The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-02-10
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.

Washington, D. c., Feb. S, 1910
Now that Senators Aldrich and
Hale have returned to the Capitol
it is expected that there will be
greater activity in legislative work.
Senator Aldrich has been in Florida
where he went for the improve
ment of his health. Senator Hale
has been in Maine looking after his
reelection to the Senate. He has
considerable opposition there and
many republicans and presumably
all democrats hope he will be de-
feated. These two men Aldrich
and Hale are the bosses of the SEN
ate. Aldrich especially, has been in
way the most successful boss, if
having ones way with his party
counts, that the Senate has ever
known. He has been brilliantly
opposed i'll his own party notably
by Senator Deliver of Iowa. Sena-
tor Adlrich is one of those mute
politicians who attains his ends by
mysterious silence and indefatiga-
BILE work. Senator Aldrich is op.
posed to the postal banks but it is
thought that the Presidents recon-
mendation to establish such banks
will be passed in spite of the OPP
position of Aldrich of Rhode Island
and Senator Jeff Davis of Arkan-
sas.
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1t is given out that the President
expects that the promises Of the
Republican party platform, reiter-
ated by him in his campaign
speeches, will now be carried out
by the coaction of the insurgents
and regulars. The House Commit.
tee on Rules no longer retains its
despotic power and legislative
measures san 10 longer BE- put
through by the dictum of the Rules
Committee but must depend on
caucus approval. 1t really appears
that the truce has been brought
about through an understanding
that the House organization will
act with the insurgents and vote
into law the postal savings bank
bill, the interstate commerce bill
and the conservation bill. The
Federal incorporation bill, it is
understood, may be postponed until
next session. The bill admitting
New Mexico and Arizona has
passed the House and it is said is in
favor with the Senate. There is
hope on the Republican side that
the ship subsidy bill will be enact
ed. There is considerable elation in
the camp of the insurgents who
claim they have weakened if not
broken the power of the Committee
on Rules. 1t is certain that the
Cannon Dalzell crowd no longer
parade matters out of the Commit
tee on Rules with the confident ex-
pectation that a majority of the
House will approve their action.
Party caucuses are the order of the
day where, after fair discussion all
agreement is made and this alone
receives the approval OF the major
ity in regular session. 1t is said
that the insurgents are hopeful of
removing the Speaker, Mr.. Can
non from the Rules Committee dur
ing the present session. 1t can be
easily understood that the Presi-
dent is doing all in his power to
heal the breach in the Republican
party and to strengthen it for the
doubtful fight in the next Con-
gressional election.
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The social season is at its height
in Washington. Dinners and re-
ceptions at the White House and
at the homes of the Cabinet minis
ters and at those senators and rep
resentatives who can afford them
are the order of the day, or rather
of the night and it is interesting to
note the changes, small but signfi-
cant, in social matters under diff
ferenr administrations. The chief
innovation at the White House is
refreshments to all invited guests.
The number invited is not SO large
by any means as during the adj
miniStration of Roosevelt and his
predecessors but it is quite large
enough to fill the Executive Man
sion without crowding it. For ex-
ample, the Congressional reception
was held last night aud some thir-
teen hundred guests attended in
cluding members of the Senate and
House and the adult members of
their families with many visitors
to Washington and large num-
Der of the permanent residents of
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