Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-19
RESURRECTION POSSIBLE OVER
PLAN TO ATTACH BONDS TO
TARIFF BILL.
HOUSE FINANCE COMMITTEE
NOT PLEASED WITH THE PLAN
In a Position to Force Some Modifica-
tions in PIan-House Members Be-
ginning to Wonder Whether or Not
They Have Part in Making Laws
and Governing This Great Country.
Especial Correspondence

are in favor of whatever bond issue
may finally be found necessary to meet
the necessities of the government; but
there are some other people, not with
out influence, who are against it.
They are preparing to make trouble,
too.
The appropriations committee of the
house is a hotbed of Instruction
against the bond issue, at least as now
understood. That committee is about
as independent an outfit as there is in
congress. 1t has its own ideas and it is
especially jealous of its prerogative of
on finance legislation. The plan Of
hitching a $780, 100000 bond issue to
tariff bill and shutting the finance COM
mittee out of all consideration of it,
doesn't appear at all attractive to Mr..
Chairman Tawney and his lieutenants
of the appropriations committee.
The politics of the bond issue, more
over, is giving worry to a great many
republicans. The commonest ex-
preston is that ito pile a huge bond
issue, in time of peace, on an unpopular
tariff bill, would be the last straw. 1t
would break the elephants back"
The opposition is SO vigorous and
frank that there is good reason to be-
lieve it will at least force some modi.
fications in the bond plan. The house,
as whole, is wondering what it has to
do with this government, anyhow. 1t
adopted the plan of lower schedules on
manufactured articles, and much
cheaper raw materials. The senate re-
vises its manufacturing schedules up
ward, and is insurgept against the free
raw materials. The house was for in
heritance tax; the senate substituted
corporation tax. The house is the place
where revenue measures should origi-
nate, but the conferees organize the
bond-issue plan. And so on. The house
temper gets more tropical day by day.
1t is freely predicted by regulars in the
house, that if the bond issue is finally
tackled on in conference, it will con-
tribute decided strength to the efforl
to defeat the conference report in the
house
AS this cores pondence several days
ago forecasts d. Brazil has been drawn
into the ENHANCEMENT of South Amer
lean countries growing out of the Bo-
livia-Peru boundary arbitration of Ar
gentina.
From the same source which was re-
spons;ble for that advanced Informal
ton of Brazil's probable ENHANCEMENT,
it is possible now to give an eXplana-
ton of the exact situation. 1t is a most
interesting complication, which accord
ing to South American experts threat
ems to produce far-reaching results,
tho the possibility of war is not yet
taken seriously.
Brazil and Peri have never settled
the large question of their international
boundary. Peru lays claim to every
1 thing which Spain, the predecessor of
the Peruvian government, claimed in
Peruvian territory. Brazil claims all
that Portugal claimed; and a. vast
region in the upper Amazon region, on
I the boundary between Brazil and Peru,
had never been delimited as between
Spain and Portugal. 1t is still in dis
/ pute
Bolivia, Peru and Brazil were all
claimants to a part of the disputed
area Some years ago Bolivia sold to
1 Brazil her claim in this region of the
three ply controversy; it amounted to
quit-claim deed, Brazil undertaking
to settle with Peru as to that coun-
| try's contentious. Since that time,
without settling with Peru. Brazil has
occupied this region, and insisted she
owned it.
Recently Peru and Bolivia submitted
| to Argentina's arbitration a dispute be-
tween them as to part of this terri
/ tory to which, however, Brazil has
made no claim. Argentina has now de-
cided in favor of Peru. The reasoning
by which this award was justified, if
applied to the unsettled contention be-
! tween Peru and Brazil as to the great
region farther north, would decide that
claim in favor of Peru, and give Peru
I huge enlargement of her domain.
This is how Brazil comes in. So far
back as 1777 treaties were made be-
tween Spain and Portugal, which now
suddenly become extremely pertinent
as determining present rights. The
whole matter is one of the most Curl
Gus boundary complications with which
diplomacy is confronted anywhere in
the world; and Brazil determined to
hold the entire upper Amazon region,
is certain to take a most serious view
cf any effort to weaken her position.
AS to Bottle Babies.