The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-06-10

his garden. He yearned for a sniff of
real Maine air, and went away to get it.
All the Maine representatives have taken
brief journeys out of town since the
House disposed of the tariff bill, and
therefore had nothing to do till the Sem
ate was through.
Representative Burleigh of the third
district was up at the White House offices
the other day and had quite chat with
President Taft. They discussed some
matters of Maine politics in general
way. The President, as the leader of
his party, keeps in touch with develop
ments and ascertains from time to time
the conditions and prospects in the States.
Gov. Burleigh reviewed with him the Re-
publican situation in Maine and also ex-
pressed the hope that the President would
find it possible to visit Maine during the
summer. Such a visit is among the pos
sibilities. The President may take an
automobile run into Maine some day,
while he is making his home at Beverly,
or he may take sail up the Maine coast.
He has both these contingencies in mind.
Three years ago he had an enjoyable visit
to Maine, on speaking tour, and feels
that he would like to renew his acquaint-
ance with the State from the rear seat
of an automobile.
The Maine men are spending their
morning hours generally at their rooms
in the big marble office building There
they receive visiting constituents, who
happen to be in town, and attend to cur
rent business. More prominent Maine
people have been down to Washington
than at any other previous session for
years. Some have come on tariff errands;
some purely for pleasure, that they might
enjoy few days at the Capitol Two
former Maine governors have been here
-exGov. John F. Hill, the chairman of
the Republican National Committee, and
eXGov. Cobb. The latter was here earlier
in the session to look after the duty on
lime, in which so many Rockland people
are interested. Mr.. Edward Kicker has
been here two or three times to see what
the prospect might be for getting high
er duty placed on pint and quart bottles
in which mineral waters are imported.
States Attorney Warren E. Philbrook of
Waterville spent day here not long ago,
visiting Maine people and incidentally
being admitted to practice before the
Supreme Court of the United States
Republican State Chairman Byron Boyd
is one of the latest visitors, as was Edi-
tor Frank L. Dingey of the Lewiston
Journal. Preceding them a few days
was Oliver L. Hall, city editor of the
Bangor Commercial, and Judge Hall, his
father, of Augusta. Thomas Blair of
Pressure Isle has been in Washington this
spring. The starch king of Aroostook is
interested, Of course, in the tariff bill
which deals with the products he manu-
features. The list of Maine visitors of
the last two or three months might be
extended. Many Of them have been to
the White House and have had an oppor-
tunity to get acquainted with the new
President. All in all it has been pleas
ant feature of the extra session. The
Maine people here have had better op-
portunity to keep in touch with affairs
back home and the visitors have had an
opportunity to get little better ac-
quainted with Washington and with men
who are conducting the governments
affairs. Usually the bulk of New Eng
land visitors to the Capitol are from
Massachusetts, but in recent weeks
Maine has been close second. Some of
the Maine people have been down to talk
with Treasury officials about plans for
public buildings and for the purchase of
sites for such structures. Judge Reuel
Robinson of Camden was one of the lat
est visitors on public building errand.
The big Maine figure in Congress
through the weary June days of tariff
deliberations continues to be Senator
Hale. He stays on the watch tower
quite as long as any other Senator every
twenty-four hours, and perhaps little
longer than any other Senator, unless it
be Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island.
There are three New England Senators
in row, right in the middle of the Re-
publican section of the Senate, all of
whom stick it out day after day, how