New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-05
THE DAyINWASHINGTON

PLANTATION OF Senator MARITIME, that he be-
lleved his course was proper because the
Senator from Texas had gone out OF his
way to traduce and belittle the character
of Robert j. Walker" The Texan moved
that the letter he expunged from the
record. To this Senator MARITIME objected
but later explained that ''in view OF the
rolling up OF the Senate by the letter OF
an old man, seventy-hve years of age
defending his honored father" he would
withdraw the communication. The Texan,
determined, however. TO humiliate the
man who had dared to present evidence
disproving any of his assertions objected
TO such withdrawal and insisted on his
motion to expunge the communica ton.
The motion carried by forty-nine votes.
Senator MARITIME voting for it. and thus
making 1t unanimous.
GETTING THE GAME.-If the Demo-
cratic members OF the House VINO are get
ting their names on the front pages Of the
newspapers through their Investigations OF
the Steel. Sugar and other trusts imagine
they are much longer 10 enjoy monopoly
OF this sort of publicity they are vastly
mistaken. The insurgent Senators propose
to share IN any newspaper notoriety that
may be going around as Is proved by tho
course OF Senator Clapp. who to-day sc
cured from the Senate authority to begin
hearings on trust questions beginning on
November Is Senator Newlands's bin
providing for an Interstate trade commits
sion which shall occupy the Same relation
10 corporations capitalized az s6,DnoN ana
over as tho Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion does 10 railroads Is made the excuse
for the proposed hearings. The terms or
the resolution authorizing these hearings
arc sufficiently broad TO cover any GOOD.
workable scheme for gaining the much
coveted publicity which the Ingenuity Of
Senator CIspp Or his insurgent brethren
may BE- able to devise between now and
November 70. II is admitted that tho field
looks little threadbsre, but 1t Is believed
that by sunmoning the Attorney General
and making him tell OF all the prosecutions
he is contemplating, why he has not won
ell the cases his department has prosecut-
ed in the past and few other pertinent
facts some scheme OF compelling the press
10 give the insurgents that publicity which
Is their Just due can be devised.
THE WILEY CASE-PresiJcn TAFT 5
investigation of tho Wiley case has been
halted pending an analysis by the Attorney
General Of a number OF precedcnts found
tn the Department OF Agriculture as re-
suit of the demand of the Executive for all
the data bearing on tho case. The Presi-
a. ]. az mas
and on Monday he has an engagement 10
speak at Mountain Lake Park. so that II Is
unlikely that any decision VIII - made In
the Wiley case before the latter part or
next week. AS Is his custom, the fresl-
dent declines 10 form any opinion BEFORE
he has all the data before MIN, but there
ere Indications that the report OF the per
sonnet board when was submitted 10 the
Attorney General for an opinion was Tar
from complete. and that had ne received
ell the papers he might have seen the &c
ton Of DR.. Wiley in different hsht. In
fact. no knowledge of some or IN" prece-
dents IN the Department OF Agriculture
reached the President until he ilad hefoTe
him the reply Of DR.. Wiley. Jurt what
hearing this additional information viii
have on the final opinion Of the President
which will be prepared with as much care
as II he were judge on the bench cannot
he foretold, but. as has been said moro
than once In this column there Is niue
reason 10 look for anything beyond rep
rImand for the chief chemist. 1t IL entire
ly probable, moreover. that because or the
fs cts thus brought 10 the attention OF the
President, who is in thorough sympathy
with the pure food law, as was shown by
his recent special message to Cong ess' ne
will urge IN his next message TO Congress
the removal OF certain restrictions ana a
reconciliation OF the various provisions re-
,ardipa the employment OF experts by the
government.
SOCIALISTS. BEWARE.-F,r many
years the Socialist party made iran
tic efforts to secure the election OF one
OF their number to Congress, and succeed
ed I'm so doing only at the last election
when Victor Berger was elected from the
Milwaukee district. Now, however All
their efforts are likely 70 go for naught'
A diabolical plot to draft MI Berger as
an urpire for the Congressional oaSepah
game 10 be played next Monday afternoon
has been discovered. These conflicts on the
diamond are always attended with grave
danger to both spectators and players nut
the most dangerous position OF all is that
of umpire Unrestrained by the sporting
spirit of the amateur or by the strict ais
cIpline of the professional leagues. the los
ing players invariably make determined
effort to Kill the umpire, and there Is
general suspicion I'm Washington that me
selection Of the only Socialist 'aemper Oh
the House for that desperate duty is noth-
ing more or less than diabohcal plot 10
rob the Socialist party OF all representation
I'm Congress. Prudent Socialists VIII ar
range "a send flowers G.. q. H.
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What are you smiling att suddenly de-
narded NJ. Hanecy.
at the way you put it.