Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-05
DELAY PROBABLE IN PASSAGE
OF TARIFF BILL THRU CON-
cEssloN DEMANps. /
INSURGENCY CAME NEAR
TO BEING REVOLUTION
Congressman Who Has just Returned
From His District Learn. the Pse-
Pile Arc Not Satisfied With the Az
drieh eiIl-lnsursents May Alter sit-
uAtion.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence.l
Washington, June 5.-Discussion Of
the possible delay Of Anal passage Of
the tariff bill has brought out the fact
that in the house there is serious effort
to reject the conference report on the
measure. and force second. and pos
sibly even a third conference. with the
view to concessions in the schedules.
A leader among the house insurgents.
who is just now devoting much Of his
time to working up sentiment in favor
of such plan, declares his confidence
that 1t will be successful. He said:
when the house was organized. the
combination Of insurgents and demos
Gratis lacked just four votes fenough
to defeat Cannon for the speakership.
There We're number Of votes which
We're pledged against Cannon in the
event that enough others could be-
found to make, with these, a majority
of the house. The total Of democratic
lacked just four Of enough to defeat the
speaker For the lack of the final four.
number which were ready to enter q
successful combination never appeared.
That indicates how near insurgency
came to revolution at that time. To-
day it is much stronger than 1t was
then, because so many members have
been home and have found how de-
termined is the antagonism to the bill
thruout the middle west. have myself
just come from my district, and found
people talking in just two ways. One
element say, Get the bill passed as
soon as possible and come home SO
we can reopen the fight The others
say. Defeat this bill at all hazards
Why, made a speech to big repub-
lican audience in my district, and was
interrupted by a man who shouted out:
"'Oh, the next house will be demo-
cratic
"And 1 replied: Well, lot Of worse
things might happen for the country
DO you suppose those republicans
got up and mobbed me? They just
got up as one man and appiauded-that
was all. That's the way they feel.
Don't make mistake about it,
a casual study of the situation in
the house has led these insurgents to
believe that they are much stronger
now than in the speakership fight. In
fact. they have been able already to
count up more than enough accessions
to their ranks to insure majority on
the tariff bill If they could only be sure
that all who were with them in the
organization fight would stick. But
they know they will lose several.
Therefore they are trying to list the
losses they must endure, and also the
gains they can expect; and after the
preliminary survey they believe they
can muster strength enough to send the
bill back for second conference. This
plan is now regarded as the only one
by which there is a chance to gain any
concessions. The hope that President
Taft will take a hand in the effort to
lcontrol the conference has been aban-
doned. The possibility of vote is
taken seriously by nobody. The expe-
rience of the measure in the senate has
been such as to make it certain that
Aldrich can pass it there, and can
adopt any conference report he pre-
sents. The president and the senate
being out Of the considera ton. then,
the house becomes the one reliance of
the people who want downward re-
vision, and to the house they are turn
ing. They count on the effect Of pub
lie opinion and of the fact that the
congressional pre- convention politics is
beginning to warm up in many dis.
riots.
With the probability getting strong
er every day of such a fight as this
over the conference report. it is TecoS-
nized that all guesses about adjourn
ment are worthless. 1t may come July
Is, and it may be August /. The lat
ter date is more popularity accepted
now than ever before; but there is an
increasing number Of people who de-
clare that SEPTEMBER is liable to see
congress just busting out Of town. af-
ter the most memorable fight In the
history of tariff making.
The house is bent on taking real
part in this struggle, when the bill gets
back there The members who didn't
get chance to talk, or who didn't
realize what the bill was or how the
public felt about it, are now more than
ever anxious to put on record such
views as will appeal to their constit-
uents. And as members drift back to
town after season of meditation and
prayer with their constituents, 1t de-
velops day by day that, however IL
may stand with the senate, the bill is
getting progressively weaker in the