Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-23
h The Halls of Congress
BY TAV. - Special Washington Correspondence.
BY TAV.


 Western republicans have developed the az gravating habit of suddenly appearing for breakfast at the insurgent camp, and upon find ing the patronage table bare, slipping back with the regulars in time for dinner.
 As the result of the confusion it is extreme y difficult to tell m these days of the dissolution of the republican party just who IS entitled to call himself an insurgent or progressive. The object of more than one member of the present congress is to be considered regular here in Washington and an nsurgent at home. But all who insurge are not insurgents.
 There's William Edgar Borah of Idaho for instance. When the tariff bill was in the mak- ing, Senator Borah insurged over half dozen pages of the Congressional Record When the news came that the sugar trust had returned some $2,0O0,000 it had stolen from the govern ment by underweighing sugar, it was Senator Borah who stated that he for one was not sur prlsed that socialists were multiplying in the United States.
 When the mot above Mo- 16 Dutch standard in color" sugar joker-estimated to be worth a million dollars word to the sugar trust came up for vote, the Idaho 'insurgent" quit nsurging long enough to vote for it. Later when MT. Aldrich cracked his whip, Senator Borah voted for the Payne -Adrich- Shoot bill in its entirety
 Before the present session of congress con- vened, Senator Borah came to Washington in- surgng all Over He wanted an investigation of the sugar trust frauds, and he wanted it quick. Senator Borah used such high notes in his conversations with the newspapermen that the attention of the president was attracted The Idaho senator was called to the White House posthaste.
 Nix on that sugar trust investigation talk. :" counseled the President "We don't want any investigation. It might interfere with the ad- mlnlstration of justice in New York. ''
 Whereupon the Hon. William Edgar Borah affixed the proverbial soft pedal to his sugar in veslgation interviews although he still admits being an insurgent.
 An lnsurgent IS not necessarily progressive All Who have opposed the present rules and the power they confer upon the speaker are classed as insurgents. As distinguished from these men who are merely insurgents upon the rules and the power of the speaker there is small band of genuine progressives These are the mon who are in favor of fair play not only upon the floor of the house of representatives. but also '"'Ni 'e'ih pdS IOl Jilc pSUDle at large. They are against syndicate control in business and syndicate control in politics. These are tbe real progressives and there are but a handful of them.
 Some members of the house are insurgents. and not progressives. They have rebeled against the domination of the mousse They have not rebelled against the syndicated domination of the country.
 The declaration of eight Ohio congressman that they would not again vote for Cannon was neither an evidence of progressiveness OF in surgency That declaration contains no real hope for the advancement of either cause If IS evidence, however, that the rebellion against Cannonism is making headway with the people AS straw indicating the drift of public opin- lon, It was welcomed. However, there was more joy in the camp of the real insurgents over tbn