers. telling hoN the deed
was done. Senator Foraker hit back
with a bundle OF correspondence In
which Il was set forth that Conyers
had not confessed at all. but that said
detectives were busy several months
getting testimony through the agency
OF drinks bought at public expense.
II was a rare sight. incidentally. TO
see Senator Foraker. standing In the
senate reading letters. Ike senate.
which is really becoming "a frivolous
body. since II laughs these days on
the slightest provocation, smiled rem
iniscently al the picture-it recalled
so vividly the reading OF other letters
during the recent campaign.
Storm Bursts FurIousIy.
Betimes there came along the mess.
age OF the president on Joseph Pulit'
ger, in which the chief executive pill
loried the owner OF the New York
World as villifier OF his country.
But the worst was yet TO come.
Wednesday. when everybody thought
We were 10 have a breathing spell
the storm, which had been gathering
for seven years. suddenly burst fur
iously over tho senate. Aidrich. boss
OF the body. rose In place and intro
duced resolution authorizing the
committee ON appropriations 10 hives
tigate the secret service from top to
bottom and incidentally 10 report
back, what in the committees opin'
ion. was the proper thing for a har-
raised senate 10 do TO a president who
would use such language-that Is
such language toward the senate. for
II 10 proper always 10 psrticularfre
on this point. In which connection Il
IN said that Senator Tillman and Sen
ator Depew got into a friendly argu
ment In the cloak room the other day.
at the end OF which TD.man said
jocularly:
do you know what think Of you.
Depew7 You are-why, you are-oh.
60 read any enc OF the presidents
public utterances TO see what ! think
OF you"
To resume. That resolution or Aid
rich opened the food gates OF vitu-
peratiye oratory In the senate. Sen
ators unoonsciously plagiaIiEed from
the presidents messages In hurting
back his imputations In the secret
service message Again there was a
picture presented.
Joseph Bailey, OF Texas. earnestly
insisted that something should be
done TO uphold the senate's honor
But Foraker. he sat silent.
That. too, passed into history. But
on Thursday the house got busy
again, and q resolution was reported
from the Perkins committee. which
was awakened by the racket in the
senate, and passed resolutions calling
upon the president for the evidence
on which he based these charges that
congress was not all that Il should be-
Here we may pause while and list
en-.
That rumbiing noise that proceeds
from the other end OF Pennsylvania
ave-. OF toward the White House. Is
probably T. r. laughing. First, he
enjoys a fight Additionally. IL con-
gress had Unanswered TO give him
the best OF 1t, It could not have done
better. That invitation from the
house paves the way for a message
There is talk In some places down
here that Roosevelt has been coaxed
by Taft into putting an end to the
war. But few believe that talk. and
the whisper comes from the White
House that already there is under
preparation a message on the secret
service affair that will climax the
sensations which have been central
over the capitol since the beginning
of the session.
Revelations Are Expected.
IL Is regarded as certain that the
president had something which he has
held In reserve. And 1t is believed
that when this message comes there
will be revelations that will cause the
congress to wish that it had not.
Which leads to the serious phase of
the affair. We can pass over the prob.
lem whether the president has any
damning facts regarding congress that
have been collected by the secret ser.
vice. II there is anything there, it
would be surprising II the president
had not 1t. He has never been too
busy 10 overlook any detail. So, II nc
has facts, they will probably come
out: II he has not-well, that Is his
affair
But the leaders OF the Republican
party are alarmed. With congress In
open war with the president. what Is
to become Of the party? Taft came
here on Thursday and had a long talk
with the president. The president
elect stopped off on his way TO Georgia
10 plead with the president TO make
peace.
He saw only the president, and the
inference Is that he saw no chance
for peace, else he would have remain
ed and had a palaver with the people
on the other side.
Meanwhile the old guard In the sen
ate has reformed lines. and there has
been q general agreement entered into
that nothing that Roosevelt favors
shall get through the present con
gress. They are going 70 make 1t as
uncomfortable for him as they car
during the remaining two months OF
his term, and II they can they will
send him forth a discredited man.
Needless to say. the railroads. and
other vested interests are right ur
front IN this movement. Roosevelt is
TO be punished. He Is 10 be humble
rebuked. the records are to be filled
with humiliating references 70 him
and In every way. possible he ia &c
be punished for the alleged arrogance
OF the past seven years.
Which would not be so bad II II
we're TO end with the Roosevelt term
But having once got the taste OF blood
there Is no telling where these re-
where Mr.. Taft begins TO feel the
ua-.t, ~ IL a aaft1od fact that hic