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SIXTEEN PAGES
His Cabinet tbe Vital OfHre-Holdtna
Consideration.
By way of the Boston Globe comes the
following suggestive paragraph: "Now
more heartburnings among democratic
aspirants for federal positions. Who will
the new president look to for advice in
‘the distribution of his federal plums?
‘Will he recognize men who fought the
‘primary fight for him—MeNarv, Carroll
‘and Quincy—or will he recognize the state
‘organization which put Clark over in the
‘primaries for the nomination?”
This is like an echo from the old days.
How the offices shall be distributed has
always been a lively question in American
politics whenever there has been a change
of federal administration. This will be
tbe case next year, but less acutely than
in the past, because so many positions
have been placed under the civil-service
rules that no room is left for an old-time
spoils orgy. There was a time when the
public mind wap sharply focused upon
what a new president might do in the
way of appointments. It often happened
that the selection of a district attorney or
a federal judge was made the text for
comments as wide as the country. In the
old days party factions might result from
a single presidential appointment. Action
taken touching the New York custom
house has produced a battle royal within
the republican party of far-reaching con
sequences. Of recent years, however, what
a president has done in the way of filling
offices has commanded practically no at
tention beyond the vicinage which such
appointments affected. It may be confi
dently expected that President Wilson
will seek to make such appointments as
will advantage the public business and
not cause any deterioration of service.
Iu other words, the mind of the people
has advanced to those larger questions of
public policy which are sure to vitally
affect the future of our democracy. To a
consideration of these the recent campaign
was devoted. The people at large gave no
thought to the mere officeholding side of
the contest, secure in the belief that the
public business would be properly adminis
tered whichever candidate of the three
might be elected. The personnel of an ad
ministration along down the line is im
portant, and any man fit to be president
tan be trusted to obtain reputable and
efficient officeholders. It is safe to assume
that Woodrow Wilson has not so far given
serious thought to any positions in his
administration below the .cabinet. It is to
he expected that he will give most careful
attention to that matter.
Much of the success or failure of the
next occupant of the White, House is to
depend upon his selection of strong men
for the cabinet. Every intelligent observer
of life in Washington realizes to-day more
keenly than ever before that it makes a
mighty difference with a president wheth
«r he has safe and sympathetic men around
him or not. It is perfectly manifest by
way of warning to Gov Wilson that Pres
ident Taft’s cabinet, in the words of one
who knows the problems of national ad
ministrations in and out, “have been of no
•help to him in any way.” There has been
s Jack of loyalty to the head of the gov
ernment never before equaled; there has
been practically no teamwork, but much
working at cross purposes, a good deal of
personal selfishness, and a conspicuous ab
sence of devotion to the common cause.
Very much for Gov Wilson will depend
upon the men whom he calls to join the
official family which the cabinet ought to
constitute.
In the work of gathering together such
a laxly of coworkers as will best serve the
large purposes of the future the new pres
ident ought not to fail. In his presidency
of Princeton, as well as while governor of
New Jersey, he exhibited unusual ability
in the choice of the men to assist him,
and he inspired in them remarkable de
votion to the high aims which his per
sonality represented. Woodrow Wilson
has shown imagination and tact in this
line that will now be put to their most
serious test.
European Alliances,
As tbe close of the war approaches the
question has again been raised how the
two great alliances of Europe wiil stand
the strain of an issue which introduces
many lines of cross division. Many
guesses have been made at possible re
alignments of the powers, but the grounds
for such speculation are meager. During
the most trying days of Jhe war in Trip
oli, when Italy found herself opposed by
all Europe except Russia, there was some
basis for the rumor than Italy might be
detached from the triple alliance, where
she is ill at ease with her old enemy, Aus
tria, and go over to (he side of the triple
entente of France, Russia and England,
all countries with which she is more iu
sympathy than with her present allies.
But the prospective rise of a powerful
Balkan state working in harmony with
Russia has led to the conjecture, for which
no evidence has yet been shown, that
instead of two alliances Europe may have
three—Slavo - Italian, Teuto - Hungarian,
Franco-English.
Such a readjustment is not wholly im
possible. The ties between Italy and Rus
sia are strong, and the northern power
has carefully strengthened these by its
friendliness during the war with Turkey.
That Russia, which at one time had a
sharp quarrel with Bulgaria, has now
fully recovered licv position as the friend
and patron of the Balkan states, has be
come apparent by the progress of events.
The rise of a Balkan federation would al
most inevitably involve an entente with
Russia and a perpetual rivalry with Aus
tria. Thus far Italy shows every sign of
standing loyally with the triple alliance,
but since her own claims against. Austria
at the north of the Adriatic are so like
those of the Balkan states she is placed
in a difficult position, specially because
of her friendly relations with the Albani
ans. If Servia tries to seize this terri
tory it will drive Italy back the more
strongly upon the triple alliance; if Aus
tria should he the aggressor Italy's sym
pathies would inevitably he with the
Balkan states. Thus Italy, by the pres
ent uncertainty of it# position, is one of
the critical factors in European politics,
and, though one of the lesser great states,
its action could hardly fail to have far
reaching consequences.
