Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-02-15
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondence)


meeting of the government board Of
bureau of American republics, few
days ago, presided over by Secretary
Root and attended by nearly all OF the
members in this city, It was decided
that the fourth Pan-American confer
ence should be held in the city Of
Buenos Ayres, May 25, 1910 The
date was selected to commemorate the
achievement of independence by the
South American republics.
Civil Guard Is Advised--General
Young, now on the retired lost and
superintendent of the Yellowstone Ma
tional park, believes that the protec'
tiOn of the reservation and the game
should be placed under civil guard
in place of the army police patrol.
General Young says that the majority
of the officers are Indifferent and ap-
pear to resent being required to serve
both the military interests and the in
terests of the park on their small
salary during the long and severe win
ters, their duty not being only DIM
cult, but dangerous and much hard.
ship being endured.
No Special Tariff Messaae-About
thirty representatives of the National
association of manufacturers conferred
with President Roosevelt last week in
pursuance of their desire to have him
send to congress special message
y
for tariff commission. After the
conference. James w. Van Cleave of
ST. Louis, chairman OF the organiza-
tion, announced that pledge of en-
tire secrecy regarding the conference
had been taken. 1t was stated at the
White House that no special message
on the subject of a tariff commission
would be sent to congress by the pres
ident The delegation seemed salts
fed with the interview and some Of
them even said it would be unsafe to
predict that there would be no special
message,
RooseVets May Visit Eurepe-All
Washington is aroused over the report
now being spread broadcast that Pres
ident and Mrs. Roosevelt are to spend
the summer in London, the scene Of
their marriage in 1886. He will also
tour the Continent, it is said II the
president does go abroad this summer
he will have broken another precedent
of the Office. Heretofore no president
while in that Office has set foot on for
eign soil Mr. Roosevelt himself
when he went to aPnama was farther
from the seat of government than any
of his predecessors ever were. Al
ready politicians are specializing up
on whether the executive ofices will
be removed to the Strand, with Secre-
tary Loeb in charge, the same as has
been the case at Oyster Bay in previ-
Gus years. or whether Vice-President
Fairbanks will be given an opportunity
to steer the ship OF state for few
months. Opinions differ.
Applause at 5ilPs Passage-Under
suspension of the rules, the house on
Feb. took up the Sulloway bill,
granting a fiat pension to all widows
Of honorably discharged soldiers. It's
author said the bill involved an addi-
tional expenditure of $12,741, 900. He
described destitute widows OF soldiers
who are unable to secure pensions be-
cause of some technicality of the law
regarding property holdings, and re-
ceiVed applause when he said these
technicallties should be swept away.
Amid loud applause, the bill was
passed without division, and with only
one voice in opposition. The attend
aIlce of members was the largest since
the opening day The bill increases
the pensions of widows from SS to Sl2
per month, and is applicable to all
such pensions OF less than $12 which
have been or may be granted under
existing pension laws.
No Tariff commlssion--The present
congress will not appoint tariff COM
mission. Revision OF the tariff may
be undertaken next winter in the
short term. These announcements In
substance were made recently by
Chairman Payne Of the house commit
tee on ways and means in the pres
ence and with the tacit approval OF
Speaker Cannon the occasion being q
call upon these leaders by tariR re-
vision delegation comprising represen-
tatives of many OF the biggest manu-
featuring and Industrial concerns In
the United States and headed by
James w. Van Cleave of st. Louis,
president Of the National Association
OF Manufacturers, and ex-Gov. Bachel-
der of New Hampshire. The delega-
tion at the White House paid their re-
spects to the president. Later they
went to the capitol and were received
In the ways and means room by
Speaker Cannon and Chairman Payne.
There they spent more than an hour,
presenting their case and listening to
replies by the two foremost Republi.
can leaders in the house, which. while
they were cordially couched, were
practically refusal of all that the del
egation had jOurneyed to Washington
TO plead for. In introducing the sub
feet OF the appointment OF q tariff
commission, in line with the Beveridge
bill recently offered in the senate, Mr..
Van Cleave said the delegation were
unanimous in the belief that the mat.
ter OF the tariff can be best handled
by the application Of hard.headed
business bill, which would so amend
the tariff schedules as TO encourage
the development Of foreign commerce
by the producers OF the United States
without at the same time exposing
their goods to the reactlonary effects
OF free trade. He said 1t was the Arm
belief OF the vast interests represented
by the members Of the delegation that
a wholesome revision OF the tariff
could be best got at by commission
appointed to ascertain the costs OF do
mestic productions, the relative profits
derivable from home aud foreign sales,