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CANAL TOLLS IMBROGLIO IS
SKIRMISH OF BATTLE OF 1916
* By GUS. J. KARGER.
Washington, April 2.—For the
first time since his accession to the
Presidency, Mr. Wilson has given
an opening to his enemies within the
party. The Panama Canat tolls con-
troversy has been the first to fire them
wibh courage to come out in the clear
against the leader of the party. It
has presented the first nice question
with a strong and popular side avail-
able to them. Affairs within the De-
mocratic party have been so peace-
ful during the first year of Mr. Wil-
son's incumbency, the President so
consistently has had his own way,
that the people seemed almost to have
forgotten the bitter dissentions. the
acrimonious wranglings, the ardent
animosities which attended the usher-
ing in of the new dispensation. When
Mr. Wilson came in, the party split
seemed a hopeless one. The life-long
friendship between Bryan and Champ
Clark had been rent asunder. Oscar
N Underwood, his hopes and ambitions
ruthlessly crushed, stood in the back-
ground, his arms folded and his fia.Ce
grimly set. Free sugar and free wool,
demanded by the President, might
have furnished the pretext for imme-
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diate rebellion, but the time was not
ripe and the issue not sufficiently
powerful to maneuver Mr. Wilson out
of his newly acquired popularity. The
contest between the Old Guard and
the Militant Democrotic Progressives
in the Senate was too quickly smoth-
ered to attract more than passing
attention. A soft word here, bit of
patronage there, an occasional smile
between set teeth, a few fishy hand-
shakes, once in a while a crack of the
whip and a touch of rowelled steel-
little by little the President had his
way and House and Senate bowed in
apparent submission. The caucus,
denounced as an intrumeot of Repub-
lican devilment, forced the tariff and
the currency bills through Congress,
Mr. Wilson reigned absolute, and
all seemed to be well.
Turmoil Amid Serenity.
But way down deep under the sur-
face the rumblings continued. Po-
litical seismographys finely balanced,
indicated continual quakes and dis-
urbances, located somewhere direct-
y beneath the great structure over the
dome of which the Goddess of Liberty
efies the changing seasons. Myste-
'ious and powerful influences tended
>o hold them in check. The time was
°t ripe. All seemed serene, but yet
verybody lived in dread. Mr. Wil-
on himself had been warned, but Mr.
ilson pursued the course he had
bartered, not oblivious to, but un-
indful of the dangers that threaten-
He knew that sooner or later
'e storm would break, and he
strengthened his lines for the battle.
Now that the struggle for mastery in
the House has brought victory to the
banner of the President, the political
experts are counting the cost. The
days of Democratic solidarity are
over, they say. The party is on the
verge of disaster. Mr. Wilson does
not agree with them. "I bear no
malice," is the sentiment attributed
to him. "There will be now perma-
nently serious results."
To this end he is already bending
all his energies. The cleft in the par-
ranks must be closed at almost any
cost. No one doubts that the results
have been serious. Not' a few taki^
issue with Mr. Wilson in his opinion
that they will not permanently be
serious.
Champ Bided His Time.
Champ Clark bided his time. The
speaker of the House is an intensely
human personage. There has never
been any pretense on his part that the
slap administered to his right cheek
at Baltimore had made him especially
desirous of turning his left. He has
never been a visitor at the White
House without being reminded of what
might have been. The name of Wil
liam Jennings Bryan has never been
mentioned in his presence without
provoding hia resentment, expressed
in words or in a silence mor* eloquent
than words. Mr. Clark bided his
time. He masked his position. He
stood mute, and permitted the admin-
istration to construe his muteness as
acquiescence. At the eleventh hour
he showed his teeth in grisly grimace
Had he come out into the open sooner
he would have commanded a more
formidable following. As it was, ac-
cepting his lead and Oscar Under-
wood's 55 Democratic members of the
House stepped out of the administra-
tion rank. A Democratic majority of
145 over all was reduced to 28 in the
real struggle, the battle royal over
the adoption of the gag rule. What
said the late Gen. Pyrrhus?
Naturally, big politics, politics of
the biggest kind, enters into the situa-
tion. The talk turns toward 191»>.
Champ Clark as a candidate for the
Presidential nomination on a free
tolls platform, such a plank as that
which Mr. Wilson has just repudiat-
ed, is the frequent suggestion. Mr
Wilson's friends do not accede to this
contention. They insist that long be-
fore 1916 the force of the present
quarrel will have spent. They denj:
that they intend to make war on
Champ Clark when the time shall ai*-
rive for the selection of a new speak-
er. But no one has found who will
gainsay the fact that the canal tolls
question and the fight conducted in
Congress for the adoption of the rule
limiting debate and denying the right
of amendment will enter largely into
the cominsr congressional campaigns.
Chances of Clark's Re-Election.
