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THE ARGUS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19. 4908. Rule of jhe fo .(Special. Washington 'Correspondence of The Argus.) v';-' '' ' TLe prowipjr insistence of the presi dent" upon his right to dominate legis lation ami --particularly upon his un ; qualiUed and. .-unhampered power over the United. States army and navy has been pretty vigorously discussed in the sennto of late.. 'i It 18 a mutter of notoriety that there are in existence three letters from the president to United . States senators bearing partly upon the -Brownsville Ineiilout, partly upon the singular ease of (j'olonel Stewart of the coast artil lery, who has been sent Into exile, in Arizona. In these letters the president notifies h'is , senatorial correspondents that if the senate passes Mr. I'or aker's bill for the: reinstatement ofthe trooi)s dismissed on J. account of the Brownsville incident he' will veto the bill. If congress passes It over hLs Teto, he will refuse to pay attention to It lie holds that his 'power over the army and the navy as commander In chief is superior to that of congress. Beyond conceding congress the power of making the necessary appropria-1 tions for -the support of the armed serv ice of the United States he gives Uk legislative branch of the government no authority In the premises. -' . The story was curreut about the enp- ltal a day or two ago that in explain ing his position on the subject to a vis itor Mr, Uobsevolt pointed out that King-'Edward VIL was conunauder in chief of the British armed forces and that parliament could not ' Interfere with his direction of them. The pres ident is said to have. wound up his re marks with the statement, "In this re spect I am like the king of England." One of the senators to whom this re mark was repeated said explosively: "We all wish- he were more like the king of England. King Edward ad dresses parliament once at - each ses sion with a very brief speech prepared by his ministers. lie does not boiu " bard the legislative branch every two or three days with messages covering everything from race suielde and spell ing reform to battleships and forest reserves. With- the title of king, Ed ward -VII.' seems to repose some con fidence iu the ability of the English people to govern, themselves and to select'- members of ; parliament - who may be trusted to carry-out'the 'popu lar will. While he-ls in charge nomi nally .of the army and navy," he has not, p far as I knovr,; put a doctor in! command of the army or a surgeon in command of a navy vessel.' While Edward is .content to be a king in name and influence' the government only by quiet and personal-suggestions, Mr. Koosevelt seems desirorts of being not merely king, but emperor In fact, with tlie big stick for a scepter." -i There is more-of this sort of talk about, the. capital ; thau .most. people would imagine. .The growing autorracy of thf'aduiluistratinu .'has1' produced an undercurrent of gliostiHty to Koosevelt and his immediate circle that every now . and , then breaks out into open protest. This' feeling hns'uot boon less ened by the remark of Admiral Ev-j ans, the -naval pet of the admiuistra-! tlon, at San Francisco recently, that what "this nation needs is more bat tleships and fewer statesmen." Some of the. statesmen remember that the president threatened to veto their pub lic building bill unless given- his full programme of four battleships, and they think Evans took hrs cue 'from this. : "There'll be fewer statesmen," said one Republican representative in melancholy tones, "at least fewer Ke pubiieau statesmen, in the next con gress if the man In the White House and liis satellites hold to their present attitude." The Stewart Case. Tills is one of the most curious mys teries of government today. Colonel , William K Stewart -is colonel in the coast artillery service. . Suddenly he is detached from his command and or dered to, an abandoned military post in the middle of Arizona, twentf-six miles t from a village or habitation, thousands of miles from the coast or any artillery, and is given command of exactly-one private,-who accompanies him to attend to his comforts. What Colonel 'Stewart's crime has been no body knowsj He has been as silent as a snhinx. so far as. any public state Ill , ' 1- --UflSK , M" ill v r,i k- Am -T riin lt.