The Green Forest tribune., 1910-04-22

election of Eugene N. Foss on the Democratic ticket Tn a Republican section of the state. the present mi nority party naturally hopes to make a further gain in western New York
 The Republicans say that in the Massachusetts district where the Dem ocrats won, conditions were abnormal and that Foss who was elected by the Democrats was in reality Republican and that his opponent was man not at all popular, and therefore the Dem ocratic success is easily to be account ed for The Democrats reply simply that the Republicans are whistling to keep up their courage, and that the election of the Democrat in western New York in a few days. or the cut ting down greatly of the Republican majority. will prove that the country is ripe for a change in the party con trol of the lower house of congress.
 Will Congress Pay Tariff Board?
 It is still a question whether Pres ident Taft is to be given the $250,000 which he has asked from congress to pay the expenses of the tariff board for the next fiscal year. The presi- dent has urged congress hard to sane tion the appropriation. Early in the season Senator Hale of Maine, who is a protectionist of the old school, gave sharp intimation that if the president intended to employ the tariff board for any purpose except to con slider the questions of maximum and minimum tariff rates and their rela- tion to our foreign trade and to GUS toms discriminations, congress ought not to give him money to carry out his wishes
 The downward revision Republicans. and the Democrats with them, say that the fear of the high protection element is that the tariff board will conduct investigations for the purpose of getting material which can be used in future tariff legislation and that the high protectionists fear also that some of the facts which are adduced will lead the people to believe that low rates are a necessity.
 Treaty with Liberia Opposed.
 If the administration is to secure. what it so heartily desires, treaty with Liberia, the boon will be given only after troubles that may take on the form of a congressional fight In reality it seems wholly improbable that the senate will consent to nego. tiating any treaty with the African republic at this session There is a good deal of sentimers in America in connection with Liberia because it's government was modelled in the be ginning, after that of the United States, and because in the old slavery days it was considered a sort of haven for negroes, and it was the hopeful belief of many of the old time abo- litionists that in Liberia the black race would prove that it was thorough. ly capable of lf-government.
 In his annual message to congress, President Taft gave considerable space to the troubles in Liberia. He called attention to the fact that there is provision in an early treaty with the African republic under which the United States may be called upon for advice or assistance. Pursuant to this provision and in the spirit of the moral relationship of the United States to Liberia, that republic last year asked this government to lend assistance in the solution of certain of their national problems.
 Not long ago the report of the commission which the United States sent to Liberia was made public, and the president has said that he hopes as a result of the commissions report, some helpful measures might result. and so through the department of state he has called the attention of the senate to the subject
 Position of United States.
 Recently Secretary Knox invited the members of the foreign relations com m1ttee of the senate to dinner at his residence, and there he laid before them the reasons as he saw them for the negotiating of treaty with Li- berfa. It seems to be the feeling in the state department that the African country is likely to be made the scene of exploitation of English, French or German interests, and that 1t may be eventually that one or the other of these countries may actually threaten the territorial integrity of a country which in sense is considered a ward of the United States.
 The members of the senate commit tee made 1t plain to Secretary Knox that they were not in favor of a treaty with Liberia that in any way would bind this country to a course which might run counter to the wishes of the three great European countries which have been named. MT. Knox's guests told him that while the Uni ted States was extremely cordial in its good wishes to Liberia and had done much for that country, 1t had done no more than Great Britain, and that it would seem like a slur at the English people if this country were even in. directly to intimate that it feared tn, British government was to be an az greSSOr
 Meeting of the D. A. R.
 The advance guard of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution, who will meet in Washington April IS, al ready has entered the city. Within the next week there will be hundreds of representative of the society in the capital and already preparations are being made for the meeting, whict will last just one week
 The Daughters of the American same kind of trouble on their hands that recently beset congress. The