Warren sheaf., 1910-02-10
REPUBLICANS !.
WILL CAUCUS
MAJORITY WILL CONFER ON ALL
IMPORTANT SUBJECTS, IT
IS PLANNED.
TO QUIET INSURGENT ACTIVITIES
To Offset for Time Duties of the
Rules Committee. Leaders in
Both Branches Seek Agree
ment on Legislative Work.

Washington, Feb. 1.-The leaders OF
the Republican majority in both
houses will try this week to reach an
agreement upon the legislative pro
gram for the session.
The most important step that has
been taken by the house leaders Is
that which, anticipating trouble en-
suing from the insurgent movement IN
the house, was announced that the
Republican majority will hold eau
cuses on all important matters, not
ably the shipsubsidy bill, the postal
savings bank bill and railroad legis
lation asked for in President Tafts
message.
The object of this caucus arrange
ment is understood to be to do away
with the work of the rules committee
pending the efforts on the part of the
Insurgents to enlarge the membership
on the rules committee.
Another reason given by the Repub-
lican leaders for these caucuses is that
they desire known in advance whether
the legislative program, which the
president and the Republican majority
desire to have carried out, will have
the united support of the Republican
majority on every question at issue.
The Statehood Program.
Meanwhile the senate Republican
leaders have about agreed upon for
their plan for carrying through the
bill to make the states of Arizona and
New Mexico under the presidents
plan of having constitutional conven-
ton in the territories and adopting
constitutions and submit them to the
people, afterwards sending them here
for approval of the president and con-
gress.
The postal savings bank bill is also
to be pressed as we'll as the legisla-
ton for Alaska and the presidents
railroad legislation.
The latest objection that has been
raised to the postal savings bank bill
be allowed depositors.
Some senators who object to the
general principles Of the bill are will
ing to support it, because the party
Is pledged to this legislation, provided
the interest rate is not made so high
rs to drive large sums of money from
the legitimate channels of trade and
possibly to depreciate the values of
low interest bearing. United States
bonds.
The present rate of interest of 2A
DER cent suggested by the bill is high
o rthan the 2 per cent consuls of the
United States.
Taft's Plan Hard Hit.
President Taft's plan for federal
supervision of the interstate COM
merce commission of stock and bond
Issues by the railroads has been hard
hit in the hearings before the house
interstate commerce committee. This
ls true Notwithstanding the fact that
only those have been heard up to this
time who favor the proposition out
lined in the presidents message to
congress.
The senate gave the greater part
of it's attention Saturday to the ques-
tlOu VI VI tAO OAIA a
dition of criminals from one state to
another in cases in which the prosecu-
ton is according to the process of "in-
formation" The subject arose in con-
nection with bill requiring the rec
ognition of this system of prosecution.
It was antagonized by Senators Root
and Hepburn and was advocated by a
large number of senators. No action
was taken on the bill.
Some time was given to the postal
savings bank bill.
The only important action taken
was on a bill opening to settlement
of the unalloted lands in the Pine
Ridge Indian reersvation in South Da-
kOta.
Early in the day Senator Aldrich
reported from the committee on public
expenditures a bill creating a perm
anent commission, for the regulation
of methods of government expendi-
ture.
The house was not in session.