Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-01-31


a Democratic house for further APP
preparation, and it may be that the
Democrats. intent on tariff revision
according to their own views, will re-
fuse to vote the money.
OF course IL tariff commission is
authorized the present board will dis
appear, but it may be that the three
members who constitute it will obtain
membership in the commission. The
tariff is still by far the most momen-
tous If not the most sensational mat
ter before congress. 1t is sure of q
life of perplexity to the parties long
after the Lorimer case has been for
gotten and long after Mr.. BaIlinger
and Mr.. Pinchot have passed from
public attention.
President Takes Long Walks.
President Taft ever since he has
been in Office has shown a fondness
for automobile riding and touring. 1t
is nothing at all unusual for him to
take spins on the country roads in
the late evening hours after the days
work and the early evenings social
engagements have been closed. Re
Gently, however, the president has
shown return OF his early walking
imr Uses. Possibly he feels that he
needs exercise, for at this season of
the year the golf links are hardly "hab-
table" Occasionally Mr. Taft takes
a walk which rivals in length some of
those which we're taken almost daily
by his predecessor in Office. Mr.. Taft,
unlike Mr.. Roosevelt, however. does
not attempt to scale cliffs or to swim
streams, but contents himself with a
quiet pace along the smooth highways
Occasionally the president walks
across Highway bridge over the Poto
mac. which is good long pedestrian
trip in itself, and then extends his
foot Journey to Arlington or Fort
Myer, and turns to retrace his steps
to the White House. The president
weighs over 300 pounds. but he is &C
tive and remarkably light on his feet
Statehood for Arizona In Peril.
The wonder is in Washington if. af>-
er years of striving for sisterly rec
ognition, Arizona is going to be LETT
out of the Union of the states for
some time to come.
In about two weeks the people Of
Arizona will vote on the adoption of
the state constitution which was drawn
up at the constitutional convention. If
the document in its present form is
sanctioned the friends of statehood
fear that the president and the con-
gress of the United States will inter
pose veto and that the territory will
be obliged to wait much longer before
it can become a state.
The progressive Republicans in Con-
gress say that it is the old time reac-
ton which is manifesting itself in
disposition to refuse to sanction the
constitution of Arizona in its present
form. The conservative Republicans,
and the president, too, for that mat
ter, say that they are opposed to Ari-
zona's constitution principally because
it maA es the recall apply to judicial Of
fees SO that if a Judge renders a
decision which is unpopular. even
though it be founded on sound law,
he can be kicked off the bench simply
because he has seen fit to do his
duty"
Proq-essives Say Stand Firm.
Many = he progressive senators
have writer etters to the Arizona peo-
pie telling them to stand by their
cause, that the constitution is simply
progressive. and not radical, and that
it I'D be better for the territory to
remain out of the Union for while,
certain that it will get in eventually
under the conditions that it desires,
rather than to yield anything to the
clamor of reaction.
Senator Jonathan Bourne of oregon,
whose influence it is said was largely
responsible for the election of pro
gressive majority in the Arizona con-
stitutional convention. has written a
letter to President Hunt, who presided
at the convention and in 1t he says
this:
The question of whether the presi-
dent will or will not approve the Ari.
iona constitution should be wholly i'm
material The people of Arizona had
better lose statehood than yield the
control of their own state government.
Dictation from one man in Washing
ton should be as distasteful to me peo-
pie oil Arizona as dictation from London
was to the American colonists."
President Taft before long win ap-
point the members of an international
Joint commission provided for under
treaty between the United States and
Great Britain The members of the
commission will attempt to settle boun-
dairy questions and water power
right disputes between this country
and Canada.
The terms of the international treaty
contain one curious feature. The com
missioners are given the right to fix
their own salaries. The wonder is just
what the limit of modesty will be.
Ii is understood that one or two mem
bers of congress who failed Of recogni-
Ton viii be named for positions on the
commission. Representative AID sen
ators receive $500 a year as salary.
IT,. question which is agitating Wash
fngton in an amused way is whether or
not these officials of government when
they become international commission
ers, will be content With the pay which
they drew as representatives of only
one nation.