New-York tribune., 1910-02-02
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washington. Feb las if deliberately to
s'ui'lIy those prophets of discord and TO
menters of discomfort who have been in
sistins that factional contentious and in
terneclne strife threatened disaster 20 the
1ait legislative programme, the insurgents,
the regulars and even the middle -of-the-
road regulars ill sent emissares to the
White House to-day to convey to the Great
Father the fact that they had buried the
tomahawk and smoked the calumet; that
the dove of peace once more reigned over
the great Cannon tepee, and that every
oraVe mad sworn a solemn oath neither to
huht nor to fish, nor even to take an oc-
cdslonal pot-shot at the Speaker until the
Ia1t programme shall have been enacted
INTO law 1t is hardly necessary to add that
the Taft smile is more expansive than ever
lhls evening, and that the greetings which
the chief Executive extended to the mem
pers OF Congress, ip whose honor he held
the third of his state receptions tonight,
left nothing 10 be desired in the matter Of
heartiness- The reception was almost
love feast and celebration of the victory
OF diplomacy and good fellowship
Representative Hamilton introduced in
the House to-day the administration bill
creating a new form of government for
Alaska-a government based on the COM
mission principle and closely analogous to
tnat which now obtains in the Philippines
A similar bill was introduced in the Senate
by Mr.. Beveridge. but so effectively erras-
culated in the Committee on Territories
that the administration pronounced the
measure reported to the Senate unrecog-
nizable- Mr.. Hamilton declares that the
Taft measure shall suffer no such fate in
the House committee and that it will come
back supported by a favorable report, in
practically the same form as it was intro
duced. The passage of the bill in this form
will prove the occasion Of the utmost sat
lsfaction to the President. who has given
the most careful study to the needs of
Alaska and regards the recent denuncia-
ton OF the administration measure by the
Delegate from Alaska, Mr.. Wickersham,
the strongest Endorsement the merits of the
measure could have received
Senator Aldrich has returned from his
brief Southern trip completely cured of the
iTdisposition which made it necessary. He
took charge of affairs in the Senate at
once, sunmoning the various committee
chairmen TO his room and passing the
word that the Presidents legislative pro-
gramme IS to be carried out, postal savings
banks and all. The Senator slightly injured
his veracity to-day by bringing back a
story OF a thirty-pound fish he claims TO
have caught, but it is reported at a late
hour that the injury is not believed to be
permanent Senator Hale, who has been
temporarily absent, also returned to-day
and took up the work of the Appropriations
Committee, which is making satisfactory
progreSS The Senator from Maine was no
more loquacious than usual, but intimated
that al the proper time he might have some
thing TO say on the Meyer-Swift reorgani-
zation plan and on the question of 'one
versus two" battleships.
Secretary Ballinger may think he has his
troubles in this administration. but Secre-
tary Dickinson is certain he has his. and
the fact that he has inherited them from
the previous administration does not dimin-
ish them. Secretary Dickinson has several
thousand hungry Indians on his hands, and
they are eating rations at rate which ap-
pals the Secretary of War They are the
so-called Apache prisoners Of war" who
were captured with Geronimo. They have
followed the Scriptural injunction TO In
crease and multiply, and each year the
problem of feeding them becomes more seri-
Gus. Mr.. Dickinson would like to unload
his burden on the Secretary of the Interior,
but Mr.. Ballinger snilingly declines the
honor Of accepting any more mouths to fill.
They are quartered on a reservation Of
twenty thousand acres near Fort Sill, and
have become SO peaceful that the regiment
of cavalry formerly required TO regulate
their little differences and maintain the
peace has been supplanted by d regiment of