The La Jara chronicle., 1911-06-23
= WHAT THEY ARE DOING DOWN AT WASHINGTON

thereof, and the buildings thereon
to be sold separately or together
with the real estate on which they
are situated.
There is an apparent determine
ton to investigate everything,
and everybody, and to do it right
away In Washington it is we'll
known that the State Department
has always spent small sums of
money for secret Investigations,
most of which have been carried
on in foreign countries. There
never has been Il time when such
expenditures have been brought
into question. The Democratic
probers have been picking out
the items that apnear in the rec
ord of the State Depal tment, and
by insinuation have sought
TO cast discredit upon Sec
retary Knox and other officials.
OF course Washington under
stands all this, and pays no
attention to this last at
tempt to make political capital,
but in the country itself the ne
cessity of expenditures of this
character are not so well under
stood, and it is a part of the
peanut politics that are be-
ing played in the Capital to at
tempt to create an impression
that great branch of the fede-
raj government has been sub
jected to petty graft.
There has been an endless
amount of discussion growing out
of the reports from leaders OF the
Progressive Republicans, of dis
satisfaction arising out of the
candidacy of Senator La Fol
lette for the Presidency. Pres
ident Taft's advisers confidently
assert that every western state
with the probable exception OF
Wisconsin will go into the Ma
tional convention in 1912 with
Taft delegations. They carry
their claims far enough to state
that this represents the sill
uation even if these delegations
are headed by men like Senators
Cummins of Iowa, Bristow Of Kan
sas. and Works of California.
The positive announcement is
made that Senators Cummins OF
Iowa, Borah of Idaho, Brown of
Nebraska, Dixon of Montana, and
Kenyon of Iowa, will support
President Taft for denomination.
I Democratic members of the
House who bitterly scored one
another in their caucus where
in wool schedules were consid-
cred, are repeating the policy of
the special session inasmuch as
they are now patting one another
on the back; and having lost en-
tire sight of their individual
views, are advancing the wool
bill toward passage; and again
it is demonstrated that the o. X.
of the caucus is all that is need
ed to effectually squelch all OBJ
lection within the ranks of the
majority. The Underwood bill
will soon reach quiet repose in
the Senate.
Representative Field, of Ken
lucky must be disappointed in
view of the fact that a resolu-
tion introduced by him two or
three weeks ago asking informa-
ton as to whether criminal pro-
secutions have been begun or are
now pending against the Amer
lean Tobacco company and other
institutions affected by the re-
cent decisions of the Supreme
Court, has got no further than
the pigeon hole of committee.
Some of the Republican members
have suggested to the gentleman
from Kentucky that it might be
well for him to read the news
papers.
There is considerable specula-
tion as to who will manage the
next political campaign for the
Republican party, and it is stated
that Postmaster General Hitch
cock will not be the man, owing
to the duties of his official posi-
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