-v .iii.ai.i . r. -rr . .... . lit ment Is concerned. He" did appeal to the war department and was Informed ; that If he would voluntarily retire his retirement would bo accepted, but if he refused to retire he must remain lu exile. Having nearly four uSore years to serve before the age of involuntary retirement, he declined that1 proposi tion. Some friendsf Interesting them- V selves In his case, he was transferred fnm the Arizona, desert to another abandoued post near St. Augustine, Fia., but had not nnpacked his goods and chattels there before he was per emptorily sent baok. AH of this has been done to this man, who has si?nt LI lifetime in the service of "the Unit ed States and Is a veteran of two .tfnrs, without one word 'of explana lion. He has not been court martialed ncr even been granted a court of ln V Iry. What tho high crimes aud uiis 3emeanors are for ,-which he Is con demned to solitude In the sagebrush unless" willing, to retire from the army fcobody knows. The discharge from t the army of three- companies of soldiers without trial and the apparent 'persecution of Colonel Stewart are incidents -width would not be likely to make the serv ice popular if Mr. RoosevelLwere much longer to continue to be commander La chief. ' ,. The Closing Days of Congress. With an overwhelming majority in the senate and the. house i and ..with continued ! and noisy protestations- of devotion to the president's programme, congress has thus far passed throngU the house only two of the multitude of bills which lie has urged. The -second one, that involving child labor in the District of Columbia, passed only with the aid of Democratic votes.- Nothing yet has come of the recommendations for' free wood pulp and print paper, for the amendment to the anti-trust law, for publicity ' of ' campaign con tributions or any of a half dozeu neces sary laws for the government of the District of Columbia. .The editor of u weekly newspaper of national reputation sitting iu the pi-ess gallery with . me .the otjier day and watching the perfect 'discipline with which Speaker Cannon. Leader Tayne, Dulzcil, Hepburn and Tawney worked together To prevent anything of really national importance from being brought to a vote on-the, floor said: "I can't understand the theory on which these men are working. Here the entire Associated Press ' and the American Newspaper Publishers' asso ciation, htue united In a demand that wood pulp and print paper be put on the free list, yet all they can get out of this congress U the appointment of a commission obviously intended to carry the subject over, until next winter and which is conducting the investigation in such a way as to make" it perfectly apparent tq all who attend fhe hearings that the cards are stacked against the publishers. The newspaper Owners are threatening reprisals. In this pres ent house there are thirty-live Repub licans sitting whose districts are so close that a change of a thousand votes from the Republican to the Democratic side wouid retire each one of them. "The Democratic- minority has put it self on record as a unit for free pulp. A petition asking that the bill be called up has beeu signed by "every Democrat in the house. Only one Republican dared sign it against the speaker's op position. What will the press of the country, do V The moral sentiment of' the country is a unit In favor of the national publicity .law, yet the speak er and his cabal will not allow It to be voted on iu the house. If the Re publican party in to go before the na tion on the record of Roosevelt, the Immediate answer Is that the Repub lican congress has repudiated him by refusing to accept his recommenda tions. 'If the record of congress is to be the Issue, it is one of Impotence and dereliction of duty. One almost thinks that that gang down tliere whom wo all know at heart are hostile to the president and to Taft are systematical ly plotting treachery for the overthrow of both." " . . The Singular Senator From Arkansas. If Senator Jeff Davis desired to at tract attention irrespective of what sort. -of attention It might be.-he could have hardly done better than he uid with his.speech a. week ago in the sen ate. " This 'paragraph" addressed: to fiocke'feller and Jtforgan, afford a fair example of its general tope: ' " " Let the scavengers of plutocracy- howL Miserable. travesties upon' noble manhoott, postgraduates jn all arts of slander or defamation, I challenge the subsidized prtss. Go, damnable . irrips -.t pelf -and Breed! I defy your taunts! Tear to'frag ment' my political career If It-comport with your execrable, will. S:lfle and dis tort my every utterance. Not satisfied, if such be yottr brutal i'retizy. lash my poor for.