The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-03-11

learn until the business Is done under
federal charter. We want control
for the purpose of protecting the pub
lie. not necessarily for the purpose O,
breaking up the combination.
The administration has intimatea
sharply that it is its set intention in
securing federal Incorporation law, to
provide in every possible way agains.
writing into the statute any pro.
vision which can be criticised ad
versely by those who seem to be.
lieve that the real intention is to
deprive the states of the local control
OF corporations which they should es.
ercise.
President Taft is resentful be-
cause It has been insinuated Ia
many quarters that the congressiol,.
al investigation into the high cost Ct
living is to be carried on with ono
sole end in view-that OF reaching
a verdict to tho effect that the tariff
bill has nothing to do with the sky
scraping prices of the necessities us
life.
1t can be said definitely that Mr..
Taft believes that if the investigating
committee. which of course will tn
dominated by Republicans. shall make
it appear by the trend of their inquiry
that they are concerned first with
proving that the tariff is sinless, tic
Democrats will make the most Of tie
circumstance. and will go before the
country in the congressional carr.
palgn to tell the people that the III.
vestigation was begun and carried
through simply to whitewash Re.
publican tariff BILL
Wants Straight Investigation.
The president has conferred in the
last day or two with many of the Re.
publican members of the senate COM
mittee on finance and of the house
committee on ways and means ANA
has told them that it is his sincere do.
sire that their efforts shall be bent
solely, in conducting the investigation,
to discover the true reasons, If it ~
possible to discover them, why It
costs nearly twice as much to live to.
day as it did few years ago.
Those who are close to the admins.
tration say that the president cannot
for moment allow it to appear to
the men who are to conduct the cost
of living inquiry that he has any sus.
picion that they simply wish to clear
the skirts Of the tariff 1t must be
taken for granted, the presidents ad.
sworn to do their duty will do it with.
out having any Interior motive in
view. Unquestionably Mr.. Taft would
like to have 1t proved definitely that
the tariff has nothing to do with the
advanced prices, because last summer
he declared that the tariff bill was the
best that the Republican party had
ever passed, and to considerable ex.
tent this has been considered an in.
dorsement of the tariff-making efforts
Of MI. Payne, Mr.. Aldrich and the
other high protection believers who
framed the measure and who put it
on the statue books.
y ne SCSakeFSnlp SITUATION.
Several senators and representatives
in congress are keeping Presi-
dent Taft informed as to the
speakership situation in the house.
There are one or two members of the
upper house who have close relations
with the members of their state dele
cations in the lower house, and these
members keep the senators informed
as to the trend of speakership events
The president will take no active part
in the matter of securing q successor
to Speaker Cannon when the time
comes to elect one, but he is deeply
interested in having it made as Ger.
tain as such things can be that the
next speaker shall be a man who will
in no way obstruct the legislation
which the administration intends to
recommend on behalf of the country.
Idea Is to Unite Factions.
OF course the sole idea of the ad.
ministration is to try to influence Re-
publican members to elect a man who
will be able to unite the factions SO
that there will be no such trouble as
there has been during the last two
years of Mr.. Cannon's incumbency.
Mr.. Taft is very much concerned to-
day lest the fact that there are fac.
tons in the house of representatives
shall imperil some of the measures
which he has recommended for pas.
sage, and his hope is that in the next
congress, if there is a Republican ma.
jority, the fight over the rules will
have been settled and that some man
to the liking Of both regulars and in-
surgents shall sit in the chief seat.
In all human probability the next
Speaker of the house will be con-
servative. The insurgents are not
strong enough yet to elect speaker
out of their own ranks and they make
admission to-day that they are not
likely to recruit enough strength at
the next election to give them caucus
control of the next house. They do
say, however. that they will have
enough recruits to make it certain
that change in the rules of the house
will be made before the present con.
gress becomes thing OF the past
GEORGE CLINTON.