Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-02-17
President Receives Stacks of
Letters Endorsing the Pact
With Canada.
USES THEM AS AN ARGUMENT
Opponents of the Agreement Retort
+ Citing Appeals From the
Small Manufacturers-BiiI to
Reorganize Consular Serv-
ice Approved.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.-Uncle Sans NAH
carriers who have the White House
on their route are heavily burdened
these days with letters of endorse
ment Of the administration position
on Canadian reciprocity Mr.. Taft
is directing the attention of senators
and Representatives who call to the
piles of appeals from ultimate con-
sumers," and is telling his visitors that
the sight of them ought to be better
than any argument he can make to
secure legislative sanction of the
agreement with Canada.
Some of the visitors retort by tell
ing the president that they are get
the other side Of the question Then
the president retorts in kind by say
| ing that his letters come from the con-
sufner while the other letters come
! from the producer, and that the pro.
Queer has had all the best of protec-
ton aud that now 1t is time to give
! the consumer a chance.
The retorts do not stop here, for
the members tell the chief executive
1t In the small producers from whom
they are hearing, not the men who
arc allied with the great interests"
but the ones who are trying to make
! lfTings for themselves and who would
not know a trust" If they saw it
across a country road.
Reciprocity with Canada still hangs
in the balance. No one knows what
! its fate will be in the senate, even if
1t should succeed in getting through
| the house. Each side has a complete
| battery and magazine full of ammu-
! milton TO use in defense of its cause
The president is hopeful and so are
the men who have opposed the presi-
dents views. Today 1t is anybody's
| battle
Escorts Grandson TO Senate.
day or two ago Senator Davis
Eikins of West Virginia, who was ap-
pointed to succeed his father, the late
stephen 3. Elkins, came on to the
moor OF the senate arm In arm with
former Senator Henry Gassaway
Davis, for whom the present senator
Is named. Mr.. Davis is Senator e.
kin's grandfather and he had come
| to the senate as he jocularly ex-
pressed 1t, to see how his grandson
was getting along, but he added: Il
know that he will not vote to suit me
on any question, for he is dyed-in-
the-wool Republican and am a
rock-ribbed Democrat"
1t seems probable that N. p. Bryan
| Will be the new United States senator
! from the state of Florida Mr.. Bryan
| is brother of former United States
senator from Florida, who died In Of
fee, William Bryan. When the broth
er took the oath of Office he was the
youngest man in the senate chamber,
a fine looking, alert man whose phys
| Zeal strength seemed able to resist
an attack of any disease, and yet
| within few short weeks of his ap-
pearance on the floor of the senate
death claimed him
The elder senators took with ex
traordinary kindness to their young
colleague. His was an appealing
| personality, and notwithstanding the
| short time which he served and the
! consequent shortness of his acuuaint-
ance with his colleagues, his death
! came to them as a shock Many an
aged senator knowing that his time
of worlds service was rapidly draw
Ing to a close, must have looked at
young Bryan with something like
envy, and yet his death was the first
which occurred among the senate
membership during the long session
of the year in which the young man
/ entered Office.
Consular Bill Likely to Pass.
A bill for the reorganization of the
consular service of the United States
hes been approved by Secretary Knox
and is likely to pass the house at the
| present session. When the ad-
ministraion has its way the con-
sular service will be lifted en-
drely out of politics, and it may be
that senators and representatives, al
| though they have looked to the serv-
Ice for places for political favorites.
/ will hail the day when civil service
rules in the foreign Offices of the gov
| eminent
! When Senator Root was secretary
Of state he established certain reguIa-
tons to provide for merit promotion
in the consular service. He could not
! give the force Of law to his regula-
tons. but President Roosevelt backed
them up by an executive order which
gave them additional standing and
authority.
When Secretary Knox came into of.
fee he extended the civil service reg
ulations Of his predecessor and Sc
cured from President Taft another ex-
ecutive order to help him enforce his
rules. AS things are at present in the
state department young men are given
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