The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-23
By Houses Aid May Force Action
on Rates if It Takes ALI
Summer.
INsURGENT MOVEMENT
IN DANGER OF BREAK
Congressman Who Support State
hood Opposition Are Hear
ing from Home.
BY w. w. Jermane.

by w. W. Jermane.
Washington, Jan. 23.-As suggested
in these dispatches Sunday morning,
public attention in Washington is be
ing focused on the senate, SO far as
rate questions are concerned. Not
withstanding the fact that the rate bill
has not yet been reported to the house,
its passage there is taken for granted.
The German blockade in the senate
is thought to be serious by those ON
the inside of affairs, and, in anticipa-
ton of its being put into effect, there
has been some discussion of tenta-
tive program to Offset it.
It is said that the president is to
send a stirring message to congress,
senate for sufficient length of time
to demonstrate that nothing is to be
done with it. This message, it is fig
ured, will focus the attention of the
country on the senate and perhaps
compel it to permit the administration
bill to reach a vote.
Still Another Way.
Should the message fail to move the
senate, it is said the president, thru an
arrangement that he has already made.
with Speaker Cannon, is. to keep con-
gress in session this summer, thus
again focusing attention on the SEN
ate. It will require a joint resolution
for congress to adjourn and so long as
the house refuses to pass such reso-
luton, the senate will have to stay
here debating the rate bill day. after
day.
Tariff Fight Possible.
To add to all the other, troubles of
the antirate people, the house leaders
are very seriously considering whether
it will not be good policy to have. the
ways and means committee report the
McCleary maximum and minimum tariff
bill. If this should be done, the tariff
will be made very live issue and the
democrats will have something on which
to make their campaign. The house
they are beginning to think that some
such remedy. as McCleary proposes is
the only thing that will correct the
German situation, as 1t will apply to
!. American export trade after the new
German tariff goes into effect March 1.
! With the senate refusing to enact
rate bill, and with the house helping
| to make the tariff "a campaign issue,
there are many who figure that the re-
/ pub1icans will have a hard rub at the
polls in November.
Insurgent Move Weakens.
There are signs today that the state
hood insurgent move is in danger OF
collapse. Some of the insurgents have
begun to hear from home. Letters and
kilograms have been coming in for
several days from admiring constitu.
ents, insisting that members supposed
to be part Of the insurgent movement
come over to the support of the presi-
dent. These advices state that the
men sending them believe that the
statehood insurgency is merely one OF
the forms which the opposition to
Roosevelt has taken. and their congress
men 1hust not be led astray by it.
HVote to sustain the president, IL
the cry from home, and congressman
who formerly were thoroly committed
} to the insurgent cause are seriously
thinking Of abandoning that position.
It is not possible to ascertain def
nitely whether Representatives Dan IS,
Stevenson and Bede from Minnesota
have really been in the insurgent group.
ing them, but that is all the newspaper
men know. The same thing is true of
Gronna of North Dakota and Dixon OF
I Montana Nearly all of these men, it
is said today, are likely to vote for the
statehood bill in compliance with re-
quests made by constituents. Represen-
. tative Marshall of North Dakota has
he may have got so deep into the muss
7 as to be unable to extricate himself. It
now looks as if he would be almost the
ONLY member in the middle northwest
to vote against the bill, aside from the
= two or three Wisconsin members who
are rallying around Representative
Babcock, the head Of the insurgent
| forces.
Should ten or "a dozen insurgents be
! affected in this way, the lnsurgent
movement is bound to go to pieces, and
! that it will do this is being freely pre-
, , dicted today by members, who, while
, supporting the bill, are careful observ.
: ers and free from bias in making esti'
mates.
Bill Due Tomorrow.
The bill will come before the house
tomorrow and the test of strength will
come on the adoption of a rule under
+ which it will be considered. House or
| ganization leaders are feeling jubilant
TO-DAY. They say their fight is already
won. Il certainly looks better than
at any time since it began. Represen:
: tative Bede may possibly stick and
!. vote with the insurgents. 1t is said that
r about $lO,O00,0oO Of Duluth capital haa
8 been invested in Arizona and thai
f the men who hold it are bitterly OPP
e posed to joint statehood. Bede, OF
s course, IluSG scOuSfutI Tit WlDu0o VI
e these men in deciding what to do, fol
/ il there ever should be political trouble
O in his district. it would originate il
). st. Louis county. Representative Davi,
t has come out squarely in favor of the
t joint statehood bill. Speaking today
t to The Journal correspondent HI
e said:
cit should be understood that an
not opposed to any measure advocated
by the president. This is especial,
true Of the statehood bill / shall vot
for the rule for consideration of tn
;. bill and for the bill itself. It is tru
"A that there is great deaE,of diversit,
of opinion as to the merits of join
t. ing Arizona and New Mexico in on
eyy state owing to the difference in tn
IL IL character Of their respective peoples
ID the immensely of the territory and tn
he great inconvenience in communication
80 with the capital no matter wher
We located. Yet the exigencies of the cas-
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