The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-05-06
CONGRESSIONAL n
Proceedings TAME!
President Taft ! Goes on
=. Speech Making Tour. -,.
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Much Interest In Site for Inter-
national Exposition for
~ Canal Celebration.

Washington, ID. c., April 30.-The
past week in Congress has been rathel
tame-a little oratorical bandinage by
Senator Rayncr of Marylard URGING
the ins,irgent Republicans On a play
full way to align themselves where
they belong, with the Democrats This
was answered by Senator Doiliver OF
Iowa, who insisted that the insurger'
Republicans were the real party
and that they would continue to up
hold the pannel. Debates en- various
bills deprescnting the Administrations
conception Of the Roosevelt policies
are proceeding languidly5 I'm bo'h
Houses, but more interest rs mani
tested in the Pirchot- Baflinger in
vestigation where Mr. BasEfnevr him
self has recently appeared as a witness
than in the debates i'm Congress.
The President has left the city for
few days 1t no doubt affords him
great relief TO get away from the
kark and care and strain, of office. Ac
companitd by his military aid, Cap
tain Butt, he left Washington at Z
O'Clock Friday for week'stour. dur
ing which he will visit Buffalo, Pitts
burg, Cincinnati and st. ;Loaris. lively
or more important engagements lhave
been made at these places, and the
President will deliver a rambler of adj
dresses. He gave out yesterday that
there would be NO Ediscussion Oh
politics and shat several tof his
speeches would be for the benefit OF
the farmers. He will be In Buffalo
early Saturday morning and will reac
Pittsburg on Sunday, where he will be
the guest OF his sister in-law, Mrs
Latin, whose husband recently died
1t is said that the coming undertaking
of the tariff board in ascertainirg
the cost OF production of ccmmcdit-
les dJ iloli1t diiu ooloouS VITA Nv S"N
subject of several of the Presidents
speeches while away. IL IS also saAd
that he will not apologize for the
Payne-Aldrich law and will point oaTt
that he is endeayoring to follow q
scientific method Of arriving. al
future tariff revision downward in ac-
cordance with 1.-THE Republican platfof1
on which he was elected. .......
Idle and social Washington is al
this moment much interested DIN a
horse show which will be held in the
Monument grounds and rlssr Pulo-
mac Park, which locality is becom-
ing point of interest throughoub'
the country as the probable site. OF
the Interna, ional Exposition to cele-
brate the completion OF the Pana-
ma Canal, which 1T IS now said will
be completed in 1914 instead u 1915,
There is much interest in mill ary am
naval circles with reference TO the
proper protection of this Canal by
Notifications. The ex-Secretary I'd
the Treasury Shaw and other writers
ON military and naval subjects ,urg-
ing ship subsidies, compared with Jap
not actually in fighting ships, for bn
this special respect We are much
stronger, than the little island king
dom on the other side of the Pa,
cific, but In trained sailors of which
Japan has al. least a hundred thouaan
more than We have, and in supply
and transportation ships fer the army
navy, of which she has a hundred %
our one She greatly over-matchss
us. 1t is not every ore thai knows
that when our great fleet of battle
ships recently sailed arourd the world
they were supplied with coal and pro
visions by the ships of ether coun-
tries. This could re- he done in time
of war. No neutral ship under the I'm
temational code would dare 10 hell
us in. any way. and thrown on our
resources our, army ,uor navy would
be able 10 reach the PHILIPPINES in two
years, while Japan could land one hpr
dred Thousand men there in two weeks
Our situation, will be improved as far
as home defense is, concerted when
H. no. fc r1 xrlt.