Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-18


weeks OF cote 10 either HUE lie the
Senate postal savings bank bill, and
President Taft is cracking the whip Wig
orously to keep that moving. HIS has
hem forced to relirquish the Root
amendment to the bill by The opposition,
aud ia now 6ghtiug TO eradicate the
Smoot smsndmett, which he deems III.
necessary. Senstors are being summoned
to the White II luse, and worked Into
line for the mea.ue. Ia order to elesr
the way for the postal savings bank
measure tAe presiden. was forced to eide
track his Alaska re-orgsnizlt on bill,
and bis Ariz na.New Mexico statehood
bill, 10 the S.nste. Ia the II use, the
Taft. Bsllinger conservation bills seem TO
have dropped ont OF sight entirely, and
the inCersIt ts commerce bill, introc ICED
yesterdaysin a mod fed form, is dae for q
long delay. Senators Aldricb, PenrCss,
Carter and Crane, the powers that be 10
the Senate, and RepreSeDtstise Weeks,
chairman of the House committee on
postoffices ard posirtadP, which 10 hand
lIDg the postal savings bank bill, were In
conference with the presider last night.
A t3ntslive programme for hstt ,DiDg the
DOS. 81 savings bank bill to vote was
auauged, bat whether it will be possible
20 carry 1t through is doubtful. Senator
Ca 81 expresses tbs hope that the Sen
ste may vote on the bill as early as ne1t
Thursday, bot ne other leaders hardly
share bis optimism.
The fat intimatlon that c. u 1sel for
Secretary BslliDger in the congressional
investigation OF the Bsllinger Pinchot
controversy, will stteml t. impesch the
Truth Of parts Of the testimony given by
L r. CLAWS, came today when the con-
mittee resumedis hearing, aud Attorney
Verirees requested a tu1poeua for the
appearance OF Adolph BehreDs, OF
Seattle. Bsbreus is one OF the Alaskan
coal claimants. G'svis today upon
qle oning By Vsrlress as to the charges
sgsirsl BAliuger during the p'riod b.
lWeen his retiguatl0n rs commissioner
add appointment IS secretary Of the it,
tsrIor, said: "HsviDg been commits
.ioner and knowing the condition of the
Alaskan coal cases, be deliberately rep.
resented the coal claimants themselves
1hich WAS contrary to an act OF Con-
gtesS."
A rule suggested by Senator Bailey,
have the dhlIy Seuate ssssiO0s tegirs
t two p. M, instead of noon as st
present, seems to have a good prospect
In adoption. The argument In favor
OF the plan Is that 1t would
give senators more time for committee
I'D departmental work. The commit
co on rules hiss the matter under con
siderstion and is di'posed to favor It
II the rule Is adopted the Senate will
probably stop the practice OF aunounc-
Ing ell petitions, Few bills aud resoln-
lions Fin open session aud will simply
send them to the clerks desk Gs is the
custom Ia the H use.
A suggestion that negotiations looking
o a tariff between the The United States
and Canada was conveyed to Gfett
Britain today In q note from the State
D spariment. The commGnics'ions e.
dressed the soliCitude of President TAFT
over the tariff relations between the two
countries snd his deaIre, In view OF the
friendly relation t1at have always
existed bstHeeu the United States
aud Oanads, to have the question
settled befUre March 81 whom the
msxinum clsuse of the tariff law BE-
comes automatically operative. so iaf
there has been no move on the part Of
Great Britain to take up Dego!it tons.
Chairman Knapp, Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, appeared before
the House commi lie on interstate COM
I! merce today and shot tle Townsend sd
| minIstra:ion bill full Of hoIes, Knapp Sug-
Sested tina, the powers OF the new com'
merce court be limited to those already
possessed by the United States Cinu /
Oyuus, and, instead Of allowing single
ia jge on that bench to ttly an order OF
taeIInterslsle Commsrce Commission, 10
nquire 8 ajyrity OF the court for such
action. Knapp also thought that the
bill was lane on the paragraphs relating
to tle prob billion against railroads &C
quirIug t CT IN competing lines. The
commission, Knapp thought, should be
give 12O Gags instead q, 60 IS the bill
provides, fcrth suspension OF rates u -
der investigation; and, IN the matter Of
fixing through routes over oint rail and
water lines, the bill ties the hands OF the
Commission Instead OF allowing 1t to free
the public from TIE exactions OF the COM
biuations that sgs frequently formed
During the progress OF Kospp's t.Sti'
mony II was developed thst neither the
cour.s of the ltry nor the Interstate
Commerce Commission have given 40
ga horitatIye defnlIion OF The term
"compt ting line."
VITA the demoCutIin Congress frank'
~ admitting ths! they i'll md to get
as much political capital as possible out
of the situation, republican leaders are
giving a good deal Of serious thought 10
The proposition of the president that
here be g special appropriation OF $780,
600 to make the publicity feature OF the
corporation tax Law effective. Although
Chairmsn Tawney says tbtt the matter
will come up In it, regular eoutse, the
Indications are thst cit Ter the democrats
or the IDtu gents will force the issue,
Champ Clarke says when 1t does come
I'd. he will utilize the occasion to reopen
TIE whole tirif question. The insurgents
ere getting their heads together, ard 1t
would not be IurprisIDg II one OF their
numter would introduce a bill for tle
dasI,ad appropristiou shOlld the re-