The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-22
BY Associated Press.

Washington, June 21.-Abandoning
y trip to New Haven to see his son
graduate from Yale and announcing
that he would stay in Washington
"all the summer" if need be, Presi-
dent Taft today began his first open
fight with the United States SEN
ate.
The postal savings bank bill is the
Issue between the, White House and
the north wing of the capitol The
president has announced that the SEN
ate must adopt the house bill. Sever
al Insurgents and some of the Regu-
lars are strongly opposed to the house
bill and rumors of a filibuster against
the measure have filled the air. 1t
was because of these reports and the
further prediction that the absence
of the president from Washington
tomorrow would be taken advantage
of so as to amend the bill in the
senate as to make its passage impos-
sible in either branch of the national
legislature, that the president decid-
ed to remain at the White House from
now until the day of adjournment.
The figure over the postal savings
bank bill has many angles. The most
interesting, perhaps, is the fact that
the measure, which the Insurgents
helped to frame and fully approved in
the house, is roundly denounced by
the Insurgents in the senate.
DEMANDS HOUSE MEASURE.
President Taft has promised to
stand by the house measure and he
believed 1t to be tacit agreement, it
is said, that in return for the ac-
ceptance by the house of the senate
statehood bill, the senate would at
cept the house postal bank bill.
The rivers and harbors bill, contain
ing some hundreds of items in which
representatives and senators are ger
orally interested, is still unsigned in
the presidents desk and subject to
veto. The public buildings bill, affect
ing nearly every state in the union,
is about to pass the senate and then
will have to receive executive approv-
al before it becomes law and makes
appropriations available. Mr.. Taft is
said not to be unmindful of the influ-
ence of these two measures.
Meantime the spectre of a filibuster
threatens and Mr.. Taft is reported as
being fighting mad. He summoned a
score of senators to the White House
today and talked with them with a
directness and forcefulness which left
no doubt as to how he feels about
the matter. The fact that some OF
the Regulars in the senate are quiet,
ly working against the measure has
particularly aroused the president
and he is anxious that they snail De
put on record as early as possible.
REPUDIATES PARTY'S PLATFORM
Mr.. Taft fatty announced today that
senators voting against the house bill
would be understood as simply oppos-
ing any system of postal banks at all
and, therefore, repudiating the party's
platform pledge in this respect.
Opposition to the postal bank bill
comes first from the country bank
ers of the middle west and they have
been bombarding their senators and
representatives with letters and tie
grams ever since the bill first came
up. The second source of opposition
is from the surety bond group, or
guaranty companies. These compa
MES want an amendment written into
the bill requiring banks to give in.
demnity bonds for postal deposits
The president is strongly opposed to
the proposition.
The general deficiency appropria
tion bill was taken up in the senate
Immediately upon convening today
with the understanding that as soon
as it was disposed of the postal banR
bill would receive consideration.
In addition to the general defici
ency, the only one of the regular ap
preparation bills which has not pass
ed both houses, the postal savings
bank bill, the public land withdrawal
bill. the reclamation aid bill. the cam
paign publicity bill, and the Appa
lachian forest bill are to be pu,
through. according to statements
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