The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-03
The President, Senator
Aldrich and Speaker
Cannon are Looked
Upon as Such
CONFERREES TO BE NAMED BY
SENATE AND HOUSE, BUT WILL
DO WHAT THE LEADERS
DETERMINE.

WASHINGTON, July 2.-While
many persons in and out of congress
are busy speculating upon who Will
be the conferrees of the House and
Senate when the time comes to re-
confcle the differences between the
tariff bill as the House passed it
and as the Senate has amended 1t
one big factor has escaped attention.
The real conferrees will be the Presi-
dent. Senator Aldrich and Speaker
Cannon. They will counsel together
as to the best form in which the bill
shall become law, and their
dictum promises to be final, for the
reason that the Republican party's
organization Is in control on both
sides of the Capitol and President
Taft Is the leader of the party.
All are parties to the legislation.
Senator Aldrich will determine the
personnel of the Senate conference
committee. Speaker Cannon will do
the same for the House. The con
ferrees of each body will do their
bidding, and their bidding will he
decided upon at conferences among
the three men named. .IF
All this may sound very elemental,
because of the irreguarity to which
republican policies have been sub
jected during the last eight years,
but it is as clear as crystal in the
light of the return of the republican
organization to power.
1t began when President Taft re-
fused to assist the insurgents in their
fight to defeat Speaker Cannon's re-
election. 1t was emphasized when he
threw cold water on their fight
against the House rules and when he
chose to reach an agreement with
Senator Aldrich in support OF cor
poration tax amendment instead of
the income tax advocated by "a fusion
of insurgent republicans and demo-
Gratis.
OF CONFERENC CE.
With the final form of practically
all of the schedules decided the Sen
ate yet has to take action on the ad-
section and corporation
tax amendment to the bill. Then,
under the usual parliamentary pro-
cedure, the bill will be sent back
to the House as amended and the
Senate will as the House to concur
in it's amendments. The House, hav-
ing already gone on record by passing
a bill the average of the rates OF
which is considerably lower than the
Senate amendments, will naturally
refuse to concur. Then a motion
will be made by Chairman Payne to
nOn-concur, and the appointment of
a committee to confer with the Sen
ate will be passed. The duty of this
committee and similar committee
to be named by the Senate will be to
reconcile the bill as passed by the
House and as amended by the SEN
ate. Such conference, under the
rules, may make any agreement de-
sired on proportions of the bill in dis
pute, but each house must give its
before the recommends
tions of the committee become law
There are some hints being drop
ped by members of the House who
were not satisfied with certain parts
of the bill as passed by the House,
but whose desires have been taken
care Of by the Senate, that they will
endeavor to move concurrence in the
Senate amendments. Their chances
Of success. however, are very slender
The members of the House must
stand for election in 1910, and very
few of them will care to risk the
charge that they calmly accepted the
5enates advances over the House
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