The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-17
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Perhaps the most sensational sugges-
ton as to the speakership Of the Sixty
second congress is that concerning
Theodore Roosevelt. The proposal is
made with all seriousness that Mr.
Roosevelt be elected to the house next
fall from the First district Of New
York, In which his home at Oyster
Bay is situated. 1t is said that Will.
liam Willets Cocks. the present repre-
sentative from that district, is willing
to step aside In Roosevelt's favor and
that the ex-president has agreed to
make the race. 1t is also asserted with
great circumstantiality that the speak
ership is the only position in public
life for which Colonel Roosevelt cares,
as he has already declined to run for
United States senator and for mayor
Of New York, and it is believed that
he will repel the suggestion that he
make the race for governor.
In the inner circles of the capitol
it is whispered that Cannon's sure
other than the man who succeeded him
as chairman of the appropriations
committee, the same being the Hon.
James A. Tawney. BLACKSMITH Jim,"
of the First Minnesota district. Every
body agrees that Tawney is a very
opinion, aside from any question of
party or faction. he is one of the very
ablest men In the house. Yet for all
that there would be almost as much
Of an insurgent howl at Tawney as at
Cannon himself. Another regular who
Is being pushed into the fight is Mar
lin e. Olmsted Of Pennsylvania. a
member of the Ballinger-Pinchot in
vestigating committee. From New
York Serene e. Payne and j. Sloat
Fassett are being discussed, and there
is also talk Of James r. Mann Of Illi-
nois and Judge Walter l. Smith Of
Iowa.
The high prices boycott has caught
on" From q cloud mo larger than
a mans hand" it has grown until
1t overshadows the nation. So far
as can be judged, the little move
ment that started in this city did no
more than suggest it to the rest Of the
country, but that was enough. Public
sentiment was ready and needed only
the one word to start 1t in motion. 1t
was like the box Of finder spoken of
by Carlyle which was waiting for the
spark. DR.. Scharf and his Anti Food
Trust league furnished the spark. In
the beginning DR.. Scharf was boy
cotting alone. Now everybody Is at it
He started out to enlist 100000 house
holders In his movement. If present
progress continues he will soon have
100000. Not only SO, but the gov
eminent is starting suit against the
beef trust in Chicago. Investigations
are buzzing about like flies on a warm
spring day. If enough of these probe
tests get going somebody may find
out something. Congress might even
get some inkling of the truth. though
that is perhaps too much to expect. If
any congressional investigation ever
found out anything actually I never
heard of it. Congressional investiga-
tons are chiefly valuable for not find
ing out the truth themselves and for
soaring other people off from finding
it. If congress ever discovered any
thing derogatory to the trusts. for ex-
ample. 1t was by accident.
Those interested In forestry are not
at all pleased over the recent report
Of Professor Willis L. Moore. head Of
the signal service. regarding the influ-
ence of forests on rainfall and floods.
and 1t was with difficulty that some
members of the American Forestry
association. in session here recently,
were restrained from offering con-