Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-11

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red to rules committee; no action.
| House resolution No. SIS, de-
manding that house be furnished
with full information concering sale
of PHILIPPINE sugar lands to sugar
trust interests; referred to commit
tee on insular affairs; no action.
That the Merchant Marine league
of the United States. the organlza-
ton which attacked Representatives
Stevenson of Minnesota and Kuster-
mann of Wisconsin because they are
opposed to the s5,000,00O Humphrey
ship subsidy bill. spent large sums
to bring about the passage of that
measure by congress, has already de-
veloped at the hearings of the special
committee appointed to investigate
the activity of the organization. Ex-
Member of Congress McCleary or
Minnesota testified before the COM
mittee that the league had compen-
stated him for making pro-ship sub
sidy speeches, but that the amounts
would not aggregate much over his
expenses. He said that he received
checks from the league at various
times, but that it would be practical
ly impossible to supply the commit
tee with the specific amounts. He
said he received a check of $500 at
one time. but that all the checks
would not aggregate more than
$1,000. An attempt will be made to
learn who supplied the league with
funds.
President Taft regards the plat
form adopted by the Indiana repub-
lican convention demanding a re-
vision of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law and indorsing Senator Beverage
in opposing that law. as hostile to
his administration. Therefore he
will not stop in Indiana on his next
western trip early in May. Inasmuch
as five other states, and possibly
more, are to take action respecting
the new tariff law similar to that
taken in Indiana, it is possible that
a republican president will be vir-
tually barred from discussing poll
tics in six republican states. The
president takes the position that in
dorsement of the Payne-Aldrich law
is the true test of republlcanism. He
planes the progressives for the &C
ton of the Indiana convention and
holds that they should have surren-
dered to the Aldrich-Cannon oil
garchy in control of congress. with
which organization he is in hearty
sympathy So the revolt of the pro-
gressives is still on.
Democrats find much cheer in the
result of the recent local elections,
especially in Missouri. Sedalia,
Springfield and Jefferson City, repub-
lican strongholds in Missouri, went
democratic In Joplin, Mo-, city
which received tariff concessions in
the way of increased tariff on zinc,
several republican councilmen were
replaced with democrats. The prfn-
cipal issue in Kansas City was not
the tariff, according to advices re-
ceived in Washington, but a local
street railway problem. The sue
cess of the republican candidate was
due more to the fact that he had led
a fight against the Metropolitan
Street Railway company Of Kansas
City than that the people wished to
go on record as indorsing the Payne
Aldrich tariff law.
The Smithsonian African expedt- |
ton. of which Colonel Roosevelt was
in charge. reports officially that it |
has prepared for the Smithsonian in
stitution, 4,S97 specimens of mann
mails, 1000 birds, 1000 reptiles and |
and 500 fishes, in addf- |
ton to the invertebrates, marine |
shells, several thousand plants and
collection of anthropological works.