That the triple entente is of a perma
nent character is hard to believe, if only
because of the irreconcilable claims of
England and Russia. Only the most
strenuous efforts of diplomacy have been
able to bring these two old enemies into
passable working relations. But for En
gland's fear of Germany the understand
ing with Russia could not possibly have
survived the clash in Persia, where the
Muscovite is helping himself to what he
wants while John Bull can only gnash his
teeth. In Persian trade Russia is rapid
ly ousting England, which still has the
Persian gulf, but is now finding Ger
many a dangerous competitor for the
gulf trade. In tbe Shuster ques
tion England was helpless and had
to put up with the partition of Persia,
salving her lacerated pride and conscience
by taking a slice for herself. But the
southern third, largely desert, is of slight
valne compared with Russia's northern
third about the Caspian sea, nor are we
to suppose that Russia, which likes to fish
in troubled waters, will let the present w ar
pass without helping herself to something
more. It is wbat England did when she
took Cyprus as a "pourboire" for guard
ing Turkey against robbery in the Cau
casus. But it makes a difference having
the boot on the other leg.
For the present the need of Russia's
support is likely ro keep England in line,
a humiliating change from the days when
Disraeli dominated the powers at the Ber
lin conference and defeated Russia at
every point. So far as present diplomatic
negotiations go, the line of division seems
iu the main to correspond to the division
between the two alliances. Yet the division
is not clean cut. England preserves a
careful neutrality in respect to Turkey's
interest. France is mainly interested in
peace. Germany looks on Turkey as a
German colony, Austria has the same at
titude toward Macedonia. Russia main
tains a benevolent disinterestedness, the
explanation of which may be found per
haps in Persia. And this diversity of
interests, while it hinders the powers from
acting effectively, seems on the whole to
make for a peaceful outcome. There is
less risk of clash than if there were more
solidarity on the one side and the other.
Yet it seems plain that the outcome
must be a severe strain on both groups.
At present the dreibund is well balanced
by the entente. But the rise of a powerful
well-armed Balkan confederacy predes
tined to be on Russia's side would tip the
scale too far toward the pntente. It might
also so strengthen Russia's hand that she
would become even more rapacious in her
treatment of England, and carry her ag
gressions in the middle East so far that
England would be forced out and com
pelled either to find new allies or to play
once more a lone hand as she has
so effectively in many crises. In this case
the attitnde of France will become of
great concern. Will she have to choose
between Russia and England? Or will
she more probably keep on good terms
with both and be increasingly a factor on
the side of peace? At all events there Is
reason to think a considerable readjust
ment in European polities imminent In
ease Russia's scheme for a strong Slavic
nation on the Balkan peninsula is forced
through. For such an outcome will great
ly change the balance of power in the
eastern Mediterranean and in western
Asia, and some additional cheek will be
needed on Russia’s boundless ambitions in
this quarter.
Ha* Mr Roosevelt Succeeded f
That Mr Roosevelt has wrecked the re
publican party, for the time being at least,
is apparent; yet there is nothing in mere
wreckage to exult over. That, he has organ
ized a new party is a historical fact, and
that this new party has made a formidable
popular showing in its first electoral
struggle calls for candid recognition. But
a new party should have some permanence
if its formation is to be adequately justi
fied and only the future may determine
what field of usefulness this new organiza
tion may permanently occupy.
That the immediate failure has been
great, compared with Mr Roosevelt’s orig
inal plans and hopes when he decided to
disrupt the republican party, is unmistak
ably clear and indisputable. His electoral
and popular votes are no test of his real
success or failure. He failed at two points
supremely, first, in relation to the radical,
or progressive, wing of the democratic
party; second, in relation to the solid
South. His new party was founded on the
assumptions that the democratic party
as Veil as the republican party could be
disrupted and that the time had come when
the South would welcome the opportunity
to overthrow the old democratic aupremacy.
What a complete failure Mr Roosevelt
has had in the South, notwithstanding hiß
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1912.
refusal to admit negro delegates from south
ern states to his pntionnl convention and
his avowed purpose to form a white man s
party, is seen in the election returns. No
southern state has voted for Roosevelt; no
southern state has even wavered. And the
border states, where race feeling is by no
means weak, were more strongly democratic
than before in 20 years. If Mr Roosevelt's
new white man's party has shown some
strength in the popular vote south of Ma
son and Dixon’s line, it cannot be said
to equal that of the old populist party,
which was so strong in that region two
decades ago and then passed into oblivion.
The failure to disrupt the democratic
party as well as his own party was, how
ever. Mr Roosevelt's chief failure in his
memorable campaign for the presidency in
1012. To be sure, he failed to carry with
him all the progressives of the republican
party—a fact to which Wisconsin and
lowa and North Dakota bore witness the
morning after the election. Wisconsin, the
birthplace of progressivism in the repub
lican party. preferred Wilson to Roosevelt.
