Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-09
GROUND TAFT WILL NOT TALK
Baby Boys Life Crushed Out May Not Discuss Elections Un
Beneath Truck til Return From Panama.
DRIVER GAYLE ARRESTED CHEERS CABINET MEMBERS
Did Not Know Child Progressive Legislation Urged
Was Anywhere Near. in Annual Message
IS SUPPORTED BY WITNESSES HAS HOPES PARTY UNITY
Some
Wayside-others
Dead. Won
May Not Discuss Elections Un-
til Return From Panama.
CHEERS CABINET MEMBERS
Progressive Legislation to Be Urged
in Annual Message.
HAS HOPES OF PARTY UNITY
Some of the Leaders Who Fell by
the Wayside-Others
Who Won.

Feeling keenly the blows dealt by voters
to the great political party of which he
is the head, President Taft returned to
Washington this morning from Cincinnati,
where he. cast his ballot in a lost cause.
He had no comment to make upon the
result. and went direct to the White
House, where 1t was stated that he prob
ably would not break his silence concern
ing political affairs until after his return
from Panama, whittier he starts tomor-
row.
Disappointed as is the President at the
loss Of the House of Representatives by
the republicans. his political advisers are
pinning their hopes to the fact that a
session of the present republican major
ity in both branches of Congress is about
to begin. 1t is known that in that brief
period the administration intends to crowd
as much of its legislative program as
there seems to be the remotest chance
of enactment.
Progressive Legislation.
Much of the proposed legislation which
Will be urged upon Congress in the Presi-
dents forthcoming message will be Of a
progressive character. and it is said here
that the prospects are excellent for har-
mony in the republican ranks. An effort
will be made In the short session to pass
as much progressive legislation as pos
sible. because Of the effect such measures
would have upon the fortunes Of the
present administration two years hence.
Interesting as promise to be the events
Of the short session, the assembling Of
the new Congress and its conduct-with
q democratic House and a republican
dent-will attract far wider attention.
The first session Of the new Congress-
which will convene a little more than q
year hence. is practically committed to
results. All through the special tariff
session at which was passed the Payne
Aldrich bill the democratic minority con-
tended that insufficient effort was being
this question and the high cost of living
for which the democrats generally held
the cost of necessities to be responsible,
the republican majority of the Hone was
overturned. Many OF the insurgent repub-
licans who have been returned to the next
House held the same views. and even
administration speakers, including the
President, have expressed willingness to
heed what seemed to be a general demand
for the reopening of certain schedules.
Reconciling the Differences.
The important question that is being
asked here, at the seat Of the general
government, therefore. is what will be
done about the tariff when the hybrid
Congress- convenes. and it becomes nee
essary to reconcile differences between
chambers of opposite political faiths. Such
q situation is not without precedent, but
In the past little attempt was made to
pass more than the necessary appropria-
ton bills and such measures as were
necessary for the continuation Of the
government.
out embarrassments to both parties. 1t
is not believed here that the democrats
will care to undertake to force tariff re-
vision under republican President. Yet
tariff measures must oriHnate in the
House, and fnasmuch as the democrats
will be in control Of that branch and In
charge of all Of its committees it would
appear that the taking Of the initiative
could not be evaded, even IL that should
be the desire Of democratic leaders. The
tariff Is one Of the questions on which
the democrats are almost as badly divid-
ed as were the republicans. Coming into
power in the House and being In the mi
nority In the Senate Is expected to have
a SOLDERING effect upon the democratic
party leaders, for It Is generally conceded
that with the gains made In the Senate
and with the large insurgent republican
vote In that body this party could con-
compelling popular support were adopted.
Protection in the South.
So many southern states have adopted
the policy Of protection, while in other
sections where the democracy is strong
there remains a sentiment in favor of
practical free trade, especially free raw
materials. that republicans may now sit
back and view with measure of COM
placency the spectacle Of their longtime
enemies locking horns over questions
which have broken their own hold upon
the government.
No member of the present republican
majority is in better position to view with
complacency his party's loss Of power in
the House than is Speaker Cannon. The
issue of whether he is to be reelected
friends went down to defeat partly be-
cause they had remained steadfast but.
on the other hand. some also of those
who deserted him lost their places.
Among the defeated members OF the
"old guard" are Alexander of New York,
chairman of the committee on rivers and
harbors; William S. Bennett of the same
state, who was a member of the immigra-
ton commission. and made an active can
vass for the republican nomination for
",
chairman of the judiciary committee. and
]. Sloat Fassett of New York, a member
of the rules committee. hard but un-
successful fight was made against Chair
man Serene Payne Of New York. chair
man OF the ways and means committee:
John Dalzell of Pennsylvania, who for
many years was in undisputed control of
the committee on rules, and Mann of ILL.,
nois chairman of the committee on inter
state commerce and father Of the latest
railroad rate amendments.
Cannon as an Issue.
Cannon was the issue in most of these
contests. and the margins by which these
men were returned to Congress in manv
instances were extremely narrow. Some
of the Speakers allies experienced little
difficulty in returning. The contests
against Smith of Iowa. Olmsted of Penn
sylvania. Mckinley of Illinois, Weeks Of
massachusetts. Loudenslager OF New
Jersey and Vreeland of New York, all Of
whom held important committee assign.
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