The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-07-08
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gen.
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Iuly 2. 1910.

July 2, 1910.
Since last week the national capital has
become deserted village. Congress,
the President, the diplomatic corps and
society have all scattered. Simultaneous
ly with the departure of the President and
Congress, the point of national interest
was shifted to New York when the ex-
President returned, and it now appears
that wherever he is there the middle men
of the press are gathered together and
from that point political news is dispersed
Business will still go on at the national
capital, but in an uninspired, humdrum,
mechanical way through the $500 clerks
who really know the routine better than
Presidents and cabinets and chiefs of
bureaus. But until the first or middle Of
October there will be but little to attract
the attention of the public to Washington
Since the adjournment of Congress,
two Senators. Daniels of Virginia, and
McHenry of Louisiana, have died one,
! McCumber of North Dakota, has been
reelected and Representative Gronna of
that state has also been elected to the
Senate to fill an unexpired term of John
son of North Dakota, who died shortly
after he was elected.
To all appearances there is a slight
slump in the insurgency movement. 1t is
announced that Senators Cummins and
DolIiver have cancelled lecturing engage
ments, and the Damon and Pythias rela-
ton renewed between the President and
the ex-President at Beverly is a straw in
dicating political accord and peace. Col
RooSevelt'S determination to keep his
hands off politics has yielded to Gov
Hughes solicitation and he IS mixed in
the New York legislative fight with a
result that appears to be temporary de-
feat. 1t need not, however, be assumed
that Col. Roosevelt's personal friendship
for President Taft means that he approves
his attitude in the Ballinger-P Pinchot af-
fair, or that he is not at heart in sympathy
with the progressive element of his parry.
Those who are giving the subject of
the tariff board investigations attention
are of the opinion that the wool and cot
ton schedules will be brought urgently
before Congress at the next session. The
President has directed this board to make
a careful investigation of all the tariff
schedules, and the board has arranged to
do so. Each schedule is to have the at
tention of experts and it is believed that
very special attention is to be given to the
wool schedule and to the cotton schedule.
1t will be remembered that during the
special session for the enactment of a new
tariff law, the debates brought out the
fact that the wool schedule was the most
important of all. The most progressive
Senators of the Republican side were
strenuous in their urgency of lower rates.
Senator Dolliver Of Iowa eloquently as
sailed the wool schedule. He made the
most positive and pronounced statements
that under the wool schedule there were
all sorts of outrageous abuses. The
President himself, while mainly approx
ing the late tariff legislation as the best
that had heretofore been enacted, it is
said has nevertheless held that the wool
schedule was without defense, and judg-
ing by the facts presented to the Senate
I by Dolliver and others and by the Presi-
| dents known opinion on the subject, it
is anticipated that the tariff board will
advise that both the wool and cotton
schedules be mended by the reduction of
duties.
There is no doubt that the Republican
party will in the coming elections have a
better standing than was expected two
or three months ago. The government
is winding up the fiscal year in good
shape. All the figures relating to receipts
and expenditures are not yet in but such
as are now in show that the Treasury will
get through the year with practically no
deficit. This is very much better than
the financial condition one year ago. A
new system has been adopted in the
Treasury statement, and the ordinary
receipts and disbursements are kept apart
from the Panama Canal account If this
account should be taken into considera-
ton, there would be deficit of about
thirty-four millions. At this time one
year ago the fiscal year ended with a de-
ficit of fifty-nine millions to the account
of ordinary receipts and disbursements
and one hundred and eighteen millions
taking into consideration the account of
the Panama Canal 1t will be matter
of satisfaction to Americans sufficiently
well informed in financial affairs to know
that ordinary receipts and expenditures
now nearly balance each other