Show II Y CONGRESS MUST WORK RAPIDLY Lltth Progress Has Been Made with Any Measure But Budget Bills ATTITUDE OF THE DEMOCRATS They Probably Will Support Legislation Legisla-tion Sanctioned by the People Republicans Re-publicans Suspicious Because Opponents Urge Nomination of Roosevelt Washington If congress wishes togo to-go before tho country with a record of full accomplishment tor tho session ses-sion It will bo necessary for It to doa do-a good deal of work within tho next six or eight weeks Tho house and senate have been In session since the first Monday In December and if the appropriation bills be eliminated the number of measures which aro well forward on the road to passage aro comparatively few It has hear shown by tho history of nearly all congresses that when tho I senators and tho representatives I make up their minds to go to work and do It they manage to get through I with a good deal of legislation In short order Tho postal wings bank bill has passed tho senate but tho houso has not yet given It consideration considera-tion except in committee The Interstate Inter-state commerce bill was Introduced 1 Into the senate and Into the houso at virtually tho santo moment and the two bills were Identical Tho houso has made many changes In tho nicas uruo The senate also has mado changes but they are not In many respects like those which wero made In the house No Conservation Bills Passed No conservation measures have yet s passed congress President Taft has dbeen been urging that at least two comprehensive compre-hensive bills shall be passed to save tho countrys natural resources Nearly Near-ly every day President Taft 1m presses upon members of congress who call on him personally the neccs slty for legislation along conservation lines and It is apparent that ho hopes hili desires will bo heeded It will ta > ta some time however to pass tho conservation bill for It appears that there Is to bo considerable debate upon them before they can bo enact cd Into law No one yet knows definitely what fate awaits tho administrations desires de-sires with reference to what Is called antiinjunction legislation Statehood and Alaska matters aro still In abeyance abey-ance and whllo to a considerable ox tent all theso matters have been fully considered In committee and to some extent considered In debate thoro Is no telling Just how long It will take either to pass them or to deny them passage It ls getting late In tho season ana d an-a great many of the members of congress t con-gress both Democrats and Republicans i Republi-cans are anxious to get back into their districts to fix up their fences for tho coming congressional campaign cam-paign Of course It will be to the advantago of tho Republicans If I they can go before the country and say As a party wo have passed much of tho progressive legislation which the platform sanctioned and whIch tho president asked for Attitude of Democrats It can be said without any partisan spirit at all that It seems likely the Democrats will be willing to aid the Republicans In the passage of le of the legislation now before co con congress n gress although the Democrats may offer amendments to some of the pending bills It Is apparent from what the Democrats Demo-crats say that they realize tho country coun-try has demanded some of the legislation legisla-tion which the president has asked congress to pass Tho Democrats contend however that tho Republicans Republi-cans will not put It through In the form that tho people wish and therefore there-fore the minority party will go on record as In favor of amending the present bills to some marked degree The Democrats however apparently do not taro to go before the country In the light of having blocked such of the Republican legislation as apparently appar-ently has been sanctioned by tho country So It Is that tho members of both parties may get together and put through considerable legislation between now and tho date of adjournment adjourn-ment and It Is evident that it must bo put through quickly or that congress > con-gress will be obliged to sit until Washington swelters In Its usual summer sum-mer heat Roosevelt Still Silent It seems to bo certain that the flilonco of Theodoro Roosevelt Is trot to be broken until ho roach this country and the fact th 1 it tho colonel seoms to prefer to keep his own counsel Is affecting Republicans Repub-licans and Democrats In Washington In different ways Tho Democrats iCU In It a strong possibility that the former for-mer president eventually may makeup > make-up his mind that at the call of the country ho will feel It Imperative to answer hero In tho year 1912 Tho socalled regular Republicans In rt congress still t htt faith to t hose belief that when Mr Roosevelt finally speaks It will bo to volco an Indorse ar eat of tho Taft administration as far as It has gone and to voice as well an Intimation that If things goon go-on as they aro going tho colonel may decide to become an editorial prop w rY 1YfYYY or Mr Tafta further presidential am bltlons Tho Insurgent Republicans do not know exactly lion to take the colonels colo-nels silence Mr Roosovolt was met by a number of men who had with thorn tho Insurgents tale to tell while thoro wore present only one or two at the meeting with tho colonel to enlighten him as