The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-20
WOOL SCHEDULE TO
COME TO A VOTE
At ONCE
Bristow Amendment Causing
Trouble for Direct Elections
HARRIS EXPECTS DEADLOCK
Correspondent Says Democrats are
Privately Against More Tariff
Tinkerlng.

Washington, June 19.-The republi-
can whip" Of the House has sent out
his official notices that every republi-
can member must be present tomor-
row-Tuesday-to vote on the wool
schedule of the tariff bill, and it is
also expected that the matter of ac-
cepting the resolution authorizing the
change in the constitution to permit
J OF the popular election of senators as
amended by the senate will also come
up for action It Is of course known
that the democratic majority in the
House is strenuously opposed to the
Bristow amendment which the SEN
ate incorporated into the resolution,
and it may send il to conference with
instructions to insist on the elimina-
ton OF the amendment. In this case
a deadlock is probable, unless vote
can be had in the senate to recede
from the amendment 1t will be re-
membered that the amendment was
only adopted in the senate by the
vote of the yice-president breaking
the tie, and the whole subject may be
fought over again when this point is
reached
Whether or not the House will
proceed in its tariff busting career
after the wooden question is disposed
of is not certain. In way 1t is
pledged to do so, as the caucus voted
that the House should confine its &C
tivities to that subject during the re
mainder of this session, but in pri'
vate conversation House democrats
assert that no more tariff adjusting
will be done until next winter, There
is considerable District legislation al
ready passed by and sent over from
the senate which will occupy their at
tention for while, and this, witt
the dozens of probing" commit
tees busily at work in every direction
may occupy their time until the sen
ate winds up the reciprocity matter
Then the whole outfit VIII pack VI
and 20 home Whatever the Hous
has thus far done or will do is onl.
in the way of filing in the time an,
getting so much start on the work o
the regular session next winter an
it is willing to let go whenever III
senate disposes of the work TO
which the session was called.
comes from the president that he wi
tolerate no further legislation afte
reciprocity is disposed Of this bein
the only article in his warning an
If there is any hesitation on the pal
of congress in letting go and gettln
out he will give 1t lift toward nom
which It cannot we'll disregard. Jul
such a condition of things as reclpr
city presents was never before know
in any parliamentary body since sue
bodies have existed. Picked up
the president and made an admin
tration measure it was at once mat
an official democratic measure ana
SO perfunctorily had to be made
fciaily a republican measure again
the desires and wishes and Dett
INDICTMENT OF large majority oil q
reppblicans in both houses of &C
eress. The like of such situate
was never before made manifest
mortal eyes.
The advent of reciprocity in &C
gress as an issue instantly gave t
democracy a tremendous adyanta
which they have not been at all sl'
in taking advantage of, They ha
accepted it gladly as an OPEN
wedge looking toward free trade, a
what is of equal political importar
they have fostered it as seriously
viding the republican party H(
ever as time has gone on, it is
question if such division as Il
have hoped for and which has up
recently seemed certain will actus
thus operate. Just now the oppo'
appears true. Although some Oh
House insurgents voted with the d
ocrats for the bill, as the session
progressed there has been dist
uni6cation OF republican forces oil
factions observable in that body
the senate the result of the preC
tation of the reciprocity question
actually reversed the former 81
ton. Many of the regular rep'
cans have swallowed reciprocity
willingly and against their be
Judgment solely because of their
sire to be regular" in the supper
an administration measure, while
insurgents, without such compel
reason, repudiate it as un-republi
In this re-allgnment the progress
as they prefer to call themselves
themselves hot standpatters, o'
no allegiance to anybody who W