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Show 1 hbKes H This Done, He Will Then HB Have Beeu All Over the N8 Union. H $0 OTHER PRESI DENT H HAS EVER DONE THIS HI When Congress Adjourns Prosi- H dent Will (live His Fences HI Attention. I BY RALPH M. WHITESIDE. 35y Lcnsod Wire to The Tribune. WASHINGTON. April a."). There arc jiott only elRht states In the Union which President Taft lias failed to visit officially, offi-cially, and tlicac will have the plcsisnro of meeting the president before mnny months have passed. They are Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Nevada, Oklahoma, Michigan, Florida, West Virginia, Maine and New Hampshire. Ho will have been perhaps per-haps the first of the piesidonts to visit ' every state in the Union during his lu- cumbency. Mr. Taft, by the way, is setting more ehcorJng news of tho political po-litical situation, and I? feeling much better. bet-ter. From Kansas and Oklahoma came ! the Urst news Umt something Mco a re action in favor of the president sind Ills policies had set In, President Taft is not much given to announcing his pjans In advance, and no one Is authorized to speak for the future as to his com so. but ihorc Is a pretty well understood opinion among those close to him that he Is saving back some pretty warm material for use after congress adjourns. Ills thoughts are now sot on getting through . needed and promised leglslaLlon, and the ".Htlrrlng up of the animals" hlghl endanger en-danger the prospects of measures to which ho believes the country Is ctnl-ilcd. ctnl-ilcd. With congress out of tho way, tho president will take the lead of his party In an aggressive style. Who Pays the Tariff. Opponents of the Payne-Aldrlch tariff have been getting tip what they call an object lesson to show who pays the tariff lax by comparing prices prevalent in Windsor, Canada, and Detroit. Hay lu Windsor Is now retailing ni. around 511 a Ion, while across tho river In Detroit De-troit the Yankee purchaser of hay for direct, consumption has to pny 51$ a ton. A suit of men's clothes that brings 51.1 at retail in Windsor commands S'JO from the buyer of exactly the same thing in Detroit. Huttcr In Detroit that retails re-tails at 6 cents a pound can bft bought "over the line" in Windsor for 2S cents. And so on. through a long list of necessities neces-sities and luxuries. Here oro some: Windsor. Detroit. Tobacco, pound 11.00 $31.00 S'ainc hut 3.00 5.00 i-:s ni .12 Beef, same cut .0C .10 Cheese 11 .Hi I'ork ;: .20 Corn , 60 .7S Wheat 1.00 l.U Tnrlff reformers in general and critics of the Pnync-Aldrlch law In particular, arc attributing these differences in prices to the American tariff. Foars His Constituents. "Vou see, this broad, smooth roadway guiltless of vehicles of any sort? Well, that represents the. representative's fear if his constituents." Representative Me-Crcdic Me-Crcdic of Washington, plump, ruddy-faced, ruddy-faced, paused In his walk through the subway leading to the house office building build-ing from the. enpilol "Over on the son-nte son-nte side, whore there In no fear of an economically Inclined constituency," continued con-tinued Judge McCrcdie as ho resumed his walk, "they have automobiles to take the senators to and from their offices and the capital. They make Inc. trip in comfort, with speed, and in a stylo befit Ing the dignity of their orfice. But there aro no autos for us. I suppose that one reason they think we do not need automobiles through our pubwny Is thai wo are younger men, as a rule, than the senators, and being sprycr, can 4 walk. Oh, wallclnp dops us good, of 3 courso. but every time J make tho trip cither wav I feel like, gctllnc; up In the house nnd dcinancIinK an auto from the $ appropriation commute. 