But that loss might have proved negligible
had the grandly audacious scheme for
splitting in two the democratic party by
drawing the body of the democratic pro
gressives to the Roosevelt standard suc
ceeded. lion- keen the disappointment over
this failure may have been is disclosed in
the statement of Mr Munsey's New York
Press, last week, in explaining "How Wil
•son won” ;— .
It was to meet the demand of the pro
gressive .democrats and to set up a competi
tor of Theodore Roosevelt for tile millions
of progressive votes that the democratic
party reluctantly picked a candidate so
satisfactory to progressive sentiment that
a wholesale stampede of voters to the new
party from the democracy as well as away
from Taft was averted.
The Republican will pot quarrel with
the further assertion, that, but for. the
varied political activity of Theodore Roose
velt in the past nine months, .“Woodrow
‘Wilson would never have been chosen
‘president of the United States,” because
it must in all candor be said that but for
Theodore Roosevelt's abandonment of the
republican party and his open appeal to
radicals of all parties to make him pres
ident again, Woodrow' Wilson would never
have been nominated for the presidency
of the United States. Still, the fact re
mains that in the great enterprise of
wrecking the old democratic party, as
well as tbe old republican party, com
plete failure has thus far crowned Mr
Roosevelt’s efforts.
The Republican has no aversion to new
political parties, for it never had much
attachment for old political parties. The
Republican’s record since the civil war in
supporting and opposing presidential can
didates is sufficient proof of that fact.
Many of our readers, consequently, will
believe >us when we say that we have not
the slightest partisan feeling against the
progressive movement in its present or
ganized form. Viewing it with entire po
litical detachment, we should say that its
future was decidedly doubtful so long as
this failure to disrupt the democratic
party continued. Merely to disrupt the
republican party is not enough. Merely
to destroy the republican party is not
enough. To become a major party, that
is a party capable of becoming a majority
party, the organization must consolidate
sooner or later under its standard sub
stantially the entire radical element of the
country that stays out of socialism and
does not put a cross opposite Debs. For,
merely to absorb the various fragments of
the old republican party—assuming that it
has nothing but a past—would be no more
than changing its skin is to a snake. The
progressive party in that case would be
nothing but the old republican party with
a new name.
Whether Mr Roosevelt will ever suc
ceed in his new party project must, then,
be left for the future to determine. He
has not yet succeeded—so much is known.
His ultimate success rests, in our judg
ement, mainly on two factors still indeter
minate. One is the measure of the Wilson
administration's success in satisfying the
radical wing of the democratic party. The
other is Mr Roosevelt’s own conduct. If
he assumes tbe role of a perennial pres
idential candidate, the progressive party
will continue indefinitely to bear the
weight of the intense hostility which liis
seeking of the presidency must arouse.
If, however,, he steps aside, makes way
for others as candidates, while still giving
to the party the full measure of his sanc
tion and support, the progressive party
will in the future appeal more strongly
to the whole American people. On these
uncertain elements the final verdict npon
Mr Roosevelt's success in this political
venture will probably rest.
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.
President Taft Designates the 28th
for Annual Holiday,
President Taft at Washington Thursday
issued a Thanksgiving proclamation set
ting aside the 28th for the observance of
that day. The proclamation follows:—
By the President of the United States of
America.
A FBOCLAMATIQJf.
A God-fearing nation, like oars, owes it to
its inborn and sincere sense of moral duty
to testify its devout gratitude to the All
Giver of the countless benefits it has en
joyed. For many years It has been custo
mary at the close of the year for the national
executive to call upon his fellow-countrymen
to offer praise and thanks to God for the
manifold blessings vouchsafed to them In the
past and to unite in earnest suppliance for
their continuance.
The year now drawing to a close has been
notably favorable to our fortunate land. At
peaee within aud without, free from the per
turbations and calamities that have afflicted
other peoples; rich la harvests so abundant
and industries so productive that the over
flow of our prosperity has advantaged the
whole world, strong In the steadfast conser
vation of the heritage of self-government be
queathed to us by the wisdom of our fathers,
and firm in the resolve to transmit that herit
age, unimpaired but rather improved by good
use, to our children and our children's chil
dren for all time to come, the people of this
country have abounding cause for contented
gratitude.
Wherefore I William Howard Taft, presi
dent of the United States of America. In
pursuance of long established usage, and
In response to the wish of the American peo
ple. invite my countrymen, wheresoever thev
may sojourn, to join on Thursday, the 28th
day of this month of November, in appro
priate ascription of praise and thanks to God
for the good gifts that have been our portion,
and in humble prayer that his great mercies
toward us may endure.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set mv
band and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 7th
day of November in the year of our Lord
lit]2, and of the tndependenee of the United
States of America the 137th.
William H. Taw.
