The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-29
ALL INTEREST IS NOW IN THE SENATE State Department Men to Be
 Dismissed SOME CAPITOL GOSSIP Something About the Personality of Senators and Some Impressions
 Made By Their New Of
 flee Building
SOME CAPITOL GOSSIP
BY WALTER HARPER.

Washington. June 2S.-fSpecial9It is 1 understood tonight that the sub-com- mttee of the House committee on ex- penditures in the state department which was formed to prepare a report on the recent investigation of the Day portrait incident, will, in it's report to the full committee tomorrow, recommend the dis mssal of William II. Michael, consul at | Calcutta, and Thomas Morrison, disburs- ing clerk of the state department.
 Representative Dent of Alabama is chairman of this subcommittee and has | been busy for several days on the re- port In discussing the matter, MT. Dent said:
 "The disclosures during the 1nvestiga- ton show most unfortunate condition of affairs in this department in connec- ton with this particular incident. There is no way to punish any person involved except to call attention to the fact that some of the men connected with the r- regularity are still in the employ of the government and holding responsible po- sitions."
 It was reported today that President Taft answered the implied utimatum of the. insurgent republicans by declaring | that he is willing to remain in Wash ington all summer if Congress sees fit to stay in session to fight out the tariff questions. He has told his friends that | he understands fully that the insurgent republicans are making every effort to put his administration in a hole and 1 that he is willing to stay here until De- cember, if necessary, to fight it out. Senator Cummins of Iowa criticised the Senate in very severe terms for it's seem ling lack of independence in consider 1 ing Legislation that may be opposed by | the President. Mir. Cummlns was dis cussing his amendments to the reciproci- ty bill, in which he advocates the free entry of manufactured products that the farmer has to buy along with farm products that the American farmer has to sell. Senator Bacon asked him if he thought legislation in the Senate ought l to be influenced by the threat of veto from the President.
 'It is abhorrent to me-" replied Mir. | Cummins,, "to hear the suggestion that any senator will be influenced by ahe probable action of the chief executive on the completed legislation. we have been assaulted here day after day with the Nreiteration, apparently au- | thoritative that if this bill is. amended | in any way 1t will be vetoed by the | President I am not saying that the l President of the United States is re- sponsble for these statements | only | know, that they are so uniform and SO emphatic that they have found lodge ment in the minds of many senators. who believe they can make mo. change In this bll,, however meritorious those amend ments may be- 4a a s.sft iae' r ! Tt is the beginning of the end Of the dignity, the power and the respectabilty of Congress and the Senate to have it repeated here day after day that we must not amend this bill because 1t will meet with the disapproval of the executive. | q wish some one more able than I an, would stand here and denounce the at | tempt to influence legislation fin the Sen ] ate through such suggestions. I wish the | Senate could re-assert its, immunity, from ! influence of the character that has been l present in this fight" | Just before the closing of the afternoon session Senator Borah of Idaho read ex- | tensively from republican campaign liter ature In which the party pledged the peo- pie for reciprocity on such articles oi
 
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