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whtzat it i-. by thq)se rpublicans Who had ~v' rean 1) objecto tothe presi'eis I reat I , t i bt ject al:1 e . ien calie Ilhe fuitlher lactial rea Still. Ntlin- was so likely to uite the entire hodly t repiblicans ii the senate upon the adoption and the na ture of a court review clause as this bestowal of sponsorship upon the democrats. If the bill should fail, the democrats having introduced it. could bear the responsibility. If it should pass, the republicans would get the credit, or, at any rate, a sufficient share of it.. Relations Between the President and Senators. What are the relations between the president and the senator? That ques tion is best answered by the events of the past eight days. On the 9th of March the president received the senate's answer to his statehood pro gramm1e. Since Mondav morning last he has been daily receivin-r. through the opel delates of 'the senate. re plies to his railroad bill programme. which show him.. if lie did not credit the fact before. that there is a geniu ine interest in the constitutional as pects of the question. anJ that the constitutional aspects are more in portant than those of mere exped ienev. II 'other words, the s.enat.ors are showing an independence of White House control which is iefreshiing af ter the depressiug subserviencY of the house. Change of Sentiment in Regard to the President. The, relations between the senators and the president have. up to the mo Ient when this is written. llot out wardly altered. The courtesy due to the presidential office is of course. a] ways observed by senators in their in tercourse with the head of the state. Conferences, of course. continue. for there are many matters besides.rail road legislation upon which senators have occasion to call upon the presi dent, or the president to send for sen ators. But in conversing with senators it is easy to see that among the most experienced of them. the men whose judgment really counts, as wvell as among the lesser lights, there is a steadily lessening regard for the pres ident 's judgment. No mat ter how strong he may be, or may appear to be, with the country. President Roose velt undoubtedly has a remarkable faculty for depriving himself of friends. There must be some reason for this beyond 'those commonly as cribed to the shifts and changes of political life. .It. is possible that upon some ques-~ tion the president may be entirely right, and the majority of his oppo 'nents. perhaps ~all ~of his opponents, may be wrong, entirely wronz. Buti this extraordinarj fortune cannot al wvays prevail. Even the most ardent, the most devoted admirers of the president's (whomsoever. and where soever they may be-the~y certainly do not appear to be in 4Vashingto) can hardly claim for him monopoly of integrity and wisdom. There must be -something more than "'greed." graft" and "special interests" tol acebunt for some of the diffterenices of opinion that arise bet ween the president and the senate. But about the relations between tihe senators and the presidentt: these re Iiatio~ns are in some very notable in stances, less critieal than they were. And the reasons for this are not "greed,"' or* "af, or patro?nage. 'sp,ecial interests." There are three reasons mainly operating to this re sult: -Diminishing faith in the pre.ident 's I 4 judgment. An increasing conviction tha.t he plays too much for popularity. A growing conviction that he is less sincere than he is popularly believed to be. It has been stated that conflictin~ reports have been given out by sena tors regarding their conferences with the president on the railroad rate bill, that cases have occurred in which ~ two or more senators, conferring with him at the same time, have given out diametrically opposite aceouts of his opinions and remarks. That might easily be. It might happen through inadvertence or misunderstanding, it might happen through design, but it could hardly be a frequent much less an invariable occurrence. There have been many conferences with the pres ident. It is not within the bounds of possibility that all of them. or a ma jority of them, have been misrepre sented by the senators who p)articipat ed in them. A faculty for clear state ment on the president's part would leave neither reason nor opportunity for a continuous misrepresentation of his views, nor for continued misunder- I standing on the part of persons who I were accustomed to listen to him. naus of Conflicting Reports About1 His Views. -- h-S:a hi 1 *ng: '' to calnl aice wih 1 r 1*!