By the president, Alvey A. Adee, acting
secretary of state.
Scientists in Germany and England
both claim to have been the first to dis
cover how to make rubber from starch by
a synthetic process.
WILSON’S EXTRA SESSION.
TO AWAIT FURTHER COUNSEL.
QUESTION ABOUT BRYAN EVADED.
.South Carolina Admirers Offer Old
Home for Winter l'»e—Plans for
Vacation.
President-elect Wilson has his mind open
on the question of whether he shall call
an extra session of Congress to revise the
tariff. He asked the newspaper correspond
ents at Princeton. N. J.. Monday night to
obtain for him a list of the public men and
business men who had declared themselves
for or against the extra session. Though
the governor has tried to follow closely in
the newspapers the various expressions of
opinion, he said Monday night that he was
afraid he might have missed some of them
in his reading and that he was anxious to
get all the opinions before him.
It is known that Gov Wilson has a high
regard for the opinions of Oscar Under
wood. the majority leader of the democrats
in the last session, and that iu making up
his mind he wiil give careful attention to
Mr Underwood's arguments. Mr Underwood
is reported as favoring an extra session.
“I have no immediate intention of making
an announcement,” said the president
elect last night, “but I would like to get
the names of those who have given af
firmative and those who have given nega
tive opinions in regard to (he advisability
of calling an extra session. I refer not
only to the members of Congress but to
all important democratic leaders.”
The president-elect was asked if he had
received any requests that an extra ses
sion be called. “No, I have not,” he re
plied, “but I can only answer for the
telegrams. I have had none among the
telegrams. My secretary has singled out
most of the letters, and I know as yet
only of their general nature, and I do
not think they touch on a special ses
sion.” A newspaper dispatch from Wash
ington was called to Gov Wilson’s atten
tion declaring that close friends of Wii.l
,iam Jennings Bryan said lie w ould decline
a post in the cabinet. “Oh, but Mr
Bryan did not say that.” remarked the
governor, “that was just a piece of dope.”
The president-elect was invited Mon
day to spend his winters at Columbia. S.
C., his old home. William M. Gonzalez,
editor of the Columbia (S. 0.) State, May
or W. H. Gibbs, Dr S. C. Mitchell, presi
dent of the university of South Carolina.
J. E. Swearing, state superintendent of
education, and James 'Woodrow, a cousin
of the president-elect and an instructor
in the university of South Carolina, of
ficially informed the governor of the pur
chase by the state of his boyhood home
and that it was being remodeled for his
use ns a winter home. It is probable
that the Wilsons will spend part of their
winters there.
“It’s a very pretty sentiment,” sdid the
president-elect last night. “When I was a
half-grown boy, my father built a house in
Columbia which my mother altogether
planned, and of course I remember all the
details of its huiHlng and the development
of the little piece f>Fproperty. These gen
tlemen to-day fstfiri# to tell me that my
friends iu South Carolina had interested
themselves to get control of that house,
which they would fix up in any way con
venient for me for use in the winters, if I
wanted to go South while president.
“The house is just near a ver big and
comfortable hotel, built since our time, that
will niake it quite convenient for the sec
retaries and their families to live within
easy reach of me. It seemed to me it was
an ideal suggestion and that it embodied a
very pretty sentiment. In that little south
ern home I had perhaps the largest number
of my boyhood associations. Of course, I
expect to have my same old room when I
return to the old homestead.”
Mr Gonzalez of the delegation said, after
calling oil the governor, that the house had
been bought by the people of South Caro
lina and that it had been placed at the
disposal of the president-elect "for a period
of eight years.”
The president-elect has had a great num
ber of requests for speeches, but he said
lie was declining them all, as he had plenty
of work ahead of him. Two engagements
made before liis election will he kept, one
at. a dinner of the southern society in New
York, and one at a banquet of the Com
mercial chib of Chicago, both in January.
He said Monday he probably would take
in the jubilee for him at Staunton, Va„
liis birthplace, on his way to the confer
ence of governors at Richmond, Va., during
Christmas week.
The governor said Monday that in liis
vacation retreat he would go “incog.” He
will call on the local officials and request
that his identity be not officially recog
nized. “I am sure everybody wili respect
that wish,” he said. "1 «ui going to a re
mote place. There will be no news from
me. t am going to write my message to
the New Jersey Legislature and rest.”
He said liis chief diversions would he
bicycling and horseback riding. He will
go to New York Friday night preparatory
to sailing for Bermuda the next day.
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.
House members Favor Immediate Ac
tion, Ba( Home Democratic Senators
Prefer a Fall Term.
Division of opinion exists among demo
cratic senators and representatives as to
the wisdom of an extra session of Con
gress immediately following the inaugura
tion of President-elect Wilson. In the
main members of the House favor such a
session, but some senators advocate a more
conservative, course. Two of the compara
tively small number of democratic senators
now in W ashington Monday took a posi
tion in favor of a fall instead of a spring
session, hut they declined to he quoted ou
the ground that they did not wish to em
barrass Mr Wilson.