-ti into ' insensibility. . Then, ' if it.be your further - pleasure. : gnaw from my stlftenhig. bones every vestige of, quiver ing - nosh. .Howl in wretched bestiality through my own innocent blood as it drops feom your fiendish visages. -."'. Thls-is, of course, balderdash. Yet, however foplisft may be his ranting in thej st'uate, there Is a shrewd side to Davis character which has enabled him to (hold his own 'in bis state. I heard a story of a clever trick he played on an opponent for the nomina tion for governor. His rival was a member of an old Arkansas familyra tall,' stately, dignified, man. , In the joint debates which they conducted thronghout the state- he was carrying every audience with him. Davis saw that .something must le done. Just before one of his biggest meetings Tie let . the rumor be circulated that If Judge ' -, attacked him, on the stage Cg'iiii as he had ieeu doing he (Davlsj would take, physical vengeance upon him. The judge's friends became per turbed. They went . to him aud .told him that he must-go tf the next lffeet iug armed. "Rut I never carried weapons," protested the judge. Still they insisted and finally persuaded lihn td slip a pistoj Into his hip pocket. In the midst of his speech Davis, who was then governor, turned dramatical ly to his rival and, declaring himself to be an officer of the law nnd.one who -reverenced and oleyed the jaw demanded to know whether even then tho gentleman confronting him wnsnt violating the law by carrying a dead ly weapon. The judge, could not lje. could not defend himself, and, ' with a passionate appeal to all his hearers to maintain at all times' the sanctity of the law, the Hon. .Jeff Davis won that meeting for his own. . The Democratic Race. . It is becoming perfectly apparent that Mr. Bryan's strength in the convention tvill result'- in his nomination on the frst ballot. IThere:has been talk of op position to him in -Louisiana and ru mors of exceeding activity on the part Df the. Johnson forces in Alabama and In Virginia', but the opposition in Louisiana does not appear wnen sougnr for, and the boomers' activity has thus far resulted in nothing. Washington, D. C. WILLIS J. ABBOT, -1 The Helping Hand." Au blind newsman $tood In the early evening1 on the 'curb-at- Forty-second street and Third avenue. The papers he Sought were at a depot on -the op posite, side of the, avenue.. He stood silent. : Presently n young man slipped out of an idle group' near by, took the blind man by the arm, piloted him across the car tracks, left him and ipassed, on. Neither said a' word. . . Hating obtained his papers, the blind maii turned again to the curb, standing patiently. . A - woman, bareheaded and evidently a tenement dweller near by, walked up the avenue, paused, .stepped aside, took the newsman by the arm conducted him back across the avequa and resumed her errand. Neither spoke. It's just a way they have over thare on the east side. New York Globe. A Rule For Dramatists. A dramatist must never keep a se cret' from his audience, although this Is one of the favorite devices of the novelist Let us suppose for a moment that the spectators were not let into the - secret of Hero's pretty . plot in "Much Ado," to bring Beatrice and' Benedick together: Suppose that, Jike the heroine and the hero, they were led to believe that each was truly in love with the other. The inevitable revela tion of this error would produce shock.'of surprise that would utterly scatter their attention, and while they were busy making over their former conception of the. situation they would have no eyes nor ears for what was going on upon the stage... In a: novel the ' true character of a hypocrite Is ofton .bidden until the .book Is. nearly J through; .their "when the 'revelation comes the readter-tias plenty' of time to I, think back and"see-. how deftly be has been deceived... But In a play a rogue must be known to be a rogue at his first entra'noe,i. The other characters in the. play may be kept In the dark until the" last act, but the audience must know the-secret' all-the time; In fact, any situation!;vhicft,Wows,'a character suffering from a lack of such knowl edge; as tb6 audience holds' secure al ways produces a telling effect upon the stage. :' The '.spectators are aware of Iago's , villainy,, and - know, of Desde mona's innocence. The play would not be nearly so strong if, like Othello, they were kept