The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-05
Fearing Congress May Ad-
journ Without Accomplish
ing Anything, Many Sen
ators Get Together.
FIGHT THE INSURGENTS
is THE GENERAL CRY
President Taft Said to Be In
Hearty Sympathy With Plan
Where the Trouble Start
ed in Congress,
HOW DEMOCRATS STAND
N7AsHINGToN, May 4.-By the
" formation today of an or

NTASHINGToN, May 4.-By the
w formation today of an or
ganization which, its leaders claim,
represents clear majority Of the en-
tire Senate and to be made up wholly
of regular Republicans, movement
was started to decide whether the
Senate shall remain conservative, be-
come radical, OF be thrown into poll
teal chaos as far as concerns any
coherent policy on the administra-
ton program.
Senator Aldrich called the regular
Republicans together and confronted
them with a grim description OF the
possible political effect Of their appar-
ent defeat at the hands OF the lhsur-
GENT Republicans and Democrats IN the
tight over the traffic agreement sec
tion of the administration railroad Dill OH.
He asked his associates Whether they
we're ready TO submit TO oonlnalloA
by such a combination Any such sur
render, he warned them, mean an w
failure of the Taft policies ana the
downfall of conservative control not
only in Congress, but in the Republican
party generally .,.-,,,,
Someone f7N%-e%NoA
that senators then gathered together
were not in agreement on all points,
WhereupOn he replied they must SeI
together and agree to stand togetner
and let the details be secondary. other
wise he said Congress would ADJOURN
without accomplishing single item OF
the Taft program.
After the Insurgents.
The entire tone OF this conference
yy1ss bel1igerent toward the 1nSurgenlS-
ont OF e Of
yet together- and stand as unit
AGAINST every insurgent proposition II
the insurgents propose anything SoOu,
we'll take il over bodily ana put II
through as our own: IL they propose
anvtning bad. Wen stamp it out
II was stated President Taft had
been kept fully adEised or the sltua-
ton and was entirely IN syIhpat4y
with the plan and virtually pledged 10
IL II was said in behalf OF the con-
ference that while the measures re
sorted to were heroic, they were neces-
sary In defense OF the adn1lhlstr 10 n
party and as a means to any effective
legislation whatever.
TO Senator Aldrich was given the
leadership OF the new movement ne
left late today for Rhode Island ana
will not return before Tuesday me
plan meantime is to mark time ana
hold the fort" There viii be many
conferences at the White House and
The intention is 10 avoid test votes on
any subject of Importance until next
week.
Every hour brings additional eVi-
dence of the widening breach between
the regulars and the insurgents in
both houses. Conservative Republican
leaders, with hardly an exception, con-
fess that in neither house Is there a
coherent majority Even those unfa-
m.liar as yet with the plans Of the new
Senate organization seem TO be await
ing the return of President Taft to see
what. II anything, he can do to get at
least some remnants of his program
through Congress. AS matters stand
tonight, the prospect from the Repub-
lican point of view is anything but al
Turing.
The situation has developed almost
without halt from the beginning Of
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