The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-06
Want TAFT TO STAY AT home
,T\tTF REGULARS NEED ms
MIR FOR RAILROAD BILL.
MI G,L H,m 20 Give ~ TRIPS next week
Regulars and Drmoeratle Coalitlon
srrm, Ended senator Elklns Pes
tered On Authorship % q speech.

cent AIf lFlehu- w tue nSuAbH Ntlo Ale
serving over the outlook for the Admins
,r.r.r -allrcad hill are going 10 try IA
s.-..,Ir him from leaving Washington
rsy, V."s The President will get hack
fn .., White House tomorrow morning
,rar i've days tour in the West, and he
q. naiuled tn leave again % Monday
r.-rrg for Pa-saic y. J.. where he will
attend % dinner. Ne will be back in
Washington on Tuesday morning. hut
fH. rrvf afternoon h. will leave for NeW
N8rs fn attend the launching Of the
larro-rp Florida At the Brooklyn navy
vs7i nn May y.
The supporters IT tho Taft programme
OF ,g.sIation insthe senate have no hesi-
ar.y about saying that they will need
m. strongest kind " cooperation from
no President Ia pull out even a partial
victory m the railroad bill and to save
no rfe It the Republican organization
mat body President Taft will he
.-ssd to use his powerful influence to
svIrg some " the near insurgents back
rr. me regular column.
Two of tho regulars said to-day that
'hsy were going 10 the White House
t.-rlorrow to urge Mr.. Taft to give up
hs trip IN New Jersey and New York
NJ feeling Of some of the Republican
regulars on this point was shown to-day
on the hoor II the senate when senator
Hss made the absence 81 the President
rho subject II a Jest Il drew smiles
rnr the entire senate.
i sse by tho press. said senator Bacon.
that tho senator from Rhode Island
hss gone nome and will not he hack until
tuesday and that Il is understood that
noth.ng further will he done on the rail-
rad tlIl until he returns
As an alienation of the situation.
-srlsd senator Hale gravely. 4 would
sata 10 the senator from Georgia that
whereas the senator from Rhode Island
hgs disappeared and gone the President
Will have returned
The situation in regard 10 the railroad
mn IN as great confusion tonight ~
Vas TWO days ago. The Developments
today indicated plainly enough a dispo-
s'o1 On the part of several Of the reg
uars 10 make dickers with the Democrats
n hv - doing they could break up the
"a t3un between the insurgents and
democrats. Senstor Elkins. who il in
charge Of thu railroad bill. was in hot
water for about half an hour when senator
hNon II Montana. a near insurgent in
effect charged Mr.. Elkins with having
uFsred 10 surrender all but three sections
~ the Administration bill II the Demo-
Gratis would withdraw all their amend
msnrs and JOIN with the organization
forces In voting downlthe nsurgent prop
Os'tuus
senator Dixon also called on Mr.. Elkins
o. 'sIl whether or not senator Recon had
not actually dictated a speech or state
r-ni that Mr.. Elkins had read on the floor
ri The senate a. hrs own on the day when
,-C'ions : and ~ were dropped
senator Dixon sent up % the clerk
newspaper clipping containing these
statements and asked 10 have IL read
senator Dixon said that he had been
STYLED an Insurgent by the senator from
Wss, Virginia becau-e he had voted with
democratic senators
some q vs. are getting tired 1t beng
rs+d out Of tho party and being branded
~ insurgents said senator Dixon. sim
ply because We occasionally vote with the
Democrats on some measure ! ask the
senator from West Virginia Il IL is trrie
that Democratic senator wrote hi
speech
Mr.. Elkins was clustered and replied
that he had never characterized any Re-
publican az an insurg-nt and that he dis
ked the term
But did the senator from Georgia
vrts your speech inquired senator
GallnEer .
don't want ~ start a controversy
vl'h newspapers declared Mr. Elkins.
h-kng still more embarrassed but Il
nv speeches can BE- improved by having
Democrat write them. why am wiling
b should write them
senator Elkinss friends said after
ward that the so-called speech really
~. a statement that Mr.. Elkns had read
ptan he announced on behalf Of the Com
'r'ree on Interstate Commerce that he
you'd withdraw the Crawford amend
rent 20 section Of the railroad hill
>e1i'or Elkins had been negotiating with
80 Democrats 70 cooperate with the
-sEIlar Republicans IN voting out sec
Tons and y and thus defeat the lnsur-
CERT amendments senator Elkins him.
90 had Intended 10 make motion
'rInating section from the ball. but
no Democrats insisted that senator Clay,
80 had an amendment pending 70 that
srsr' should have the credit by having
-a vote taken on has amendment
-rl.t'r Elkins prepared two or three
dement's II his own and submitted
usr p, the Democrats IN reference 70 the
Pr rH-ed action on section !. but the
's- oats thought that his manuscripts
O.. ' give credit enough 10 senator
ODD. -Y senator Elkins told senator
p r 90 ahead and write the statement
.-..f
r..Hr1r Elkins made no denial Of the
: 60 nat he had proposed 20 senator
. ..trd0ning all II the railroad hill
...r -.rtions =. and 10. This would
rle throwing out u the interstate
"~u.r.e court. the feature that Presi.
... '.' regards a. most important 10
20 and would leave a mere skeleton
I-lnal bin. provisions for shippers
-.. their own routes and Tor the
.ra commerce committee 10 initiate
ug- IN their own complaints
..Ir 'ho only features left.
, was any prospect Of such
naItI1n betwsen tho Demo-
rha Republican regulars Il