The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-24
Vote Will Be Taken Thurs.
day and the Substitute
Offered by La Toilette
May Be Passed.
HOUSE TO DEBATE
COTTON SCHEDULE
Lorimer Committee Will
Resume Hearings Today;
Attorney General to Be
Heard by Committee.

VAT ASHlNGTON, July 23.-The
NM removal Of Canadian reel
Wv procity from the congressional
stage has-left things at the
capital in decidedly mixed condition.
The senate will launch into the wool
tariff fight tomorrow but it IS antici'
pated the discussion will not stick
closely to wool but will run the whole
gamut of tariff revision.
The house Democrats will caucus
Tuesday and the cotton tariff bill, with
their Endorsement, is expected to come
into the house Wednesday, The house
is going to pass its cotton tariff meas
ure, but the fate of the wool bill il
the senate still is matter of eonjec
ture.
Democratic leaders in the house arc
skeptical as to whether the senate will
pass any of the tariff bills now before
it. They have tried TO obtain definite
information from senate leaders as TO
what will be done, but little is forth
coming.
Situation Uncertain.
The senate situation refuses TO un
ravel. Democrats want Il wool rcvi-
sion and so do the Republican insur-
gents, but they cannot agree OIL the
kind. The Democrats want TO pass
Democratic measure if possible, but
above all they want to pass some KIND
Of a bill. in the hope of embarrassing
the president, who has characterized
the Payne.Aldrich wool schedule as
indefensibie.
If they cannot get their own bill
through, the Democrats may support
the La Toilette bill. which was defeat
ed Saturday as an amendment to the
~ ~ l,,,f S,h ,r,ilI
again this week as an independent
measure, With Democrats and insur
gent Republicans united, the La Fol
lette bill might easily be passed.
But at this point the parliamentary
bugbear intervenes. The Democratic
wool bill is officially before the senate
and the La Toilette bill must come in
ms a substitute. Under the rules the
substitute must be voted on first. If
the Democrats vote for it they lose Il
chance to vote on their own bill: and
if they vote against 1T, they confront
the certain defeat of their own meas
ure on the next vote
Either the Democrats who favor
adopting the La Toilette bill in order
to be sure of some revision Will win in
a Democratic caucus this week or else
it will be determined to put the wool
revision In again as an amendment to
the free list bill,
Vote on Wool Thursday,
The wool bill vote comes next Thurs.
day, by agreement; the free list vote
the following Tuesday. August l.
If the wool bills are both voted down
on Thursday. the subject probably Will
come back as 80 amendment to the free
list bill. The Democratic leaders much
prefer, however, that President Taft he
compelled to deal with the wool revI-
sion as a separate and distinct PROPOSE
ton.
Senator Poomerene Of Ohio expects
TO secure definite action tomorrow on
his resolution instructing the attorney
general to begin criminal prosecutions
against officers Of the Standard Oil and
American Tobacco companies.
Democratic Leader Underwood cN
poets The house debate on the cotton
bill to begin Thursday and run four or
five days The senate Lorimer election
committee will resume its hearings to-
morrow. The house investigating com"
mittees will be active part of the week.
Tomorrow Attorney General Wicker
sham will be heard by the house Judi
ciary committee on Delegate Wicker.
sham s charges of deliberate failure to
prosecute Alaska coal contract frauds.
The house steel trust committee Will
resume work tomorrow and meet Thurs
day in New York City. The house
"sugar trust" committee is in New
York The Controller bay, Alaska,
land inquiry is dormant.