Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-02-24
NO SERIOUS SPLIT MADE
PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS
MUST AND WILL COOPERATE.
Congressional Business Rushing =
Probable Failure Of Attempt to Inn
peach Judge Swayne--last Weeks
Sensational Row in the House.
Especial to The ReformerJ

Washington, Feb. 90. '05.-Th
thing Is acquiring velocity, only l.
more working days remain and tn,
bunch fully realizes at last the valu,
of what little time remains. There
fore full steam is being crowded OF
and the pot is fairly seething. Tn,
members of both houses are pretty
well tired out and by the time the
Jig is up will be 1T for the long rest
which is coming. II won't be resi-
for all, though. as both houses have
many committees and subcommittee
and special commissions which viii
sit during the summer and be pre-
pared to submit reports on the sub
jects in hand at the session next win
ter,
In the Smoot case II Is possible
that the committee may be able Ia
agree on and make up a report, even
though this is very doubtful, but II
is entirely out of the question 10 de-
bate and decide the question at this
session. 1t is thought that the de-
bate on the merits of the case will
OCCUPY the senate at least a week
when it gets In there, and there will
not be an hour to spare for 1t before
! htAl Nillttls ~ lllt y tau 9'iAti1VA
will not be showed forward into the
| limelight of publicity for several
months, and in the meantime can
rest in every reasonable assurance
that the final verdict will be in his
! favor.
It Is also probable that joint COM
mttee or commission will be consti-
tuted TO overhaul the tariff question
during the summer and prepare mat
ter for a report on which speedy ac-
ton may be taken by congress when
ID reassembles. Also 1t is likely that
the freight rate question will be ham
died the same way. The bill which
has passed the house will hardly get
through the senate at this session,
in which case a commission of sena-
tors may be constructed to look into
the subject during recess and find n
basis for action later. The president
allows that if the senate does not pass
the house bin to regulate freight rates
or something answering the same
purpose before it adjourns, he will
surely convene congress in special
session in October. This declaration
will not influence the senate an atom.
The president can lead 1t to water
but he can't make it drink. He can't
even hold its head under.
AN this talk however, of a split
between the president and the SEN
ate or the president and the house
or the two houses with each other.
at least, a permanent breach, is utter
Neither one of the three
can do business without the cordial
cooperation of each of the others. |
Neither the president, house or senate |
Is so injudicious as to foment and |
any deadlock prejudicial |
TO the interests of the country. FIRE. /
quently rift in the lutte appears, but /
as soon as the machine begins to /
creak, oil is doused on the bearings /
and all runs evenly again. An in !
stance of this sort happened last week.
The senate introduced a little amend
nent into the agricultural appropria
ton bill as it came from the house.
relating to the drawback duties on
wheat, but the house considered the /
amendment as a tariff measure which
could only originate in that body, and
sent the completed bill back to the
senate with an indignant message re-
using to even allow a conference on
he subject as Is usual until the L
was eliminated. The sem ;
tie, seeing that 1t was caught and
hat it had actually infringed on
louse prerogative, cut out its amend
nent and everybody was happy onc4
more. '
In the matter of the statehood bill {
S passed by the senate, trouble at T
nee arose. The house declared Off
tally that the bill as passed by it last
ear, admitting the four territories as
wo states, was a republican party
leasure, that the senate had added c
paragraph somewhere indirectly ne
n REORGANIZATION pf
mall sum of money, something that
nder no circumstances the senate
yer has right to do, and refused to
ven allow the usual conference on
lie bill This looked like trouble +,
he entire bill would be defeated, all n
lie desperate hard work of years h
ould go for naught and the hopes
the people of the territories would
: blasted. This was week ago,
1t since then conciiiatory and COM
'omising influences have been at
ork and it is now thought that p
ay out will be found in a conference tc
tween the two houses. It may fail. 50
1t just now there is a good prospect "
at the bill will go through in some Il
rm, likely by the elimination of New te
exico and the admission of one state pi
the form of Oklahoma and Indian al
,rritory as one state. Ill
The Swayne Impeachment case has W
Id the boards from to each af- oil
moon, and the galleries and corri-
RS have been packed with visitors. az
to the progress and prospects of
2 case, the defence is now being
ard, the prosecution closing Satur-
V. Only a few witnesses will be oc
amined in behalf of Judge Swayne. tn
d it is quite likely that the subject pc
Il be permanently closed sometime hi
s week. Those who have been in bl,
sition to hear the evidence are con- ce
ent that the attempt to impeach ca
dye Swayne will wholly fail, and tic
a large majority vote of the sem tn
. The oral testimony against him pc
5 proven to be more in his favor isl
IN against him, and he would seem pc
have little need of summoning sci
-nesses. so,
'he sensation of the session was Pr
savage verbal conflict in the ito
Use as reported last week between clu
Sullivan of Boston sti
Hearst of New York, and Ian
lge was used which elsewhere
uld end in bloodletting. The row
the permanent result of lining up
democratic minority in two e
1ps, part standing solidly for set
lrst and perhaps the larger part spe
nding by John Sharp Williams, boo
livan and Tammany. Much per- hal
al feeling is manifested between sue
two wings, and it is evident that sw'
party is busted suuarely in two. mil
break thus inaugurated in con- of
SIS between the young or radical hol
locracy as represented by Hearst wa
the conservative old lines will the
e to be fought TO the bitter end me
throughout the country in the sen
$ to come der
he senate viii have an extra SEES Gle
! of a few days, as usual. after the me-
of March. but no extra session ser
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