The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1911-01-13
Ghairmen Of Senate and House
Committees Disagree.
TAFT DOES AS HE PLEASES.
He Listens to Advice From All Sources
and Then Follows His Own Ideas.
Former Senator Teller Says He Is a
Democrat, and He May Be Returned
to the Senate as Such.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, Jan. 10. - Especial J.
Shall the coastwise vessels of the
United States pass through the Pana,
ma canal without paying tolls? is a
| question that will interest congress
during this session. Senator Flint,
chairman of the committee on inter
oceanic canals, favors toll free ships
and Chairman Mann OF the house COM
mittee is opposed.
When the Hay-Pauncefote treaty,
which provides for equal tolls and ia
cilities for all ships Of every nation
passing through the canal, was before
the senate, Senator Spooner, who had
more to do with canal legislation than
any other man, said that coastwise
shipping was a local matter entirely;
that foreign ships could not engage In
that business, and it would make no
difference whether such ships went
through free or paid tolls.
1t is the purpose of Senator Flint to
have provision in the bill making all
ships taking advantage of free tolls
subject to service of the United States
in case they are needed for war pur-
poses.
Doing as He Pleases.
Every time public questions involv.
ing politics come up it becomes more
apparent than ever that the president
is following his own inclination and is
not swayed hither and thither by the
advice of those who either voluntarily
or by request express their opinions.
The best evidence of this fact is shown
in the way those whose advice is not
followed are talking. They do not rel
ish the independent attitude of the
president, and many of them think
that his administration is sure to be q
failure because he does as he pleases.
And yet there is always a large share
of the American people who like a
president who has mind of his own
and follows it regardless Of much ad-
vice he receives.
Death Shocks Senators.
The death Of a senator always gives |
the old men of the senate scare |
ST.
Whose turn nextT There are so |
many very old men in the senate that
they cannot but know that death will /
soon make great inroads among them.
us the senate all going to die orr |
was a question asked by Senator Bur
rows when Senator Elkins' death was
announced. "It begins to look like it."
he added. Burrows term will end
March 4, but he is much interested in
the senate.
Had Few Misgivinss.
Justice Van Devanter, who recently
became an. associate justice of the SUI
preme court, did not enter upon his
duties without a full knowledge of the
great responsibility.
81 have a feeling of trepidation," he
said TO a friend before he took the
oath, "for know that am about to
become a member of a court from
which there is no appeal. The weight
of responsibility offsets to a degree the
elation which 1 might have at attain
ing my highest ambition"
He is a Democrat.
In a conversation former Senator
Teller said no less than three times In
less than half an hour, II am a Dem
Ocrat." And when one comes to think
Of it the remark sounds rather strange
RADIO, who was the first Republican
senator from that state when It was
admitted in 1876. Four years later he
left the senate to serve as secretary
Of the interior in the Republican cab
met of President Arthur. In 1885 he
was again sent to the senate as a Re
publican and was elected twice more
by the same party.
Teller left the Republicans in 1896
IN the silver issue and was reelected
% the senate by the Colorado legisla-
.ure as a Democrat. He closed his
career as a member of that
,arty.
II the reports that Senator Hughes {
will not again take his seat IN the SEN
tie are true # would not be at all sur
,rising II Governor Shafroth should
Ippoint Teller TO the vacancy. Sha-
roth has a high regard for the aged q
NdltoAlul WIZ nttS 20 AoAE utGu laeu- =
fled with the Centennial State. 7
Mormons In Mexico.
A report from a consul at Ciudad I
'orfirio Diaz. Mexico, says that the
formons Of Utah and Idaho have Just I
the purchase Of $1,000 acres
Z land In that district. President
mIth Of the Mormon church says that y
many Of his people VIII settle IN Mex q
70 and that another colony has been q
to occupy 1900 acres Of G
md II
The Mormons have options on zoo ?
% acres In that district. II IL expect q
q that there win be 5000 Mormon
antilles in Mexico within the next
Ighteen months. The lands which {:
ave been purchased are located 50 q
nat they can be irrigated. and the Il
Tormons from the United States &
now how 70 adapt themselves to v
ich a country. q