Agreeing with these senators, Repre
sentative Carlin of Virginia said: “I cer
tainly would not have a spring session of
Congress. My plan would he to have the
ways and means committee of the House
and the finance committee of the Senate
reorganized aur| put to work on the tariff
at the earliest possible moment. The task
is a stupendous one, and could not he
accomplished within less than four or five
months. If the investigation could lie
made m advance of the meeting much time
a s?iA“v. onC ' v ,. c< !"! a he 8 ® v «l aud Congress
tonld be called together at the convenience
dent” tW ° tolaraittees and of the presi-
Chairmau Underwood of the ways and
means committee, whose duty it will be to
formulate all tariff measures, is not ex
pected in Washington before the 2ftth,
Hie popular understanding among mem
berj: of the House is that, he desires an
early session for the consideration of the
tariff measures, and a majority of mem
lie.rs express themselves as favorable to
this course, l’hey take the position that
the democratic' party is morally hound to
reduce the tariff schedule* as soon as pos
sible, and they also privately express the
opinion that it is in the interest of demo
erotic polities to dispose of the tariff
speedily.
Hint From Gov Wilson.
A delegation went from Charlotte. N.
C., to Princeton, N. J., Tuesday to invite
Gov Wilson to attend next May the anni
versary of the celebration of the signing
of the Mecklenburg declaration of inde
pendence. "You must remember,” said the
president-elect, “that I haven’t often been
president of the United States and there
fore I don’t know what is in store for me.
I haven’t gotten close enough to the con
science of I hat office to sec my way clear
and see what my liberty will he to detach
myself from my duties.
"There is a question on which a good
many newspaper men here, for instance,
would like to have me express myself def
initely. There may be an extra session
of Congress upon which a great deal de
pends. Of course if there is to he an ex
tra session it wiil cover the 20tli of May in
all probability. Therefore I cannot now
either accept or decline the invitation
which draws me so strongly, but I do feel
that I owe it to my public duty to wait.
"What I am about to do now is to go
off on a vacation and forget many things
that have happened in order to have a
clearer hraiu for what will happen. I ex
pect to get hack on the 16th of December
and make a horoscope of what will hap
pen and see what invitations it will he ad
vantageous for me to accept—-advanta
geous to the governor and my duties of
course, and not to me personally. With
your gracious permission 1 will hold this
Invitation until that, time with the assur
ance fihat my inclination and my head go
with it.”
REORGANIZING THE SENATE.
Hoke Smith Talks Sang'ninely of Bern
rrattc Prospects.
“The reorganization of the Senate by the
democrats on March 4 is assured," said
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia. Friday,
in summing up the status of the Senate
after March 4 as a result of the recent
election, Senator Smith was among the
first of the democratic senators to return
to Washington, and he spoke with assur
ance, due largely to his familiarity with
the situation on account of his connection
with the senatorial branch of the cam
paign work. He spent a month in Chi
cago with Senator Reed of Missouri in
looking after the Legislatures in the vari
ous states.
“We have 30 democrats who hold over
and five who already have been elected,
making 35,” said the senator. "We have
democrats from Georgia. Texas, Kansas,
Arkansas, Montana, Oklahoma, North Car
olina, South Carolina and two from Col
orado who have been elected in the pri
maries. The democrats undoubtedly have
carried the Legislatures of New Jersey
and Delaware, which insures democratic
senators from each of those states. Ad
vices from Nevada and Oregon clearly in
dicate the election of democratic candi
dates for the-Senate. This would give 49
democrats, or a positive majority of the
Senate."
Mr Smith was inclined to make addi
tional claims upon the states which are
considered doubtful. He said that accord
ing to his advices the democrats wiil have
a majority of the Legislature of Tennes
see, which would insure a democratic sen
ator from that state. He also counted on
further democratic accessions from Illi
nois and from some of the other states
which are still _open to doubt. "We can
rely safely on 50 democrats in the next
Senate,” he declared.
TAFT TO FILL VACANCIES.
President Expresses Desire to Enter
tain Gov nnd Mr* Wilson,
President Taft stated to visitors at
Washington Tuesday that he planned to
till all vacant positions occurring before
March 4, without regard to the approach
ing change of administration. There are
several important appointive offices now
vacant, including tlie commissionership of
the bureau of Indian affairs nnd the office
of chief of the bureau of chemistry, and
many other opportunities for appointment
will occur during the winter months. The
president intimated that President-elect
Wilson would find all posit ions filled when
he comes into office.
The president intimated that he would
like to entertain President-elect and Mrs
Wilson at the White House, at some time
before March 4. No invitation has been
sent to the president-elect, and no time
set for the visit, but the president ex
pressed himself as being desirous of en
tertaining liis successor before he assumes
office.
THE CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM.
Little Legislation Except Rontlne Ap.
proprlattons Expected at Short Scs
•lon.
