Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
SENATORS TOLD TO GET BUSY
Practical Ultimatum Sent to Upper
House by President.
PLEDGES MUST BE REDEEMED
Carter, PenrOse and Crane Are sum-
mOned to the White House and
Asked About Postal Saw
inKs Bill.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-President Taft
read in the papers Friday that the senate
was marking time while the mouse is strug-
Cling with the various appropriation bills.
So he sent~for Senators Penrose of Penn
~sylvania, Crane of Massachusetts, and Car
ter Of Montana and asked why 1t would
not be a good thing for the senate to get
busy" on some of the measures ne. has
recommended. Senetor Aldrlch, being abb
sent from the city, was not included In the
summons,
The president preached the subject OF
the postal savings bank bill. All three of
the senators thus to the White
House this afternoon are members of the
committee on postoffices and postroads.
Mr.. Penrose is chairman. Senator Carter
is sponsor for the measure. But some SEN
ators, 1t was suggested in reply to the
president, are not warm advocates of postal
banks. In fact, 1t was said that such
states as Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
great ~strongholds of savings institutions
are not at all In favor of the scheme.
But, the president argued, the republican
platform called for postal savings banks,
and surely the senators were going to re-
deem the party pledges.
House Is All Right.
But what about the house? This was
propounded as a poser.
President Taft is said to nave assured
the senators that they need not worry
about the house. 1t is said that there is
every reason to believe that the house is
coming around all right; tina its members
are coming to the president for the very
good reason that they ave no other place
to 80.
1T Is a case of water running down
hill" said one Of the presidents callers
today. He does not nave to go to the
regulars or the insurgents, either. They
have got to come to him. Every mar on
Capitol hill is looking for another term
and he's got to have something to go before
the people on. Congress has got to do
something and all the republicans, regard
less of the fight against Cannon or the
rules committee, are going TO vote for Mr..
raft's measures"
So it happened when Messrs. Penrose,
Crane and Carter left the White House,
the latter acting as spokesman for the
trio, declared;
'sThe postal savings bank proposition will
become a law st this session"
The postal banks, however, will not be
the first of the Taft measures considered.
The president ranks his recommendations
for changes in the interstate
law as Of first Importance and he so
indicated his position to the senators this
afternoon.
The president told his callers also that
he regarded at least one of the oonserva-
ton bills he has recommended to congress
as Of prime Importance. This is the bin
TO validate the withdrawal OF lands con-
tanning water power sites. coal and phos-
pilates. The laws as to the disposition Of
these lands can be worked out and
threshed over At the convenience OF con-
gress.
The important thing, the president be-
fieves, 10 to validate the Withdrawals
which are made under the former admin
istration and under the ten months OF the
present administration under the shadowy
power Of the secretary Of the interior.
The president want this power 70 be
made unquestionable. The vaIuahle Alaska.
coal lands are included in the withdrawal
which Mr.. Taft is anxious TO have vaIi-
dated.
Senator'S Penrose. Carter and Crane took