Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
Looked Upon as Leader of Re
Gently squelched Minority
in the Senate
AN lNsuRREcTloN PROBABLE
First Speech of New Iowa Senator At
tracts Wide Attention and Points to
Him as Leader to obtain New Order
Of Procedure in Upper Heuse-Dis-
regards Precedent.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

| Washington, Jan. 27.-The Washing
ton correspondent of the Chicago Trib-
une has got new line on Cummins
the Junior Iowa senator who yesterday
made his maiden speech in the upper
house. Cummins and his speech at
tracted so much notice that this cor
respondent wired to his paper last night
the following interesting prediction:
The real beginning of the career of
Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa in the
United States senate took place today,
when he made his maiden speech on
the postal savings bank bill.
There are strong evidences that he
will be heard often in that body from
now on. His novitiate has lasted but a
scant two months. The unwritten law
of silence on the part of new senatorial
members for a period of two years
seems to bother him little. He favors
the passage of a postal savings bank
bill with certain amendments which he
offered eoday.
at now appears that Senator Cum
Minis has not been idle even IL he has
been silent since entering the senate in
December He is known to be hand and
glove with the full fiedged insurgent
movement which has sprung up among
the younger senators of the body, and
he may become its leader Senator
Cummins has entertained several of
UT inn
at these functions plot to bring the
nestors of the senate into line on new
plan of apportioning the committee on
memberships has been Matched.
Minority Is United.
1.-The senators who have conceived it
have sworn to stand by each other. live
or die, and whether they are to win
Immediately or in the far distant flu
ture. Such men as La Toilette. Dixon,
Brown Borah, Burkett and William AL
den Smith already have enlisted them
selves in the movement which is di-
rected towards obtaining as an immed-
late grand result some forty-five com
mittee places of value for distribution
among the newer senators.
"A rule whereby a senator shall not
belong to more than two committees
which handle appropriation bills and
whereby no senator shall belong to both
the committee on appropriations and
the committee on finance will be sought
Immediately after the 4th of March.
when it is expected that there will be
more new blood to join with the pro-
gressives. Bristow, of Kansas; Craw-
ford, of South Dakota, and Johnson, of
North Dakota, all new senator's, are ex-
pected to enlist under their banner. 1t
Is also expected that such senators as
Flint, of California; Warner. of Mis-
souri,, and even Dolliver, of Iowa, will
Join the movement.
cummins Looks Like a Moses.
"The lively collection of new sena-
tors has been yearning for power in
the senate for long time, but no lead
err of adequate resource has presented
himself until this congress. Senator
Cummins appears to be groomed for
the job. A sort of junta is being or
ganized, the object of which shall be,
besides the revision of committees, the
forcing thru of certain desirable legis-
lation, even at the expense Of occas-
sionally joining with the democrats.
"The older senators in the body are
expressing no alarm. They have seen
similar movements grow and fail. Sen
ator Cum1nins, on the other hand, has
confidence in the undertake
ing. He says that the newspapers are
soon to be enlisted in the cause thru
the appointment of a publicity commit
tee"