(t dispui < their presen ':ncu '-f an ~ arg.~umien.t, a(ecordling to ih hE. b i io t he skillfu*tl politician11. ht If i I a dozen men, eachl with Op iliunins opposing all the others, may confer with him in succession, and ech(i will depart believing that lie has won the president 's support for his bill or his project. The politician s desire to be "all things to all men" until the time eomes to finally declare himself upon one side or another, is at the bottom of much of the difficulty which the mresident is having with the senate. And so it happened that, while the rite bill was in committee, each sen Itr who consulted the president ear ied away from his interview a con ition that he alone was the reposi tor-v (f the inner wishes of the White Ilouse. It was n1o)t all en!deazvor Iii mislead the senators, but a wish to securei their'support by not insisting Upon essential details. that brought about so nany unfortunate misunderstand ils. fint-allv culmina-ting in a split wihiin the party. which the president forthwith set about. to heal: For the thing he does not want is a disrupted part. And, above all things. he does not want to be known as the man who disrupted his partV. The president is popularly regarided .1s a Ian who does not vacillitie. a M;n who quickly resolves 111)on a ouse. and , wih folhws Ihat courTSe to i liek and th 1. But popilar hei,ces are scldom whAit the POpular I fancy paints thei. The p-esident does make up his mind quickly. but that habit is not always a merit Whenl the formnation of laws of great pith and ?m< ment is the work in hand. As for changing his mind-the pres :d(,nfi does that. like many other nor tals-when he has to. Bit he is very adrvit about, it, and he has the knack of wriiigii.g an appearance of victory lut of a defeat. And very often the appearaice is as effective for public lse as the fact. If. for instance, the president finds that the kind of amendment which he said he did n't want and wouldnm't have will easily V ;ass the senate. it is not in the least V nllikely that Senator Dolliver might f fer it, and so the face of the admin ~tration would be saved; the senatef will have obtained what it insisted 'pon, and Iowa will, it is fair to sup n:.se. receive her senator with re.joie-t ng and perhaps return him to Wash-t inzeon for another six vears. His term, I may parenthetically remark. f expires in March, 1907.r How can one forget, in speaking of f the Hepburn-Dolliver . or Dolliver- v Hepburn bill, that after the 58th con- b press the amiable constituents of Rep- t resentative Hepburn burnt that gen- 11 lemani in effigy? No*, it is no part f? a gentleman's ambition to desire il hat he may be continuously or even repeatedly consumed by any sort of a proxy as an offering to the offendeda rods of his congressional district. a \tr. Hepburn may, not unnaturally, u irefer to ride in triumphal cars. Sen- ec iter Dolliver. too, can hardly be re- e< 'roached b)ecause he desires a re- b Both these gentlemen would ur;ge a :han.ze in programme. "Not where he n ~ats, but where he's eaten,'' says j ilamlin. "Not where we are burned ni effigy, but where our enthusiasm n nay burn into the minds, and hearts p 4f a noble people,'' these Lowani ezislators may fitly cry. Iis What will the president do for their th oyal zeal? We can answer that af- ir er the grief and anguish of battle. ?rivate Opinions of Senators Confid ed to aFoot Ball Hero. What are the relations between the~ t] iresident and the senators? Well, of! oeurse, there are senators and sena- b ors. One day. so the story goes there alled up' n the president a person of -enown. a football player from 1ever mind the state. This champion e >f strenuositiy was cheerfully receiv ~d by the president, and after they u 1ad discussed the gladiatorial game t he v.ersatile chief magistrate seined o think ~That.a The time had come to talk of other In things, I Of ships and shoes and sealinga wax, Of cabbages and kings, a. ~o, by the most natural sequence in E he world, they fell to discussing sen Itors, a theme upon which one be- hi ~omes. it is presumed, an authorityf horough proficiency in football. Thev ~enators from the visitor's statee vere the theme of an interesting coT- w oquy, and when the visitor depart-y d he had no doubt of the president 's oj ipinion of that pair of senators. It pas not a complimentary opinion, and he emphasis with which it was ei- be >ressed could neither be misinterpret- tp] d nor forgotten. The foothall visitor. the nnrrative f14 A. P. M Pres't and Mzr WAK] Mr. P. A. Getz, Gen'l AEt.. Pac;fic Mutual Life Inst 327-8 Mc Dear Sir: On Nov. Ist, dinary Life, 20 Year Dividend first day of Nov., 1905. At th n.