The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-04-01
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WASHINGTON NOTES.


tary OF State Philander g. Knox Is
making tour Of the central American
states, in the interest of the United
States commercial relations, It is said
} lle has w!th him as personal attend
] ant (valeD a certain colored gentleman
who is carried on the pay roll of the
department as clerk in the mailing
division. The head Of this division
told the committee on expenditures in
the state department thai ,his same
negro did not devote one-thld Of lis
time to the work for which Uncle Sam
pays him, but serves the secretary as
persona valet at his residence. These
facts ought to have been 3 Il forth in
Mr. Knox's Dollar Diplomacy" arti-
Gle le.ely published in the Saturday
Evening Post, don't you think?
A resolution was introduced in the
} senate the other day to ascertain how
many au.os ! ad been purchased fJf
use of District Of Columbia officials
(your Uncle Sam pays half of the
bills) who used them and for what
purpose. 1t was stated on the floor Of
the senate that government automo-
biles were so thick on the streets chat
1t was a difficult matter for a pedes-
trian to keep from being run over II
was also stated that official autos
we're used to air the Antilles Of offic-
ials and to ioy-ride minor employees.
No doubt the statements are true, for
such practices would very naturally
grow cut OF the Washington ctyfed-
eeal government partnership policy
now in vogue here
The greatest of all tariff schedules
Is schedule *, the wool and woolens
The much touted tariff commission"
devoted nearly a year TO its consider
alton and made a report on 1t long
after the ways and means committee
had framed a bill and the house had
passed 1t; the senate had amended
and passed 1t and the president vetoed
II. The presidents chief argument in
his veto message was, that the house
could not have accurate information
and, therefore could not frame an
equitable tarifffbill without the report
of the tariff commission squares with
the Underwood wool bill that the pres
ident vetoed, even after the senate
had raised the rates of duty. care.
fll consideration of the report shows
that the original bill was properly
drawn. m
The bill reducing the duties on wool
and manufactures OF wool, precisely
as it passed the house last summer, is
now being debated. A vote will be
taken about April Sth to 10th. The
Democrats have agreed to ten days
debate. we suppose in order to give
the Republicans time to patch up their
arguments. The report of the tariff
commission has exploded a lot of their
old stock arguments about protection
of American workmen" fostering in
FAINT industries etc, etc. The bill
will doubtless pass without single
amendment, and by a slightly larger
vote than before. OF course the sen
ate will amend it for even the so-called
progressives of the senate are Repub-
lican protectionists, pure and simple.
We do hope and trust that the house
will not agree to make SO much OF a
change as to dot an q" or cross a -
II the Republicans dare defeat a fair
and square tariff reduction bill let
them do it. and appeal the case to
the final tribunal--the people at the
polls in November We think the Dem
ocrats will do just this
The fight for the Republican nomlna.
} tion has grown exceedingly warm. The
doughty Colonel is getting in kind
what he gave others four years ago.
But how he "holers!' The ownership
Of the OK makes all the difference. We
have all along been of the opinion
that the Colonel would run and at the
same time been very sure that he
would be beaten The activity of Per
kins, Munsey and others In his be.
half tells unerringly the story as to
what interests want Roosevelt for
President, but the people are no long
er so easily fooled. The results Of
the contests everywhere indicate that
the stampede to Roosevelt is com
plete fizzle There is a strong prob
ability that he will attempt TO lead
bolt at the Chicago convention. We
do not believe. however that his fol
lowing will be strong enough for this
movement to amount to much. We
are sorry to say It,
Uncle Ike Stephenson. who admits
that he spent legitimately CD abo5t
$4,000 to be elected, retains his seat
in that body by a vote OF 40 to "a. This
vote would seem TO indicate that Lori.