Show 1 I DELIGHTED TO TOI HIT ROOSEVELT I Senate on the Popular Side of Phil Philippine Philippine Tariff and State Statehood Statehood hood Questions FIGHT ON THE RATE BILL WHY SENATOR THE I SV f tn The Thc R Herald WashIngton March lucky for the Dr president ident that our system of gov government is not like that of France or England saId a prominent senator Friday y evening last after fter the senate chopped the statehood t hood to pi pieces ces otherwise th there re would be some Bome n new W cabinet making to be done The ad administration administration ministration to all ll outward appear appearances anc ances s has met nothing but defeat at atthe atthe the hands bands ot of COngress during this ses session session sion and as congress Is supposed to Lo represent the people the natural infer inference inference ence would be that Mr toos Is no longer in touch with the overwhelming majority who elected him to the presIdency d dency ney This ma be true as to the statehood and Philippine tariff ques questions questions for it is that a popular vote would decide both just as the son sen senate ate has done Both of these were passed through the house with the aid of the pressure which is practically I cO which the speaker speak r brought to beAr on the mom of that body and It is a doubt doubtful ful whether the house hous in III ss Ing them or the Senate IC hi r rejecting them represented represent d the will of the people Complicated Situation At any rate the defeat ot of the Philip Phillp Philippine pine tariff bil un lin the senate committee Is said to be part ot of a very complicated situation in the senate In which great are at work InvolvIng political strife railroad rate legislation and frIction between n the president and the senate Some senators appear to be willing to sacrifice anything in order to tod d defeat eat any proposition urged by the president The They boast today that th Santo Domingo treaty has hils been kil the bill biU throttled and andare are bending every effort to pr vent n of thO railroad bill In Inform inform form desired by the president A Ci erful coterie of senators Is at work 1 In n norder order to secure support in their railroad fight they have haye sacrificed the Philip Philippine pine bill Dicks Vote a Surprise E n tor D eks a adverse vote in the committee e Is credited to his desire to get back at Secretary Taft for tor hl his Akron speech which played havo II Ohio politics Dick carefully his Intentions Until he joined the in inSUrgent senat senators rs against th the I hUi pine bill Shrewd legislators think they see seethe seethe the I m of rt t explosion They are uneasy and will remaIn so 50 un until til they learn how much the president desires Philippine tariff legislation If the president Is to get th bill through he be will bo be supported b by bythe th the house which h passed tile the bill alm t The house may thay tack Philippine bill as a rider to all an taut tant appropriation bill shoUld go up to th the senate in this shape a issue would be drawn between the president and the house on one sIde and the senate on the theother other Lodge Is Suspected Senator Lodge chairman of the Phil Philippine committee has not escaped the imputation of disloyalty to the bill which he be was ost ostensibly trying to get bet reported and which is a pet measure of the Dres president dent an Secretary Taft raft To prOVe his loyalty lie he proposes movIng in inthe inthe the S senate nate to discharge the committee I from further consideration of the bill thus enabling It to be in the senate regardless of committee committe action But there are those who say that such sucha a plan of procedure rc would serve to kIll kUl the bill deader if possible than It is at present Senator Lodges Lodge s motion would b be followed by one to la lay it on the table This second motion would not be debatable and would prevail with an oV overwhelming majority and would serve to kill the bill beyond res resurrection resurrection Dont Understand Roosevelt Western Vestern members ot of congress are at ata ata a loss to understand the presidents in upon joint statehood for Ari An Arizona Anzona zona and New Mexico He is a west orn arn man himself n experIenc and broadness of ideas and in the opinion of Westerners should be lending In the fight for independent statehood for each of the two territories rather than lead leadIng leading Ing in the effort to join them into one state The western senators who voted for the commIttee ommittee bill last week did so sounder sounder under prot protest st and mainly to save the president from the humiliation ot of a de defeat defeat feat even more disastrous than the one which was given him Wileys Poison Squad Dr H W Wiley chief of the bureau of chemistry ot of tile the dep department ht of f agriculture appeared b for the h hOuse use committee on interstate and foreign commerce recently The diet of Mr Wileys poison polson squad on which he tested the effects or of borax adminis administered administered at the rate of S seven ven and a half grains n a day was discussed at length by Ut the committee Th The