The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-01-06
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y The Harmon presidential boom is
said tc have hit Washington hard. The
recent two days visit of Ohio's Cover
nor TO the United States capital has
installed him in popular favor and
placed him in a new light regarding the
coming presidential candidacy.
1t leaked out how Andrew Carnegie
and Secretary of State Knox had a
sharp, wordy encounter during the din
ner given at Washington by John Bar
rett, director of the Bureau of Ameri-
can Republics. to the diplomatic rep
resentatives of the Latin countries to
the south of us. Carnegie was eulo-
giving the peace work of Secretary
Root, and began 20 compare ii with
the shotgun policy" of the present
administration. when Knox jumped up
and told the laird he was butting into
affairs that he knew nothing about.
gain. later. when Carnegie deprecat-
ed the present handling of the Nicara-
guam affair, Knox angrily demanded
that Carnegie stop.
That Congress will take official no.
tice of the Ballinger- Pinchot contro-
versy by ordering a sweeping investi-
CATION of the Interior Department and
the Forest Service was assured, when
Senator Flint of California submitted
to the Senate a resolution calling for
all the papers in the case of CLAWS
against Ballinger. This was passed.
and then Senator Jones of Washington
vestigation after the holidays if no one
else did, and read a letter he had re-
ceived from Secretary Ballinger, in
which that official insisted that If Con-
gress were to investigate his depart
ment the inquiry should also include
the Forest Service, since he had 'rea-
son to believe that the pernicious ac-
tivity of certain of it's officers has been
the source of inspiration of these
charges" Mr.. Ballinger goes on to
say: Il therefore court the widest and
fullest inquiry by Congress" Senator
Gore would have had the Senate at
once order an investigation. but on
objection from Aldrich the matter went
over until documents should be in pos
session of Congress.
Leslie Nj. Shaw, former Secretary of
the Treasury, who addressed about 400
business men at the board of trade in
Indianapolis. throughout his address
opposed the idea of the central bank
He claims that such a bank would be
sure to be owned, or at least controll-
ed. by the Standard Oil combine
In a speech radiating his conception
of Christmas cheer, Senator Depew
waited the compliments of the season.
even to La Toilette, who had sharply
criticised the New Yorker in the
Christmas number of La Follettes
magazine. Depew praised the Presi-
dent and referred 10 the new tariff law
as an unmixed blessing.
The Iowa delegation in Congress is
said to be angry at President Taft
The insurgents among their number
admit that those Republicans in Con-
eress opposed to the regular organi-
cation have little or no standing at the
White House.
President Taft will give few If any
offices in the South to Negroes. He is
said to have assured Southern Sena-
tors of this. Such Offices as are to &c
to negroes will go to men of that race
from the North. A dozen or more ne
gro revenue collectors and land office
officials In Southern cities are mention
ed as certain to be replaced by white
men when their terms expire.