Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-30
REPUBLICAN, PEACE PREDICTION
SENT OUT FROM WASH.
lNGToN.
HARMONY TO FOLLOW.
LIMITING SPEAKERS POWERS
Retirement Of Aldrich and Hale Also
Removes Stumbling Blocks to RePub-
Ican Peaee-Insurgents in House and
Senate Ready to Enact Desired Leg
islation.

Washington. April so.-Danger of
permanent split in the republican party
seems to be over, according to senate
progressives and house insurgents. The
forthc oming withdrawal of Senators
Aldrich and Hale from public life, the
taking away of all real power from
the speaker, the certainty that the
present session il to work out some
sort Of a tariff commission proposition
satisfactory to the central west, and
the growing desire of both progressives
and insurgents to unite with the reg
ulars in both houses to enact into law
the bills which the president is urging
as party measureS-these are some OF
the signs pointing to party harmony
The prediction is now made that the
terms "progressives' and insurgents
in their present meanings. will be obso-
lete before the end of the present cam
paign, and the republican party will be
in position to make a united showing
against the common enemy.
This is the view of President Taft
who is closer to the situation in all its
phases than any other man in Wash
ington. 1t is the view of such regulars
as Chairman Tawney, of the house ap-
preparations committee; Of such pro-
gressiveS as Senator La Toilette.
There is to be a party revolution
but 1t is not to result in the breaking
up Of the republican party, and the
formation of new party on its ruins
Rather it is to bring the republic
party more or less closely into touch
with the main things for which the
progressives and insurgents are con-
tending-as to the tariff, trusts. rail-
roads. etc.-and give it over to leaders
representing those things The pres
ent leadership in both houses, of course
is to pass away, as the forthcoming re-
tirement of Aldrich and Hale indicates
There Is still an opportunity for the
present session of congress to go on
in a way that will bring success
in November" said Senator La Fol-
lette. But make no predictions as to
this. All 1 say is that the signs are
now more hopeful than they have been
for long time, and that a good deal
of the gloom that has been hanging
over the party is beginning to lift"
Would Help Tawney.
AS showing how much is depending
on the tariff commission proposition
which is to be attached to the sum
dry civil appropriation bill, the words
of Senator Clapp will be of interest He
says that IL the plans OF Representa-
tive Tawney with regard to the tar
i'll commission matter should work out
as he believes they will. II will be pos
sible for regulars and progressives tc
go into the Tawney district in Min
nesota, and there work together fol
Mr.. Tawneys return to congress. Mr.
Clapp, for one, will expect to helr
Tawney in every possible way follow
ing the adoption Of the tariff commits
sion idea by congress.
These signs are all important as
hearing on the question Of party har-
mony They show the tariff commits
sion proposition 10 be the keystone Of
the harmony arch. and Mr.. TawneJ
doing his best, with the support of the
president and many other public men
to put that keystone in place.
On the question of this tariff com.
mission, Mr.. .Tawney said:
Il do not know how successful We
shall be in framing a section which
will Withstand a point OF order in the
house. 1t is against the law for an,
of the great appropriation bills to carry
new legislation of general character
These bills are supposed to confin'
themselves strictly to the making O
appropriations for certain well defined
and understood purposes. Whenevel
one of these bills undertakes to provid,
for new legislation. a point Of ordel
always lies against the particular sec
ton in which the proposed new legisla'
ton is carried. On that account W.
LIZ <o ~
the language we shall use in the tariff
commission section of the sundry civil
bill"
Suppose point of order should b.
made against the section and sustained
by the chair" Mr.. Tawney was asked
I'VE shall then ask for a special ruiz
for the consideration of the section"
DO YOU understand that such rul,
would be given"
II do. The members Of the commit
tee on rules, am informed, are friend
ly to the proposition, and we shall ex
pect them to give us q rule, provided
we are unable to get by the point o
order just referred to-"
TN any event, you expect that Their
will be some genuine tariff commission
legislation at this session."
Undoubtedly
Tine language you viii employ Il
the sundry civil bill, with a view t,
escaping a point Of order, will not b.
the language Of the law as 1t will g
to the president for APPROVAL"
Up to the Senate.
IT think not. We shall 90 as far a.
we dare in the house. That will leav'
the question open in the senate, which
may elaborate the tariff commission
idea as it pleases, depending on thu
way the majority Of the senate feels
I shall expect the senate, therefore
to extend the section as 1t will hav'
passed the house. This will place tn
| work of drafting the exact languag
Of the tariff commission proposition OF
the committee on conference which
will adjust the differences between tn
| two houses on the sundry civil bill"
"Who will be the republican mem
bers of that conference committee?''
F.! "Mr. Perkins for the senate, Judg
walter l. Smith and myself for tn
house"
| Senator Aldrich will not then b
| one of the conferees?"
"No. The sundry civil bill Is pre-
pared by the appropriations committe
lin the house, and is referred to the ap
tpropriations committee Of the senate
(which will have jurisdiction over
lin that body. Mr.. Aldrich is not
member Of that committee. The con
Heroes are always the two ranking re
t-.Sn.~.. ana Tho v.anti0D deu1ocraf