Mr* Wilson has been a powerful
figure in the Democratic party. In j
© &
of the Baltimore platform. Once up-
on a time Mr. Bryan said that a man
who betrayed a platform plank was
"a criminal worse than a man who
Barcelona' April 2.—An extraordi-
nary case of \rance or catalepsy has
occurred hnre.\ Don Franctfsco Perez
Cabrero, condiVtor of the orchestra
tie Misspent Mo;
Once upon a time in the land of Uncle Sam
a colony of people organized themselves into a
Town. The Town grew and waxed fat upon
the produce of the Land roundabout, and the
people dwelt happily under their own Vines and
Fig Trees, and the Tradesmen built Emporiums
of Merchandise, and all was well. More people
joined the Colony from year to year until the
Town was a place of Population and Prosperity.
But the time came when into the midst of the
Town crawled a Serpent of Discord, yclept the
Mail Order Catalogue, which whispered into the
ears of the people a Siren Song of Pjg Bargains,
the same being a Fable and a Thereat
the people thought they saw a Gc*cti Thing, and
they Bit. In the bourse of events f1®!? merchants
embezzled money." It would be in-I of the NovedadesWater; was seized
teresting to know how he regards | with a sudden illneV on Friday night
that stimulating statement now. It's | A doctor certified thVt his death oc~
curious, really, how some people | curred at 1! o'clock \esterday mom
change their minds.
closed their doors and removed toe(jther Towns
wherein as yet the Mail Order S«ynce * .;raa ^ot
Large Hollyhocks Igrew lP toYore ohe
closed doors, and Grass grew in the streets,
whereof the Cows ate bountifully. It was fun
for the Cowej but death to the Town.
rrMiirr
many things he has been the Demo-
cratic party. But in a struggle for
the organization of the House he
would have to meet the opposition of
the old leadership, an opposition
which even Theodore Roosevelt in the
palmiest days of his power could not
overcome. Mr. Roosevelt did not
like Speaker Cannon, but he could
not unhorse the speaker. Mr. Taft
was advised by some to inaugurate
his administration by supporting an-
other in Mr. Cannon's place. Mr.
Roosevelt was among the first to cau-
tion him against the attempt. Messrs.
Clark, Underwood, Kitchen, Fitzger-
ald and others stood at the head of
only 55 in opposition to the President's
canal dictum. They would command
a much greater army in the struggle
for the speakership, even though
Swagar Sherley of Kentucky should
be groomed aerainst them. The con-
test for Clark's re-election would be
no eleventh-hour affair. Indeed, it
may be said to be in progress now.
The powers and prerogatives of the
speaker have been sadly curtailed—
but in certain circles he yet rules
supreme. To defeat Clark for speak-
er in 1915 would not necessarily put
him out of the running in 1916. Even
Bryan's opposition at Balitmore did
not x-educe him to utter helplessness,
and his destruction was achieved on-
ly at great cost.
Republicans are preparing to take
advantage of the situation created by
the Democratic struggle. They regard
it as merely preliminary to conditions
far more disastrous. In the coming
campaign they will constantly drive
home the congressional surrender to
White House domination. There
have been marked and astonishing
instances of the yielding up of per-
sonal convictions, not only with re-
gard to the repeal measure itself, but
with regard to freedom of speech and
dered against the Cannon rules,
against the Cannon methods, sub-
scribed to a irule and to methods far
more autocratjic and degrading than
any that mark'ed the period of Cannon
domination.
Bryan's Apostasy to Bryan.
If Mr. Bryan is still looking for op-
portunity to resume his individuality
and assert himself in his own right,
that opportunity was denied him in
connection with the canal tolls fight.
He had kept silent almost to the end.
The free canal tolls declaration in the
Democratic platform is as much his
child as the other "ringing" party
declaration that encumbered that
document. Already considerable in-
jury had been inflicted on several of
his children. The Democratic party
in Congress had deliberately refused
to stand by the declaration favoring
publicity of the papers, letters and
recommendations on which the ap-
pointments of Federal judges are
based. The declaration on economy
in Government expenditures has be-
come a joke on a gibe. Officials in
our island possessions have been se-
lected from residents in continental
United States, despite the promise
that they would be chosen in the fu»
ture from among the residents of these
possessions, Mr. Bryan may be as-
sumed to have been . somewhat
restive. The time for protest might
have seemed opportune, had it not
been for Champ Clark's outburst. Mr.
Bryan's choice was promptly made.
He stood by Mr. Wilson, and with
Mr. Wilson he is now champion of the
theory and practice of violating at
whim or will any pledge or promise
that might seem to occassion embar.
r&sment or show incompatibility
with the developing "spirit of the
times." He will have to take his
stand once more, before 1916. He
Washington, April 1—Pensions for
widows and minor children of veter-
ans of the Spanish War, the Philip-
pine insurrection and the Boxer up_
rising in China would be authorized
by a bill which passed the House late
today by a vote of 276 to 54.
The bill would grant $12 monthly to
the widow of an honorably discharged
soldier or sailor and $2 monthly for
each child under 16 years of age, pro-
vided that the widow shall have mar-
ried the soldier prior to the passage
of the bill.
