St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-05-17

oliver, Page. Perkins, Richardson,
Smith Of Michigan, nInoOt, Stephen
son. Sutherland, Townsend Warren,
and Wetmore, all republicans, and
Bailey, Simmons, Foster and Cham
berla;n. democrats. Total, Al for the
bill and 43 against.
Therefore, if the bill was allowed
to come to a vote today without
amendment &c would probably pass.
The chances are very strong, tho,
that a vote never will be mad on this
bare question There is an even
chance, growing stronger every day,
that it will be amended by demo-
cratic and insurgent movement to
add sundry items to its present free
list, or by attaching the free trade
bill to it as an amendment. Both
factions and parties contain numer-
Gus members who will make these
attempts and who will fight to the
very last ditch to either kill it OF
amend it. which means the same.
Considering the very slight nominal
majority that the bill may now have,
and the unprecedentedly bitter at
tack which will be made on it by both
parties in various ways its fate is
certainly a matter of the gravest
doubt
In any event. the free list bill as it
passed the House will never be con-
sidered by the senate unless it comes
before that body as an attachment o.
part Of reciprocity. 1T will be lost
sight of next winter in the broader
scope of schedule revision, which viii
include and overlap it. Of course it
was passed by the House AS dare
to the senate, with no expectation
whatever that that body would seri-
ously eonsi1 er it. I his can also be said
with entire truth of every tariff bill
that the Elouse has touched at this
session.
Will Not Spread Work.
The temper of the senate very de-
cidedly indicates that it will seriously
consider nothing except the subject
for which congress was called in ex-
ira session, reciprocity, except the
senatorial election resolution, as
above, With these two out Of the
way by some or any action congress
will adjourn and GO nome. The
House, as I nave just pointed out,
does not expect action on anything
else, and will then quickly agree
with the senate to adjourn. Every
body is now anxious to get out, and
all are waiting tor the senate to cut
the two knots of reciprocity and the
election resolution.
The senate was in session only
six hours last week, adjourning from
Thursday to today. The House has
not been in session since Monday OF
last week, except a part of that day
and go minutes Friday. 1t does not
meet again until Tuesday, when it is
expected to take UP the bills admit
ting the two territories of Arizona
and New Mexico as states. On these
subjects three days are given to gen
eral debate, and a vote is expected at
the end of the fourth day. This
means that the bill admitting these
two territories will be passed some
time this week. 1t is rumored that
the House will report the wool SEIZED
ule. and after it the cotton schedule
and will railroad through the House
whatever crude free trade measure
the committee may make of each.
The committee has once announced
that 1t would not report these
schedules at this session, but possibly
its hand will be forced by the more
radical free traders of the party into
forcing them through. This is only
another dare" to the senate, which
it will calmly ignore.
j. e. HARRIS.