The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-06-20
Washington News
Items of Interest From Our Cor
respondent, George w.
Summers.

OCVdtS III inc I1OuSc continue 10
put in the time in the considera-
ton of measures Of Importance ia
the entire country, While the Sen
ate is frivoling away it's time
with no presnt prospect of con-
sidering many of the bills which
have already been sent over from
the House.
The Republican majarity in the
Senate is responsible for this sit
uation, the Democrats and es-
pecially thos from West Virgin
la having repeatedly urged action
on the part of the Senate and
voted against tho frequent adj
journment of three days at a
time. Whether the Senate will
agree to take up any measures
other than reciprocity is ques-
tlon and it may be that the reap
portionmeut bill will not even be
passed, 1t begins to look as
though the Republicans are afraid
to pass the reapportionment
bill lest it should provide
for new Democratic members.
They are believed to be in favor
of letting the present apportion-
ment go over till after the next
election lest the new appotion-
ment should make it easier for
the Democrats to elect q majority
Of the next house.
.k&
The present week should see
the end of the debate in the
House on the wool schedule md
the beginning of the debate in
the Senate on the reciprocity
bill When the debate in the
Senate on the reciprocity bill will
end can not be foretold, but
there is opposition to it and the
debate will be long drawn out.
The chances now are even against
its passage at all. The Senate
may eventually pass the bill with
amendments, but Democrats of
the house have served notice on
the Senate that the House will
refuse to agree to any amend
ments unless the entire bill is
open to amendment and that
would defeat the purpose Of the
agreement entirely.
~
The Insurgents in the SEM e
have disagreed among thems, Ives
and have divided in their support
of Presidential candidate. 1t
was supposed that thew would ,e
solid for Senator LaFollette for
then omination, but some of them
have declared themselves in fav-
or of the denomination of Presi-
dent Taft. Even Theodore Roos-
evelt has been quoted as saying
he favored the denomination of
Mr.. Taft anu with the recent de-
fes6on from the LaFollette ranks
it would seem that the Insurgent
Republican will again be over
whelmed by the "Old Guard"
and they will be without any in
fuence in the next administration
as they have been in this one,
without even the right TO name
postmasters in their own state.
This will be a great dissapoint-
ment to Governor Glasscock, Ex-
Governor Dawson and others of
that element of the Republican
party in West Virginia who had
hoped to turn that state over to
the Insurgents and deliver its
vote in the Republican national
convention to LaFallette and
against Taft. The failure of the
Iasurgent move will leave the
same old crowd in charge Of Re-
publican politics in West Virgin
ia, with Scott Debating the Fed
eral appointment at present and
with the State committee as usu-
al debating the State nominal
tons. The efforts of the Repub-
leans to purify their own party
in West Virginia have signally
failed and now that the Insur-
gent element in the nation has
failed to reform the Republican
party in West Virginia from the
control Of the same old elemen t
which has dictaood the nom.na-
tons for so many years and pre-