The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-14

big touring car, which takes him to
the conference room and which has
borne him off to the White House in
a jiffy many time and oft during the
last two weeks.
The Presidents great struggle has
been to get free hides. The Senate
opposed free hides for reasons highly
tactical. The Grange Senators, as
they are now called, have been led by
Warren, of Wyoming. He has become
a very influential man in the Senate
the most influential Senator west of
the Mississippi He has been in the
Senate long enough to become chair
man of Military Affairs. He is lead
ing member of Appropriations. As he
has large following of Rocky Noun
tain Senators, he has been able to be
of great service to Senator Aldrich dur
ing the tariff debate. The Rocky Noun
tain Senators worked shoulder to
shoulder with the eastern Senators and
made the majority which passed the
Aldrich tariff bill.
These Rocky Mountain Senators have
had some favors in the tariff bill. They
have had big duties on zine, lead, lum-
Der and wool. But there is senti-
mental interest in hides, because it was
made a political issue in Massachusetts,
Accordingly when the Rocky Mountain
Senators had helped all they could-and
that was very materially-to put high
duties upon cottons, woolens, iron and
steel and thousand and one manufac-
tured products, they felt it was due
them to have duty upon hides There
has undoubtedly been much argument
in their favor, once one accepts the
correctness of the political precept of
81 tickle you and you tickle me- .
1t means a vast deal to Senator Aid
rich to break with Senator Warren and
the other range Senator'S They are
not only essential to him in the enact
ment of tariff bill but also to the
continued control of the Senate by
eastern influences. The Democrats and
the western progressives would over
throw Senator Aldrich if they could
get the votes of Senator Warren and
a few OF his followers. OF course Sen
ator Warren, much as he prefers to
train with the eastern crowd, is well
aware of the strategical position he
holds and, when the conference let it
the duty on hides, Senator Warren. in
the current phrase of the street. "swent
into the air. He threatened TO 90 to
the limit, which made the President
and Senator Aldrich very uneasy. For
the President does not wish the Demo
Gratis and the Progressive Republicans
to capture control of the Senate.
These and other developments of
recent days indicate that there is to
be hereafter to the tariff bill. The
President has done his utmost to pa-
cate the factions but instead of get
ting the bill passed with two factions
glaring at each other, the procedure has
developed three hostile branches, no
one of whom is likely to forget its
grievances for some time. The eastern
regulars will hardly ever forgive the
President if his insistence upon free
hides estranges the Rocky Mountain
Senators SO that the control Of the
Senate at critical points goes to COM
blnatlon of Democrats and Western Re-
publicans. The Western Republicans of
the Grange type from the Rockies
where the people are as much stand
patters as any of the Eastern manu-.
factures-are very bitter toward the
President for having ehampioned the
free raw material doctrine. They re-
gard it as a discrimination against
them who have helped keep the duties
high on manufactured articles. Then
there are the low tariff Republicans
from the middle West-up and down
the Mississippi valley-who are also in
the worst of humor because the duties
have been kept up on manufactured
products. As to some of the raw ma
terials, especially hides, they are with
the Senators farther West-the Grange