Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
CONGRESS.
Defeat in Sight fol-
Root Amendment.
Whole Tariff Question Near
Open for Long Debate.
Wool Tariff and Free List Bills
To Form Basis for Fight.
Expected Distinct Defining Of
Republican Insurgents Course.
La Toilette Busy Over Amendments
to Reciprocity" Measure.

Washington, June 25.-The Root
amendment to the wood pulp and paper
schedule of the Canadian reciprocity
bill which the administration has been
fighting as fatal to the agreement, I'M
doubtedly will be defeated before the
Senate adjourns tomorrow, the DEM
ocrats and many of the Republicans
who favor reciprocity. having openly
opposed the amendment.
With this amendment, on which the
reciprocity struggle for some time has
centered, out of the way, the tariff
debate will assume a wider scope. The
wool tariff and the free list bills, as
the Democratic House passed them,
do not in their exact terms meet the
approval of the Democratic forces in
the Senate nor that of the Republican
Insurgents, but they form the basis for
the fight that is to bring Canadian
reciprocity and the whole tariff ques-
ton into the open for a protracted de-
bate. The extent to which the Insur-
gent Republican senators will be in
clined to &c is expected to be made
clear during the tariff discussion this
week. So far only Indefinitely outlin-
that they favor all the valuable tariff
reductions that they can squeeze out
of the situation. Some of them have
asserted their readiness to put onto the
reciprocity bill any amendments they
think susceptible of successfully
threading the legislative and executive
channels. even in the face of the Pres
ident's veto threat. There is a decided
lack of Democratic support, however,
for the proposals that the Insurgents
have limited at. Senator Bailey will
fight for an amendment of the Cana
dian agreement to exempt from free
trade the products of the farm, but
while he will have some Democratic
and much Insurgent support for this
plan. il is not expected TO prevail.
Senator La Toilette is working on gen.
eral amendments that he will offer to the
reciprocity measure and to the wool and
free list bills. He is determined to lead
a hard fight for a general plan of re-
vision of the more important schedules
of the tariff law. The direct election of
senators will come up again early in the
week The House has voted down the
Bristow amendment attached to the bill
and has asked for a conference on the
measure The conference committee of
the two houses is expected to be named
within a day or two.
The Senate also will receive the terri
tories bill passed by the House early in
the week. The territories committee APP
proved the bill as passed by the House.
admitting Arizona and New Mexico with
out the approval of their constitutions.
A minority report probably will be filed
by Senators, Belson. Lippitt and Burn
ham. There is a possibility of the bill
being taken up during the week as a re-
lief from the tariff debate.
Awaiting a clearing up of the present
situation in the Senate and more definite
knowledge as to whether tariff legislation
which the lower branch may originate
will have any chance of passage by the
Senate, the House this week Will prac-
tically mark time. The "sugar trust
committees investigation will continue
with President Joseph f. Smith of the
Mormon church a witness tomorrow and
the subcommittee of the ways and
means committee will go ahead with the
preparation of measure providing for a
revision of the cotton schedule of the
tariff law
The week is expected to be a crucial
one in the investigation of the Senator
Lorimer case. 1t is probable that Clar-
ence S. Funk. general manager of the
International Harvester Co, may be call
ed tomorrow to repeat his story that Ed
ward Hines, president of the Edward
Hines Lumber Co, had asked him tc
contribute $4,000 to a 100000 fund alleged
to have been used to put Lorimer across
at Springfield"