Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-14
vREELAND BILL WILL
BE BROUGHT TO VOTE
MEASURE LIKELY TO PASS BY
SMALL MARGIN
Brief Discussion Evenly Divided Be-
tween Both Parties to Be Allowed
and Only One Amendment
Permitted
By Associated Press,

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, May 13.-At 4:30 to-
morrow afternoon the house will vote
on the Vreeland currency bill. The
best information indicates that the bill
will be passed by a small majority
When the house meets tomorrow al
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 con-
sideration and passage; that amend
ments be limited in number to one; that
general debate proceed until 4:30 p. m.,
the time being evenly divided between
the two sides of the house, and that at
4:30 the bill be voted on"
This resolution will be adopted under
suspension of the rules by a roll call
vote, which is not expected to disclose
the real strength of the Republican in
surgency, for, while several of the in
S rgents undoubtedly will vote against
the rule in order to give consistency to
their past attitude and subsequent
actions, others will vote for the rule
out of party spirit and desire to bring
the whole controversy to an issue.
1t is to be expected that the Demo-
Gratis will vote solidly in the negative.
The purpose of the regular Republi-
can leaders in allowing one amendment
to be offered to the bill is to give the
substitution of the Williams currency
bill for the Vreeland bill, the idea being
that some Democrats. after casting 4
complimentary vote for the Williams
bill will, on the second and deciding
vote, support the Vreeland bill.
Mr.. Williams, the minority leader,
declared, however, today in an inter-
view, that he did not propose ito walk
into any such trap" He said that if
"a hn ro1it l.
lowed only one amendment to be Of
fered, and the choice of that amend
ment was given to the Democrats, he
would offer not the Williams but the
Fowler bill.
The hackers of the Vreeland bill,
however, are of no mind to let Mr..
Williams do this. Their attitude is
that they have work enough cut out
for the morrow without counting in a
fight on the Fowler bill Hard feeling
has been caused already by the ignor-
ing of the reported Fowler bill, and
the virtual discharging of the banking
and currency committee from any fur
ther consideration of currency meas
ures-facts which the insurgents,
though only one of their number is
positively committed to the Fowler
bill, have not been slow to take ad-
vantage of in developing their dssen-
SiOil Wituill the party IdllhS. LII view
of all these circumstances it may be
that the order to be brought in to-
morrow by the rules committee will
designate definitely the Williams bill
as the one amendment which will be
entertained.
Word got abroad today that some of
the insurgents were willing to cast their
votes for the Vreeland bill if there
should be eliminated from it the gov-
ernment guaranty clause. A tentative
compromise therefore was ordered to
the effect that those in charge of the
bill would consent to the insertion of
the words "or other securities ap-
proved by the secretary of the treas
ury'' as an alternative guaranty basis
for emergency currency. This proffer
was rejected.
AS the leaders have issued strict eau
tions for all members to be in their
seats tomorrow at noon, it is expected
that the heaviest vote of the session
will be cast on the Vreeland bill.