The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-17

Of Speaker Cannon and other House and
Senate leaders. to help put through his
THE President's) legislative program.
which included keeping Congress in SEES
sion until May 16 to receive the Gov
ernors conference on that day, to put
through the railroad bill, to get four
battleships and to pass a child labor law
for the District Of Columbia, which would
be a model law for the States in general
Watson told the President that he could
not get more than two battleships and
that he could not pass the proposed rail-
road bill because almost the entire
manufacturing interests Of the country
were against IT."
Conversation with Roosevelt.
~This,- wrote MulhaII, 1alnost closed
their talk on legislative matters. Then
Mr.. Watson started to draw hin out In
relation 10 . third term, beginning b.
saying to the President that his people
controlled the thirty votes of Indiana
To the national convention, and he say.
Ing to the President that after they
saw that Fairbanks could not be nOni.
mated, would they not throw the thirty
votes to him. The President said he
thought not, that Mr.. Taft was his can
didate. Mr. Watson said he thought 1t
would be . hard job to elect MF. Taft,
didate they would lose Indiana. He
then said that the President humned
and hawed, and said he was out of 1t;
that he may have made . mistake by
the announcement he made after his
election. hut that he had made the an
nouncement. and that he thought he
now ought to stick to IL. He then
asked Mr.. Watson that IL he (Roose-
velD was the caadidate could he carry
Indiana. Watson replied yes, by
$4,000. and II the President wss the
candidate, he (watson) and the other
nominees of Indiana could 70 fishing.
Mr.. Watson said that this seemed to
please the President, who remarked
that IL was wonderful; that he thought
he Ind lost ground in different parts
Of the country with certain elements
and Interests, but II was now too late
to change the program.
Mr.. Watson says that his interview
with the President impressed him as
IL the President certainly wanted a
third term"
Failed to Bent Penrre.
The n. A. NJ failed to beat George
Pearre for denomination in the Sixth
Maryland. a defeat which chagrined both ,
and Mulhall considerably. |
but they went after Hughes with re-
Snee- So. bv this time very active
IN ~. 6sh, .sairs, Gardner and Hughes
IN New Jsrsev President Van CIeave
had talked to him on the necessity of |
~ az W. Snear coIJad a counciI ~
L., =, Nay, Iars.y noI,,ic;,ns and nj. ne
- - 80 ~, nm strono r,,n
,,airs, Car5n.r In an at,.rn, 70 hea,
,;,, To- ,ha nor,in.tio, IN Me dis,ric,
vimiham IT,, $3.50 Schwod,r,,n. ".f,ar
,,,, in,ar,.,a.s ,i,h Iudge Sneer and Mr.
c,,i. a., ,sr,, r,ucb .rcnuraged with
be o,,,,ool, In uuabcs, and Gardner,s
,,.,-,o,s,,
a numbsr ~ Mu,barrs exnense ar
.our,. n,.ro ra.5 into ,ho record 7,
or oro y, ,ha.a ,,ara f,on, eya 10
,ftea, tins for sums Maid un;on labor
non &, amo,,n,s HANGING fror, sI5 % sso
"e"ni """'
MuIhall testified that as late as Janu-
Try. 1905. ex-senator Foraker was think
ng of making another fight for the Sem
tie. and still had ideas of a presiden-
ial boom. A letter was read from Fora
ter asking MuIhall to stop OF in Gin
innati for brief visit
One letter from Schwedtman to Null
tall In January. 1908. contained the fol-
owing list of Representatives who might
e expected, according to Schwedtman.
o vote for bill in which the n. A. NJ
ad been interested for several sessions: