The sun., 1910-05-05
HELP FOR The RAILROAD BILL
SENATE REGI Lars HtIE ~
VOTES PLEDGED 10 TAFT.
NBpeaIs sI Party ENpedIenry New Being
Made 10 Near Insurgents Regulars
MAY lnlir Again WIN Democrats
insurgents Have q stormy Meeting.

IN Nne Neuhle mas utAen HuHpeuNeu Iif'tltliLk !
an effort by the regulars 20 regain control
Of the situation and preserve the party
organization No further test Of strength
ON the measure IN be risked in the Senate
before next Monday. BY that time Presi-
dent Taft will have returned Ia Wash
ingtOn 10 add bis Efforts to the heroic
attempts being made nov by the Senate
conservatives to bring some of their more
radical breathren in behind tine Taft
programme Of Legislation.
The Administration supporters are no
longer appealing for votes on the merits
Of the Taft railway bill. but have turned
To the probably more effective appeal Of
party expedienCy They were laboring
to-day In the Senate lobbies andcommittse
rooms with the near insurgents trying to
make them see that failure to enact the
Taft legislation az this session will mean
certain party defeat in the fall, with far
reaching edects upon Republican cam
paigns of the more distant future
Evidences we're not lacking that this
tack by the regulars was yielding some
results. Insurgents in both the House
and senate have been considerably So
bered in the last few weeks by Demo
cratic Successes and Il il understood that
a serious question has arisen among the
insurgents themselves a. TO the length
that they should go in opposing the Taft
programme of legislation
As usual senator La Toilette u Wis
consln is tho most radical IN his views on
the policy TO be pursued H. objects TO
accepting any reasonable compromise
Other insurgents ara willing % accept
reasonable CONCESSIONS from the Repub-
hCan organization A long conference
Of the insurgents was held this afternoon
and Il - understood that there were some
sharp clashes senator Cummins i- one
Of the insurgents " ho believes m acreptinE
reasonable concessions and euactiug az
good hlll a. possible
The Administration senators -lId to-
night that as the result of their days
labor they had forty-four senators
pledged 20 stand by the President on
the bin, with the exception Of the long
and short haul amendment II this is
true u will require only two Democratic
votes 10 give the regulars control Of the
situation. This statement. however. il
derided by the insurgents. who contend
that their strength Is unbroken
There were further indications to-day
of a disposition on the part OF Republican
regulars TO combine and work with the
Democratic minority os the only means
Of breaking up the Insurgent Democratic
alliance Yesterday the Republican Ad-
ministration supporters joined With
the Democrats In voting ont sections :
and Y u the It'll pledged by the Rrpub-
loan platform and advocated by President
TAFT They dh this A. the oniy way u
preventing the adoption u the Cummn-
insurgent amendment uu traiiic agree
m.ntt
To-day b. was apparent that the Rrpub-
hcln regulars are thIuking ~ uniting
with the Democrat again Iu support Of
an amendment tD the long and short
haul clause offered boy senator Paynter
~ kentucky. a Democrat Iutl to-day
the insurgents and Democrats have h@en
standing together on an amendment
offered bv senator Di1on uf Montana. a
near Iu.urgsnt. which provides that ia
uo nI~. shall railroad charge more Tor
a short haul than frr long haul over the
-tfn- uGr
The insurgents gUr w.ni of .h- rlmor
early .n tn" dav that fl- n-murr1t.
w-r. inrlin-d .o desert them and rtlud
Tor tlr Ilyut.r amendment with tl.
support ul enough EepII uDIH ..gU.ar-
ty insure t- adoption The insurgents
UIHrg- openly Il-n chat the support OF
such Ju lmruim'U' uy tu" rHglIr- Viii
uy merely part uf pIBu Co Hrpa, tho rutl-
ton between fu" IH.uuurtf- and fu. Iu.
-IrE.ut-
several Il r.s Republican regulars
showed au inclination today rH grGmUle
over tH. at-'.rrr oI President Taft from
Washington 90 this critical p-ruG 10 the
progress uf his legislative ur. grlwms
They -ly that tho present situation de-
mands Application of the parry whip by
the President Thus far Pres ldent Taft
has refused to mas" any threats n re-
prizal The Presidents disposition, % %
said. Is tp b. the responsibility fsll upon
the members of Congress
II looks now a. Il sections aud r. which
were dropped yesterday. end the three last
sections of the bill. which relate t1 IzsIs-s
Of stocks and bonds and which will he
dropped later. will b. incorporated IN an
independent bill that will be introduced
in the senate and referred 10 the Commit
tee on Interstate Commerce. No promise
has been made that such an independent
bill would h. reported favonably az this
session. The bill Il introduced will be put
forward az an evidence of the good faith
o. the senate leaders 10 carry out what
they conceive 20 be- tho pledges made IN
the Republican national platform
senator Cummins. who has been max
ing the most effective fight among the
insurgents In opposition a. the hill pre-
diCted to-day that vote on the measure
in the senate would not be- reached for
az least three weeks. Most ~ the regu-
hrz vOioad their fears that the senate
and HOUSE will bs unable o. agree in con
ference and that the legislation will be
left in the air when the session adIourns
Consideration n the Administra non
railway bill IN the HOUSE will be- resumed
Tomorrow Representative Mann II I'LL
nois who h In charge n the measure. ~
hopeful Of passing " tomorrow night or
Friday II a plan that h now being con
sldered by the Democrats h carried into
effect there will he a merry time when the
House comes 20 take up the hill on ia
final passage u has been suggested BY
Democrats that the minority should pre-
pare a substitute for the Administration
bill and get a vote On H. The belief Of
the Democrats is that the Insurgents would
shy az the Democratic MEASURE, thus
stultifying themselves In the eyes u the
country
1T LOUIs. May Information from
Washington that fOTty-four senators had
decided ~ stand 10y the railroad hill az
u is. with the pooling and merger pro-
visions eliminated reached President
Taft here to-day Tho President wa