The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-05-28


graph in controversy be passed over
for a time. Then the campaign for
votes is renewed
1t will probably be found when the
closest tests come that the Democrats
have lost a little strength, because OF
absentees. Senators, when away from
town, are supposed to have pairs, but
in the hard fights of the Senate II is
sometimes difficult to pair an absentee.
The Democrats will make no tremend-
Gus efforts TO secure a full attendance
Of their members, which will make
IL all the more difficult for the Western
progressives to win an issue and all
the easier for the Republican regu-
lars to carry their program through.
The case Of Senator Jeff Davis Of
Arkansas is to the point. He is away
from washington and plans to stay
away all of the session. No Demo-
cratic leader is chasing the Arkansan
with kilograms TO return and no
Democratic Senator is exerting him
self to be certain that the Arkansan
has a pair on every tariff vote. The
observed rules about pairing votes are
somewhat intricate, much more so in
the Senate than the House. Then the
efforts to secure the constant at
tendance of Democratic senators are
not at all strenuous, whereas the reg
ular Republicans are keeping constant
watch on their members. Every man
possible is within call daily and will
be till the last vote has been taken on
the bill.
, The Westerners especially want the
adoption of some income tax provis-
| ion, because it would enable them to
go before their constituents with one
good item of a defensive argument.
Therefore they are in reality working
much more seriously for some form OF
Income tax legislation than are the
Democrats. The latter are entirely
| willing the income tax amendment
should fail, as seems likely to happen
\ They can use 1t as an issue in the
4 next election and can make 1t cloak
to cover the OBJECTIONS of some OF
their members who are striving after
protection for certain articles pro-
duced in the South And in this re-
gard the Democratic Senators are al
most the silent allies of the regular
Republicans, who are unalterably OPP
posed to any form of income tax, not
only on account of their real attitude
toward the provision, but because
they look upon the income tax as ar
opening wedge for the overturning OF
the protective system.
The Democratic plan of campaign
for the income tax amendment is Il
voice advocacy of it in debate, but ii
the quiet work, which counts for 81
much in the Senate, to play into the
hands of the Senate leaders and allow
| the Republicans to go on record a!
defeating It, Thus, they expect to real
political advantage, for they think the
people of the West, where future
Democratic gains are expected, will
resent an adverse vote and swing owe
to the Democratic column in number!
at the next election.
There is no reason for believing tina
some very clever work has been don,
in the Senate in keeping the Western
Senators and the Democratic Senators
from agreeing upon any one form o
an income tax amendment. From
present appearances the Democrat
will refuse to vote for the income ta'
amendments that Senator Cummin
has proposed. 1t is certain that sew
eral Western Republicans, who wan
an income tax, will refuse to supper
Senator Bailey's amendment and will
go back to their constituents on {
record of having voted for one par
ticular amendment. Such as Senator
Cummins offers.
Out of the west there is coming
bristling array of interrogation marks
about President Taft IS administration
1t has swollen in numbers of recen
days, since the low tariff Republicans
centered in the Kansas, Nebraskan-Io wi
coalition, became convinced that they
could get no help from the President
in their campaign against the Senate
regulars.
One of the best known of Chicago
cartoonists was in town the other day
~ have hardly put Taft IS picture il
cartoon since the inauguration, sale
he. "The President is not doing thu
things which Roosevelt did that lent
themselves to cartoons.
There had preceded him to Washing
ton only a few days, the editor anC
owner of one of the most Influential
anu powerful OF newspapers IN I'M
Southwest. He had not been printing
editorials about Taft for several weeks
The administration had not been doing
things which he cared to comment mucl
about, he explained, and his paper wa
one of the most aggressive and consist
ent of Mr.. Taft s advocates during tn,
preconvention period and also during
the campaign.
OF contemporaneous date was re
mark by Representative Victor Muir
dock, the redhaired insurgent leade
, in the House-a radical among Repub
, lean radicals-to this effect: 81 don
see what the Taft administration ha
/ accomplished of note beyond establish
ing lunetta on the Potomac Rive
| front, where fashionable folk can driv
in the afternoon and early evening
, That, you can bet, does not interes
, the people in Kansas tremendously.
These are few of the comment
. heard in Washington about an admir-
istration, now upon its third montl
, which seems to be suiting the conserve
tive interests very well and which ma
be said to be more or less popular cas-
of fine MississiDDi River The answe