The Green Forest tribune., 1910-04-01
SENATORS PLAN
 LINE IF WORK
Steering Committee Has Practi-
 calIy Agreed Upon Legislation 0 to Be Carried Out.
PRESIDENT NOT SATISFIED?
 Rumors Around the Capitol That the Chief Executive Is Not to Have N All He Wants-Leaders Pre-
 pairing for CampaIgn-Party
 Factional Troubles.

shington.-Members of what is known as the steering committee of the senate practically have agreed upon what legislation shall be put on its passage In the upper house at the present session. Naturally MT. Ald- rich, being the leader of the Repub- lican majority Is the chief member of the steering committee, and as most of the other members are in sympathy with the Rhode Islanders s views, it goes without saying that the committee itself comes pretty close to being all-powerful.
 President Taft has been informed of tFe committees desires in the mat ter of legislation and it Is said by those who are close to him that he Is not altogether satisfied At a recent meeting of the committee only two measures were discussed in detail, al though sanction was given to one or two other measures which will be taken up for committee study some what later
 It has been said the chances are that the senate leaders would make concessions to the Progressive Re- publicans on the bill providing for amendments to the interstate com merce act. It Is now practically as- sured that some of these concessions will be made In the hope that they will be sufficient to make the insur- gents yield and to join the regulars in putting the bill through with some thing like unanimity AS Is pretty well known President Taft seems to think that in harmonious party action on the chief administration measures lies the principal hope of Republican 7 victory at the polls next November. The Democrats in the senate believe that the concessions which MT. Aid rich is making and will make later to the Republicans who are led by Sena- tors Cummins and Clapp will not be suff cient to make the middle and far |. westerners come into the harmony Hcamp. Harmony was secured on the Npostal savings bank bill, but now it is being intimated that the senate lead Eaers expect the house to make such changes in that bill as will nullify the effects of the yielding of the leaders in the upper house.
 s Accused of Playing Politics.
 # In other words, the Democrats are saying that the Republican leaders in the senate gave way in some matters simply to get harmony in their own ranks, believing fully that the house would take care that the concessions made in the senate would not be ap- parent when the bill finally becomes a law.
 It will be remembered that Senators Cummins and Clapp, in their minority report on the, interstate commerce bill, took exception to the provision which puts into the hands of the at torney generals force the government defense of all actions taken on appeal to the interstate commerce court. The senators in opposition to this provi- sion say that the attorneys for the Hhippers and also law officers working under the interstate commerce com mission ought to represent the gov efnment before the court, because they are we'll informed as to all the details of the commerce cases from the time of their inception. It is un- derstood that the leaders will yield in this matter to the insurgent de- sires.
 Seeking Public Opinion. ' Representative William B. McKin- .ley of Illinois, chairman of the Repub- :, lican congressional committee, is get n ting first hand information of politi- d cal conditions throughout the coun- n try Some time prior to MT. Me- ye Kinley's departure from Washing 2. ton, Representative James T. Lloyd of s Missouri, chairman of the Democratic congressional committee, went all through the middle west trying to find I. out what he could about the political n sentiment
 Before he left Washington some faMf days ago MT. Mckinley had long ck ksiference with President Taft Of { cd<trse no one was allowed to know Ss just what the president said to the Re " publican congressional committee's E chairman, but there are hints that the s;l president again declared it would be is bad policy to make any discrimina- stions as between Republicans who are trying to secure reelection to the lower house. Once on a time, 1t Is said with MT. McKinleys sanction, T letters were sent out by the Republi- can Congressional committee which in tone and temper were not to the liking of the so-called insurgent Re publicans. This kind of letter wri- ting has been stopped, for the presi- -dent would not sanction it, and now \ the material that goes out is what may be called Straight Republican" doc a trine.
 Concerning New Tariff Bill. 4 Of course it will be necessary, or at feast 80 the ruling powers in the Re 3publican party declare, to defend the DPayne-Aldrich tariff bill on the stump during the coming congressional cam