The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-25
END OF SESSION
is NOT IN SIGHT.
Deadlock Between House and
Senate Likelihood Of
Midsummer.
MANY MATTERS INVOLVED
There Is Disposition to Amend
Reciprocity Bill in Upper
Branch.
MANY MATTERS INVOLVED

Washington. May 2i.-DeadIock.
hard and fast. between the House and
senate is a likelihood of mid summer.
IN the opinion OF leading Senator's and
Representatives OF both parties. The
present shaping of legislation SEEING
The House and Senate may lock
to them to point that way
horns on every important legislative
proposition. not even excepting Cana
clan reciprocity. Wide differences Of
opinion and divergence of political
and economic policies lead to this con-
clusion
The suspicion is well grounded In.
the minds of many Senators and Rep
resentatives that there is a growing
disposition In the Senate TO tink CT
with the Canadian reciprocity bill and
add amendments until that measure
shall be rendered practicall, inefec-
tive.
Such action would be highly objec-
tiona BILE to the House That body
passed the Canadian reciprocity bill
In good faith. A that time 1t was
thought that without doubt the SEN
ate would accept II and that Canadian
reciprocity would be made operative.
with great deal of the credit inuring
TO the Democratic party.
The old guard of the Republican
party In the Senate Is apparently In
tent upon killing reciprocity If pos
sible, More ominous still is the fact
that some Republicans who would
have favored reciprocity If 1t had come
to vote last session are showing in
dications of a change of heart.
II the Senate should amend the bill
vitality the deadlock would proba bly,
come over tho report Of the conference
committee. The House. It is thought at
this time. would refuse to agree to a
conference report. even If the con-
ferees presented one, which would
scotch reciprocity.
a deadlock over the Arizona state
mood bill is regarded as not unlikely
As the bill passed the House the prin-
ciple of the recall of .the judiciary Is
to be in effect submitted to the voters
of Arizona, and IL approved by them
Is to become part OF the Constitution
and Arizona admitted as State Thus
by indirection the recall is made pos
sitle. 4#t
The Republican majority in the SEN
ate any many of the Democrats of that
body are unalterably opposed TO any
possibility of the recall being embed
led in the Constitution of Arizona
They are In harmony with the
amendment offered in the House yes
terday by Mr.. Mann, providing for the
immediate admission of Arizona upon
the striking out of the recall provision
from her Constitution. In the House
thirty three Democrats voted with Mr..
Mann. and the proportion of Demo
Gratis. of the same. mind Will proba bly,
be even greater In; the Senate Many
Sena tors do not see how 1t will be pos
stble to avoid deadlock between the
two houses over this proposition.
The Free List Dill.
When 1t comes to tariff revision It is
absolutely certain. Republican leaders
say, that there will either be dead
lock or the House will Yield. The Re
publican leaders do not entertain the
remotcst idea of acting upon the
farmers free list bill" which the
House has passed and sent over to the
Senate. That measure proposes such a
radica! change OF the tariff and such
form of the last Republican national
convention that the leaders will refuse
10 1cauiesce.
The proposed revision of the wool
schedule. which the House Democrats
are TO take up in earnest in their eau
Gus of June 3. hasn't the ghost of a
show of receiving the attention OF the
Senate at the present session.
Republican Senators are no; dis
mayed over the prospect of the country
holding the Senate responsible for non
action. They regar dit as less than
the alternative evil of the Republicans
of the Senate assisting in making good
"a Democratic program for the political
benefit OF the Democratic party