The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-14
Final Vote on Currency Meas ure Will Be Taken
 This Afternoon
THE INDICATIONS ARE
 THAT BILL WILL PASS
Mir. Williams Declares That Democrats Will Not Step Into the Trap Set By Men Engineering
 the Measure.

Washington May 13.-At 4:30 o'clock vote on the Vreeland currency bill. The best information indicates that the bin will be passed by small majority. :.
 When the House meets tomorrow at 11:30 a. m. resolution, or order will be reported from the committee on rules in substance as follows:
 That the bill be taken up for consid eration and passed; that amendments be limited in numb to one; that gen eral debate proceed until 4:3O this aft ernoon, the time being evenly divided between the two sides of the House; that at 4:30 the bill be voted on.
 This resolution will be adopted un- der suspension of the rules by a roll call vote which is not expected to dis close the real strength of the repub lican insurgency for while several of the insurgents undoubtedly will vote against the rule in order to give con- sistency to their past attitude and sub stantial actions, oth CTS of them will vote for the rule out of party spirit and desire to bring the whole controversy to an issue.
 It Is to be expected that the demo- crats will vote solidly in the negative.
 Object of Amendment.
 The purpose of the regular republ- can leaders in allowing one amendment to be offered to the bill is to give the democrats an opportunity to move the substitution of the Williams currency bill for the vreeladd bill, the idea be- ing that some democrats, after casting a complimentary vote for the Williams bill, will in lthe second and deciding vote, support the Vreeland bill. But MT. Williams. the minority leader, de- elared today in an interview that Ire does not propose Ito walk into any such trap
 He said that if the order from the rules committee allows only one amendment to be offered and the choice of that amend ment is given to the democrats, he will rot offer the Williams bill, but the Fowler bill.
 ',The Fowler bill,' he said, "has been reported to the House by a majority vote Of the banking committee. and our meas ure is, therefore, properly before the House for action. The bill which bears my name has not the same parliamentary
 
 son that it was reported from the mi- nority of that committee. I don't pro- pose to be placed thus triclSily in the position of gratuitiously offending the re- publican friends of the Fowler bill by offering minority bill as an amendment which would be voted down anyway. If we are permitted to offer any amend ment it will be the Fowler bill, not the Williams bill''
 Do Not Want Fight.
 The packers of the Vreeland bill. how ever are of no mind to let MT Williams do this Their attitude is that they have work enough cut out for the morrow without counting in any fight on the Fowler bill. Hard feeling has been al- ready caused by the ignoring of the re- ported Fowler bill, and the virtual dis charging of the banking and currency committee from any further consideration of currency measures-facts which the in- surgents, though only one of their num- Der is positively committed to the Fow- Ter bill, have not been slow to take ad- vantage of in developing their dissensons within the party ranks. In view of all these circumstances it may be that the crder be brought in by the rules commit tee will designate definitely the Williams bill as the one amendment which will be entertained.
 As the leaders have issued strict cau- tions for all members to be in their seats tomorrow at noon, 1t is expected that the heaviest vote of the session will be cast on the Vreeland bill.