The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-13
SPECULATION..AS
TO CONCESSIONS
Prospects as to Senate and
House COnteTees Agreeing,
THERE MAY Be LONG WRANGLE
But Some Think Leading Members of
Two Branches of Congress Have
Things Pretty Well Planned Out Al
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Washington. July 12.-[Special]-
When the tariff bill goes to conference
| Speaker Cannon and Champ Clark, the
minority leader in the house, will be-
| gin to round up in earnest the absent
i Republican and Democratic members.
! For the past two months the average
representative has been going and
coming as he pleased but now there
will be important business on hand,
| for it is conceded that additional con-
! tests will be made over some of the
| disputed items in the tariff bill which.
| upon separate roll calls, We're demand
ed when the measure originally passed
| the house. One Of these is the para
graph relating to hides. The house
placed hides on the free list, and the
senate fixed a duty of Is per cent ad
| vaIorem The advocates of free hides
have not in the slightest relaxed their
| efforts The indications are they will
/ try to the last to have hides made Free
and they have been putting powerful
| pressure upon the lower branch of
congress to stand out for its own pro-
vision The impression at this writ
| ing, however, is that the senate and
/ house conferees are likely to reduce
| the duty after the bill gets into con-
ference in the hope that another fight
over the proposition may be avoided
on the floor Of the house.
Tea Not Southern Beverage.
In the discussion in the senate over
the proposed tax on tea. proposal
which was voted down, Mr. Bailey made
the point that so far as he could recall
not one family In thirty down in the
south used tea as beverage. He said
It was only in what might be called
mansions down in his country that tea
was served to visitor and that 1t
would be found that only the rich
among farmers drank tea. He admit
ted that most of the poor people con-
sumed coffee, and therefore it was a
necessity and not a luxury.
Arkansas Senator's impressive "Ah."
Apparently it is a great moment
with JEFF Davis Of Arkansas when he
can throw his massive chest forward
| and begin a sentence with "Ah." Ii
steadies him. as it were, in his efforts
to be impressive. For instance, the
other day he made an appeal to get
back to the ways of the fathers and
| started out: "Ah, Mr. President, | i'm
| plore the senate to return to the prin-
eiples of the fathers In the administra-
ton of the affairs of the republic and
restore her to her primitive moorings.
| for feeting show only at last is wealth.
ambition and power Alluring and Sc
| ductiye are their enticements to selfish
ness alone, and be reminded, sir. they
| are transitory and in the end are as
sounding brass and tinkling cymbaL
Do not chide me. Mr. President. when
l plead for the republic. To her l
have given my best love, and devoted
" do I pray that 1t may be kept per-
petual heritage to our children"
Polls of the Democratic members of
congress are already being made with
a view of finding out what their lean
ings are in regard to their party candi-
date. The most recent poll made In
dicates that just now Governor Jud-
son Harmon Of Ohio is a decided IA
| vorite, and most Of the Democratic
senators and representatives are think
ing that if he does not meet with po-
litical mishap between now and the
| year the nomination is to be made he
| probably will be the most formidable
man at their national convention. But
II Governor Harmon should be defeat
ed in his own state next year it is
thought he will be entirely out of the
/ running for the presidency.
Fans Language Too Elegant.
OF the public men Vice President
| Sherman Is the most enthusiastic when
It comes to baseball. He attends many
of the games. even though the Wash
ington club has been at the bottom of
the list or very near 1t. Mr. Sherman
Was Al tue STduu SIdHO W00u one OF
the heavy batters of the Boston team
drove q hard one to the outfielder OF
the Washington nine The bleachers
and grand stands stood up. An excits
ed fan in front of the vice president
watched the progress of the ball and
when the outfelder caught it yelled
/ at the top of his voice. "He has it; he
has it, What kind of baseball Ian
guage is that?" asked Mr.. sherman of
the friends who were with him. Hes
got it,
Proposed Purchase of Paintings.
Senator Depew of New York pro-
poses by bill he has introduced that
the government shall purchase for
$25o.000 for exhibition In the national
museum or other public buildings here
the paintings by the late Edward
Moran. known as the series of thirteen
historical marine paintings, illustrat-
Ing important epochs In the marine
history of the United States. The
most modern of these paintings is
called THE Return Of the Conquerors. Z
IMPLYING our victory Ii the late Span