Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-25
CONGRESS Is WORRIED
MEMBERS WITH CAMPAIGN ON
HANDS FEAR "Do-NoTHlNG"
EFFECTS.
HOUSE TO HOLD CAUCUS
ON SEVERAL MEASURES
President Will Veto Postal Savings
Bank Bill if House Adopts Senate
Amendm ents-Taft Opposed to Cut
tina Out Bond Provision-Railroad
Bill Travelling Rocky Road.
Especial CORRESPONDENCE

Especial Correspondence
| Washington April 25.-As the result
of recent conferences between the
president and senate and house leaders
| it is expected that caucuses OF thA
house republicans will be called before
| the session is much older for the con
sideration of the postal savings panh
bill and the anti-injunction Dill. inns
is the plan favored in the talks between
the leaders and the president.
! The legislative situation is giving the
White House and the leaders in both
houses concern. In the first place, the
pressure to get home on the part OF
/ mem berS of the house and senators
who have campaigns on is getting
! strong While some of the leaders are
/ accused Of being lukewarm and in fact
hostile TO the presidents program OF
! legislation, most of the republican
members of both house and senate
want to see something done SO that
| they will not be compelled to go out
! and admit to their constituents TINS mas
i been a session of much talk and no &C
| ton.
! No end of trouble has been expert
| enced with the postal savings Dill ana
| the anti Injunction bill in the mouse.
The president is insisting on Legislation
on these matters The leaders nave
| told him of the difficulties. The eau
Gus plan is looked on as the best way
| to settle differences. 1t is expected that
caucus for the consideration OF the
nh
called in about two weeks. In the
meantime, the house postoffices com
mittee will make no report of a postal
savings bill to the house and will, II
possible, have the caucus settle 1t.
Caucus Plan Has Opposition.
But the caucus plan is going to eX-
perience difficulties. Some of the house
republicans DO not want to go into eau
Gus on details of an important bill.
They point out that they are likely to
get tied up hopelesslY on details for
which they would be blamed in their
districts 1t looks now as if a number
of republicans will stay out of the eau
Gus If one is held on the postal savings
bill. The same is true, tho probably to
la less extent, on the ti-injunction
bin.
AS it has been from the first, the
great sticking point on the postal saw
ings bill is whether the postal savings
funds shall stay in the communities or
be removed to a small number of large
institutions. President Taft does not
like the senate bin as it passed. He
especially does not like the Borah
| amendment which would prevent the
investment of the postal savings funds
in government 2 per cent bonds Talk
is coming from administration quarters
that he will veto the bill If passed SO
the per cent bonds are excluded from
the securities in which the postal saw
! irigs funds can be invested.
Final Fate in Doubt.
Between the difficulties of the postal
savings bill in the house committee
and the trouble it will have in caucus
! it is hard to tell what will come of 1t.
| If the caucus plan goes thru, that win
prevent any attempt on the part Of the
| insurgents to start a movement to get
I the postoffices committee discharged
from consideration of the bill If the
house passes the bill in such form as
to draw the money in postal funds
away from the communities where it
| belongs the senate is likely to refuse
to accept it.
| One possibility is that there will be
a deadlock between the two houses
over the form of the bill.
Rail Bill Dumping the Bumps.
| The railroad bill is not getting along
as we'll as it's best friends could wish.
The senate debate is progressing SLOW
ly. Every point is taken up and dis
| cussed at length. The house is also
taking its time on the railroad debate
The differences betw een the house bill
and the senate bill will be wide when
the measure goes to conference. The
I.house contains a strong element OPP
posed to the interstate commerce court
and it will be close question If the
house sanctions the court provisions.
Talk that the president may veto
the river and harbon bill has stirred up
a good deal of discussion in the house.
In case the president does veto this
measure. there will be serious consid-
terationr of the question of passing 1t
over his veto. The feeling about the
/ house, in river and harbor committee
and commerce committee circles, how
! ever, is that the president will not veto
the bill and that he Will find on careful
examination Of 1t 1t is not pork bar
rel" bill In the sense in which some
former bills have been of that nature
Publicity Bill to Pass.
Under the surface, there Is a belief
that the campaign publicity bill is
going thru. It has always heretofore
been the case. that Senator Burrows
was able to hold bills on this subject
in the committee on privileges and
elections. But now the democrats and
part Of the republicans In the commit
tee are favorable to reporting the bill
out. Senator Bailey is bent on forcing
1t out Of committee II need be. Under
the circumstances, it may be allowed to
leone out of the committee without q
struggle and be passed by the senate.