The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-21
Taft is Smiling and SO Are the cabl-
net Members, the staIwarts
And Even the
Insurgents.
HARMONY AT LAST
Everything is Moving Along Smooth
Iy as the Ending Of Congress
Comes Into
Sight.

WASHINGTON, June 21.-The Taft
smile beamed on Washington and on
the nation in general today with as
much fervor as did old Sol, who shot
his hottest rays toward Washington
since April 30
The Taft smile was born of a par
donable and justifiable satisfaction
in the way things have been coming
his way in Congress, as we'll as
throughout the country. A long letter
that he received from his predecessor
helped some, but it was chiefly the
assurances and congratulations he re-
ceyed from members of both houses
OF congress, as we'll as the exemplifi-
cation by their deeds, that cheered
the president.
The smile was so infectious that
the Wickersham, the Nagel smile, the
Knox smile and the smiles of other
members of the cabinet deeply broad
ened
Postmaster General Hitchcock par
ticularly was happy when the pres-
uSAL olSuSu bIIS VIII dumlJJluS ALI
zona and New Mexico to statehood.
Mr.. Hitchcock has worked steadily to
this end.
Secretary Nagel was happy as re-
CARDS legislation affecting his de-
partment, although he rejoices in the
general results which the past two
weeks have brought forth in re-
versal of sentiment toward the ad-
ministration and party regularity.
Everybody who called at the
White House wore smile, and there
was such brotherly feeling as has
not been manifest before during the
six months that congress has been in
session.
Insurgents joined with regulars in
the spirit of the time, and the presi-
dent was the best pleased of all He
Is busy looking over the bills as they
come from the Capitol, and affixed his
signature to the statehood bill, the
second of the administration meas
ures to reach him. He signed the
railroad bill upon his return from
Pennsylvania Saturday night. He
knew that the postal savings bank
bill and the land withdrawal bill, one
OF the conservation measures, would
be along soon, and the success Of
the administration programme en-
couraged him today to ask that the
campaign publicity bill and the Ap-
palachain forest reserve bill be also
passed. being satisfied to allow the
anti-injunction bill to wait until next
session.
The anamosities that had arisen
within the party have practically dis
appeared. Good words are coming
from all over the country, which are
encouraging to the president, who, 1t
must be confessed, showed some dis
couragement few weeks ago, when
there was opposition everywhere. A
member of the cabinet said:
Il have been laughed at as pro-
phet in my department because
predicted long ago that these things
would come to pass. contended that
the president was right; that the
measures for which he stood and in
sisted were what the people want
and that they would triumph sooner
or later"
Things are coming our way-jus
humping themselves to get to u.s." was
the way one caller at the White
House put It,
The president is SO well satisfied
with the congressional situation he
Will leave tonight for New Haven tt
see his son Robert, graduate from
Yale and be at his desk again Thurs
day morning.
The president was asked If ht
was pushing the Injunction bill
The president intimated that, while hi
would like to get this measure
through. he did not wish to gobbl'
everything in sight.
While many of the republican
leaders thought that adjournmen
would take place by Thursday, ant
not later than Saturday, Presiden
laft himself will not be disappoint
ca II the time is around the 30th
Inc president will remain in Wash
,,hgton three or four days after ad
lournment to see and talk with re
puoiicans who have not had as mucl
u MS time as they wished on politi
,ai matters in their respective states
ne may be here until July 3, but h
aas an engagement at Cambridge
MASS, July 4. and will not retur1
uere after that If he can help it.