Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15
Entire Credit Due Him for In
surgent Truce.
PARTY CAUCUS IN CONTROL
Committee on Rules Loses Power
Under Harmony Plan.
STATEMENT BY MR.. HAYES
Declares Agreement in No Way At
fects the Main Issue of Control
of the House.

II seems to I've the pretty general opinion
that entire credit for arranging the truce
between the regulars and insurgents or
| the House of Representatives.. which Was
| finally consummated Yesterday, as an
| nounced i'm The Star, should go to Presi-
| dent Taft IL IS considered an indorse
ment of the Taft smile AMI the Taft har-
mony program. People who have been
sneering about that same smile and that
same ever-present desire for peace are
keeping quiet today Even they are
| forced to realize that Mr.. Taft's methods.
| in this particular instance at any rate.
turned the trick.
| But more important even than the fact
that peace OF a more or less permanent
| character has been established with re-
spect to the recently warning factions in
the House OF Representatives is the an
| nouncement concerning future control OF
the House of Representatives by fire.
Quent caucuSes called to pass on all big
legislative propositions. Carried out to
its full limit-and this is the idea the
President Is understood to have in mind
the committee on rules. for years the ALL
powerful group of men which has con-
trolled the destiny OF legislation in the
lower branch of the national legislature.
will be shorn of a great deal of its power.
and that power vested directly in the re-
publican majority.
Thinking It Over.
Today the regulars and the insur-
gents are thinking this proposition over.
They want to get clear idea of just
what it will mean. Anyway IL goes the
organization cannot be particularly pleas
ed. as. while the caucus is the handspring
OF the republican party. yet control OF
the House by this method. which, some
OF the old-line republicans say. may cas-
lily be overworked. is somewhat of an
other thing. The insurgents, at first in
clined to DE Jubilant, are calming down
a bit and beginning to realize that while
this control by caucus proposition will
enable them to have a bit more latitude
In the preliminary yelling. yet clamps
them to the organization. or rather 10
the mapority. just as securely when the
time for voting comes around.
1t was quite apparent before the House
met yesterday that the efforts to bring
about a compromise which had been
eXerted from the White House for the
past week or so-in fact, ever since the
insurgents and democrats trimmed the
regular organization on the vote on the
Ballinger- Pinchot resolution, a week ago
yesterday-were about to be crowned
with success. Finally matters were
brought to a head when Representative
John Dwight OF New York, the repub-
lican whip of the House. gave out a
statement, the substance of which was
published in yesterdays Star. announcing
that q truce had been arranged; that the
insurgents had been promised fair treat
ment in caucus. and that they would
stick with the organization on all strictly
party questions. This announcement was
followed by the statement from the
White House printed in yesterdays Star.
Statement by Mr.. Hayes.
An hour or SO later Representative
Hayes OF California, who has been chas-
ing back and forth between the Capitol
and the White House for the last few
days. gave out statement of the atti-l
tude Of himself and his colleagues. &c.
follows:
ut is true that an understanding has
been reached that We shall attend the
caucus which will be held for the choice
of the republican members Of the Bal
linger-Pinchot investigating committee.
THE question of future conferences is
one on which there has been no agree
ment: in fact. j had no authority from
my associates to enter into that ques-
ton.
"Of course this agreement in no way
affects the issue as to the present system
Of control Of the House OF Representa-
tiveS."