The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-02-26
The President Appears To
Have Best
OF The SITUATION
A Fighting Nucleus Remains to Contest
for the Conservative Republican
Pension Day in
the House.


Washington, Feb Is. The correspond
ent Of the Springfield, Mass, Republican
reviews the rate blu situation III the
despatch 70 his paper.
Fridays sensational railroad rate
linelodranla remains the one topic OF
ieolversation. At the capitol and where
ever else the lawmakers gather the new
situation ana the new political align
intent are all that is talked Of. no fur
| Their developments OF definite nature
| have taken place, but the passage af "a
hours has given an opportunity to i'm
derstand The situation more fully. The
democrats held no formal conferences
Yesterday; neither did tbe republicans,
Senator Clapp and senator Deliver are
III high feather and have been to see the
president, which the conservatives have
not.
Mr. Roosevelt is quoted as delighted
with the outcome. San honest man and
game fighter" was his comment on
Senator Tillman yesterday morning 40
reported from near source. When ask.
ed how soon lie would be going TO The
White House, Senator 1illmau humor-
ously parted the question. Things are
l. RittAhty NOihAlAA N0NttAh bilN AAiRAF NbtA
ous result i'll reconciliation between
the president and his bitterest foe.
| The republican conservatives state
/ frankly that they will fight to the best
I of their ability, and to the end OF their
resources. They declare that principles
more important even than party are at
stake, the independence Of the Senate
and the protection of property. This
Twill apparently be their slogan. They
claim that their position has been very
greatly fnisapprehended and that when
their big lawyers, Senator Spooner and
lSenator Knox, have had an opportunity
TO argue their case the public viii form
an entirely new idea.
/ The democrats have laid down no pro.
gram as yet. They haze largely spent
/ the day in brilliantly shaking hands
with themselves Senator Tillamn will
report the Hepburn bill on Monday, but
| had not decided yesterday whether to
make an oral or written report. Sena-
tor Foraker will speak on the rate ques-
/ tion on Wednesday, but ii Is not likely
that the real debate win begin sooner
than two weeks from now. The state.
1 hood bill must first he disposed Of, and
while the senators OF both parties are
icharged full Of the railroad rate cues.
tion they will require time to get their
4 speeches into final form for what seems
1 likely to be one Of the most memorable
debates in many years.
! The democrats who control the situa.
ton, the administration, and the defeat
ell conservative republicans plainly oc.
lcupy three distinct positions, in spite Of
the fact that democratic support for the
4 Hepburn bill has contributed TO vic.
/ tory for the administration The demo.
Gratis are not opposed To the institution
of de noyo proceedings in court They
/ say that they do not see how court pro-
ceedings could be other than DE noyo,
and that the court must have the right
10 go into each case 10 the extent which
il sees At. Opposition 10 precisely this
view was the ground upon which the adj
ADMINISTRATION rejected the court review
amendment proposed by the conserva-
tive republicans. But the fact that the
democrats desire Ia balance this power
of the court by limiting the courts au-
! thority to grant temporary iniunctions
apparently payes the way for an agree
ment between them and the administra-
ton. The conservative republicans will
1 fight any effort to limit the restraining
powers Of the court.
The democrats are not satisfied with
the Hepburn bill as it stands, and will
endeavor to amend it In several parti-
culars The most important of these
4 will be their effort to strike out the
words fairly remneratiye' which refer
10 the commissions orders. II is claim-
ed that this would permit an impfovi-
dent, overeapitalized and ill-managed
railroad TO pay dividends by undue ex-
traction from the public.
1t is said that these words, to which
the president agreed, were suggested 10
him By senator Knox, and that he AT
terward repentcd Of having agreed TO
them oa-hand, and that his subsequent
lunreadiness 70 agree to a court review
proposition was due 10 a fear that he be