The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-06-02
MANY BILLSHUNG UP
Congress Should Hurry and
Pass the Administration
Reform Measures.
PRESIDENT IMPATIENT

Every One Looking Forward With
Keen Interest to the Return OF
Colonel RooseveIt-May Partici-
pate in Next Campaign-COnsid
ed One of the Greatest Living
Statesmen-The New Bern Situa-
ton and Its Significance-Presi-
dent Selected Best Man for Post
office Despite the Opposition of the
Patronage Machine-Such Action
VIII Mean More Recruits to the
Party.
Especial to The Caucasian.(
Washington, D. c., May 81, 1910.
president Taft is again beginning
to show impatience at the delay OF
Congress in passing the administra-
| tion reform measures to carry out
the platform pledges of the party.
The railroad rate bill is still hang
ing fire and the end is not in sight.
The postal savings bank bill,
which some time ago passed the Sen
ate, is still tied up in the House Com
mittee on Post-offices and Post Roads.
| The President has a number Of times
used his good offices to try to get
satisfactory adjustment in the House
and put the bill in some satisfactory
shape and have it passed, but he is
not satisfied with the present out
| look.
The bill to limit the use of injunc-
tions which was promised by the par
ty in it's national platform is still
| hanging in an uncertain shape.
The President is also getting anxi-
Gus about the passage Of the bill to
give him further authority to con-
serve the natural resources Of the
country. The bill has passed the
House, but this measure is hung up
in the Senate, though it is thought
that it will become a law before the
end of the session.
| The President is also showing i'm
|
seem to be threatening the defeat of
the bills to make State out of New
Mexico and Arizona. The New Eng
land element has always looked with
| jealousy upon the creation of new
| Western States, and now there is
added a new argument that it means
creating a new Democratic State with
Democratic Senators and Democratic
Congressman and the electoral vote
for the Democratic candidate for
President
These partisan arguments, how
ever, have no effect upon the Presi-
dent, and he is urging that the meas
ure is not only promised by the party
but is just and should be passed, no
matter what the political effect might
be. The Presidents breadth and
high craftsmanship in this matter, as
in many others, is each day impress
ing itself more and more upon the
; country.
The President and the Tariff Com.
mission.
The President is very much pleased
that the House has provided for a
tariff commission with broad powers
to investigate the difference between
the wages for labor and the cost Of
production abroad and here. as 6
guide and a measure for the revision
} of the tariff in the future whenever
equity and justice require 1t.
8 The effect of the work Of such {
l commission will be that the countr.
D will not wait ten or fifteen years TO
: another general revision Of the ia
e riff, but with the accurate informa
}, ton secured by the commission am
!, furnished to the President, he will b.
s in a position at each session of Con
e gress if the facts require it to send
Especial message to Congress askin
l. for modification of one or more ia
d riff schedules without disturbing tn
y whole business interests of the couI
e try, as every general revision of tn
st tariff necessarily does.
L The Return of Colonel Roosevelt.
~ All political factions here at tn
- capital, as we'll as over the countr
"a generally, are looking forward wit
keen interest to the return of tt
. former President. There is feelin
81 among Republicans of all shades I
opinion that his return and his actiN
- participation in the next campaig
=. which is expected, will do more
;; insure the triumphant election Of
Republican House than any other OF
H. agency or influence.
hal 1t is frequent matter of CONNIE
- among legislators and public MI
-, here that Colonel Roosevelt has II
pressed himself upon all Europe mo
ne during this trip than he did VIII
- President of the United States.
Ior short, he is considered by the peoI
.tv of the world to-day as one of t
L. greatest living statesmen; and,
this connection, it might be said tt
he has a greater hold upon the p'
pie of the United States now than
ever had before. This seems to
o. recognized and conceded by eve
one. The welcome that he will
- ceive when he reaches New Yt
promises to be one of the great
popular demonstrations in the hist
-, of the country.
arty The New Bern Situation ana It's
,les' nificance.