The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-04-10
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial Corr OF TIE REPUBLICAN,

Washington, D. c., April g. 1913.
Mr.. Taft, tanned and rudy from his
outing on the Georgia golf links, recent
ly passed through Washington on his
way to New Haven. He declared that
he was feeling fine, and that he had
never realized the heavy strain of the
last DAYS of his administration until he
got away from the White House
In the opinion of Senator Owen,
Chairman of the Senate committee on
Banking and Currency, the death of
]. Pierpont Morgan will have no effect
on any legislation looking to the break
ing up the centralized group of money
kings which Mr.. Morgan dominated
An income tax, beginning at the rate
of per cent. upon all incomes of $4, 600
year and ranging up to 4 per cent on
incomes of 100000, or more. has viz
tually been decided upon by the Com
mittee on Ways and Means of the
House. BY this tax il is hoped to raise
$50, 600, 900 every year to offset losses
by tariff reduction, this plan was one
of the most carefully guarded of the
tariff secrets, but it has leaked out.
Evidence Is still accommodating that
President Wilson intends to have much
to say about the character of the tariff
bill to be passed in the coming special
session. There have been reports from
time to time that the House leaders
would attempt to make the tariff bill.
as framed with the aid Of the President,
an administration measure, and use it
as test of party regularity. Secretary
of Commerce and Labor, Redfeld, who
has had long experience in Congress
and is himself tariff expert, and Chair
man Underwood, of the House Com
mittee, have had long conference oyer
the bill, Some reports have it that
patronage will be used as club to force
Democratic Senators to vote as desired.
Walter H. Page. of the Doubleday &
Page Publishing Co., of New York, has
been appointed Ambassador to Great
Britain. Mr.. Page was born in North
Carolina, and is noted for his tact and
diplomacy.
Woman suffrage organizations from
all parts of the country have been
urging the President to initiate federal
legislation to authorize women to vote.
But, while it is understood that Mr..
Wilson is friendly to equal suffrage, he
thinks the proposal of such measures
should come from Congress, and not
from Executive.
The resigning of junior naval officers
is vigorously opposed by the new Sec
rotary of the NAVY. He holds that
these young officers, who have been
educated at considerable expense to the
United States, should remain in the
service so that the government may re-
ceive adequate benefit for the expense
incurred. He hopes to Undue the
junior officers of the Navy with the
proper sense of their responsibility to
the country.
Commissioner Rudolph, the executive
head of the city government, is loud in
his praise of Washington's response to
the appeal for aid for the flood sufferers.
The cyclone and the floods were texts
administers in all the principal churche S
of the city last Sunday.
Nothing could have been more sue
cessful, from both social and spectacular
standpoints, than that half holiday
which the President, who is very hard
worker, gave himself when he visited
Fort Myer to witness the best exhibit
ton of horsemanship that has ever been
offered at that famous post. If there
were more such half holidays there
would be less epidemic nervous break
down among our workers. And if men
and women perpetually IN harness
would only emulate the Presidential
example and break away from their
desks once week they would doubtless
obtain great relief.
Mrs. James Brock spent last Friday
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