Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-20
'G|V[UP kON[YCAUCUS
Republicans Abandon Plan to
Force Currency Measure to
a Vote
CURRENCY COMMISSION PLAN
House Expected to Take Immediate
Action for Commission to Sit During
the Summer - House May Vet
Make War on Paper Trust-Gatun
Village to Be Moved.

Washington, April 20.-There Will be
no caucus of house republicans on the
currency question. Representative
Watson, of Indiana, house whip on the
republican side, announced that the
caucus idea had been abandoned.
Several house leaders We're asked
if the action Of the house committee
on banking and currency in tabling
the Aldrich bill. was sign that the
committee would also table the Vree-
land substitute for it, and refuse to
make any report on the currency ques-
ton to the house. They all replied
that the action of the committee would
in no sense indicate what the house
might or might not do.
That there will be currency legisla-
ton is the prevailing opinion. Usually
it requires two thirds majority to sus-
pend rules and relieve committee of
further consideration of bill, but the
rules as amended to meet the demo-
cratic tilibuster provide that such ac-
ton may be taken by bare majority
vote.
Said one Of the house leaders,:
"There will be nothing to prevent Mr..
Vreeland from arising and moving
that the banking and currency COM
mittee be relieved of further consider
alton of the Aldrich currency bill. Such
a motion in my judgment, will pass.
Mr.. Vreeland will then move that all
that part of the bill after the enact
ing clause be stricken out, and that
his own bill, in such amended form as
will have been agreed upon, be sub
stituted for the Aldrich bill. This mo-
ton will also pass, in my judgment.
There will be no danger of democratic
opposition to such a proposition, for
one Of the measures back of the tili-
buster is currency legislation. One OF
the amendments to the Vreeland bill
will provide for currency commission
to sit during the summer and fall for
the purpose Of gathering information
and preparing a scientific report to
congress as a basis for future legisla-
tion.'
If the attorney general does not show
that something substantial has been
done to prosecute the paper trust as
combination in restraint of trade,
providing the pending inquiry shows
it is operating in violation OF law,
congress may go into the trust-fghting
business on it's own account
Speaker Cannon and Chairman
Payne of the ways and means COM
mittee contend that the tariff has
nothing to do with the high price Of
print paper; that If the scarcity of
the raw product is not responsible for
trust, which. by combining factories
and regulating the output, holds the
prices up to suit itself.
The speaker does not intend to rush
into the trust fight, but he may offer
resolution providing for a searching
INJURY by a congressional committee
into the operations of the International
Paper company. This inquiry, If held.
will touch upon the sources of supply,
the methods of manufacture and the
manner of distribution of the product
Of wood pulp.
Counsel for the Omaha railroad has
filed an appeal in the supreme court
from the decision of the court of
claims in the case of that road against
the United States. The road claims
$4,000 for transportation of mails
since 1887 on a portion of the route be-
tween Minneapolis and LeMars Iowa.
lying between Minneapolis and Uni
versity Switch and Minneapolis and
St Paul and between University Switch
and st. Paul, and on the other end
of the route between LeMars and
Sioux City. The Omaha road has a
land grant and special rates are named
for transportation OF mails under that
grant, but it is claimed that mails car
ried on sections of the route named
are on rails owned by other roads,
and not subject to land grant deduc-
tons.
Gatun village, on the Chagres river,
isthmus of Panama, with a population
OF ABOUT OUU peOple dIlu CouIdlIlllS
about ITO dwellings, is being removed
to new site about two miles away, a
change necessary because the village
is on the proposed site of the dam at
that point
The inhabitants were notified some
time ago to remove their buildings,
but paid no heed to the order until
recently when they We're practically
forced into action, as the old site is
now needed by the canal commission.
The new town is amply provided with
routes and with water
and sewerage systems.
For Constipation.
Mr.. I. H. Farnham. prominent
druggist of Spirit Lake, Iowa, says:
"Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
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