The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-26
Speaker CannonTakes Hold
and Will Try to Get
Measure Through.
WILL HAMPER PARTY
NOT TO AFFORD RELIEF
Members Who Had Left Wash
ington Are Recalled by Wire,
Haleiand Aldrich Are Taken
Into Conference, and the
Republicans Are
Ratified.
rime.- Dispatch Bureau.

/ Munsey Building.
i washington, d. c., May Is.
!r1HE Republicans are moving
q is ;:ss : s:;;;
| N is especially insiste MT; In fact,
1t is believed that majority Of the
| lRepublicans of the House are quite
willing to agree to the Aldrich reso-
luton. appointing Currency Commit
tee to Investigate the subject during
the vacation OF Congress. and let 1t go
at that. but the Speaker insists that
1.-THE Republican party cannot afford to
go to the country without having
enacted some measure looking to the
lrelief OF conditions which resulted in
the panic OF last fall In this he Is
iprobably right.
But 1T Is very doubtful whether the
Speaker will be able to secure the
enactment OF anything bearing on the
currency question, other than the Joint
iresolution for committee to inves-
tigate the subject and report when
lCongress meets in December.
Trying to Weld Them.
The Republicans are now trying to
dovc-tail the vreeland bill, passed by
the House and rejected by the Senate.
with the Aldrich bill. passed by the
!
as to make a bill acceptable to both
houses. and thus, In mea sure fulfill
the expectations of the country by
enacting currency legislation. II fs
proposed to make the main features OF
ttne two measures, such as to make
their acceptance and use by the hank
ers entirely optional.
mus were the composite measures $
enacted such banks as chose might
1 q ,S-tn ~ 80. W
as provided by the Vreeland bill. and
issue circulation under the terms pro :
svided by that bill.
Inc earnestness of Speaker Cannon
In insisting that Congress pass cur
rency bill this year is shown ny. fta
fact that he directed the Sergeant tat
arms OF the House to-day to Telegraph
al Republican absentees to return To
w ashington MT once, and twenty Or
more are on their way back This NAV
~ nol look IKE currency legislation, but
tempt to secure such Legislation. II
certainly looks like a considerable post
ponementt OF the day OF adjournment
Will Work All Week.
Speaker Cannon said to-nfpb+ ha ia
not see how 1t was possible for Con-
sress to adjourn before Saturday night
at earliest Representative Gilhams. Of
Indiana, told him he had an engage
nent to deliver a Decoration Day adj
dress at home. and wanted to know
whether Congress would adjourn by
that date. next Saturday. Speaker
Cannon told him to wire that he could
not keep the engagement. He said
that strong effort would be made ia
pass q currency bill before adjourn. !.
ment. and that Indications were that
this would be done. The Speaker and
Senators Hale and Aldrich had a long
conference this afternoon, and it was
at the conclusion of the con nference that
Speaker Cannon expressed -he belief
that currency legislation might be got
through. = 4.
Republicans Up In the Air.
The Republicans were never SO bad
~ ratified at the end OF a session.
Hitherto the Republican majority has
seen a session of Congress end with
complete satisfaction as regards the
effect OF legislation upon the country.
Results OF succeeding elections demon-
strated that their satisfaction was well
fonnded. But this year conditions are
different. Every Republican member,
from the Speaker down, knows that
this more than "a nlillion-dollar session
has not done anything which isscalcu-
lated to make Republican votes in the
presidential election this fall
Representative Sherley. OF Kentucky,
in speech to-day landed heavily on
the Republican majority.
Representative Burton, OF Ohio. and
other members on the Republican side,
in speeches attacking the Senate for
having so greatly increased totals OF
appropriation bills. said that the ma
jority party should not be held respon-
sible therefor.
Mr.. sherley. in a brief speech, aroused
great Democratic enthusiasm by re-
calling that during the present Demo
cratic illbuster the Republican leaders
of the House had many times declared
that the Republican party was respon-
sible for legislation, and would legis-
late in Its own way; that the minority
was not accountable to the country, and
should not be allowed to dictate the
character Of legislation, The Demo-
Gratis applauded the speech loudly, but
no Republican made reply.