%nt, each ofwhich options gr cepted the offer of withdrawin; original premium rate. The d premium , paid. This settleme satisfactory experience in life dealing to my friends. You are Call to See Us. )ffice over Post Office. BrickI Brick!! For Sale by C. H CANNON. Real Estate and Insurance. 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We do business-on bus We extend every con1 with safe and sound ban Four per cent. paid on Department. Fir Burglar Pro JAS. LINTOSH, President. For the Nx WE OF] 50OBa ::OF Straighi AT $4.00 PE S. S. Bir FrcBI~ eril it]iues. mvt ai frienIi an I rep ).at ed tht 11 tresqu ve < sr Ip In wI k wh,1*(.ic he iaid b e - e tIle' stoy gikly renveei the capito, as noh1 things will. The Visitor re turne<(li I o hiI' hifnw. 0111i local news 9aj'r n 11 ter A; fite 1 !1nial>'lit his t , to Washinlgttl and hiIs recep)tioln by the president. Then out eamtie the story about the senators. One of the senators who figured in the tale let his indignation cool for a while, and then he called upon the president, explaining that the latte1 had been quoted as saying so and so. "which. of course, was impos sible for a president of the United States to say about a member of the senate." and requesting that the re port be denied, so that the people of the state of should be un dier no misapprehension as to the pres ident's method of discussin members of a co -ordinate branch of the gov ernment nor as to the senator's own standing and reputatio. The president, of (jurso- assured the senator that the whole story was a fabrication. and soon afterward in vited him to dinner, and to accompa iy the presidential party to the thea tre on the same evening. The senator. wondering at this, for him. nuaccustomed burst of atten-1 tion from the White House, asked a ,olleag-ue better used to these things han himself what it was all about. feplied the colleague. --your ;ute is wanted 1r the---bill, whihek Is now before your eommittee. Nonsense !said t ile inviItd 4>l 1e. Ant lie velit to the dlinier. I ul'ing thle eV(llillg t he presiiellt )rougilt the conversationL around to iis opillionI oIn that iiportant a41111in st l'at1ion meaisur-e. 'i. I'residenlt, allswere". the enator. -- I an opposed to the bill.". And silnee thenl he has not enjoved lie diistilnctio oF dininur at the White House. A moral is, I suppose. hat pwesidents must not indulge in Aeasantries with worthy folk whose irt is kicking pigskin. rillman's Opinion of the President Not Concealed. I have mentioned some points of ikeness in the president and Senator ['illman. Just what the president hinks of the South Carolinian, to rhom Senator Dolliver frequently al uded in this week 's debates as his I 'honest friend,'' I do not happen to :now.this evening, but the South Car linian has opinions of the president :hicih lie does not conceal. He shouts hem until the capitol rings with his roubled eries.1 Probably neither gentleman will be lattered by any insistence upon like ess with the other, but, as no of ence is intended, none, I am sure, I ill be taken when it is said that you ave to make allowance for both men V iey take the safety valve from their npetuosity. ''The president,'.' said the senator, r ione of his speeches this week, It goes a great way in a very little S hile. lie scoldIs the senate, abuses P :. almost insults us, accuses us of sincerity. He mush be very badly t iformned and miserably advised. 1 in pa.rdoin his impetuosity, for I re gnize the fact that he carries a great rden, but he should not lightly I iticise and insult the senate.'' What rejoinder could be more ive Tillmnan rebuking impetus and hirwinds! And Senator Tillman, we mustre ember, has had an alliance with the esident thrust upon him! 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