The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-06-11

ocrats. but some hot afternoon they
would snap gingerly at their critics
and show ill temper.
For his calm and courteous bearing
under such trials the Rhodes Island
Senator Is really n wonder. Whether
men agree or Disagree with his high
protection ideas, they are conceding
around the Senate that Mr.. Aldrich
has great patience and fortitude. OF
course the Senators whose battles he
is fighting are especially grateful.
They know that he has a lot of critics
upon his back and that the things he
is blamed for are only in a compare
lively small part his own.
No one denies that Senator Aldrich
is a great standpatter and a firm be
lever in high protection. but even he
would sometimes be willing to lower a
duty. For example, some Eastern
Senator's, who are his close friends,
asked him the other day to lower the
duty on scrap iron. Every WE'LL" said
the Rhode Islander, II think II ought
TO be done. You had better see Sena-
| tor Burton of Ohio, and, also, Sen
| ator Root, of New York. If they will
consent there will be little difficulty
about It,"
Then the advocates of lower duty
on scrap iron FASTENED Off to see Sem
ator Burton. II can not assent to
that said the Ohioan, who proceeded
to explain the interests of his constit-
uents in scrap iron and their unwill-
ingness to have 1t admitted at a lower
rate of duty. The same result follow.
ed visit to Senator Root,
Both Republicans and Democrats
have shown a disposition to come TO
the support OF Senator Aldr1ch in
| these personal attacks. The Democrats
have asserted time and again that he
| has been most courteous and patient.
| When Republicans have come to the
| defence of the Rhode Islander, the
Democrats have been quick to assever-
ate that they have not attacked him.
| The attacks have come from the
| Western Republicans. although the
| regular Republicans are careful not
to say so. Bitter as the factionalism
| is they do not want to accentuate it
by direct statements that the Western
| Republicans are chiefly to blame.
| Several of the Finance Committee
Senators, whom Senator Deliver styled
"the languid followers of Aldrich, -
have already sprung to his defence and
at times the Senate debates have de-
veloped into testimonials of the pa
thence and thoroughness with which
Senator Aldrieh has worked at his
| tariff tasks.
| Republican critics thought they had
| Senator Root upon their side. AS a
| Departmental official he has been ac-
| customed to doing business with more
or less expedition. New York is a
| great manufacturing state and Sena-
| tor Root has shown a lively interest
in many tariff schedules that affected
| his constituency. He asked some
questions of Senator Aldrich which
the critics thought, indicated will
ingness to criticize, but two or three
days later Senator Root arose to q
very emphatic effort in defense OF the
Finance Committee, in fact went fur
Their in defense of the committee than
Senator Aldrich himself would have
gone. It made a great stir in the
side, jumped in to rebuke the New
Yorker and Senator La Toilette, with
whom Senator Root had clashed, said
most caustic and sarcastic things
| about him.
The outcome was that the Repub-
lican critics no longer have hopes OF
Senator Root, whose influential ad-
vocacy they would have liked TO count
on their side. He has steadily refused
to vote with the Republican insur.
gents, who are not likely to receive
any aid or comfort from him.
President Taft's cabinet officers are
beginning to strike rapid pace and
are making things hum. Several OF
them have been going out on inspec'
ton trips connected with important
departmental business. They have
learned the ropes here in Washington
and are now acquainting themselves
with the activities OF their depart
ments outside of Washington. They
have also been sounding a few key
notes about the administration policies
Secretary MacVeagh, who stuck
close to the Treasury Department for
the first month or two, has been to
New York of late. A vast deal OF
/, Treasury business is transacted in
New York More than half the GUS
toms duties of the United States are
| COlleCleu over tnere. Inc HnanC1ol
operations of the country. with which
of course. the Treasury is closely con-
nected, centers in New York.
Secretaries of the Treasury always
have 10 go to New York every few
months to keep in close touch with
the administration OF the Treasury's
business there. Nose OF the Assist
ant Secretaries have also to make FIRE.
quent trips there. Just now the ex
position of frauds upon the customi
over there is interesting Treasury Of
lcals tremendously and they are
standing behind William Loeb, Jr., tn,
present collector. who used to be-
secretary 10 President Roosevelt Mr.
Loeb is achieving what many before
him tried to do and failed. His Wash
ington friends hear that ii may estab
lish him prominently in New Yorl
politics and that higher party honori
will be bestowed upon him, Some arr
predicting that he will be the Repub
} lean candidate for Governor mex
year 20 succeed Governor Hughes, who
J probably, viii not run again becaus'