Speaker Champ Clark is expected to
reach Washington within the next 10
days or two weeks in time to take up
the details of legislation in the short ses
sion of Congress which will begin three
weeks from ifonday. Chairman Under
wood of the House committee on ways
and means is not expected until toward
the end of the month.
Comparatively little legislation beyond
the passage of the usual appropriation
bills is expected to be enacted during tlie
short session. The majority of the mem
bers of the House committee on ap
propriations are now on the way to
Panama under the leadership of Chair
man Fitzgerald, with a view to making
an especial investigation as to the needs
of the work on tlie canal, and the clerks
of the committee are busily engaged upon
the framework of the various appropria
tion measures.
Most of the estimates from the execu
tive departments have been received and
many of the bills are well under way. The
legislative, executive and judicial and the
District of Columbia bills wiil be in shape
for committee work when Congress meets
and these probably will he the first of
the supply measures to be presented to the
House.
It is believed that the appropriation
for the Isthmian canal, which will be
made by the. next session, will be the last
required for the construction of that work.
Up to date the appropriations have ag
gregated $322,541,468. and as the limit
was fixed at *375.200.900. about $53,000.-
000 still will he required to complete the
work, providing the full amount of the
estimate becomes necessary. In addition,
a farther appropriation must he made for
the continuation of the work on the canal
fortifications, for which less than $6,000,-
000 out. of ihe requisite $14,000,000 has
been provided.
The calendars of the two houses con
tain a number of general measures left
over from the last, session, hut ns a rule,
democratic senators and members show a
disinclination to enter upon much general
legislation in view of tlie early prospects
of their complete control of both houses
of Congress as well as the presidency.
MR GILLETT LOOKS AHEAD.
Believes He Know* AVhat the Itesnlt
Will Be With the Democrats So
The roughly In Control.
Congressman Frederick 11. Gillett, one of
the survivors of the flood, said last week:
"I am distressed by the democratic tidal
wave which has swept the country. Ap
parently they will have control of all the
departments of the national government,
thp executive, the Senate and the House,
and so will at last be responsible for aii
legislation and can be judged by its results.
I have no doubt myself what that verdict
will speedily be. Of course I am greatly
pleased at winning so decisively myself
and am very grateful to my supporters.
This is the first campaign since my original
election when I have supposed the result
was doubtful, and for the first time I have
had an active organization. This has
brought me iu close touch with my constit
uents, which I think proved helpful, as
well as enjoyable, to me, and I am deeply
grateful to the many volunteers all over
the district who have so faithfully and suc
cessfully worked for my re-election.”
TAFT FELICITATES THE SOUTH.
ARLINGTON CEMETERY EXERCISES
President Speaks of Hope for Ellmtnn
tlon of Sectionalism Under Wilson
Administration — Corner-Stone of
Confederate Monnment I-ntd.
North and South met and clasped hands
over the dead of the confederacy in Ar
lington national cemetery Tuesday when
the united daughters of the confederacy
laid the cornerstone of a groat monu
ment to the confederate dead. After
former Secretary of the Navy Hilary A.
Herbert, with pomp and ceremony had
laid the cornerstone, and William Jen
nings Bryan had pronounced a dedicatory
oration landing the dissipation of section
alism, the formal program of the day was
concluded. But Col Herbert, as master
of ceremonies, surprised the throng of
spectators by calling upon Corporal James
Tanner of the Grand Army of the Re
public for the final word from the North
to the South.
Leaning heavily bn his stick, Corporal
Tanner raised his hands over the crowd
and pleaded for the ultimate elimination
of sectional feeling. "To you of the
younger generation, he said, turning to
the daughters of the confederacy crowded
about, “I appeal for the establishment of
true community of feeling between the
North ami the South. You can form no
conception of the community of feeling
that exists between the old Johnny Reb
and the old time Yank.”
From the little group of old men in
faded gray who swung their tattered stars
and bars over the new-laid cornerstone, a
shrill rebel yell arose, and from then on
the talk of Corporal Tanner was punc
tuated with cheering He was inter
rupted with a round of applause when he
claimed Virginia as his “graveyard.”
“For.” he explained. “I was mustered out
of the Union army at the second Bull
Run by Stonewall Jackson’s artillery;
and, resting liis stick against the table
before him, the old soldier waved hi*
trembling hands at the Southern veterans
below.
A great crowd of spectators covered the
grave-studded lawn of the confederate
section of the cemetery about the site of
the new monument. Hundreds of mem
bers of the united daughters of the con
federacy, wearing their red and white rib
bons, surrounded the stand where sat the
confederate veterans and a group of aged
women in somber black, widows of con
federate dead.
Col Herbert in his address rejoiced at
the united factions of the country, North
and South, and reviewed at length the
causes and events of the civil war. “Tlie
present,” he said, “is the era not only
of honors to tlie dead but of justice to
the motives and patriotism of both Union
and confederate soldiers.”
