Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-09
may GUT RAIL BONDS
Feature OF Aldrich Bill Making
Them Basis of Circulation
Weakens Measure
ALDRIcH SAYS 1T WILL PASS

Author is Afraid to Press 1t to q
- Vote May Pass in Ten Days-Fate
| of Bill in the House More Uncer-
tain.
| Especial Washington correspondence
| Washington. March 9.-Senator Aid
rich is not forcing a vote on the cur
rency bill which bears his name, he
explains, because he wants to get it
ironed out to a condition in which all
the republicans will vote for it.
Senator Aldrich is not pressing for
a vote on the bill, its opponents say,
because he hasn't votes enough in
sight to pass it.
The difference is a striking one.
That the bill will finally pass is
generally believed by those who have
made the most careful study of the
situation. 1t is known that consid-
cradle number Of senator's will vote to
strike out of the bill the provision al
| lowing railroad bonds to be used as
basis of circulation. 1t has been
claimed that enough of the republicans
are in this attitude to make this feat
ure much the weakest in the meas
ure.
M To- hat hnYs a
! this provision is voted on, the bill will
| command enough votes to pass 1t. The
| impression is that the bill will be
| much stronger than this particular
provision, which while earnestly de-
sired by its friends, is not essential.
Sens Hepburn, Brown, Borah. War
| ner, LaFollette, Nelson, Hansbrough and
some others are placed in various lists
as opposed to the railroad bond pro-
vision Most OF those named. prob
| ably all of them, would vote against
the bill if this provision We're retained
in the measure But there are some
| democrats who would vote for the bill
in any case, tho it is doubted if any
democrat will vote to keep in 1T the
provision to use the railroad bonds.
Senator Aldrich has been squarely
| told by two or three republican sena-
tors that if he should urge vote now
his bill would fail He has laughed
at them, and is confident that they are
mistaken. He expects to pass it, prob
ably about ten days hence Its fate
in the house is much more uncer-
tain.
Martin w. Littleton of New York
who was chairman of the convention
which four years ago named Alton B.
Parker for president. has been in
Washington this week. and he talked
just q little bit Of politics. Mr.. Little
ton, in this year of grace. isn't taking
much part in the great game. He can
see that Bryan is going to be nomin-
ated, and that people of the conserva-
tive persuasion have small chance to
be taken seriously
But Mr.. Littleton none the less has
new idea of the issue. He says it
will be:
"Who said it first?"
The republicans will say that
Roosevelt said it first: the democrats
will insist that Bryan did. And that
will be the real point in controversy.
If the republicans nominate man
who can't make any claim to having
said it first, of course they will be at
disadvantage to that extent.
The late Senator Proctor of Vermont
was probably the richest man in the
senate; he was probably the biggest
physically, for he was of immense
stature; and beyond question he had
the biggest voice in congress.
Senator Proctor's whisper was big
enough to fila forty-acre field with
out even barbed-wire fence around it,
His ordinary conversational tone
sounded like a railroad train going
over the switches Of country siding
when it was late and in a hurry. His
oratorical tones when he occasionally
der; and when he got really excited he
sounded like the voice of thunder
There was once, at least, when his
oratory was really the thunder of Jove
from Olympus. That was when he
made the great speech which did SO
much to precipitate the war with
Spain. He had been in Cuba investi-
eating on his own account. 1T has
been the privilege of few men to make
speeches that caused more momentous
things than that speech which told o.:
what he saw in Cuba. And they do
say that the bigness of the voice that
seemed fairly to make the capitol
tremble to it's foundations, had much
to do with the effect
The newest senator is Frank B.
Gary of South Carolina, just elected by
the legislature of that state to sue
coed the Ashbury c. Latimer Mr..
Gary will probably be sworn in early
next week, having just been elected.
The new senator will be another
concession to the latter-day rules of
sending young men to the upper cham
bers. He is about 45 years old, but
he has had a considerable political ex-
perience. and is of one of the Oldest
and best known families in the state.
The Gary family dates back to revolu-
tionary and colonial times, and in it's