The pensions are to be limited to
widows without means of support
other than their daily labor and an
actual net income not exceeding $250,
a year.
r1 There are about 4,000 willows of
men who served in the Spanish War
and the Philippine insurrection.
It is estimated that an appropria-
tion of $2,500,000 will be required.
ing, due to heart failur^- The tmria
was arranged to take pl^ce at 11 this,
morning, at which houX the/uneras
coach, the parish clergy, yhe family
and friends and a great A,UQ:b«rof~
theatrical celebrities arrived*- Sud-
denly a rumor was circulate^ that
Cabrero had been resuscitated^ aBuS
that his body, on being transferred to
the coffin, lifted itself to an uprij^
position. Medical experts made $
fresh examination and found fchatA
while there were the usual symptoms,
of post-mortem rigidity, the com-
mencement of decomposition was ab-
sent. The priests, mourners, hired
men and funeral coach were accord-
ingly ordered to retire and await de-
velopments. Cabrero is a notable
musician and has been conductor of
the most important lyric theaters here -
for forty years. He is likewise the
composer of several successful light
operas.
the gagging of opponents on the floor i will have to stand by or reject the
of the House. Democrats who thun- ! single Presidential term principle
Washington, April 2—Twelve Fed-
eral reserve districts and twelve Fed-
eral reserve banks, the maximum al-
lowed by the Federal reserve act, are
created in the report of the Federaj
Reserve Bank Organization Commit-
tee, made public tonightiat the Treas-
ury Department.
The Middle West and Southwest
problems are met by giving these sec-
tions four Federal reserve banks, lo-
cated, respectively, at St. Louis, Chi-
cago, Kansas City and Dallas. Thus
Missouri will have the distinction,
unique in all the Union, of possessing
two Federal reserve banks.
The repbrt is signed by Secretax*y of
the Treasury. W. G. McAdoo, Secre-
tary of Agriculture David F. Houston
and Comptroller of the Currency John
Skelton Williams, composing the
Organization Committee.
Under the law this decision is con-
clusive; hence the report lays .the
foundation ©a which-the new banking
system is to be- erected. The next
important step—that of naming the
five men who, with Messers. McAdoo
and Williams, will compose the Fed-
eral Reserve Board—will be taken
soon.
President Wilson admits that "in
the back of his mind" he has about
settled upon the personnel of the Fed-
eral directorate. But thus far the
President, who is the only source
from which the information is avail-
able, has firmly refused even an inti-
mation of these appointments.
Of the thirty-seven cities that com-
peted for banks, the following, in the
order in which the districts are num-
bered, have won the coveted honor:
Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chi-
cago, St. Louis, Minneapolis. Kansas
City, Dallas and San Francisco.
London, April l.__s. K. RatelSffe..
the noted sociologist, said in pubHe
eulogy of President Wilson: "He
at heart an English Whig." Hesss,
speaking on "Changing America*
before a distinguished audience last
night. He characterised Wilson as &
cultivated gentleman, thoroughly
steeped in English law, history and
politics and "who at heart is an Eng-
lish Whig." On the immigration^
question, he declared "America is
not a melting pot, but pot of varnish."
Little Rock, Ark., March 31.—Lat-
est figures show that Senator James
P. Clarke has won the Democratic
senatorial nomination over Judge
William P. Kirby.
The total vote of the State, official,
is: Clarke, 63(496; Kirby, 68.74SC
Clarke's majority, 751, A contest is
almost certain.
Washington, April 1.—Dr. li»^
Walker, who wears pants and-a
hat aadbelieves all women- sfToutehde*-
the same, fell victim to tfcreMireslxe-
last week after more than halfra ««n>
tury of abstinence from the tempCa«
tions of terpischore.
Dr. Walker attended a private dan -
sant and went through the whole mem*
of modern dances under the tutelage
of a professional instructor.
"When I was agirl," said Dr. Wal-
ker, "I broke my right walker^ which
other women would immodestly call
their right leg, and I could not dance
because of lameness. But it has left
me now and I expect to dance every
time I get the chance.
"No, there is not near as much to-;
harm in the tango, maxixe or snail <
rag as there is in the split skirt
green wig or the debutante stouefe.
that compresses the lungs and stops
the breathing."
Sacremento, Cal., April 2.—"Gen."
Charles Kelley, leader of the erstwhile
"army" of unemployed which at one
time numbered 1,800 men, was convict-
ed today on a charge of vagrancy by
a jury after thirty minutes delibera-
tion. He will be sentenced Saturday.
Washington, D. C., April 5 Ab-
solute prohibition will prevail-in the
United States navy after July l^nexi.
Secretary Daniels tonight made pub-
lic a sweeping order which not onlj
will abolish the traditional "wine
mess" of the officers, but will bar all
alcoholic liquors from every ship ^nd.
-siiort station of the navy.
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