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non, had been abandoned. So author
regard that no one questioned where
the sympathies of the President lay, as
between Cannon and anti-Cannon. The
insurgents of the House, of course, were
chagrined, but they refused to believe
that President Taft would not at least
show quiet sympathy for their course
They have had their answer during
the last eight or ten days. The climax
came when Representative "Gussie -
Gardner, of Massachusetts and his in
surgent committee, including Repre-
sentative Madison. of Kansas, and Mel
son, of Wisconsin, had been thrown out
of the White House offices. That act
''broke the back = of the revolt
which that committee had proceeded to
describe to the President Thenceforth
the retreat became a rout and "Uncle
Joe' was complete master of the situa-
tion.
But people must not draw conclusions
about the new President too hastily
from these events. While it is true
that he has ceased to talk about veto
ing the tariff bill if it does not do full
justice to the consumer, and while he
is now rather dwelling upon the i'm
portance to business of getting the
tariff revised just as speadily as ac.
cords with reasonable elaboration, it
does not mean that he has gone over
to the reactionaries of his party. Tt
means that when things come down to
brass tacks. the President chooses to do
business with the majority of the party
fbo{ a1aafa1 him NTH h
licans who raise the banner of organic
ed revolt. He declared in his inaugural
message that the first important matter
in hand was tariff revision and he pro-
poses to put that ahead of a revision
of the House rules. To have revised
the rules would have occupied the time
of the House for days and would have
resulted in disorganized body of Re.
publicans. They would have been far
from fit to grapple with momentous
tariff problems after that struggle had
been ended. Undoubtedly if President
Taft had given his sanction to the in
surrection he could have effected some
amendments to the present methods Of
doing business in the House, but he
would of necessity have had to ask the
aid of Democrats.
In sending for insurgents and coax
ing them back upon the reservation and
in holding conferences with the Speak
er during which the two mapped out
the program of procedure, the President
has set his seal of approval completely
upon the regular Republicans of the
House It has not been the Speaker S
program particularly; it has been more
the President s program and in the
course of time that will be made APP
parent to the country. President Taft
regards the situation with reference to
tariff revision as so acute that he is
not pausing now to make any explana-
tions or to tell why it is all thus and so.
He is going ahead and doing what he
regards as the necessary thing. The
House, in the meantime, is being or
ganized for serious and expeditions eff
fort, the tariff bill is being perfected,
and in the course of few days debate
will be in full swing and every twenty
four hours will be bringing the United
States that much nearer the operation
of new tariff law.
There will probably be plenty of
oratorical fireworks. The events of the
last few days have given the Demo,
cratic word carpenters some material
to work with But their speeches will
be speedily forgotten, as the public at
tention is focused upon the subject
matter of the revised tariff schedules.
Although the administration is vet
but a few days old and members of the
cabinet are all settling down Justify to
their tasks. there is already interesting
gossip afoot Most notable in this talk
of the hour is the statement that two
members of the cabinet will probably
remain but a few months. One of them
is Postmaster General Frank III. Hitch
cock; the other is Secretary OF the
Treasury Franklin MacVeagh.
This is not due to any particular
hostility or unfriendliness of President
Taft toward either man, but rather to
conditions which make their prolonged
STAY in the cabinet more uncertain. On
the other hand the President is known
to feel very keen satisfaction in the
other members of his cabinet, largely
because he is convinced they are to be
with him permanently and in all prob
ability for the entire four years of his
term.
The President is appreeiative of the
work Mr. Hitchcock has done for him,
ever since Mr.. Hitchcock ceased to be
manager of the Cortelyou presidential
boom and. resigning from the Postofhee
Department. devoted his energies to Sc
curing the nomination of Mr.. Taft and
subsequently his election. But Mr..
Hitchcock, while DESTROYS of having
cabinet honors, is also anxious to get
into business where he can make some
money. He is more anxious about
establishing himself than about making
a long career in office, even at the
head of the Postoffice Department. He
is still a young man, who has been
working for years in different depart
ments in Washington on small salary,
and therefore has had little or no OPP
portunity to lay by for rainy day.
President Taft sympathizes with this
attitude of his Postmaster General and,
under the circumstances, will not place
any obstacles in his way if a good bust
ness opening presents itself in the
course of few months. The National
Committee is already in good hands.
with the Acting Craftsmanship bestowed
upon ex-Gov. John F. Hill. of Maine.
Mr. Hitchcock would like to remain at