Mr Bryan praised the work of tbe
daughters of the confederacy in erecting
the monument and lauded tlie spirit that
prompted North and South to join in heal
ing wounds by the war. “Let this mon
ument.” lie sajd, “be emblematic of onr
nation’s unity of aim and purpose. Stand
ing on the line that once separated the tiro
unfriendly sections, it becomes a bond of
unity and breathing the spirit of him who
laid the foundations of a universal broth
erhood, it will be to the country a prom
ise of never-ending good will.”
A great crowd of the daughters gathered
at the opening “welcome session” of the
convention to hear President Taft. Mrs
Marion Butler, president of the District
of Columbia division of the daughters, pre
sided. “Until within recent decades,” the
president said, “prosperity has not shed
her boon of comfort upon the South with
so generous a hand as upon the North.
For years after the war the republican
party, which had carried the nation
through the war to its successful conclu
sion, was in control of the administration
of the government, and it was impossible
for the southerner to escape the feeling
that he was linked in his allegiance to an
alien nation aud one with whose destiny be
found it difficult to identify himself
“Time, however, cures much, and after
a while there came a democratic adminis
tration of four years, and then another one
of four years. Southerners were called to
federal office, they came to have more and
more influence in the halls of Congress and
in the Senate, and the responsibility of the
government brought with it a sense of
closer relationship to it and to al! the peo
ple for whom the government was car
ried on.
I speak for my immediate re
publican predecessors in office when I
say they all labored to bring the sections
more closely together. 1 am sure I can
say that, so far as in me has lain, I have
left nothing undone to reduce the sec
tional feeling and to make the divisions
of this our country geographical only. But
I am free to admit that circumstances
have rendered it more difficult for a re
publican administration than for a demo
cratic administration.
“Therefore, iu solving the mystery of
that providential dispensation which now
brings on a democratic administration to
succeed this, we must admit the good that
will come to the whole country in a more
confirmed sense of partnership’in this gov
ernment which our brothers and sisters of
the Southland will enjoy in an adminis
tration in which southern opinion will nat
urally have greater influence and the South
greater proportionate representation in the
Cabinet, in Congress and in other high
official station.”
BRYCE TO GIVE UP POST.
Sir Cecil Arthur Sprlng-Hlce to Snc
ceeil British Embassador Who Will
Devote Himself to Literature.
James Bryce, the British embassador
to the United States, has tendered his
resignation and will return to England.
There has been no official announcement
of the resignation, and the embassy Will
make no statement, but it was learned
Sunday on high authority at Washing
ton that Mr Bryce informed Fresident
Taft of his action at the White House
Saturday.
The Washington correspondent of the
I/mdon Morning Post says that Mr Bryce
informed President Taft that, he would re
tire soon and devote himself to literature.
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, now minis
ter at Stockholm, will succeed Mr Bryce.
Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice was bom in
1859 and was created a knight in 1906.
He has served at Stockholm as minister
since September 1, 1908. In 1886 ho. was
acting third secretary at Washington, and
was appointed acting second secretary, to
act as secretary to the British delegate
to the international maritime conference,
August 27, 1880. After serving for a time
at Brussels and Tokio he was transferred
to Washington in 1893. He was charge
d’affaires at Teheran in 1900 and minister
to Persia in 1000-1008.
Embassador Bryan Resign*.
Charles Page Bryan, United States em
bassador lo Japan, Monday tendered his
resignation to President Taft, who re
luctantly accepted it. Mr Bryan gave ill
health, brought on by a carriage accident
in Japan, as the reason for ins resigna
tion. He is now at his home iu Elmhurst,
111., receiving medical treatment.
HALT ON GRAND TRUNK.
CONSTRUCTION WORK STOPPED.
President Chamberlin of Grand
Tennis Say* Unsettled Money Mar
ket Explains “Temporary Stop
page of Work on Southern New
England.”
Vice-President Timothy E. Byrnes of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford rail
road, in a statement given out at Boston
Monday evening, admitted that the Grand
Trunk railroad of Canada is negotiating
with the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad for the right not only to reach
Boston and Providence over the lines of
the latter road, but to carry its business
inlo all tbe stations of the entire New
Haven system, including the Boston and
Maine road.
This was the important news of the day
as regards the reported intention of the
Grand Trunk to stop work on the exten
sion from l’almor to Providence. Little
detail regarding the traffic agreement mi
ller negotiation by the Grand Trunk and
New Haven roads was made public, hut
the mere fact of such negotiations is re
garded as offering an explanation of the
extraordinary decision of the -Canadian
railroad to abandon the construction of a
line for the right to build which it has
made a strong tight in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island, and to the completion of
which it was morally bound by the strong
est pledges that the late President Hays of
the Grand Trunk, who met death in the
Titanic, could give the people of Provi
dence and Rhode Island. President Cham
berlin of the Grand Trunk Monday night
reiterated the statement that the “tem
porary stoppage” of work on the Southern
New England was due to the unsettled
money market, caused by strained Euro
pean relations.
