Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-06
WISCONSIN SENATOR HAS TIE
MERlTY TO JOG ALDRIcH's
TARIFF MEMORY.
ASSISTED in FRAMINGTHE
M'klNLEY TARIFF
When Stripping LaFollette Sat as
Member of Ways and Means Com
mittee Of House and Made a Hit
Ananias Club Discovers Moses
Washington News.
Especial Correspondence

, Especial Correspondents.
5 Washington, April Ex-senator La.
roulette of Wisconsin, caused a gooc
.. many pepole to sit up in wonderment
. when he disagreed most emphatically
with Senator Aldrich's recollection Of
some ancient tariff legislation.
!, Il recall observed Senator Aid
. rich, that the senator from Wisconsin
was member of the ways and means
committee at that time referring to
. the passage of the Mckinley act-"bu,
1 think that have some accurate per
sonal knowledge of that matter. also.H
Mr.. LaFolletre is not widely re-
membered, nowadays, as a boy con-
gresham twenty odd years ago: but
he was one of the men who made up
the ways and means committee under
Mckinley; and several years back of
that, when hardly more than stripping
, when the Mills bill was passed, he
made his first great speech in con-
gress and attracted national attention
to himself.
=
when he was first nominated for con-
gress, and % when he took his seat.
de was elected in a district that had
long been democratic, and was three
times Reelected, being finally beaten
after the Mckinley bill passed and
carried the republicans down to ruin
Gus wreck.
Il was when the Mills bill passed
n "a '111
tame He was the youngest member
OF uhe mouse at that time. known as
La promising youngster with some
what set opinions and disposition
not TO change them accommodatingly.
When the Mills bills was brought be-
fore the house, Carlisle and Reed
We're 10 make the speeches. Carlisle
mad been the real maker of the bill up
TO that point. He and Reed prepared
thelr speeches in advance; both great
speeches, but they didn't aim at each
other. The Carlisle speech was a most
dangerous one, from the republican
point OF view, and it frightened a lot
OF western republicans out of their
boots. Populism was in the ascendency
then out west, and Carlisle played for
the populistic west in his speech.
That speech will beat a lot of us
4 western fellows. if you don't answer
It.. declared LaF'ollette, going to Reed
i afterward
20. guess you fellows will be all
right, replied Reed. Then LaFollette
vent to Mckinley and urged that he
make reply to Carlisle. Mckinley lis
tened, and finally said:
do it yourself LaFollette: you can
| do it better than any of u.s.
LaF'olette went home, got a draw
load of books. and Went to work. A
month later, under the five-minute
rule, he got the floor one day and
started talking. He kept at it nearly
TWO hours, and that speech was the
most extensively circulated campaign
document the republicans used in the
next campaign. Ii also made him
ways and means member in the next
congress.
/ The Ananias club has found a Mos
! es, to lead it out into the daylight of
! reinstatement in the good graces of
the administration. His name is
I George H, and he is editor of the
4 Concord, n. H, Monitor
7 Mr.. Moses has just been appointed
minister to Greece by President Taft,
and thereby hangs tale. The Mont
tor is owned by Mr. Moses, former
! Senator William E. Chandler, and a
son of Senator Chandler For a long
time Moses has wanted this particular
position in Greece, aud he might have
got it earlier but for the Ananisas in
cfdent of the Hepburn bill discussion
which got Senator Chandler in as one
of the charter members of the Ananias
club and ruined his drag with T. r.
Besides that, Chandler and Senator
Gallinger were for long time on bad
terms
But Chandler and Gallinger finally
adjusted their differences. Roosevelt
ceased to be president, Gallinger dis
covered that his pull at the White
House under the new administration
was good, and Moses now gets his
job.
1t is a sort of left-handed admittance
of the Ananias club people to good
fellowship at the White House, but
is regarded as significant of general
purpose to dissolve that ancient and
honored body and leave it only as
fragrant memory. Some of the other
people who have been initiated into
it have already established relations
at the White House after years of
absence The my Dear Maria Stor-
ars have been dined there raoently
and the democratic senators who used
to be on exceeding bad terms with Mr..
Roosevelt, and couldn't have been in
duuced to enter the White House
grounds, call and exchange the time of
day with the president with the great
est felicity. In fact, the Ananias
bunch is clear out of business The
club is TO have no new members and
even at the cabinet table sits man
who at least looks like the chief of the
Ananiases-E. II. HARTMANN the
person of Attorney General Wicker
sham.
James J. Hill, head of the Hill rail-
road system, didn't come to Washing
ton to do any political work, and
wasn't concerned about the tariff, ex-
cept as he wanted it disposed of as
soon as possible.
That is the statement made by peo-
pie with whom he talked about it. He
indicated to them his earnest convic-
ton that the bill ought to be passed
just as soon as possible, and on the
subject of free lumber he gave a
friendly tip to one congressman from
his state of Minnesota.
"The way people are feeling about