ignorant of the truths- North, American Review. ; i Apostrophe to a Champion. Cow. Hail, champion nurser of the hn- man racet (.nalli ' O quiet chewer of nutritious cudl- Blessed be peace and open air, beasts and sunlight, and espe cially blessed be tbfe cowr of ber we sing. ; Hall, Pauline? number 43.426 If that nam yon love; butter champion of the world! ;Think of . giving 104.4 pounds of milk in a single day and also at a high average of fat! , think I could turn and live with anl- mals. they are bo placid' and self contained. I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition. ,7 . . -They do not lie awake In the dark and weep for their sins. - They do not make -me sick discussing - their duty to uod. . Not one is 'dissatisfied, not one is' de mented ' with the mania of owning ' things. Not one kneels; to another nos to his kind . that lived thousands of years ago.'. Not one Is respectable or. unhappy over the whole 'earth. .Would the. pen of Homer were- our own, for we have no taste to celebrate the feats of 'admirals and presidents, prizefighters and millionaires and would fain da justice to the cow, for she by her own. - unaided, might can support thirty babies on -this earth. Collier's Weekly.',.. , ;. ' ; -i i , " ' : 'A Sermtfln' lit Rhyme. An ' English ' sporting . parson , who wished to shorten the Sunday morn Jngs servicers?. that he might join some kindred. ..spirits delivered the briefest and meatiest sermon on rec ord.., "Dearly , beloved." he said, "the subject of our discourse this morning fcr Life.' I shall divide it into three parts' and a Conclifslon first, man's in gress to the world; second, man's prog ress through the world; third, man's egress from the world, and, to con clude; man's life after departure: "Man's ingress td life is naked and bare. Man's progress through .'life is trouble "and care. 1 'Z, : ' '' '' Man's egress from-life fs'nobody" knows where. If we do well here, we will da well there. I -could tell you no more if I preached a . whole year." .it "v t : Boston Post .;'''. '-' - Satisfied, i , i "Please, sir,", piped he tiny, cus tomer, whose head scarcely reached the counter,! "father, wants wdhie oak var nish::. ";;:;" :".r- : . "How ' much does your, father want, my little man?" asked the shopman. "Father 3ald you . was to fill this," said the 'little fellow,' handing over a half.gallod can. . It was duly filled and-handed over. ratherwiir pay you . Saturday, aaid the recipient casually. ' And then the face of, the shopman ' ' ' r -- '. t ' We don't give credit here," he said "Gimme back the can T' " '' Meekly the little lad banded back the can, which was'etnptled and handed back to binv with, a, scowl. Thank yon,: sir,'! he said. "Father said you'd bp',, sure to Jeave enough round the. sides for him to finish the job 'hd. wants tt klo.'nnd I think you 'ave, sir." London Scraps. ; I - Most Important Work. - A reporter recently, took a journey.of considerable length for the purpose of inteirviewihg a-rising- literary light as to his next-novel- , 0a-reaching the bouse be discovered the author seated in . his garden engaged in earnest con versation with a little boy who had a large towel pinned .around his neck. The., author.' received . his visitor cor dially, but seemed rather absentminded. "Are yon willing to tell me a little a doue your next important worn r asked the reporter;. The literary; man clicked a pair of shears and patted the boy on the shoul der., !. .1-! ''4 u We. were ."just talking about it as vou came no." he-said. - "Willie thinks k I ought to, do It; with a bowl, but L j think I can-do it without What would : you . advise , v Yon see , his mother has , always cat. u Deiore, but sne a away jusy nowt Hom Magazine. ' " Tha Povyar of .Advertising. ' The, power xt -advertising is told by - toaiiagef of the' tbllef department of a large New York department store. "We have six different .makes of one toilet article,?, be said, "and they are so: near ahTtetif' qliality that even ex-; pertilcarft .lEifiC the difference between thtm, yet we soli1 as1, much of one as do of all,tbe..others together, just because the, manufacturer is everlast ingly .adtertistjljr.it' The ; other five sell in proportion to the amount of ad-vertlslng-gtTen to them.' If there Is ' any difference, ia quality it Is in favor of the poorest seUeNew York Her- aw. - . - - - ., - t- --f.-l -Ur" -it- 'I . 'I i.l H i ' ., .v ' '' ' .;T"'',We. l?eVdhe"ds. 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