Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-24
SUSPICION HELD OUT
THAT TRIP HAD AN OBJECT
Prosressives Of Upper House Object to
Effort to Force Bills Thru at Last
neutrality-suspicious. and Commerce
Bills Are Under suspicion-Prosres.
sives to Have Program of Their Own.
Especial Correspondence


In his absence the senate is not able
| 10 make any particular progress, and
so on Thursday that body adjourned
till today
That is one side of it. The other is
that Senator Aldrich is we'll enough to
attend to business but that the plan at
this time is to delay business with the
nope of thereby getting quicker dis
position of it some weeks later.
The senatorial progressives, in short
are Informed and believe that Senator
Aldrieh has gone away in order that
there may be an excuse for doing Just
as little as possible for the next fort
night. The senate would take a recess
OF ten days or two weeks but for the
constitutional provision that one house
may not adjourn for more than three
days while the other is in session. So
! the senate is to do as little as may
be necessary and adjourn as often as
is desirable, while the next fortnight
quietly fades in to the limbo of things
! forgotten
ready for consideration, the senate will
get busy, grind away on these, and
presently will come to April 1. when
members will be beginning to yearn for
home and their constituents and their
denominations. Then. and not till then.
the committees on judiciary and inter
state commerce will begin to take seri-
Gus interest in bringing out the great
| legislative measures of the session. The
! federal Incorporation bill and the inter-
| state commerce amendment measure
will be brought forth, at time when
everybody will be in a hurry to get
/ home. and the effort will be made to
rush them to passage just as fast as
possible
| The progressives of the upper body
are not inclined to like this proposed
procedure. They are opposed to the
4 federal Incorporation measure, and
/ they have no use for the interstate
commerce bill as it came from Attor-
ney General wickersham. They make
no bones of saving these are corpora
ton measures, and they propose TO
fight them as such.
Their plan is to have a program OF
their own. 1t will include tariff COM
mission measure. an interstate COM
merce bill-probably the one Senator
| Cummins has introduced-and some
very radical amendments for the fed
eral incorporation bill They will press
to get their bills out of committee, and
finally will move to discharge the COM
/ mittees on these motions to dis
charge there will come great discus
,r 1I-bin h no a n
istration bills will be bitterly attacked
The exposure of the alleged viciousness
of the administration bills will be the
beginning of the fight. After that, Il
will be contest of endurance, with
the insurgents determined to talk to
death the bills which they regard a
unfit to be passed great fight Is
promised.
The most unfortunate man in con
gress is Andrew j. Peters, of Massa-
chusetts. Mr.. Peters is beginning 70
believe that there is conspiracy
against him.
Mr.. Peters has carried more unde-
livered speeches on his person than any
other member of the house. Time af-
ter time he has appeared on the floor
loaded down with law books, his peck
!. cts bullying with manuscript, his brain
almost bursting with statistics; immac-
ulately attired and prepared to en-
tighten the country. He has remained
patiently at his desk waiting for his
time to speak.
No less than half a dozen times has
Mr.. Peters carried back to the house
office building law books, manuscript
etc.. due to the failure on the part OF
some one to give him chance tc
, speak On one occasion Mr.. Peters
actually did get two minutes to speal
on national subject. A member OF
the republican side asked him a ques-
ton regarding the platform of the
democratic party. If the question hat
been propounded to an old-timer the
old timer would have brushed his in
, terrogator aside and kept right or
talking. Not so with Mr.. Peters. HI
, picked up a book and went searching
for his party's platform. He was abou
to read it when the gavel fell and tn
5 presiding officer declared that NJ,
, pr.o-..' fi,,,e bod expired
Mr. Peters latest attempt to max,
a speech was when the Mann whit,
I slave bill was up for consideration. -
4 was loaded to the guards with infor
, nation. His desk was piled high witt
law books; he had on his speakin,
< clothes, and Chairman Mann had givel
e him half an hour. His secretary ha,
!, distributed printed copies of his speech
n Mr.. Peters was certain he would b
: heard this time, but a brother democra
: got the floor, kept it for an hour an
when Mr.. Peters arose Serene Z
g Payne, floor leader, also arose an
}. moved that the house adjourn, whicl
o it did with alacrity. Mr.. Peters hope
J. to speak before he retires from con
gress.
: Now, about that historic remark G
r the governor of North Carolina to tn
e governor of South Carolina:
n For some reason or other they don
J. seem to make that observation SO niue
=. latterly. The fact has been noted in
$, cident to the gathering Of governors
d this town this week.
$ Governor Kitchin of North Carolin
e wash shaking hands with the Hon
e orable Somebody Else, when Governe
! Ansel of South Caroline appeared.
e "Now," observed an outsider,
want to know whether history repeat
Itself.
no; we frown on the demon rul
n in my state now" declared Governe
! Ansel