Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-15
MEMBERS BEGINNING TO MAKE
PLANS CONCERNING vAcA-
TioNs AND LECTURES.
TWO MORE TARIFF BILLS
DUE FOR CONSIDERATION
Wool and Cotton Schedules to BE Re-
ported on BY House Committee -
Democrats Map Program For Re-
n,aindsr Of ssssion-Will Put Cues
ton UP to Senate.
Especial Correspondence

time since congress convened in extra
ordinary session mem bers of the house
and senate are beginning to make
cation. These plans are, Of course, sub
ject to revision, but leaders in the
house and senate who have put their
heads together have reached the con-
clusion that it will be safe to make
engagements which will take them out
Of Washington not later than July 10.
The ways and means committee will
report only two more tariff bills to the
house. These are cotton and wool.
Some time ago there was feeling that
the committee should bring in re-
vision Of the steel and sugar schedules.
but this suggestion is now becoming
less and less insistent. The brief spell
Of hot weather which has already pre-
vailed In Washington has done much
to dampen the ardor Of members who,
during the cold weather, announced
tfleir willingness 10 remain, ii Wash
ington until the extra session met in
head-on collision with the regular ses-
sion next December.
Democratic Program.
AS mapped out by the democratic
leaders in the house the wooden sched-
ule win be brought into the house the
last week IN May. Chairman Under
wood Is expected to ask for an agree
ment that general debate on the bill
be limited to one week and that a vote
be had before the first Of June.
Following the wooden schedule will
come the cotton schedule The demo-
cratic leaders hope to put that thru the
house after week OF general debate.
This plan would keep the house busy
ON tariff legislation until a few days
after the first week in June.
With these two schedules sent over
to the senate the house leaders plan to
wait a reasonable length Of time for
the upper branch Of congress to DEM
ongtrate to the country its unwilling
ness 90 enact any tarin legislation be-
yond that contained IN the Canadian
reciprocity agreement This waiting
process. 1t is expected, will consume
about two weeks. At the end Of that
time there will be a few we'll chosen
speeches on the democratic side OF the
house. delivered for the purpose OF
calling the country's attention to the
fact that the senate refuses to do 'busi-
nesa Tn the case Of the speeches deal
ine with the wooden schedule the ut
terances OF President Taft VIII be used
with great 1ibera1ity. There will be
quotations from the speech delivered
by the president at Winona- shortly
after the passage Of the Payne Aldrich
tariff act. It was in this speech that
the president criticised the wooden
schedule and declared that while he
desired it's revision the entire tarin
legislation would have been defeated
by the powerful influences behind the
wooden interests.
Fortified BY Taft's Words.
with the democratic position thus
fortified by the words Of a republican
president. the leaders in the house will
he ready to adjourn. There is no dis
position on the part Of Speaker Clark
or majority leader Underwood to wait
out" the senate and to refuse to con-
cur in = resolution Of adjournment
While President Taft has given assur-
ances that he will not exercise his pre-
rogative to adjourn congress upon the
failure OF the two houses to agree up
on the Ga-r OF adjournn ent, the demo-
cratic lecilers are of the opinion that
III CT nothing could be gained by
rem aiming in Washington after the
senate had made evident Its unwilling
.e.s to consider legislation sent over
blythe democratic house. In the first
place it would be extremely difficult to
keep a quorum in Washington. and in
the second place there would be prac-
ticaNy nothing for the house to do but
to adjourn twice a week for an
indefinite time. For these reasons it
has been practically agreed by the
house leaders that the plan which will
be most satisfactory to members Of
congress and TO the country will be
to adjourn after the senate makes 1t
plain that It will not enact legislation.
It is the general opinion that this dis
position viii be perfectly clear not
later than July Is.