The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-06-03
TAFT kept HOME
BY INSURGENTS
President Is Afraid to Go Away
for Fear of What May
Happen.
WILL WAR ON ENEMIES
Secretary Ballinger Will Try to
Get Rid of Conservationists
Who Opposed Him.
WILL WAR ON ENEMIES
By Ernest G. walker.

WASHINGTON, May 11.-President
Taft is surrendering his title as the
greatest American traveller. Whether
this win be permanent is open to ques-
ton. But he plans to travel but little
more, beyond going to Beverly after
the adjournment of Congress, till the
autumn and perhaps till after election.
The insurgents in senate and house
are in good part responsible for this
decision, which will deprive many
thousands of the American people of
an opportunity to see and hear the
first official of the land. Business has
dragged in congress all the winter as
the whole country knows. The insur-
gents have been busy putting up bar
riers. But whenever the President
started out of town for few days,
the insurgents planned mischief most
actively and the deuce was to pay.
1t will be remembered that Speaker
Cannon was put through the supreme
ordeal by Democrats and insurgents,
when President Taft was in Chicago.
His train had hardly gotten out of the
city before the coalition began to put
into operation well laid plans of pre-
vious weeks. These opponents cut
high jinks for several days, upset the
program, and probably delayed the
work of the session fully two weeks.
The senate insurgents seemed to have
taken note of the success of high links
in the house when the President start
ed away and so he was no more than
on his way to st. Louis before they
started cutting up with the railroad
bill and gave the regulars the worst
scare known at that end of the Capitol
since the word insurgent was coined.
Cannon Safer Now.
The House long ago was Strengthened
out little, so that Speaker Cannon
felt little more secure. The senate
is being Strengthened out, but it has
taken days of very strenuous work and
no one is quite certain yet how eff
fective the Strengthening process has
been. But no other man can do quite
as much to steady the situation, when
the insurgents start to raising Cain.
He can send for people to come to the
| White House Offices and the summons
even to rantankerous insurgent is
calming. The regulars feel little
safer when he is in town. They know
then it is easy to run up to the White
House of an afternoon or an evening
and talk things over in the light of
the most recent developments. And
it is reassuring to have the President Is
! Judgment upon a given question. For
in the last analysis the responsibility
is the President s and the leaders dc
not like to follow course of action
which will commit the President in any
particular unless the President has
first approved Of it.
So it has come about that a number
of the President IS most influential
friends in senate and house have ad-
vised him against travelling any more
while congress is in session. 1t was in
complianc with this advice that the
President Cancelled dates to go out
of town this week and next week. He
was to have done considerable travel
ing in the month of May but has de
cided to 60 nowhere, after the com
pletion of his trip to Passaic N. 7.
and to New York City. His trip tt
New Jersey was planned as something
paign is already on there in anticipa
tion of n big Democratic struggle t,
reclaim New Jersey this autumn, anC
ted States senator.
Expected to Run Around.
The President has been figuring OF
practically one long trip month thi
winter and he expected to make an
other trip OF about a week s duration
into the WesC during June. He doe
not expect now to take that trip for j
is quite probable, as the signs are nov
read, that congress will be in session
well into June. In any event about a
soon as congress adjourns the Presi
dent will start for Beverly to remain
till into September.
His decision to remain in Washingto
from this time on till he starts for tn
summer capital means that the Pres
dent plans to cooperate to his utmos
with the Republicans in congress VIII
have remained faithful to him. H
will keep an eye out constantly upo
the insurgents and make the activitie
against them prominent feature of hi
administration. For the President ha
shown anew of late his determinatio
to further disciplinary measures with
the party. But his cancellation of tray
cling trips will also blanket the fire G
the Democrats in congress who hav
been eriticizing the President for ira,
cling so much and who are plannin
to attack an appropriation in the SUI
dry civil appropriation bill increasin
the amount of money the governmeI
shall pay for the Presidents travelin
expenses. The sundry civil bill carrie
an item of $4,000 for that purpOs
and the purpose is said to he to MAX
mp any deficit there would otherwi'
be in the appropriation of $4,000 fl
the current fiscal year.
Hard Work Coming.
The remainder of the session promisi
to be more or less tempestuous an
way and therefore it is that all han,
are preparing for constant and unus
ally hard work. There is a deal yet
be done, if all the President has fixG
upon as necessary for this session
DISPOSED Of While the senate insu
, gents appear to have been subdued,
least for the moment, they are eapab