Show LAWMAKERS LA EASILY A TO A WASHINGTON in the New York Wed W J there is s beginning to percolate through th roub the brains of many of or the Ole na nations nations lawmakers an idea that th y have hae been n i ew ned by the minis ministration in the matter of the army Mil bill The reason for tor this idea is la the U sport report of If the Taft commission commissio n and Its ire It failure to to appear ar until the army anny Mil biH 1 in had been practically engineered through both houses housesIt It will be recalled that the necessity ty of an Increased army was u urged 11 by bythe BYthe bythe the administration rooters on the ground grou nd that an increased force foree was wa for service in the Philippines The Taft commission now re resorts reports ts that tNt th the great need of the Philippines Ph in is the loa of a civil chU for the present military government This Thia it is to argued must have been n Known to Air ll Mc McKinley If Kinley before congress CO met If he had repotted reported re this tb stale state of o affairs to ron con congress gress the lawmakers say ear the army bill bail would not have had bad such euch a rosy lathAll lath All this may lOa be true but it will hardly elicit much sympathy from the public Dubuc for tor the nen often who claim they have been handed out a L t gold brick Though ignorant of the Taft commission report t the men who ho assisted in passing passin the army bill but had they desired to do other than bow the knee toHanna toHanna to toHanna Hanna and imperialism could have found good and substantial nUal reasons for tor the army anny bill Mil The only ground round on Oft which this bin bill was or 01 rapt count be he urged u was as a supposed suppo ed temporary need of more troops in to the Philippines n a 1 the strength atren th of this thia supposed a ed temporary requirement these th men nten voted for Cor a measure that permanently doul dou doubles lea les the standing army ann of o the country While this thil in no way the cliMB chean political trickery t of the lent Jert in holding back hack information and juggling ju reports It U every en ry man mantho vho tho ho voted for the army bill from claiming that he was as fooled into voting yoting for lor a measure that on its face race seemed meritorious and necessary nece ary The Thenny tinny rany bit like Uke its companion the ship shi p subsidy bill Mil has written on mt every sage pace ce of it |