The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-10
TARIFF INSURGENTS ARE
SHOWING WHITE FEATHER
Cummins. the Leader, Thinks the Fight Is
Becoming Futile Standpatters Have the
Call---Country Wants Vote.

tics, in which probably some Demo-
Gratis and some insurgent Republicans
have been playing clever hands The
older leaders of the Senate have been
saying all along that they would be
able to keep the Democrats and in
surgents from reaching an agreement
upon the income tax and as long as
they could do that there was little
danger. for with divided forces the
opposition could do nothing.
And now, with the backbone about
to be broken, the Republicans are be-
ginning to make up and let bygones
be bygones. The spirit of harmony
is getting abroad. True, Senator AL
drich and Senator Dolliver do not
speak as they pass by and if they
get mixed up in debate together, they
avoid looking one another in the eye.
Weeks ago they had a terrible run
in over Senator Delivers inability to
get an assignment to the Finance
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make up their differences for a long
while to come. But otherwise there
is not very much hard feeling. Sen
ator Hale and Senator Beyeridge
promote frigidity when they come into
close contact, for it was only a few
days ago that the Maine Senator gave
the Indiana Senator dressing down
for criticizing him and for trying to
get into the newspapers so much.'
The Hoosier has made himself often
sive to a number Of the older Sen
ators, like Senators Hale and AIdrich.
days have passed asking that there
be a fun reconciliation and the old
Senator's viii be reconciIed Indeed,
already Senator Beveridge fits over
to the seats OF the two. New England
ers and engages in ton as
though he held no grudges.
Senator La Toilette remains like
adamant. but he is the most deter
mined fighter in the Senate. He has
been at war with the Republican
chieftains almost ever since the first
morning he entered the Senate. He
does not associate much with the big
chiefs in the Republican cloakrooms,
but herds by himself Senator Cum
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real good fellows of the Senate
and the older Republicans have been
quick to find it out. He strikes hard,
right from the shoulder, but he
cherishes no i'll feelings personally. He
is always goodnatured, after he has
finished his speech. He goes into the
cloakroonas and mikes with every
body there as though nothing has hap
pened. And while he claims that he
cares very little for party, as a mat
ter of fact he is a very loyal party
man and is welcoming the harmony
that is now appearing in the Senate
On the Republican side after one of
the bitterest factional fights the Re
publicans have ever had in the Senate.
In a way the present development is
following the same lines as the rail
road rate regulation legislation IN the
Senate and promishes TO end in about
the same fashion. Many of the same
Republicans were with the insurgent
forces three years ago. La Toilette and
Deliver were the leaders of that insur
reetion. It looked for a time as though
those westerninsurgents would form
coalition with the Democrats and
pass the kind of railroad rate regula
ton law that they wanted
But in the end there was no coalition
whatever-because the Democrats and
the western insurgents could not get
together and, also, because the Repub-
lieans fixed up their troubles themselves
and there was little need of a coalition.
The warfare then was very bitter
among the Republican factions. Sen
ators Aldrieh and Deliver, both of
whom happened to be members of the
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee,
were fighting each other then and there
fore 1t is nothing particularly new that
they should be fighting each other now
The regulars of the rate regulation fight
are in large part the regulars IN the
fight over the tariff schedules. They
are the conservative senators who have
conservative constituencies.
The Republicans quickly closed up
their lines after the railroad rate law
had been agreed upon and as much can
be expected now, when the tariff law
has been passed. Back in their home
states the insurgent senators will be
defending the new tariff, even though
il is not a revision downward for which
they have been elamoring. They will
also be ''putting it on" the Democrats
for voting a f'tarif for revenue" on