Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-25
From Washington.
correspondence Of the Alexandria Gszette.l
Washington, ID. O., May %.


Sc rSeabt .at-arms of the House rushed to
the telegraph Office, where he sent per-
emptory orders to every republican
member to return at once. While 1t
hasn't been divulged why the absent
members, now engaged in hard political
campaigning, should be recalled ct this
time, it is taken to mean that there will
be some effort made to pass currency
hill before the end of the session. Mr..
Vreeland, author of one of the two cur
rency bills which have any chance at sil
admitted this morning that an attempt
will be made to pass some financial
measure. 1t is understood that the Vree-
land bill will have to be amended before
il will be acceptable to the Senate. For
The purpose of amending the bill, 1t is
believed, the orders have been sent to
all republicans to return.
With the republican leaders in the
Senate blaming Speaker Cannon for the
failure of emergency currency legisla-
ton at this session, the speaker has
taken 8 prominent hand in the game.
Some say he has drawn a royal flush.
He has served notice that the Senate
ought not to think of sdjourning for a
day or so, intimating, in his most genial
manner, that it might try to agree with
the House on some currency legislation.
Mr.. Cannon does not think it would be
quite proper to go into a presidential
campaign with the responsibility OF the
defeat of currency legislation on his
shoulders. In the single conference be-
tween the House and Senate over the
Vreelan1-Aldrich bills, the Senate
st)od finn for bond-secured circula-
ton, while the House desired COM
mercial currency. Mr.. Cannon pro-
fesses to believe some compromise
might be reached, even limiting of the
passage of the Aldrich bill by the
House, if nothing else can be secured.
Whether any legislation along this line
is finally secured or not he will De the
winner he figures out. He will have
demonstrated that be was the willing
! worker that kept the Others at Wash
iugton for the expr IS purpose of enact
ing remedial legislation. la the closing
days of the session the minority fill
buster is being put to the most severe
test. Scores of democrats could get pri-
vate bills pushed Trough the House, II
they would abandon the filibustsr. Mr..
Williams, however, is standing by the
ship, and urging the continuation of the
flibustsr to the end, as a matter of po-
liticsl expediency. Meanwhile the re-
publicans are talking about the installs-
ton by next session of q device whereby
roll call may be taken without using
up half hour each time, calling the
names of the 39l members. 1t is Pr
posed to have a push button device,
upon which each member could
register bis vote on any question re-
ducing the the time Of each vote
to five minutes or lees. Impressed
by the necessity of adopting some
legislation before adjournment to pro-
vide an emergency currency and thus
prevent the likelihood of another
currency famine, such as that which
occurred last fall, the leaders of the
House and Senate today renewed their
efforts to reach compromise agreement
and it is declared that there is a pros
pect of success. The new proposition
which is now under consideration pro-
poses that the emergency currency shall
be based on the securities named in the
Aldrich bill and on the commercial
paper, as described 10 the Vreeland bill,
but with a specific limitation named in
the bill as to the amount and character
Of the latter class OF security that may
be acceptable. The rseant-at-arms of
the House sent peremptory telegraphic
orders this afternoon to every republican
member who is out of the city, ID return
at once. Representative Vreeland adj
mitted that this procedure had been
taken in order to pass some currency
measure, if possible.
With enough business on the speakers
desk to keep the House on the trot for
four days, and Speaker Cannon set on
having an emergency currency bill
passed at this session, the membership
of the Honse today settled down to
stay in Washington all the week. The
speaker this afternoon told members who
inquired about adjournment that Con-
gress would probsbly he in session
a week or ten days yet. He
advised them to act accordingly.
In case too great an exodus Of spublicaps
takes place, it will be necessary for the
speaker 10 arrest the absentees and this
will certainly be done before he will
permit the insurgent republicans and
flibus ering democrats to control the |
House. There are about twenty repub- |
licans absent and Speaker Cannon has
wired them to come back.
The House committee on library to-
day ordered favorable report on the
bill which, sppropriates "a 600, 900 for
the purchase of thirty-eight acres of
land in this city aud 1000, 900 for a
monument memorial to Abraham Lin
coin. The land is to be used in the |
extension Of the capitol grounds.
Senator Marlin with his family, has
gone to his home in Albemarle county,
and in sll probability will not return be- |
fore Congress sdjourns. i
Brig. Gen. Evan Miles, retired, died |
in San Francisco vest srdsy.
A bill II regulate lobbying before
Congress, was introduced in the House
today by Mr.. Bsrtholdt, of Missouri.
Brig. Gen. Alex. Mackenzie, chief of
engineers of the army was placed on the
retired list today with the advanced |
grade of Maj. Gen. Col. Tbos. w.
Symons, viii! succeed Gen. Mackenzie. |
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