Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-14
Believes He Can Get Next
Winter What He Can't Now.
FRANKLY EXPLAINS COURSE
Reason for Postponing Vote on the
Brownsville Case.
IT'S POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Regarded by Some as Showing That
Some of the Leading Senators
Will Push Taft's Candidacy.

Back Of the Senates action Yesterday
in post poninS until Gext session Senator
Foraker's Brownsville bill is very in
teresting situation. 1t was the talk OF
politicians today and the cause of a great
deal of discussion. National politics fig
ure in il to Il large degree.
The reason why Senator Foraker yes.
terday moved to postpone action on his
bill 70 reinstate the negro troops was that
republican leaders in the Senate COM
/ PEELED him TO take that course. 1t is de-
! cared that their action in this respect
was governed by one main consideration
namely to prevent raising an issue be-
tween the President and the Senate which
| would certainly. in the opinion of these
leaders. result in party friction and
| which. in the fear of some of the republic
can senator's. might create situation
which would he disastrous.
| TO put the case frankly, some OF the
| big men i'm the republican party in the
| Senate are afraid that if contest be-
tween Congress and the President should
! be precipitated al this time and In the
! present state of mind of the people at
| large the outcome might be demand
| for Roosevelt'S denomination expressed IN
such a way that the President could not
| refuse TO heed 1t.
Dead Against Third Term.
Brutal as it may sound. it is no exag-
geraton to say that the one desire of
the republican leaders of the Senate is
to avoid anything which will bring about
the denomination of President Roosevelt
Senators Aldrich and Hale and their as
sociates it is said have made up their
minds that Secretary Taft shall be nOmi-
%lo@s~.
sies to this end. Later they will also
endeavor to elect him. and in that under
taking it is not unlikely that way can
be found to insure Senator Foraker's re-
turn to the Senate. thereby bringing har
mony into Ohio politics.
1t is said that If Senator Foraker had
brought up his Brownsville bill with the
attendant discussion upon 1t the Presi-
dents arrOgation of unquestioned power
in army administration and his intention
to defy Congress in certain circumstances
would have been made apparent as to
require the Senate to take cognizance of
it. Thereby a situation might arise
which would upset all the plans of the
leaders for harmony and peace in the
future.
Foraker Accepts Situation.
Many senators sympathized with Sen
ator Foraker yesterday and felt sorry
that he should have to be the vicarious
sacrifice to party necessity upon this oc-
casion. But there was nothing else to be
done. The republicans. for the reasons
stated. would not give him the votes to
bring up his bill. and he was compelled
to quit. IL was bitter dose for him to
take, but he took it manfully. In state
ment which he gave out last night he
pointed out that the negro soldiers for
whom he has been fighting will benefit
in the long run. he expects to get
vote next year, and may succeed in pass
ing the bill. Senator Foraker's state
ment follows:
The reason for postnoning action on
the Brownsville bill until next December
is that at this time 1t was impossible to
get vote. even If | could get the bill be-
fore the Senate. while next December. 1t
was the understanding arrived at. every
republican in the Senate will be under OBJ
legation to help me get the bill before the
Senate and to get vote on 1t. The diff
ference between insisting upon action
now and postponing action until then Is,
therefore. that at this time the proba bill
ties were that 7 would not get anything.
while at that time I shall at least get a
vote, and l have great confidence that
the measure will pass. If SO, the men
will have a relief that will restore to
them all their rights. Moreover. there
will not be loss to them or anybody else
by delay.
so far as | was personally concerned.
the Presidents announcement that he
would veto my bill if Congress passed 1t
and refuse to enforce it If we should pass
| ii over his veto had nothing to do with
my action. Such announcements are be-
coming common. and while doubtless they
still affect the action of some people, l
do not pay any attention to them. What
l am concerned about in this matter is to
| get a full and real restoration of these
men to all their rights. and l do not in
tend 10 allow anything personal to myself
| to stand in the way of accomplishing that
| object.
Democrats Disappointed.
The democrats yesterday did all they
could to make trouble, and taunted the
republicans upon their discontinue and
their evident intention to sidestep the
Brownsville affair on account of political
exigencies. Senator Bacon frankly an
nounced that the democrats would vote
against reinstatement whenever 1t should
come up. but that they hoped to have
he issue made now. so as to disclose the
division in the republican ranks at this
me.
Senator Aldrich replied to this taunt
by saying that when the vote is taken
I Ii" republicans will be a unit upon the
question
The democrats understood this to mean.
of course. that such harmony may be
possible next winter after the stress of
politics is over
Significance of the Action.
Politicians said today that yesterdays S
| incident in the Senate shows very plainly
| the intention of some of the big men in
the party to further Secretary Taft's nom
| iEation. This does not mean that the
candidacy of the allies will be abandoned
nor does it necessarily follow that Can
| nnn Fairbanks and Knox have lain down.
| 1t does mean. however, that some of
/ the influential republicans have decided
! as measure of protection against the
| third-term movement to work for Sec
| retary Taft's nomination.
This fear of Roosevelt for third
| term amounts to obSession with some
| republicans in the Senate. 1t Is pooh
| poohed by others. but the men who
really are in power in Congress believe
| that there is danger of his renomina- :
tion and that Taft is their only saliva
/ ton.
| Some senators. it was said today. are
! sorry that this surrender of the Senate
/ to the President should come at this
! particular time. They suggest that the
| visiting governors are being given a
| striking object lesson of the ability of
IL determined and vigorous executive to
assert the executive power against the
/ Legislative They wonder IL some of the
governors. observing the eminently sue
/ cessful attempt. will go home and try
! it on in their own states.