to the administrations administra-tions side of legislative progress In t the United States Of course Mr i Roosevelt found a letter from Senator Hoot at tho Khartum postofllce and this probably gave him tho most elaborate elab-orate account of American dotage from the administrations point of view Some Conflicting Sentiments A good many members of the Insurgent i In-surgent faction In the lower house of congress are members of what has beau called ho Hack from Elba 1 club although It Is hardly necessary to say that this club has really no actual existence as an organization Ono of the curious things that have 1 como out of tho Roosevelt silence Is tho recent outspeaking of some of the Ootn aerate who for reasons of tholr own t seem to want to Impress It upon limo ro Republicans that Mr Roosevelt Is tho only man with whom tho latter ran hope to win tho election In 1912 It Is entirely probable that Inasmuch as this IH advice from their friend tho t enemy the Republicans will be a lit tlo shy of accepting It at Its face value In a speech delivered In tho house recently Representative Palmer ot Pennsylvania spoke of Theodore Roosevelt ns tho first Insurgent of them nil This was Intended by tho Democratic member to let the Insurgents Insur-gents understand that he and presumably presu-mably others of his party bollovcd that Mr Roosevelt was tho chief apostle of tho movement which had resulted in tho taking away of ROIIIO of the power j from Speaker Cannon and In other movements In which tho Insurgents turn or were engaged Suspicious of the Democrats A Democratic member of tho houso committee on agriculture recently told n group of Republicans that If Mr Roosevelt should run again for tho presidency he could carry Georgia and North Cllrollna and would como pretty close to carrying South Carolina Caro-lina i Other Democrats have been tolllne the Republicans In cloakroom and In corridor and occasionally on tho floor t of tho house that tho majority partys ono man In whom their hope for success i suc-cess can be placed In Theodoro Roosevelt Roose-velt j In fact tho Republicans have had this dinned Into their cars by the Democrats so long that even those who p were Inclined at the first to believe that their Democratic advisers wero telling tho truth aro now asking themselves them-selves what motive tho Democrats have In view k If the Democrats Control Republicans l In congress are speculating spec-ulating a 1 good whllo In advance It Is true as to what the Democrats Dem-ocrats will do If they secure control of the lower IIOIIHO In tho Sixtysecond congress Tho Democrats themselves aro consulting privately as to what I will bo best for them to do If they como Into a partial possession of the legislative fat of the land there Is practically no chance that tho senate of the United States can become Democratic before the year 1913 when a now administration also will tnlco hold of the reins of power Therefore If tho present minority party should become tho majority In the IIOUBO In 1911 It could not hope to secure the passage of much legislation legis-lation that would receive the sanction of the senate anti the president Sonio of the Democrats say that tho best thing that their party can do It it succeeds In getting control of tho house Is to start straight at tho work of formulating and passing an outand out downward revision tariff measure then to send It over to tho senate to be killed The militant Democrats say enthusiastically that this Is tho only way to Impress on tho country that they they aro truo to their old standards and that they bollovo the way to decrease tho prlco of living Is to attack high prices through the high tariff Some of tho prominent minority minor-ity members believe that It on cornIng corn-ing Into power In the house tho Democrats Demo-crats pass n tariff bill that tho country coun-try seeing that they havo the courage ot theIr convictions and having como to tho belief that tho tariff is too high will seo to It that n Democratic senate Is returned and that a Democratic Demo-cratic president Is elected to succeed William H Taft a Ideas of the Leaders There aro other Democrats however how-ever who contend that if a tariff bill t Is Introduced Into tho houso in tho day of party success that of course It cannot became tho law of the land because of a Republican senate and that It will bo something worse than wasted effort Moreover thoro aro somo of tho leading Democrats who say It was shown during the PayneAldrich bill discussed that many of tho minority r I party members wero not In full sympathy i sym-pathy with tho Democratic low tnrlrt I position and that If the Democrats In tho Sixtysecond congress try to put a customs measure of tholr own through dissensions In their ranks are bound to bo shown and that tho effect ef-fect will bo bad The Republicans In tho houso are sum that If tho Democrats follow the advice of their party and actually undertake un-dertake to pass a tariff bill In the Sixtysecond congress on succeeding to the control ot the house they will frighten tho business Interests of tied country tie-d tho working men to such an extent that tho Sixty third congress will bo certain to bo Republican and that tho chances of the election of a Republican president will be Increased largely GEORGE CLINTON v J |