Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-28
House rs We'll as Senate to Present
Strong Opposition to .Measure-Mi-
nority Reports Probable in Both
6ranehes-FinaI Vote Will Be Close.

would like. but as far as he thinks it
will be possible to go and secure leg
| islation.
Opposed to this bill will be a part
of the republican insurgent forces of
the senate demanding various import
ant amendments. The two sides are al
| ready preparing for debate which for
length, stubbornness and ability, will
perhaps equal the debate in that body
when the Hepburn bill was up several
years ago. Senator Cummins will lead
these forces, as he is the author Of the
bill which was introduced as an Offset
to the administration bill
The opposing republicans are now at
work on their speeches. as are also the
friends of the pending bill, and the
| controversy will begin in a short time,
or practically as soon as the postol
savings bank bill, now the unfinished
business of the senate, can be disposed
of, which will be in the early days Of
March.
The senate will pass some kind Of a
| railroad bill, but whether it will be the
bill that has just been reported from
the Elkins committee is a question
Minority Report Likely.
The house is also to have its troubles
with the administration railroad bill.
The house committee is still consider
ing it, and will perhaps not make re-
port for some time. Its members are
wrangling daily over important pro-
visions, and showing quite conclusively
that they will be unable to agree, and
that their report, like that Of the SEN
ate committee, will be in several sec
tons. Who of the republican members
of the committee will sign minority
report Is not yet quite clear, but it is
safe to say that if the commerce court
provision remains in the bill, Chairman
Mann and Representative Stevens of
ST. Paul. will join in a minority report,
and will lead a fight on the floor in
favor OF their position.
The committee devoted practically
an Of it's time today to discussing the
proposition being urged by Representa-
tive Kennedy OF Ohio, to make export
and import rates the same as the do
| nestle rates. The question is an i'm
portant one, and touches the question
of protection. The import rates are
such that goods from Europe can be
brought to this country and laid down
in Minneapolis or Chicago for less than
it costs to carry the same goods from
New York to Minneapolis or Chicago.
The extreme high protectionists are
saying that rates such as these tend to
break down or at least to invade the
| principle of high protection, and they
| want congress to accept the Kennedy
provision.
Kennedy Leads Fight.
| This fight is being led My Repre-
sentative Kennedy because he repre-
sents a district which is rich in pot
| terry, iron and steel manufacturing
plants.
Members of the committee from the
central west, and members of the house
generally from that section are saying
today that they will not stand for an
| increase of the cost of foreign goods
thru an artificial increase of freight
rates. Rates are high enough in the
Payne law, they say, and profits great
enough, and they will resist any at
tempt to extend further protection to
| the pottery and iron and steel people
| in the way outlined. If there should
be votes enough in the committee to
attach the Kennedy provision to the
administration bill then that bill will
be bitterly fought on the floor Of the
house.
! Representative Stevens of st. Paul,
4 white ldSOIluS IdlIIOdu iS6lSIdtlOAl al
\ this session of congress, says he could
not support the administration bill if
it were to carry the Kennedy provision.
1.-THE Kennedy people are entirely
honest in their demands" he said, but
that doesn't alter the fact that those
demands represent the sublimation of
self1shness. If the Kennedy provision
were adopted the Minneapolis mills
could not make their present new ex-
port rates on -four to Great Britain
while the Minneapolis people buying
Belgium pottery would pay price
much greater than the price they are
paying at present, because the existing
low import freight rates would be
knocked OUT
An attempt on the floor to stiffen uI
the Payne tariff law in the indirec,
way would stir up a matter that might
attract more attention than anything
that was done during the tariff session
of last year.
Commerce Court Stirs Dispute.
One of the stumbling blocks in the
house committee is the commerce court
which the president is demanding. Per-
sons who think the president doesn't
want this comemrce court, and tina,
he isn't going to bring all the pressure
possible to bear in its favor, DON
know what is going on.
J Several of the sessions at the White
House Friday and Saturday with re-
publican members of the committee
were almost stormy in character and al
all of them the president expressed
himself with vigor and decision.
AS the result of these conferences IT
! now appears likely that the bill as II
: will be reported to the house by the
committee will carry the commerce
court provision. But the committee vii
be divided All Of the democrats will
vote against the provision as matter
. of party requirement. In all proba-
bility they will be Joined by two re-
Dubiicans, Representative Mann e Chi
cago. chairman OF the committee, and
Representatives Stevens Of st. Paul
. The other republicans of the commit
Z tee will do all the president wants t.
, but In several cases this will be will
reluctance. With this lineup, the bill