The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-03-25
REPUBLIC ANS IN SENATE
ATeLAST "GOT TOGETHER !"
By Ernest q. walker.

(Mal Special to The Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, March 7.-Nearing
the top Of the hilli So the politicians
at Washington are saying of President
Taft. Perhaps their ordinations, of
the sort just mentioned, are trifie in
advance of the aetualities. In any
event the EXPLANATIONS are optimistic
in the right direction.
That old friend, the Postal Savings
Bank Bill, is past the senate hurdles,
hoorahi In spite of all the high Jump
ing places built across its course, Old
Postal Savings Bank bill cleared 'em
all gloriously and went spinning over
the end of the Senate course in great
trim. The Republican portion of the
country is alread ringing with acclaim
at the way regulars and insurgents all
surged into one party camp and gave
Old Postal Savings Bank Bill a unani-
NOUS vote. Nothing like it has been
| seen in many days. No one apparently
dreamed it would be possible. Were
not the insurgents guarding the pass,
| arrayed in full armor2 La Toilette and
Bristow and Cummins and Dolliver and
| and Clapp-and others-were aching
for fight and for chance at oratory.
But somehow or other they were
brought over. Quiet forces were at
work in the interest of party harmony.
1t was all done in a night. Just when
| the psychological moment came. there
was Johnny-on thespot to take ad.
vantage of it. Republicans have long
distinguished themselves from the
Democrats by getting together, when
it was supremely important to do so,"
said one little man. "Things are get
ting very grave. Let g show 'em that
we are still Republicans of the old
| type.'
Senator w. Murray Crane, of Massa-
chusetts, rapidly arriving as the new
leader of the senate, did this. He did
not care very much about Old Postal
Savings Bank Bill. For that matter,
neither did many other Republicans
| in the senate. But it was and is an
administration measure and Repub-
lican platform measure. Legislatively
it occupied strategic position, where
its passage would speak vociferously
as to the capacity and status of the
Republican party at the present juno
ture. Some way certainly could be
found to make it acceptable to all Re-
publicans! Why not7 Senator Crane
believed there was way and he
found it.
Senator Hale has been keeping hands
off old Postal Savings. 1t was enough
for him to take care of 81 100000, 00O
worth of appropriations at the senate
end of the Capitol for this session
That alone is pretty big job for one
man to handle-only something like
$10,000000 day for several months
as Legislative days go. "Let Senator
Aldrich look after these other mat
ters,'' said Senator Hale. ellis big
committee on finance has little to dc
this year,
But Senator Aldrich has grown
aweary of the brickbats and clubs
swung in his direction from many
parts of the country. He was friendly
but not overenthusastic about taking
off his coat and laboring with his col
leagues. He remembered the acerbi
ties and the epithets of the tariff bill
campaign, which ended in factiona
troubles. And very quietly he shifted
the burdens to the quiet little mar
from Massachusetts.
The little man from Massachusetts