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Show WON'T KNOW HIS POLICIES. Tho administration programme for legislation in Congress is being shot all to piocos. Part of it romains yet in the hands of tho committees substantially substan-tially as introduced, nothing being done with it at all. Tho postal savings banks proposition passed tho Senate and went to tho House in impossible shape. Mr. Carter, in chargo of the bill in the Senate, sacrificed everything sense, consistency, and constitutionality constitution-ality merely to got tho measure worked through that body. He accepted ac-cepted amendments of all kinds increlj' to get (he votes of those who offered them. And so, when it went to tho House, it was impossible to think about passing it in tlio form received. Even worse has happened lo the rail road .bill which has wormed itself through both Houses of Congress, each' putting on amendments that are incongruous, incon-gruous, contradictor', and adverse io the spirit of the measure as framed. Tho measure as finally passed will not be worth passing at all, and President Taft could well afford to repudiate it as eominer from him. for it is not in tho least like the measure which he fathered. The anu-in.iunclion bill is taring even worse. In order, apparent', to kill it off altogether, it has been so changed as to mako it a bill absolute' crippling crip-pling to the courts. Public remonstrance remon-strance has been made against, it in ils present form by leading lawyers in tho East, and as it appears in tho House, tho passage of it in the Senate would bo absolutely unthinkable. Tho bill for separate Statehood for Ari2ona and New Mexico has not been roportcd from the committee, and its passage at the present scssiou is out of i lie question. The other administration bill, a sort of sweepstakes, giving the Prcsidont unexampled power over the public domain, do-main, is being less and less favored us the paralyzing and unlawful propositions propo-sitions urged in the name of conservation conserva-tion are coming lo .be better understood. under-stood. There docs not appear at this limo to bo the least likelihood of the passage of a bill of this sort. And thus the Republican administration administra-tion appears to be faring about as badly bad-ly at tho hands of a Republican Congress Con-gress as it would fare with a Dcmor cralic Congress. And this is ouc oL Iho great anomalies of tho present political po-litical situation. Thcro seems to be no cohesion in the Republican ranks, even in support of the President by those who make the loudest claim to be his supporters. 'ha vicious "stand-patters" who abused the President's trust l)3r betraying him into endorsing the faith-breaking tariff law, are the ones who are now thwarting him in' the enactment en-actment of the measures which he has so much at heart; and w'heni they do pass them, they pass them in unrccog nizablo form. |