Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
.1HE. BREACH ND[NS"
SENATE REGULARS DETERMINE
TO FIGHT INSURGENTS
OPENLY.
ALpRicH FoRMULATEs PLANS
70 ExrERMiNArE REBELS
Claim. Of Sufficient Pledged Votes to
Accomplish Purpose Are penied-ln-
sursents Claim Delay Of Vote on
Rail Measure Indicates Fear Of De-
feat-Aidrich Warns Of Defeat.


Washington, May 5.-The republican
factions Of the senate have reached
definitely and finally the parting OF
the ways.
The regulars" formed today. unde'
the leadership of Senator Aldrich OF
Rhode Island, an organization designed
to wage a war of determination upon
the insurgent and radical insurgent
propositions and %ostensibly to support
as a unit the policies of President Taft.
It is a bold tactical move. the purpose
of which is to place upon the recall
citrant progressives the blame for fail
ure, if that should occur. of congress to
enact the Taft legislature program. IL
has enlisted the approval of the presi-
dent, so far as it relates to the passage
of the measures in the shape in which
he submitted them to the two houses
at the beginning of the session.
Aldrich Claims Forty-Seven Allies.
Senator Aldrich claims that forty
seven republican senators have agreed
to follow his lead, this in spite of the
differences of opinion as to various
features which prevail among them.
The insurgents, on the other hand,
who during the day emulated the reg
ulars in the number Of conferences
held, claim his. number is exaggerated,
but they confess to. a feeling of con-
Germ as to the ultimate result, especial
ly in view of the extreme radlcallsm OIL
some of the. men in their own ranks.
: In a word, the situation in the senate
has reached the stage of that In the
house just prior to the overthrow Oh
Speaker Cannon. Either insurgency Is
destined to receive a serious dow OF
the leaders of the body are doomed TO
overthrow. 1t is a realization OF the
imminence of the decisive battle thai
has caused Aldrich and his lieutenants
to attempt to make a compact orSanl-
cation which will fight to the last dl'ch
and give no quarter. Defeat VIII nleah
an insurgent triumph of greater signin-
canoe than that which vas achieved IN
the house.
Delay Shows Regulars Fear?
That there is some basis for the IN
surgent contention that the
claimed by Aldrich does not exist is in
dicated by the purpose OF the regulars
to defer a vote Upon the railroad Dill
until next week. In the interim they
will put backbone in the weak. and
assert the president will help them in
the work. AS soon as MIR. Taft re-
turns the regulars will hold conferences
with him and explain the situation
more in detail than has been possible
over the long distance telephone.
The fact that after such a commune
cation yesterday, Senator Smoot sought
a. conference with the insurgents. is ac-
cepted as indicating that the president
is still counseling Cancellation. What
he wants is the legislation he has rec
commended passed by the republican
majority.
Speaker Cannon reiterated there was
no longer such a majority, or, to use
his exact language, a working repubh-
can majority" any more in h SEN
ate than there is in the house.
Aldrich Warns Of Defeat.
Senator Aldrich is Of a different
opinion as a result of the organization
effected. At the conference, which oc-
Cured in his committee -oom, he gave
the regulars" a grim description Of
the possible political effect Of their ap-
parent defeat at the hands OF the in
surgent" republicans and democrats in
the fight over the traffic agreement
section of the administration railroad
bill. He asked his associates whether
they were ready to submit to DONNA
ton by such a combination.
Any such surrender. he warned them,
meant the failure of the Taft policies
and the downfall of conservative con-
SrnY -o+ or1r, ~ nnn0rovS h1If in tho
republican party generally.
Some one reminded Senator Aldrich
that the senators then and there gath
cred together were not in agreement
on all points. Whereupon he replied
that they must get together and agree
to stand together and let the details be
secondary. Otherwise, he said, con-
gress would adjourn without a single
item of the Taft program accomplished.
Will Grab In%sursent Plans.
The entire tone of this conference
was belligerent as toward the "insur
gents This was the dominant note:
Let us get together and stand as a
unit against every insurgent PROPOSE
ton. If the insurgents propose any
thing good, we will take it V bodily
and put it thru as u own; II they
propose anything bad, we will stamp it
put"
Practically all Of the insurgents in
the house were disposed to attribute
the split in the party to the alleged
intolerance of such leaders as Speaker
Cannon and Senator Aldrich. Poin-
dexter, Of Washington, and Hayes, of
California, both of whom are identi-
fled with the insurgent wing, declared
their belief that the party could get
together If Cannon and Aldrich were
Eliminated. Victor Murdoch, of Kan
sas, put it differently. He said.
81 think that Aldrich and Cannon
are not in line with either the party
or the people, but we are going to
work out these great legislative prob