The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-14
Proposed to Kill Bill

It is proposed by the opponents of the bill. if Mr. Daizell, who is one of them, does not shut them out, to offer amend It is planned to suggest such amend ntcnts as are recognized as thoroughly democratic in order that democratic votes may be obtained. The democrats, of course, understand that such amendments are offered for the purpose of making the measure impossible at both the White House and the Canadian foreign office, and they will be guided accordingly and vote them down in order that the Mccall bill may remain as 1t is presented by the President. A majority of the House be- ing for reciprocity the struggle of the Cannon-D Dalzell machine will be short lived and by the middle of the week Rep resentatives Underwood and Mccall will have the bill through the House and Tn the hands of the Senate finance commit tee. There the situation changes and It is the plan of the committee to hold the bill as long as it is able. The committee consists of 14 members, nine of them be- ing republicans Senator Aldrich, the Peprose, Cullom and Lodge are counted for the bill and Senators Hale. Shoot and Flint against it Senator McCumber is wsvering Like all of the republicans, he is against 1t. but may be brought around by the President with the four others.
 Of the democratic members, Senators Money and Stone are for the bill, and Senators Bailey, Simmons and Taliaferro are against it. It will then be seen that the committee is closely divided and a favorable report depends upon the Pres ident bringing to bear sufficient influ- ence on McCumber, Hale, Shoot and Flint to compel a change of votes. The Pres ident came back from his western trip early in the morning and was ready at the White House to greet the first caller with his smile "Talk of optimism was the Presidents instructions. He started the ball rolling by telling everybody that the bill couldn't be beaten, that, the re- publican party was for 1t, and that he expects to have it on his desk for ap- proval by the first of the month. What the President thought when he heard how majority of his party had deserted him on the House roll call in the early after noon was not stated at the White House, but there was the usual extra session talk with the reply that hot summer in Washington would be as hard on the President as the congressman.
 Washington, February 13.-(Specia1.) Representative Taylor, at the request of Tom White, chairman of the Mardi Gras executive committee, saw General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, today. and as a result the United States troops now at Fort Morgan will be ordered to Mobile for the Mardi Gras.
 ; Washington, February 13.-(Special.) ) President Taft will give state dinner tomorrow night in honor of Joseph c. Cannon, sepaker of the House of Rep resentatives.
 This is the last time the speaker will ever be the guest of honor at a White House dinner, as the presiding officer of the House. After March he will be a plain gentleman from Illinois. and for the next two years Champ Clark of Missouri will wield the gavel This makes the coming speakers din ner more interesting than any previous ly given to the Illinois statesman. It will, in a way, be the valedictory of Mn Cannon as speaker of the national House. He will, of course, hold his high position until March 4, and will be a member of the next Congress, but tomorrow nights dinner is intended as a sort of farewell to the veteran legis- latOr /