1 Would Mean Political Death. f "We would have had I he autos Inn? apo If wo Avore not all cowards. But there isn't one man In a hundred In the I house that would dare to vote for a hill 1 providing automobiles for this subway. B Every member would be dead sun that S the vote would bob up to plague him at i the next campaign. "Ah. ha. Congressman Congress-man Smith Is too lazy to walk from ' his office to the capltol, a distance of Sj two blocks. Out homo he Is not loo good to walk, but ns soon as ho gets tn Wash- j Ington he begins to ride around In auto- I mobiles at tho people's expense.' That n may sound ridiculous to the ordinary citizen, but it is not at h11 overdrawn. 0 Many a man has lost his official head HJ with less snjd against Iiim."' jjj Senator With Hobbies. 1 It's something of a compliment wh-n (ft Senator Bourno asks a follow to have a 9 cigar, as the senator frequently does 9 That senator has three hobbles Oregon ffl apples, mining stock and $1 cigars. Me S vies with .1. I'ierpont Morgan and other 1 mngnates in the e.pennlve.ncss of the 1 lalter-namcil luxury. Senator Bourno if takes a. smoke whenever he feels lllte It 1 too, and Inasmuch as ho Is not stingy H In handing them around among his I friends upon favorable opportunities, ll 1 Is a. hit staggering to contemplate what I the cigar bill of the Oregon senator is I per annum. Some senators do not smoke S at all: others manage to get along some- 1 how with the 15 to 50-cent brand, but jj Senator Bourne, his friends say. cannot M really ' enjoy a smoke unless one whole na American dollar was spent for it. lie H wants the best. m Touching Parowcll. H A touching farewell was accorded Ttov. H John M. Gill at the Rhode Island Metho- 1 dlst Frotestant church when lie hade ills H congrvgatlon farewell. Kor more than Ml two hours after the conclusion of the H servicos, men. women nnd children Ml pressed to the altar rail and said good- HI bye to Mr, Gill, who has been their shep- fflj herd for more than nine years. Fa I hers fl and mothers, young women and girls. H passed In line before the pnstor and W shook his hands, sobbing ns they wendnrl H their way from tho auditorium. Offl- H cials of tho church and heads of the various doparlmenls wore last to say n "Godspeed, Mr. Gill," and it was seen Mj the pastor could not roply. so overcome J was ho by his emotions. Mr. GUI wont K to Raltimorc to attend the conference. K there In session. He visited his sister H in this city, and left for Seattle, whero n he has been assigned to a new charge X Wheu Will Congress Adjourn? 9 Almost, everybody has a. guess as to S when congress will adjourn. Consequent- B ly, M. 7.. Pickering, a house attache, hay 19 resolved to stimulate interest by offering m a prize to the representative or cm- M "loyee who makes the elosesl guess to H Mie correct date 01' adjournment. Mr. 1 1'lckering hns placed a largo placanl In ' his rlovatijr. upon which those who would t I urn prophet may record their prophecies I .bovc t.hp algnature Is the following ! offer: "Season pass in this cur for the E le?t guesser." Among those who havo I already committed themselves, and the fc guesses they have emnloyed, are Ken- K vescntallve Kahn. California, May J,". M I-jnglebriglit. California, May 20; Leo of I Georgia. May 23: Ha.ycs of California. 1 June I; Lloyd. Missouri, .Tnno !; Burin- 1 son, Texas, and Hamlin, Missouri. Juno 10; Woods. New Jersey, Juno 1R; Rucker, j Missouri, June 20; Barchfold, Pcnnsylva- I nla, July 7. Q With Grains of Allowance. I "lTncle .loe" Cannon emerged from the 1 While House tho othor day looking 3 happy and at peace- with the world. He 1 was approached by the newspaper men. "Wo got a report from the capltol. Mr. Speaker," said one of them, "that you I called to confer with Ihe president about H a pardon case." "Huh," replied "Undo Joe," with a grin, "thcro can't be any- h thing In that. I haven't been convicted H Is a Valuable Man. H Dr. 'Harvey "W. "Wiley surely Is a vcr- H satlle man. Hero are some hcndllnca In recent Washington papers: "Dr. Wiley H Wants Votes for Women." "Dr. Wiley H Discusses Servanls and Bread." There H is. In fact, scarcely a subject on which H Dr. Wiley cannot speak lutcrcstlnglv and W do so as one with authority. Un |