The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-29
NOW BEFORE SENATE
G0INT sTAEH0oD BHHa~MAs PASSED
 THE HOUSE.
Beveridge is Anxious for Early Action, But it is not Believed That
 He Will Re Accom- ,.,a 2 ua0sImtcsf' t

Washington. Jan. s-(special)- | The. Senate committee on territories
 will doubtless report the joint state hood bill Monday, and 1t is understood
 that Mir. Beveridge. of Indiana, chair
 man of the committed. will make an l early move to start the discussion.
 This. however, Is not a privileged mat
 ter and it cannot be put ahead of oth-
 CT measures unless the Senate by a special vote should so order. That is | not likely to happen.
 Senator Hepburn, of Idaho, has been pressing the pure food bill for more than a month. and is such an ardent advocate of his movement in the direo- ton of working changes In tho pres ent restrictions on the part of the government that he will certainly not yield. even if the statehood question Is backed by the administration.
 The men behind the ship subsidy bill do not relish being sidetracked either. They made an early start and realize that # something Isn't done within the next six weeks or two months the
 matter may have to go over until the short session of congress. The Phil fppine tariff will soon be reported, and that will further complicate tho situa- ton.
 A number of speeches by both Dem ocrats and Republicans are being pre- pared on the Santo Domingo and Mo- rocco questions, A spirited issue has been raised In each case. The admin lstration forces are very anxious to have the sapto Domingo treaty dis posed of before the present session ends. queer thing is that the dis cussion of affairs in the Dominican re- public is permitted in open session. and the opponents of the administration say anything they please concerning the Presidents policy down there with out fear of having an indignant Re- publican jump to his feet and move that the doors be closed. But the mo- ment any one says Morocco and begins to talk come the motion to choke of the orator and drive the visitors out of the galleries and bar the doors. In order to ratify the Dominican treaty the solid Republican vote will have to be cast for 1t and four of the Demo crats must be induced to join the Re pubiicans. Mir. Tillman has sarcastically declared that the administration people hope to have the assIstance of what he calls White House Democrats.
 Outside of the Democrats on the Senate territories committee Arizona does not seem to hav- n friend The Republican members. of the committee are: Beveridge. Of Indiana: Dilling- ham, of Vermont: Nelson, of Minnesota; Burnham, Of New Hampshire: Kean of New Jersey Dick, of Ohio, and Piles, l of Washington. The Democratic mem- hers are. Patterson, of Colorado; Clarke. ] of Arkansas;. Newlands. of Nevada, and Frazier, of Tennessee. Such a great number Of Republicans In their private conversations admit that the proposi- ton to join Arizona and New Mexico as one State is an outrage that it is quite certain that If the gag rule had not been applied In the House. and the representatives could have voted their honest sentiments, there would have been at least 100 insurgent Rerubli- cans instead of forty-two on the m motion to vote down the rules committee the other day.
 As the party lash was applied vigor- ously there the same tactics will doubt less be brought Into play in the upper branch There Is this difference. no gag rule can be applied In the Senate. Debate cannot be shut off It will. therefore. have to be a battle of en- durance if the friends of Arizona pre- vent a vote on the measure this sea son More than a sufficient number of Republicans arc known to favor the House bill, They appear to be deaf to the appeals of the men of Arizona