high quality ot of the food tood and the great variety In inthe the thc bills or of tare fare as explained by Dr Wiley VUey caused considerable levity and Dr Wiley admitted d that he was the keeper of the best boarding house in inthe Inthe the world As a matter of fact Dr Wiley did at one time conduct a 0 ron res restaurant on Eleventh street which has since become known to fame as a Place to Eat He w was s nOt a success successful fut ful restaurAteur Representative Mann asked Dr Wi Wil l by Y Cant you bring your boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse house and come up here to the house and s rv us with lun lunChes h S Chairman Hepburn discouraged all joking and urged d that t the e scientific In Investigation investigation of the effects of preservatives tives was of too gr at Importance t to tobe be tr treated Dr Wll Wiley Y discussed the manufacture ot of whisky by th the use of f high wIn winOs s sand and made mad for the committee an Imitation Imitation tion whisky He said that high wines S could be had for 1 13 cents n a gallon plus the Internal reVenue and said id it was ivas unfair to allow mixed whisky to be besold besold sold as straight whisky at Home Washington welcomed welcom d the returning and Princess Alle and Prince Nick are noW established In their own home havIng actually the first quiet they have haV h had d for lo io these many moons They st started right in In Ina ina a in most st fashion and w lk out nd p without any hint ot of a bureau The fact Is that Mr lr Longworth has no use for lor forthe the suppression m methods of W Loeb and Co and things will be managed differently at Eighteenth street from what they are In the White WhiteHouse H House use whence the Princess has hils flown Things will be quite lively for the i bride and groom from now ort on for there will be much entertaInIng In th the rth home during the sprIng and even eon the Lenten season for Dame Fashion no longer keeps Lent Now that the Princess has become plain Mrs Mra Lon Longworth orth there is much uncertainty as to what attitude to as assum sumO sum in th the matter of calling on the bride So far but few cards have been bean left at the door The dif difficulty di is increased by the fact that few if any of the wom women n who desire to do the proper thing were numbered among those receiving cards for the wedding a fact which under ordinary ces would release them from Any obligation in that direction Mrs Longworth may nO longer be benumb numb red among official maidens since her marriage places her on the list of congressional matrons and sub subject to the same responsibilities and andrules i rules goVerning them Instead of fill filling filling ing th the enviable position of the daugh daughter daughten ten ter or of the White mite House and as such entitled to every honor and onside tion she must ada adapt t herself to the rules and regulAtions ot of the wives s of the members of the lower house of f con gross Thus socially she must make important changes In the way ot of call calling calling ing or not fancy has here her herto heretofOre to fOre infrIngement of the rule being followed by embarrass embarrassing ing complications despite the demo democratic democratic cratic absence of form in this countrY Just what the outcome wU will be is In Interesting Interesting to many observers Last of the Dinners i MrS Fairbanks gave the last ot of ber exe exceedingly d delightful dInn rs ort on Thursday and departed for fot the R Hot t Springs to recuperate from the almOst endless entertainments which have hav made the vice presidents home a yen ver veritable mecca all winter There has been no hostess during the past sea season season son who has combined such great good taste with hearty hospitality as the Second Lady In the too In the face facO of the most obvIous slights from the WhIte House contin contingent contingent gent Mrs Fairbanks has very rIghtly completely ignored those snubs on the part of the satellites who h hOver Ver about the limelight of executive prestige and has made for herself a place In the social life of the capital which any woman might envy 0 There is just one professional beauty in Washington at present and he Is not of Ute the sa sex ot of which professional beauties are usually a des den Fortes Portes de la Ia Fos FosSe e of the French embassy He WM was th the observed Individual at the ls outside of f the Imm day party and nd his roving eyes ees which i I are of the starry stam order so 80 admired by girls played all manner of havoc 1 among them HIs beauty first dazzled when lie he assisted his cousin Rene du duTemple I Temple de Rougemont at his carriage with Edith Clapp of New York last spring Des Portes was marrIed when very young and has one daughter now about 17 Last summer he was the most m man n In N NeWport where the French embassy was lo 10 located If the embassy has quarters at atthe atthe the Rhode Island through the heated term thIs year it is to be hoped that Madame Des Portes and her daughter not pay their usual vIsit to France for they would prove n a great acquisition to the smart set there thero |