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been said. At any rate the two seem
to have agreed TO let bygones be by
cones and to do their best to cooperate
In dealing with the legislative problems
that confront the administration for
the next six or eight months.
When Senator Knox was in deep
trouble over his own ineIigibility to
become Secretary of State, Mr.. Taft
telegraphed from New Orleans to
Speaker Cannon and also to Senator
Hale, expressing his own conviction
that the ineligibllity could be removed
by legislation reducing the salary of
the office to $4,000 year. Both men
did their utmost to set the wheels of
necessary legislation in motion. The
action has proved embarrassing in the
House but the Speaker has driven
ahead with it in the face of jeers and
ridicule from the Democratic side.
Around the House the Republicans
are talking much among themselves
how the much discussed rules for ex-
pediting legislation have been strained
but twice this session and then to as
sure the grinding out of measures that
=
the Rules Committee, which the Re-
publican insurgents, claiming to be
proceeding in Taft S name, are center
ing their attacks upon, has held but
two meetings this session. Both of
those meetings have been recent and
were called to draw special rules to
expedite Knox eligibility legislation.
Col. ssPete'' to the Fore.
Representative "Pete" Hepburn has
rules of the House. The speech he
made, however, was about the same
speech he has delivered at previous
intervals of about two years ever since
the House became Republican in the
Cos. It probably hindered, rather than
helped, the cause of rules reform. For
it is known that Col. Hepburn with
held that speech till after the House
had passed bill, increasing the Inter
state Commerce Commission to nine
members. The sole excuse given for
the enactment of the bill was that it
would provide place for Col. Hep
burn after March next, he having
been defeated by a Democrat for re-
election. But the claim is now con-
fidently made at the Capitol that Mr..
Taft will keep hands off the fight for
a change Of rules and that the Repub-
lieans will reorganize both the Senate
and the House without any inte1fer-
ence whatever from him.
The intensity of President Roose-
vent s attitude toward those who cross
his pathway is illustrated by recent
senatorial incident. 1t was told around
the Canitol the other day and is now
generally known among the frequent
ers of the cloakrooms. The facts as
stated are authoritative.
Not very long ago Senator Clay,
Democrat, of Georgia was on intimate
terms at the White House. The Pres
ident s mother was born and lived not
very far from Senator Clay's house.
When the President visited there a
wear or two ago, Senator Clay showed
him marked attention, which was re-
ciprocatcd here in Washington.
A morning or two ago Mr.. Clay was
lamenting to colleague about the sad
features of criminal case in one of
the United States district courts of
Georgia.
Took Book from the Mails.
ga lad of fifteen, said he,
% thoughtlessly took book from the
United States mails. 1t is a peniten-
tiary offense, of course. but the prose
cution has been STAYED off till recent
Jy. / went to the Attorney General
and told him the circumstances. The
boy is now at school, stands at the
head of his class and is well behaved.
81 urged upon the Attorney Gen
eral that the prosecution would result
in no good It would ruin the boy to
send him to the penitentiary, and
otherwise he has chance to grow up
and become good citizen. Well, he
told me the boy must nevertheless be
prosecuted.
''Why don you take the matter to
the President9'' Senator asked the
Georgian "He might help you"
mo replied Senator Clay, "I
can't do that. You know, I met him
here few days ago, face to face. I
lifted my hat to him. He abruptly
turned his head the other way-in
other words, he cut me dead
q | am a member OF. that Senate COM
mittee to investigate the Secret Ser
vice and other detective bodies. You
know, signed the report, along with
other Senators, stating our conclu-
sions, which did not bear out the Pres
ident s statements to Congress. -
In the daily conversations with call
ers at the White House offices the
President is also paying his respects
to divers people in exceedingly strong
language. He speaks his mind right
cut in meeting. The other day, when
information had been brought him that
Senator Perkins could not get an in
creased authorization from the Senate
for a drydock at Pearl Harbor, Ha-
wall. the President exclaimed:
'sWell, if Perkins were quarter of
a man he would have gotten that item
into the Navy appropriation bill.
Parleys with President Elect.
Events of very recent days here are
proclaimed as having important infiu
ence in their bearing upon the great
legislative work just ahead. That is
the framing of a tariff bill. 1t is said
that, after the parleys of few days
ago, President elect Taft is more dis