Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-01-25
INSURGENTS ARE
OBSTREPEROUS
TROUBLE ARISES OVER NAMING
BALLINGER-PINCH
COMMITTEE.
HOUSE HEARS ROOSEVELT ROAST
Taft Addresses the Governors as my
Dear Fellow Sufferers."-Says
Much Good Can Be Accom-
pIished by Them.

Washington, Jan. ia call has
been issued for Republican caucus
Of the house members to select the
house members of the BallingerPin-
chot investigating committee
The call stated that the house
members" would be named, which
many people believe foreshadows an
effort to defeat Representatives James
and Rainey who were selected by the
minority members.
Much Importance attaches to the
language of the call as it signifies to
what extent the Republicans may go
IN getting committee satisfactory to
the administration. The insurgent Re-
publicans are divided as to what
should be done in the caucus with re-
ference to Representatives James and
Rainey.
The seed of descord had been sown
by the sharp practices to gain Demo
cratic advantage involved in the sug-
gestion that the Democrats, without
consulting the Republicans, regulars
or insurgents, would insist upon nam
ing Messrs. Rainey of Illinois and
James of Kentucky. This was regard
ed by some of the insurgents and all
the Republicans as party tactics and
plan was inaugurated by the Hayes
faction to bring about the selection OF
Borland of Kansas City and Mitchell
| Palmer of Pennsylvania as more dis
tinctly representing the sense of the
house for a fair and impartial investi
cation of the Ballinger-Pinchot mat
| tiers.
The insurgents are not entirely
agreed upon Representative Madison
of Kansas as their member of the COM
mittee and so strained has the stua-
ton become between the insurgent
factions that eight or nine of their
number have declared that they will
not follow the suggestion of President
Taft as mediator and go into the Re-
publican caucus
Probe Endorsed BY the House.
Without debate and by viva voce
vote, the house adopted the confer
ence report on the Ballinger- Pinchot
inquiry resolution and then devoted al
most five hours to further discussion
of the urgent deficiency appropriation
bill. Consideration of this measure
was not concluded.
The session was somewhat enliven-
ed by criticisms of former President
Roosevelt by Representatives Harri-
son and FitzGerald, of New York, the
former denouncing him for appointing
representatives to the third maritime
conference to be held at Brussels next
April without due authority of the
law and the latter because of his al
legged numerous violations of the civil
service law
After cleaning up the calendar by
passing about 40 bills, the majority of
them being of private character, the
senate adopted resolution requesting
the secretary of the treasury to ad-
wise the senate if newspaper reports
/ were true that the customs house at
! today in observance of the annivers
airy of Gen. R. E. Lees birthday.
In welcoming the conference of gov
ernors at the white house, President
Taft INDUCED in little good natured
? speculation as to how the English sys
v TEN of executive authority might work
: in this country, especially with re
v spect to giving the executive the right
to argue matters out with the legis
: lative branch and GO before the PEG
pie if necessary. He said he would
0 like to have heart-toheart talks witt
some of the governors as to theil
methods of procuring legislation.
e 81 would especially like to ask Gov
ernor Harmon how he manages will
= Democratic legislature out in Ohio
n said the president. II can assur,
him." added Mr.. Taft, that there arr
struggles even when you have a con
: gress which nominally is of your owl
: party.
! There is no use mourning owe
our lack of the English system of gov
= eminent in this country, for we car
never have it; but you governors, a.
Il we'll as l, have felt at times the injus
J tlce of criticism which comes to tn,
i executive because of the lack Of tn,
English system"
President Taft addressed the COVER
nors as my dear fellow executive!
and fellow sufferers" and said il
part:
when you were here before Mr.
Roosevelt. think, extended to 20,
the hospitality of the white house, ant
the meetings were held here, but thos,
meetings were so fully his, in thu
sense of being called by him, that i
seemed entirely appropriate. wherea
now, l hope, this is movemen
among the governors to have som
sort of permanent arrangement tina
shall bring them here without sue
gestion from any one but the Cover
nors themselves.
II feel that this is the beglnnin
of conferences which are certain t
lead in the end to an adjustment c
, state legislation that shall make on
country capable of doing so muc
more team work in the public goo
than we have before thought po
sible."