Vice-President Byrnes’s statement is tak
en to mean that the New Haven road sur
renders to the Grand Trunk traffic priv
ileges of such great value that the Cana
dian road is willing to abandon the rights
it had secured to build in this state and
Rhode Island and develop valuable ocean
terminals at Providence'and Boston, leav
ing a good deal of the expensive work half
done. There is nothing definite to indicate
that the construction of the Palmer-Provi
dence line, which was regarded by Rhode
Island people as a means of breaking the
monopoly grip of the New Haven road on
that state, will be resumed by the Grand
Trunk, if discontinued. With traffic rights
on all the New Haven lines, the building
of this new road w’ould be unnecessary to
give the Grand Trunk indre American out
lets.
An order Tuesday received by
Division Engineer E. A. Probst at
Southbridge, who is in complete charge
of all construction done in this state, re
quired that the 14 big steam shovels now
working between Palmer and Rhode Island
be stopped, and the 1000 laborers be re
leased within a day or two. The engineer
ing corps of the work were sadly disap
pointed. although they have been expecting
the order hourly since the Work in Rhode
Island was stopped on Monday. Mr Probst,
however, is optimistic and states that he
fully believes that the work will he re
sumed some time within a year, or as soon
as the money flurry in England calms.
All New England continues to be in a great
uproar and the statements which were
Tuesday issued from the offices of the
presidents of the New Haven and the
Grand Trunk roads served to quiet the
citizens not at all.
E. ,J. Chamberlin, president of the Grand
Trunk, clung to his original statement that
the only reason for quitting tbe construe
tion work was the financial stringency in
England. He said that the work would he
resumed. President C. S. Mellen of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford rail
road still says that there have been negotia
tions pending which looked toward a traffic
agreement between his company and the
Grank Trunk system, bnt that they have
not been signed as yet, and that not one
dollar has been paid the Grand Truuk to
reimburse it for its expenditures on the
Southern New England extension. Vice-
President Timothy E. Byrnes of the New
Haven road said that a traffic agreement
had been made with the Canadian road for
joint use of the stretch of line between
Windsor and White River Junction, Vt..
which has always been a troublesome part
of the road to both companies. Mr Byrnes
thinks this is a partial reason why the
work on the Southern New England was
discontinued.
WORK WILL BE RESUMED.
Statement ot President Chamberlin
of the Grand Trnnk Road.
President Chamberlin of the Grand
Trunk was Tuesday anxious to give as
surance to the nation that the abandoned
line will be built. He explained some of
the financial troubles of his company in a
statement in which he said: “To be frank,
the only reason why work was stopped on
the Southern New England was the diffi
culty to raise money. President Fitzhugh
of the Southern New England used all the
money that we received from the sale of
bonds and we could not seem to get any
more during the state of apprehension that
exists iu the money markets owing to the
uncertainty over what the Balkan war
may lead to. There is not a bank in Mont
real, in London or in New York that at
present will lend money on Canada gov
ernment bonds. Ordinarily it is compara
tively easy to raise money in this city, but
to-day every banker tells you that he
wishes to wait until the European war
atmosphere dears.
“Now we don’t know how long that will
last. It may be over in a week, so that
money will he released, or it may not be
over until spring. But until itU possible
for us to raise funds we shall have to hold
the construction of the Southern New En
gland in suspension. It is not very profit
able trying to push railroad construction
in New England in winter, anyway, and
we decided that we would lose very little
time if we suspended work for w few
months, until money was more readily to
be obtained.
“As I said, we do not know how soon
we can proceed, but we shall resume just
as early as conditions prevail. And the
railroads will be finished. I have a very
keen interest in New England and 1 wauf
to see those extensions to Providence and
Boston completed. 1 have every expecta
tion that they will he. I assure you we
would not have stopped work if we had
not been forced to.
“There have been no offers made by (he
New Haven recently as far as tile Grand
Trunk is concerned.” continued President
Chamberlin, “and no agreement is under
consideration and no negotiations are un
der way. I know of no contemplated
traffic agreement with the New Haven or
the Boston and Maine different from the
unsatisfactory one that now' exists.”
Boston Not Satisfied.
After Boston chamber of commerce of
ficials had discussed with President E. H.
Fitzhugh of the Southern New England
railroad the causes of the cessation of work
on that railroad, they issued a statement
Tuesday, declaring that President Fitz
bugh did not clarify the situation and that
he was unable to furnish tbe facta desired.
The executive committee of the chamber
decided to send two representatives to
Montreal to meet President Chamberlin of
the Grand Trunk. Charles J. Hubbard of
the committee on transportation and D. O.
lyes, manager of the chamber’s transporta
tion bureau, left for Montreal Tuesday.
Mayor Fitzgerald announced that he had
sent a telegram to President Chamberlin,
inviting him to come to Boston and talk
over the situation.