Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-11
Body Will Meet This Morning to
Agree on Report.
REPRESENTATIVES, INSTRUCTED
Slightest Mishap at This Late Stage
Will Be Vital to Plans.
GOES TO THE SENATE NEXT WEEK
Friends EHcrtinE Every Effort TO Adj
vnnce IL RapidIy--InsurRents
in senate Likely to He
Opposed.
CFrom a staff Correspondent >


WASHINGTON. Feb 1O-(Specal Tele-
gram THE friends Of Canadian reciprocity
in the administration ranks and in CON
gress met with another disappointment to-
day when the house ways and means com
mittee postponed action until tomorrow.
This course Of the committee was some
thing of a puzzle to the open advoca'os OF
the bin. The confusing problem came when
democratic members of the committee. VINO
had been instructed by the party caucus to
vote for the measure, assented to a further
postponement
! To reach some sort Of comprehension OF
the intrcacies that involve the fate Of this
measure 1t must be borne in mind that a
majority of the ways and means committee
/ is openly and publicly committed 70 It's
support, yet in the face of this majority a
motion to further delay action for one day
/ is carried This may mean much or It may
mean little, but when II is remembered that
only three weeks remain to this congress
! Il is a fair inference that some of the pro-
! fessed supporters of the bill are not really
enthusiastic in it's behalf. Every ,lay of
delay in sending the bill to the senate ', ith
/ the favorable endorsement of the house
means another nail in the coffin. OF
reciprocity.
Favorable Action Expected,
The ways and means committee viii
meet tomorrow morning and Mccall and
the other members who stand with him
4 for the bill expect to get favorable re-
port ordered but as 1t will be the last day
OF the week they can hardly expect to get
the bill before the house until next week
then it must take the routine course OF
lapfqlaffon M ms lao aaHrppal daNy
before it gets to the senate
In the senate the measure must take its
regular course OF reference TO the finance
committee and there undergo due con-
slderation, Then. should II come from the
finance committee with favorable report,
the bin must come IN direct competition
as q matterSit cnesdpEation. with reg ular
appropriations bills actually required for
the support of the government To say
nothing OF the active and aggressive op-
position. these contingencies must all be
considered in estimating the ultimate fate
OF the bill While the lnsurgent repubH-
cans Of the senate. with two exceptions.
refuse to declare their fixed purpose to
vote against the bill. 1t is believed they
will array themselves against tine measure.
} Action In CommIttee.
The committee had the Mccall bill
embracing the terms of the agreement
under consideration for more than one
hour today. Mr.. Mann who favored the
wood pulp and print paper provisions, dis
cussed these features I'm detail The vote
in the committee tomorrow will be close,
but advocates Of the agreement assert
, confidently that the bill will be ordered
favOrably reported.
Mr.. Payne, chairman of the committee,
was too IN today to be present and Mr.,
Gains of West Virginia was detained by
other duties and at their request action
was deferred.
At the conference of democratic senators
today, no action was taken in regard TO
the Canadian reciprocity agreement. IL
was decided to adjourn to meet again
Tuesday. There was no discussion of the
tariff board measure. but resolution was
adopted calling upon the committee on
! rules to provide more commodious quarters
for the minority conferences.