The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-06-22
.FlLIBUSTER POSTAL BILL
President Wants TIE House Measure
Passed He Delivers a Lecture to
Several Reoalcitrant
Senators.

New Haven, where be expected to see his
son graduate from Yale to-day.
The president said ho would remain in
Washington to look after the legislation
and that ae would ssay here an summer
/ II necessary to yet tue postal bank meas
ure through in satisfactory form. i +
his desire that the House bin Be adopt
ed by the Senate without amendment
Early yesterday le sent for several
Of the reealcitrant senators and had q
long and earnest talk with them The
president Is said to be thoroughly
aroused over the situation.
An agreement was finally reached to|
vote on the postal BIN at 5 O'Clock ~.
day
Several Of the so-ealled regular Re
lrublicaus IN the senate, Il was said yes
ltsrday. had been discovered OIL the res
trvation in the final roundup on the
postal savings bank hill This phase Of
tie situation has annoyed The president.
Reports which reached the White House
yesterday morning were 70 TIE effect
that while the president was At New
Haven today Il was the intention Of
the senators So to amend the postal
savings bank bin as to kill any chance
Of its passage by Congress At this ses
sion. As soon as The president learned
Of this plan, be directed Secretary Nor
ton 70 camel his trip and also 70 snd
for the Senate leaders The president
was III fgnting humor All the morning
and callers az the White House declared
he was very foreible in his references
10 tie Senate situation.
The president has announced that the
Senate must adopt the House bill. sev
eral insurgents and some Of the regu
lars are strongly opposed to the House
4 bin.
President Taft has promised to stand
By the House measure, ana he believed
| Il 10 be tarit agreement il IS said,
that IN return for tie acceptance BY the
House Of the Senate statehood bin the
Senate would accept The House postal
bank bin.
It is pretty generally admitted az the
capitol that the president holds the
whip hand in tie aght and that a. soon
A. vote can Be reached the Senate viii
accept tie House bin.
The river and harbor bin, containing
some hundreds 81 items in which repre-
sentatives and senator's are generally in
terested is still unsigned on the presi.
dents desk and subject to veto. The
public buildings bills. affecting nearly
every state in Tie union, IS about 70 pass
the Senate and VIII have 20 receive ex.
ecutive approval before Il becomes a law
and makes appropriations available Mr.
Taft Is said to be not unmindful Of the
influence Of these two measures. Mean
time, the spectre Of a alibuster threat
ems and Mr. Taft Is reported as being
''fehting mad The fact that some Of
the regulars in the Senate are quietly
working against the postal savings bank
bin has particularly aroused the presi
dent and he + anxious that they shall
be Pit On record as early "a possible.
Mr. Taft fatty announced yesterday
that senators voting against the House
bin would he understood as simply op
posing any system Of postal banks at
jan and, therefore, repudiating the par
tys platform pledge in this respect
It Il the administration attitude
that the Senate bin gives special privi
leges to the banks, privileges to which
the banks arc not entitled. A patriotic
view Of the question, the White House
believes, calls for the investment Of As
much money collected in the banks az
possible in government securities.
The House bin calls for the deposit
Of 65 per cent. Of the postal deposits
IN local banks, and this is thought am
.pie
Opposition to The postal bank bill
comes first from The country bankers
of the middle west The second source
Of opposition is from The surety bond
group, or guaranty companies These
companies want an amendment written
into the bin, requiring banks 70 give
indemnity bonds for postal deposits The
president IS strongly opposed to any
such proposition
The general deficiency appropriation
bin was taken up ID tie Senate imme
diatelv after converting yesterday. The
understanding was that as soon as the /
general deficiency bill was disposed Of
The postal hank bill would receive con
sideration in the senate
Public Building Bill
The public building bill, which has
been passed by the House, was reported |
70 the Senate yesterday hy the Senate