New-York tribune., 1910-01-15
PARTY WAR HALTED
PRESIDENTS TRUCE.
Insurgents and Regulars to
Meet an Caucus.
TFrom The Tribune Bureau.


Washington. Jan. 14.-President Taft's
efforts to effect working agreement
between the House organization and the
insurgents for the purpose of electing a
satisfactory -Pinchot investi-
eating committee and enacting into law
his important recommendations, prom
ised in the Republican platform, have
been successful. He has obtained the
promise of the insurgent leaders and the
heads of the organization that a tenn
porary truce will be maintained and that
the battle will not break out afresh ex
cept in places where it will not menace
important party legislation or serve to
make political capital for the Demo-
Gratis.
So pleased with the assurances re-
ceived from both factions was Mr.. Taft
that the following statement was made
public at the White House this after
noon:
1t has been agreed between the regular
Republicans and the so-called insur-
gents, represented by Mr.. Dwight on the
one hand and Mr.. Hayes on the other,
after conferences with the President,
that a caucus should be held to pass
upon the question of the committee in
the Interior Department investigation.
with the assurance that the insurgents
II they came into The caucus would be
treated fairly and that a committee of
acknowledged impartiality would be ap-
pointed. A further agreement was fore
shadowed that caucuses should be held
from time to time, to which all elected
as Republicans should be invited, to take
up the various measures recommended
by the administration as performances
n p
caucus to be announced in advance.
FIGHT ENDED. SAYS DWIGHT.
Representative Dwight, the Republican
whip of the House, issued the following
statement:
The questions of the past have beep
forgotten. The tariff bill is no longer a
matter for discussion. The Speskership
fight is ended. The question of the rules
is not now an issue. We are confronted
with the problem of redeeming the
pledges of the Republican party to the
people.
Last Friday there was a vote in this
House which caused a Republican divis-
ion. That was a matter of no conse-
quence, and small subject in which the
people could have but little interest. But
it showed a division in the party. The
next day / saw President Taft and laid
the matter before him.
l told the President that the so-called
insurgents We're represented as being the
friends and supporters of the admins
tration and ready to help enact his
recommendations into law. | assured
the President that the regular Repub-
licans of the House were ready to do
likewise. We were prepared also to go
into caucus upon any proposition and
abide by the result. Were the insurgents
ready to do the same?
For the last two days conferences have
been in progress, and those who differed
from us last Friday are now ready to
sion reached there.
Mr.. Dwight was asked II any definite
assurances had been given to the in
surgents as to the treatment they would
receive in caucus
NO" he replied, except that they have
been assured of fair treatment. They will
not be Disseminated against
=. INSURGENTS STATEMENT.
At this juncture the Insurgents,
gathered in the room of Representative
Gardner of Massachusetts, issued an
other statement, saying that "an under
standing had been reached" This
statement, which was given out by Rep
resentative Hayes. follows:
1t is true that an understanding has
been reached that we shall attend the
caucus about to be held for the choice
OF the Republican members of the in
Vestigating committee. The question of
future conferences, however is one on