The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-28

learn until the business is done under a federal charter. We want control for the purpose of protecting the pub ilc. not necessarily for the purpose of breaking up the combination
 The administration has intimated sharply that it is its set intention in securing federal incorporation law. to provide in every possible way against writing into the statute any pro vision which can be criticised ad. versely by those who seem to be. lieve that the real intention is to | deprive the states of the local control or corporations which they should ex. ercise
 | President Taft is resentful be cause it has been insinuated in many quarters that the compression. al investigation into the high cost of living is to be carried on with one sole end in view-that of reaching a verdict to the effect that the tariff Dill has nothing to do with the sky scraping prices of the necessities of 1 life.
 It can be said definitely that Mir Taft believes that if the Investigating committee, which of course will be dominated by Republicans. shall make It appear by the trend of their inquiry that they are concerned first with proving that the tariff is sinless, the Democrats will make the most of the circumstance, and will go before the country in the congressional cam palgn to tell the people that the in vestigation was begun and carried through simply to whitewash a Re. publican tariff bill
 Wants Straight Investigation.
 The president has conferred in the last day or two with many of the Re publican members of the senate com mittee on finance and of the house committee on ways and means and has told them that 1t is his sincere de sire that their efforts shall be bent solely, in conducting the investigation, to discover the true reasons, if it Is possible to discover them, why it costs nearly twice as much to live to- I udy oo it uIu d lSW yGdlS dSO.
 Those who are close to the admins tration say that the president cannot for moment allow 1t to appear to the men who are to conduct the cost of living inquiry that he has any sus. picion that they simply wish to clear the skirts of the tariff. It must be taken for granted, the presidents ad- visers say that members of congress sworn to do their duty will do it with out having any ulterior motive in view. Unquestionably MT. Taft would like to have it proved definitely that the tariff has nothing to do with the advanced prices, because last summer he declared that the tariff bill was the best that the Republican party had ever passed, and to considerable ex- tent this has been considered an in- dorsement of the tariff-making efforts of MT. Payne, MT. Aldrich and the other high protection believers who framed the measure and who put it on the statue books.
 The Speakership Situation.
 Several senators and representatives in congress are keeping Presi- dent Taft informed as to the speakership situation in the house. There are one or two members of the upper house who have close relations with the members of their state dele gations in the lower house, and these members keep the senators informed as to the trend of speakership events. The president will take no active part in the matter of securing a successor to Speaker Cannon when the time comes to elect one, but he is deeply interested in having it made as cer- tain as such things can be that the next speaker shall be man who will in no way obstruct the legislation which the administration intends to recommend on behalf of the country.
 Idea Is to Unite Factions.
 Of course the sole idea of the ad- ministration is to try to influence Re publican members to elect a man who will be able to unite the factions so that there will be no such trouble as there has been during the last two years of MT. Cannon's incumbency. Mir Taft is very much concerned to- day lest the fact that there are fac tions in the house of representatives shall imperil some of the measures which he has recommended for pas sage, and his hope is that in the next congress, if there is a Republican ma jority. the fight over the rules will have been settled and that some man to the liking of both regulars and in- surgents shall sit in the chief seat.