Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-01-23
WASHINGTON NEWS
congress WAITING FOR REPORTS
FROM The Committees.
Senate Asks for Information on the
Action of the ton in
Letting the Banks Have National
Funds. Changes Nav be Made in
the Cabinet.
Especial Correspondonce.)

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 22.--
Congress is still killing time, until
some of the committees are ready to
report appropriation bills. The
house being occupied with ram
bling debate on state rights; the ne
gro as jurors; the use of the United
States army at the polls; bribery of
United States officials and congress
men; the punishment of lobbyists,
and all the crimes specified in the
new codification of the penal laws of
the United States. The debate took
on a partisan tinge, as might be ex-
pected in view of the approach of a
national election, and when divisions
were called for, in nearly every case
the vote followed party lines There
is one redeeming feature about this
debate, it is not tied down by any
ironclad rule of the committee on
rules, and is only limited by the
regular rules instead of the usual
arbitrary enforcement of special
rule, which cuts off nearly all de-
bate, when partisan measures are
pending. ,... .
In the senate there is nothing do
ing beyond the introduction of bills
and running debate on resolutions
during the morning hour But
the senate, unlike the house, does
not attempt to make a show of bus
mess, but adjourns daily at an early
hour. An important matter is, how
ever, impending ON the action of the
secretary of the treasury in award
ing the bids for the late issue of
bonds and certificates, and also as
to the deposits in the national banks,
the securities accepted, and the
name of the banks and the amount
each one has on deposit. This in
formation was asked by a resolution
proposed by Senator Culberson, the
democratic leader, and adopted be-
fore the holidays, but was not fur
nished by the treasury department
until yesterday, the 21st. There is
not much doubt that it will be diff
ficult for those senators who usual
1y defend the actions of the admins
tration to explain why the Wall
Street banks, and the country banks
affiliated with them, were favored
by large deposits, and banks in the
South and West did not receive their
fair proportion. 1t will be equally
difficult to defend the details of the
bond issue.
Some weeks ago in this correspOn-
dence it was stated that designations
from the cabinet were impending,
but political exigencies have so far
prevented such from occurring. Sim
liar reports of impending cabinet
changes are now current, and it is
openly stated that both Secretaries
Cortelyou and Bonaparte will resign.
The factional fight between the
Roosevelt-Taft faction and the Knox
Hughes combine is becoming SO in
tense that President Roosevelt is
averse to any change in the cabinet
at this time that would complicate
the election of delegates to the re-
publican national convention favor
able to Mr.. Taft.
From high republican authority
I learn that Senator Knox will be
the man upon whom all the anti
Roosevelt interests will eventually
combine, and that when the ultimate
show down in the convention comes,
Knox and Taft will be the leading
candidates. 1t is probable that the
race will be a close one between them
on the final ballot, and it is posi-
BILE that if some other candidate like
Fairbanks, or La Toilette, sticks to
the last that there will be dead
lock- The control of the national
committee by the anti-Roosevelt fac
ton, with its power to decide which
of the contesting delegations shall
be placed upon the roll of delegates
may turn the scale against Mr..
Roosevelt and his candidate. All
the power and money of the corpor-
ations and the tariff protected inter-
ests will be used to prevent Presi-
dent Roosevelt from rounding up the
Southern delegates into the Taft
corral, and the opportunity for COR
ruption will not be wanting where
one side is ready to buy and the
other side to sell. Such is the pres