Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-21
m The Halls of Congress
BY TAV.
Special Washington Correspondence.

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 Formerly the presidents idea of repub- lican member of congress was one who would not seek to improve the present house rules or vote against Uncle Joe" as speaker. The protest of the American people against this test of party featy was so thunderous that 1t actually frightened the president, and he de cided to revise somewhat, his definition of re- publicanism.
 As modified, the presidents demands are still so autocratic that the real insurgents of the house and the real progressives of the senate will remain such. The half-hearted and the in surgents with weak knees, have, however, been won over to the standpatters who control the patronage
 "A republican, according to the newest definition of the president, "is one who will support legislation recommended by the presi- dent.'
 What does this mean! It means if President Taft recommends the opening of the "pork bar rel' for the benefit of few private shipowners as the president has recommended a member of congress must vote for such legisla- tion whether he is honestly convinced it is graft or not. Otherwise he is not a republican. Also, otherwise, he is not going to have any of the
 
 portant committee appointment in congress and is going to be opposed and defeated for re- election by the regular" republicans if such a thing is possible.
 Therefore the republican party wounds are not completely healed, and indications are that they are not going to be, at least right away. As the writer has endeavored to make plain in previous dispatches, the real issue between pro- gressives and regulars is a moral one, and where conscience is involved, there can be nc compromise.
 Indications are that President Taft cannot line up enough republicans" to guarantee the passage of the bill providing federal charters for corporations. The progressives take the ground that they will never support the federal corporation which has violated the law and con ducted its business in such way as to stife com | petition, control prices or production, or has Nby any device set aside the workings of the law of supply and demand and thus increased tho cost to the consumer.
 1 But few restrictions upon corporations are II the bill The charters provided by it are tC run fifty years and to be approved by the com missioner of corporations.
 Under the bill combinations are legalized no prohibited. A corporation is authorized to sel or transfer its property to be paid wholly ol Tn part in cash or in the capital stock of another corporations; authorized to issue stock in order to purchase the stock of another corporation with the proviso that there will be valuation of the property purchased and the stock issued | shall not exceed its fair valuation It is appar ent that the bill presents real danger in tha l 1t may undermine the existing antitrust law 1 By its terms it authorizes combinations whicl are prohibited in the antitrust law. It is harC to conceive how the government, on the one hanC can authorize corporations to do certain things and on the other punish them for doing thos, very things
 l The presidents conservation program, die tated by Bainger, must also be supported by republicans. In fact any orders issued by the president, whose advisers and counselor, are Mcssrs Aldrich and Cannon, must be ear ried out Any republican who refuses to obey the command of Mir. Taft is not a republican l One, point made by the progressives whicl seems to be especially worthy of consideration IS that while the president demands that the, support legislation recommended by him, tn, president never asks their judgment or opin lon while preparing his legislative program
 ''lf we were called to the White House lik, other republicans, and our views taken into con slderatlon with the rest, we would feel that W, were at least receiving decent recognition. : said progressive. "But the president com petey ignores us limiting his interviews tc men who stand high in the estimation of Aid rich and Cannon.'
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