Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-05-06
CONSERVATIVES ORGANIZING TO
FORMULATE NEW ADMINISTRA-
TON PROGRAMME.
President May Be Asked to Take Part
in Assembling and 0iling the
Machinery.
soRTY-FIvE TO STAND TOGETHER.

WASHINGTON. .. c., Nav .
Forty-hve senators, all from the CON
sentative or regular wing of the Re
publican membership, are said to have
joined in the movement to formulate a
new administration legislative pro-
gramme. Two more are claimed as pos
itively, but the regular Republican lead
ers say they do not care to subject these
men to embarrassment by disclosing their
names at this time.
The new organization which was be-
gun Wednesday was made by the con-
servative Republicans in the effort to
maintain control of the Senate ma
chinery. Mutual concessions already
have been made and it is expected that
more will be required to carry out the
plans of the regulars. Much depends
upon the success of President Taft in
harmonizing differences that may arise.
May Use "Big Stick"
The President will be back i'll Wash
ington tomorrow. If he is willing to
swing the big STICK as the regular
Republicans say he is. the claims of the
regular organization appear to be Justl-
fed The work of the organization IN
lining up Senate members proceeded
| today with the understanding the Sen
ate would adjourn until Monday.
The forty-fve Republican conserva-
tives who have undertaken to stand to-
gether to establish firm control of the
Senate proceedings and put through
what remains of the administration pro-
gram, are as follows:
Buckley. Burnham, Burrows, Burton, Car
| ter. Clark (Wyo), Crane, Cullom, Curtis,
| Depew, Dick, Dillingham;, DUPONT Elkins,
| Flint. Frye, Gallinger, Guggenheim, Hale,
HOY hlr O.
| Cumber, Nixon, Oliver. Page, PenrOse, Per
| kins, Piles, Richardson, Root, Scott, Smith,
| Michigan; Smoot, Stephenson, Sutherland,
Warner, Warren and WetmOre.
As utterly impossible for the conserva-
| tives to reach, the regulars have classed
Beverage, Bristow, Clapp, Cummins,
Doliver and La Toilette.
Taft Is After Eight.
| The men on whom the regulars are
still working and who will receive the
attention of President Taft include:
Borah. Bourne. Brown, Burkett, Craw
| ford. Dixon, Gamble and Nelson. All of
| these men have voted with the insurgents
| from time to time. They have refused,
! however to be called insurgents and have
been found in the ranks of the regulars
at least half of the time.
1t was reported today, although no
| confirmation of the report could be OBJ
| tanned, that Senator Dixon would vote
| with the regulars as soon as the long
and short haul amendment to the rail
road bill was disposed OF. Senator
Borah. it was stated, would also join
in the line up for the Taft programme.
provided he were given assurance Of
| support for his bill providing for the
issuance of $3O,OOO,OOO in certificates of
indebtedness to provide money to com
plete reclamation projects.
| Senators Bourne and Nelson, it said.
| o1N1-
| if the new Legislative programme takes
! cognizance of certain measures favored
by them.
| The purpose of the regular Republicans
| is to get a majority of the Senate, so
| that the charges cannot be made that
| they formed q coalition with the Demo
Gratis TO put through party measures.
At the same time they claim they can
| count on certain Democratic votes when
| needed.
Taft Upholds Regulars.
| CINCINNATI, O., May 5.-President
| Taft passed through here this afternoon
on his way back to Washington. He is
due in the capital early tomorrow morn
ing and already has indicated his pur-
pose of devoting Friday and Saturday
| to important conferences regarding the
railroad bill.
That Mr.. Taft is heartily in sympathy
with the aggressive attitude of the reg
ular Republicans in the Senate in cast
ing aside all further attempt to VIII
back to the party measure the support
of the more radical insurgents" there
can be no doubt.
The President is said to feel that he
has been patient quite long enough il
listening to promises of insurgent sup
port in the Senate only to find ''tht
insurgent knife OUT for much of the
legislation he has proposed as a com
pliance with party platform pledges. Mr.
Taft is contemplating making speech
az Passaic n. J.. next Monday evening
if he finds the situation in Washing
ton what he thinks it to be-that vii