The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-08-04
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Washington, July 29, 1911.

schedule that passed the Senate by com.
bination OF Democratic and Insurgent
votes was practically settled by semi
othclal announcement that the President
had decided TO veto it. The stand.pat-
| tiers who called on the President all urged
him to take this course, and he is said to
have assured them he would do SO. no
matter what the effect might be on his
own political fortunes.
The President and the stand-patters, as
well as Democrats and Insurg nts, be-
lleve the veto will seriously affect the
Presidents popularity throughout the
West, where the demand for tariff revi-
sion is strong among men of all parties
This is why the President and the regular
Republicans in the Senate were so anxi-
GUS for the defeat OF the attempt to put
through any sort of bill revising the
woolen schedule, and why they are now
SO angry and peturbed by the success of
the Democratic-insurgen combination
That success, largely due to the dogged
determination and indefatigabe work of
Senator LaFollette, greatly strengthens
the insurgent cause and gives new i'm
petus to the movement on foot to push
the Wisconsin Senator for the Republican
makes certain that the split in the Re-
publican party will not be healed and that
If Taft is the nominee of the regulars. he
will be deserted by thousands of Western
Insurgents, who will either put LaFolette
in the field as their own Presidential can
| didate, or, failing in that, will turn to the
candidate OF the Democrats, provided he
is progressive.
Ea I ,cfD
cations that will have to be made to catch
the votes of certain Insurgents, was pass
ed by the Senate Just as the Wool Bill was
passe d. That is the program upon which
the Insurgents and apparently all of the
progressive Democrats have agreed.
The bill, besides putting the more i'm
portant farm implements on the free list
to compensate the farmer for whatever he
imagines he will suffer by reason Of Cana
dian reciprocity, also takes care of the
consumer generally by putting meats,
flour and lumber on the free list
The Insurgent plan is to take meats
and flour out of the bill, but to leave
lumber in. In addition the Insurgents
plan to add a few more things to the free
list, with the hope of sending to President
Taft such bill as he cannot consistently
or with political safety veto. In fact the
Insurgents and the Democrats believe
that the Free List Bill stands better
chance of becoming law than does the
Wool Bill
Because they, like the Democrats,
would rather have the people get the re-
lief which is contemplated by the Free
List Bill than embarrass the President
politically by sending him the bill in such
shape that he would be certain to veto it,
the Insurgents have revised their program
about offering as amendments TO the Free
List Bill their revision of the steel and
iron, chemical and other schedules. 1t
NAV be possible that these proposed re-
visions will be tackled to the Cotton Bill
when that measure comes from the House.
They may have to promise Senator Bris-
tow that SO much of his proposed sugar
schedule as aims to take out of the law the
Dutch standard and other provisions
which alone are said to make the sugar
monopoly possible in this country will be
accepted.
Representative Lindbergh, of Minneso-
ia, is in earnest in his efforts to have the
House investigate the Money Trust"
He was before the Rules Committee at its
meeting and urge the immediate passage
of his or similar resolution. In discus
sing the matter he said:
81 have gone far enough in my investi-
CATION to know that there is Financial
Trust. | do not now assert that there is
a combination made for the vcry purpose
of creating money and credit monopoly,
but do assert that our banking laws are
such that the practice under the laws has
evolved MONOPOLY
'The main thing wish developed is
full understanding of the practical man
agement of finances of the big controlling
institutions with headquarters in New
York, so that in revising the banking
system it ray be done in full daylight
view of the actual conditions"
Kahdeen and Be-Be-S Shank, young Chip
pewa girls who can neither read nor
write, testified through an interpreter be-
fore the House Interior Department Ex
penditures Committee that they sold tracts
of $50 acres of land, allotted to them by
the Government, for 5000 each.
Under the law, only adults may dispose
of their allotments. The girls are two of
three brought here as witnesses in the in
vestigation Of alleged frauds perpetrated
by land agents in gaining possession of
large tracts of mineral and timber lands in
the White Earth Indian reservation, Min
nesota.
The Government received 81, 288, 2o6. 90
in premiums on its recent $50, ,ooo, 900
issue of 3 per cent Panama bonds.
The average price paid by bidders was
Io2 5764, figure slightly below that at
which the securities now are being quoted
in open market. The highest price paid
to the Government was los. so and the
lowest Io2. 2I67.
In postal savings banks established in
second class offices, up to June 3o S777,-
74S had been deposited and $Ioo. o74 with
drawn The average amount OF the 26,-
$50 deposits, June 80, was $57.57. Today
Postmaster General Hitchcock extended
the postal savings system to so additional
second-class post offices.
A bill prohibiting the employment in
any capacity Of persons under IS years of
age by the Government or any Govern
ment contractor, and providing that spe-
cial delivery letter carriers shall not be
less than IS years old, was introduced by
Representative Berger. of Wisconsin, the
Socialist member.