The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-09
BRAVE SOLONS
ARE REWARDED
Constituents Like Insur-
gent Senators
TAFT WILL HAVE TO EXPLAIN
VIII Try to Divert thoughts From
Tariff
President Plans to Arouse Interest In
Rivers and Harbors Projects--Mo-
bile VIII Not Receive visit
From Executive.


BEFORE leaving washington the seven
insurgent Republican senators who de-
clined to vote for the outrageous tar
IN bill cooked up for the country
through the dominating influenee of
the New England-Middle States COM
bination received ample assurances
from the section they represent thai
their action lis fully Endorsed by the
masses of the people. They were quick
TO hear from home that the fight
they made for lower duties on. the nee
essaries Of life gives satisfaction to
the people of their section. even
though they lost the battle.
It Is 3 notable fact that since the
passage Of the tariff bill President
Taft In that big trip he is going to
start on In September decided to vis-
II number OF points up in the North
west that he did not originally in
tend to stop az
The talk here right now is that
there IL a motive In this. Mr.. Taft is
known to fully understand the new
tarin law n not downward revision
as his party In Its platform last year
promised the country. He 10 also said
to fully realize that the few little sops
he was able to compel the combina-
ton to grant just before the confer
ence report was agreed to will neei
q great deal of explaining. and on this
swing around he, a. President of the
United States, by virtue of his high
offios and his jolly personality. may
he able to divert attention in a meas
ure from the fmonstrosities Of the
Payne-Aldrich law.
Talk Rivers and Hsrbors.
And on that trip. too. his purpose
also IL to talk river and harbor i'm
provernent, and doubtless the average
man Will be worked up to such o. pitch
OF expectation that he will conciu lie
that not many years can elapse before
inland waterways In the United States
will rival those of France. Germany.
Holland and Austria
BY the way. Mr.. Carpenter. secretary
to the President says there IL not
even q remote possibility of Mr.. Taft's
being able to take IN Mobile when he
comes back through the South from
his journey to the Far West. Mr..
Carpenter also states that the Presi4
dent cannot even listen to any more
appeals to stop at this or that place
In the West or South after he gets
started. The itinerary has been ar
ranged on as close schedule as 1t
reasonably could be. and that's the
end of II.
Doubtless the members of the Mo-
bile committee who came to Wash
ington with the invitation engraved
so handsomely on solid silver plate
Will be disappointed. especially as the
list OF cities to be visited will include
Birmingham. They thought surely
when they were here that the head
of the nation had practically accept
ed. but II seems that they missed their
calculation.
Montgomery. Of course, never put
out an Invitation through any ckmmit-
tee. w. A Gayle happened to be In
vited to go to the White House with
the Mobile committee~the day they
were received by President Taft. and
as the latter gave him q chance to
say a few words by mentioning how
glad he was that he was present, Mr..
Gayle could not resist reminding Mr..
Taft that he ought not to think of
going South without stopping at the
Alabama capital.
Gets~EverythIng in sight.
New England not only played the
"hog" when 1t came to getting the
benefits of high protection in Mr.. Aid
rich's tariff bill. but the senators from
up in that region keep a sharp look
to prevent anything else that is not
nailed down from escaping them. Sec
rotary MacVeagh of the treasury, was
quite anxious to have former Con-
gresham James T. McCleary of Min
nesota named for Director Of the Mint
The Secretary Is said TO nave been I'M
pressed with the ability of Mr.. Nc
Cleary on the line of economies, and
thought he would be of great assis-
lance to him in his department.
True, Senators Nelson and Clapp
would not indorse him, but that could
have been gotten around. The sena-
tors are low tariff advocates-almost
free understand Mr.. McCleary is a
stand patter- This beat him for
Congress twice In his district. The
two Massachusetts, senators, however,
heard this job was in sight for some
body, and they quickly demanded 1t
for a man named Andrews. Senator
Crane rendered President Taft valua-
Bile service in lining UP kicking Re-
publican senators from the Far West
who threatened to delay the passage
Of the tariff bill because hides were
to be placed on the free list.
warrenton. the Virginia town in
which Representative Taylor of Ala
ba ma and his family are sojurning. Is
one Of the most attractive In the
state. It Is only about fifty miles
from Washington. and the, member
from the First District can soon be
AZ the nations capital II anything
breaks loose which his constituents
waalt attended to in q hurry. Mr..
TAYLOR did not lose any time in join
ing his family at Warrenton after
Congress adjourned on Thursday even
ing.