The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
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POSTAL SAVINGS
President FOregOes Trip to
See Son Graduate
BIG SIZES THREATENED
senator Re Been summoned to the
wy 9 osouse and Told What They
It Do with the Postal
Savings Bank Bill


Washington, June 21.--Abandoning trip
to New Haven to see his son graduate
from Yale, and announcing that he would
stay In Washington ''all summer If need
be. President Taft today began his first
open fight with the United States Senate.
The postal savings bank bill is the
issue between the White House and the
north wing of the capitol. The President
has announced that the Senate must
adopt the house bill. Several insurgents
and some of the regulars are strongly
opposed to the House bill and rumors OF
q filibuster against the measure filled tht
air this morning. 1t was because of these
reports and the further prediction that
the absence of the President would be
taken advantage of so as to amend the
bill In the Senate and make Its passage
impossible In either branch of the ma
tional Legislature that the President de-
The fight over the postal savings bank
from now until the day of adjournment.
to be tacit agreement. It is-said, that
bill has many angles. The most interest
ing, perhaps, Is the fact that the measure
which the insurgents helped to frame
and fully approved in the House is round
ly denounced by the insurgents in the
Senate
President Taft has promised to stand
by the House measure and he believed 1t
to be a tacit aagreement, It Is said, that
In return for the acceptance by the
House of the Senate statehood bill, the
Senate would accept the House postal
banking bill.
The river and harbor bill. containing
some hundreds of items In which repre-
sentatives and senators are generally In
terested is still unsigned on the Presi-
dents desk and subject to veto. The
public buildings BILL affecting nearly
every state In the union, Is about to pass
the Senate and then will have to receive
executive approval before 1t becomes a
law and makes appropriations law
Mr.. Taft is said not to be unmindful Of
the influence of these two measures
Meantime the spectre of filibuster
threatens and Mr.. Taft is reported as
being fighting mad He summoned a
score of senators to the White House
today and talked to them with a direct
ness and forcefulness which left no
doubt as to how he feels about the mat
ter. The fact that sorns qf tho regulars
| IN the Senate are quietly working against
the measure has particularly aroused the
President and he is anxious that they
shall be put on record as early as pos
siblle.
Mr. Taft fatty announced today that
senator's voting against the House bill
would be understood to simply be oppos-
Ing any system of banking at all. and
therefore repudiating the party's platform
pledge in this respect.
Opposition to the postal bank bill come
first from the country bankers of the
middle west and they have been bonn
harding their senators and represent atives
with letters and kilograms ever since
the bill first came up. The second source
of opposition is from Nthe surety bond
group, or guaranty companies. These
companies want an amendment written
into the bill requiring banks to give in
demnity bonds for postal deposits. The
President is strongly opposed to the
proposition.
The general efficiency appropriation bill
was taken up in the Senate Immediately
upon convening today with the under
of the postal bank bill would receive con-
sideration. In addition to the general
deficiency. the postal savings bank BILL
the public land withdrawal bill. the
reclamation aid BILL the campaign pub
licity bill and the Appalachian forest bill
are to be put through. according to state
ments made by congressional leaders to.
day.
The Senate amendments to the House
bill to provide a uniform, system of bank.
ruptcy throughout the United States were
agreed to by the House today and the
measure will at once be sent to the Pres.
ident for his approval.