The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-07-07
SENATE I'M MlX-UP AND PARTY
LINES DISAPPEAR IN THE FUSS
Standpattes Chuckle at PrediCament Of the
President Over Democratic Attacks
on the Wool Schedule.
ny nnes. q. Wake.
Mail Special 10 The Advertiser.

WASHl NGTON, June SS.-ln times
Of calamity there are always people
who run industrionsly about, like head
less beings, giving utterance to the
feelings that rise up strongly within
them. Just so it has been at Wash
ington after the recent political calam-
ity in the senate. Just so IL has been
with some Of the most radical of the
regular Republicans. And their words
are not So much against the insurgents
who made the situation possible nor
against the SENATE Democrats but
against the President. 1t was he who
forced the Canadian reciprocity along;
it was he who called the extra session
against the advice of the party lead
ers and now he has pulled the temple
down over his head-if the standpat
assevefations are to be credited.
In their sad predicament, they
chortle over a prospect, as they be-
lieve, that reciprocity will now be lost
or seriously delayed by the new tariff
complications. It will not be lost, al
though vote may be delayed. They
tell you how the Democrats played
very shrewd politics by selecting the
house wooden bill ON which to make
the test, II was the easiest measure
for the western and northwestern Re-
publicans to use as q vehicle or re.
prisal for the Canadian. reciprocity and
above all the enactment of the meas.
ufe would be most troublesome to
President Taft. :.
tart Did II.
For, as any of the standpatters will
gladly remind you, did not the Presi-
dent some months ago reeklessly and
ihconBiderately inform the country
that the wool and wooden schedule was
outrageouBly hight Did he not there,
upon turn about and urge the creation
Of tariff board9 Has he not been
preaching early and late, according to
the Same conservative Republican au-
thorities, the wisdom of letting the
tariff board inquire before Aldrieh-
Payne schedules were touched by con
gressional revisionistsl But did he
not himself, in spite of those preach
ments, negotiate Canadian reciprocity
without waiting for the tariff boardl
Hal Hal And now wool and woolens!
If he should refuse to sign the bill
that congress is apparently planning
to "put up to him. in the course Of
few weeks OF few months, what
will the tOiling millions who wear
wooden clothes do to him when cleo.
ton day rolls around year from next
Novemberf And yet again, if he signs
any wool bill that reduces the duty on
Ohio's fine fieeees, what will the EN-.
battled Republican farmers of his ma
tive State do to himq
"HeW lose his own State,'' the
standpatters chuckle as they answer
the question for themselves, feeling
nicely that they have one satisfactory
angle of observation in the days of
their great trfbulation.
Tariff Board Pilikia.
OF course, the administration is in
confusion. How could it be otherwise
when the last legislative barrier to pro.
tect the White House from the embar-
rassment of undesirable tariff legisla-
ton has been swept away. Not only
is the President embarrassed at the
prospect at having to veto or approve
the revision of the wooden schedule,
but the poor old tariff board, that was
really born of the Republican tariff
necessity and, Notwithstanding the
large good that might eventually come
of it, has all along been the reliance
of the party leaders to prevent early
revision and, perhaps, to prevent any
revision at all, will be Tremendously
embarrassed. The lack of confidence
in it on the part of congress has been
vigorously emphasized by Democrats
and insurgents but if congress enacts
wooden revision law, the tariff board
will probably be in the plight of max
ing a report that may reflect upon the
judgment of congress.
Expect q Veto.
Some people hereabouts think the
President will veto any kind of a
WOODEN bill, or farmers free list bill
that the senate Democrats and insur-
gents can put together and, perhaps,
he will. But if he does he will widen
the breach between himself and the
insurgent Republicans following a
period when corps of smooth cam.
paign workers have been toiling as
sidnously to- get him into closer accord.
All the tariff doings of recent DAYS
are a terrible blow to the poor old
finance committee of the senate. That
body of eminent ystandpatters are re-
dueed to great extremities. Their
status of seryitude to the rigorous al.
lance that now controls the upper leg
islative branch is almost pitiable to one
who harks back only two years and
recalls how the impeTtuFbabie Aldrieh
land the imperious Hale ruled the pFo.
ceedingH of tariff construction. One en-.
teFing the committee precincts Ia those
days, even mighty senators, did 80 With
GA air Of caution. The atmosphere OF
powerful ehieftalns compelled an Rttl.
tllde Of respect Tor whatever was.
Probably 40 committee Of congress
ever ruled within it. Jurisdiction 50
Iegally and 80 automatically na did
hnnnee ~ the palmy days Of AldFleh
aud Hale. The half hes Heger been told
on the fioor If the senate, because Il
could not be without ofendlna The deep
aense Of senatorial eonFlesy Witch there
uFHFaIIEs III the ulafn. hluaf truth aha4If