The San Francisco call., 1901-11-18
BIC BATTLES
To BE FOUGHT
IN CONGRESS
House and Senate Look
Forward to Bitter
Contests.
Roosevelt's Trust-Regulation
Project Likely to Be
Opposed.
Ship Subsidies, Reciprocity, Revenue
Reduction and the Isthmian
Canal Are Among Bones
Of Contention.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CALL BUREAU. 14O6 G STREET. N.
W., WASHINGTON, Nov. H.-ship subsi-
dies, reciprocity, revenue reduction, the
isthmian canal and the trusts-these are
already looming up as big bones of con-
tention in the coming Congress.
Senator Frye of Maine is expected in
Washington some time next week, bring
ing a new subsidy bill. Senator Hanna
will be in the van of the subsidy warriors.
They will find plenty of opponents.
Reciprocity, too, will find its enemies
not the reciprocity that Mr.. Blaine urged,
nor yet the reciprocity of Mckinley, but
many schemes of tariff reduction that will
be presented under the high-sounding title
of reciprocal relations" Many are anx-
ious for the Presidents words on this
matter. as it is known that he holds
strong views.
Representative Payne of New York, who
will succeed himself as chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, will be here
the week before the session opens with a
general plan of revenue reduction that
meets attack, more or less bitter, almost
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strenuous opponents in his own commit
tee. among men from the West who be-
lieve in keeping ZIP the present war taxes
until it is more accurately known what
the appropriations will be.
President Roosevelt's publicity rem.
edy" for the encroachments of trusts will
not be taken without struggle.
Committee contests will be few, but
those that occur are likely to engender
more or less bitterness. The chairman
ship of the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations will be fought for by Senators
Cullom and Lodge. The place has not been
filled since the death of Senator Davis.
Senator Frye is the ranking member, but
he will be presiding officer of the upper
branch. Next in order to him comes Mr..
Cullom, and, according to precedent. he
would be selected as chairman, but Mr.
Lodge and his friends contest the selec-
ton.
1t has been widely reported that Presi-
dent Roosevelt was taking hand in this
affair and urging Senator Lodge for the
place. The prerogatives of the Senate are
we'll known to be sacred Any interfer-
ence, even by SO high an authority as the
Chief Executive, would be looked upon as
serious breach of official etiquette A
President may select a Collector for the
port of New York without consulting his
Secretary of the Treasury, but to take
plunge into the private affairs of the
United States Senate, august and digni-
fed-never! So says tradition. But that
is just what persistent rumor says the
President is doing.
An intimate friend of President Roose-
welt, and one who thoroughly knows the
Senate situation, denied absolutely TODAY
that such was the case.
There is absolutely nothing whatever
in such a story he said. II can deny it
emphatically and with authority Senator
Lodge understands perfectly the situation.
and even if the President were inclined to
urge his selection for the chairmanship
he would not ask for it. But the President
| is not so inclined"
| Speaker Henderson has returned, look
ing strong and well and ready for the
work of the session. He will have no on
position for reelection to the Speaker
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