The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-04-20
The Currency Situation Is
Unsettled
WILLIAMS AND CANNON
Bad Blood 0ccasioned Between Them
May Cause Serious Trouble -Murt-
chic for DarIing's Place--Lively
Debate on Diplomatic Bill.

Washington, April 2o.--Practical adj
mission was made Saturday that the
leaders Of the House machine cannot
control the situation in regard to cur
rency legislation. 1t was announced that
the party conference, Of which SO much
has been said, would be indefinitely post
lponed and would not be held this week.
The ostensible reason for this change Of
plan is that il would be unwise to hold
the conference and go through the trr.
mol Of forcing the party into line on
the currency question only to have the
consideration Of the sundry civil appro-
priation bin intervene before the action
Of the conference could he put into actual
effect in the House. This is a more or
less plausible explanation on its face.
but not much stock seems co be taken
Init. The sentimental effect Of the post
! ponement, whatever its cause, Is bound
to tell heavily against the machine lead
ers.
The banking and currency committee
OF the House met Saturday morning. hut
did not consider the yreeland bill. owing
TO Mr.. Vreelands absence. III he is still
unable to appear to-day, the committee
will 90 ahead with its consideration Of
the bills for the appointment Of cur
rency commission. AT it's meeting Sat
urday morning the committee took I'M
favorable action on the bill OF Repre-
sentative Lowering Of Massachusetts for
the creation of the Sovereign Trust com
pany OF America.
Representative Hill OF Connecticut in
his vigorous speech OF Saturday. on the
currency, was unable To take up the
Nreeland bill because III The brief time
allotted to him. But, applying the line
Of his reasoning to that measure. it is
entirely safe to assume that He win be
even more opposed To it than To the
Aldrich bill. and will make sadder havoc
OF ii ii he has a chance to sepak upon
it either in the open House or in a Re-
publican caucus or conference Mr.. HilPs
position has an important bearing upon
the outlook, for he Is by this time rceog-
nized as the most convincing speaker IN
the House In regard to currency mat
ters, and it is unlikely that the machine
leaders can put anyone against him who
would make any sort OF a showing. Even
Representative Burton, who III general II
admitted as the ablsst man In lie House.
was unable to make much Of stand
against Congressman Fowler Of New
Jersey when the latter explained his
currency BILL
Now that the practical possibility Of
passing the Fowler bill has gone. ii any
sucn possibility ever existed, Mr. Hill
and Mr.. Fowler are in substantial accord.
Ii addition to being the two best posted
men in the House on currency matters.
they are physically aggressive and sue
cessfnl dehaters, who individually would
domrnate any currency dehaet in which
they became involved, and who in com
hination present i barrier which the ma
chine will certainly find Il difficult, Ii
not impossible, either to overcome or cir
cumrcnt. Some Years ago MI Fowler
vas a poor speaker on his feet, and on
one occasion before beginning speech
went to Congressman Lawrence of MHs.
sachusetts, who happened to occupy The
chair, and asked to be protected" from
Interruptions and questions. Nowadays
1t is Mr.. Fowler's questioners who need
all the protection
The diplomatic appropriation bill was
again under consideration in the House
Saturday. The chief incident al the
discussion upon 1t was a speech by Con-
qressman Harrison of New York. criti
eising some of Dir individual diplomatic
representatives abroad and the general
policy Of selecting wealthy men. Re
ferring to the first secretary al London,
whom lie took as typical, Mr.. Harrison
remarked; while a very amiable gen
tleman. he reminds one irresistihly of
the white rabbit in Alice in Wonder
land, and. az Id scnttles through the
London drawing rooms, one can almost
picture him saying oh, the Duchess the
Duchess; oh, my fnrs and whiskers. /
shall DE late
The diplomatic bill was finally passed, |
but Immediately afterward there was 4
clash between John Sharp Williams and |
Speaker Cannon, which loft bad blood
ana NAV cause serious trouble. Accord |
inc to Williams, who never gets i'll tenn. |
pared over the ordinary matchmaking |
bY the majority. the speaker invaded |
TIE NOHstlNulAVHaA tlsiito ~ shN NNASs /
hy declaring adjournment or recess
without permitting the lawful motion for
the yeas and nays. Later, Speaker Can
non, who has always been great friends
with Williams, went down the aisle and I
to shake hands, but Williams /
deliberately turned his back on him. I
Williams Indignantly declares that never
IN the DAYS of Car" Reed was such an /
abuse committed
The nomination of Guy Murchie Of
Boston as United States marshal which 4
was sent to the Senate Saturday, is
purely personal one, in which President /
Roosevelt asked Senator Crane and Sen
a4or Lodge to aeqniesce on that under
standing. Aiurchie, who was rough
rider and Harvard man. was not sug
oested by either senator. but the presl-
80 sEal 81 ap,nfnt him nlt of ppr- /