New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-12
ACTIVITY IN THE SENATE
To Vote on Direct Elections OF
Senators To-day.
RECIPROCITY NEXT IN LINE
Agreement Must Run Gamut OF
Speechmaking-Hot Weather
It's Friend.
ITrom The Tribune Bureau. ]


Washington, June l1.-After dallying WIN
legislation for upward Of two months tne
Senate Will begin this week to show signs
OF real activity. The resolution to amend
the Constitution TO provide for the direct
election OF Senator's will be voted on To-
morrow. The reciprocity bill will be re-
ported on Tuesday. and the Lorimer in-
vestigatng committee, anxious TO comple'e
the task before il. will begin the examlha-
ton Of witnesses before the end OF the
week
The proposed amendment 10 the Consutu-
ton providing for the popular election OF
Senators will probably be adopted. but NOT
in the form in which It was approved py
the House. II Is expected that the Bristo"
amendment, retaining in Congress authort-
~ 10 supervise the elections az 10 time'
manner and place, will be adopted. This
in effect. reduces the question TO the one
point whether Senator'S shall be elected .!
the people Of the several states. IN tliis
form the resolution will not be supported
by Southern Senator'S with the same @eai
with which they welcomed the idea OF hoId'
ing elections entirely as they pleased WIN
out fear Of federal interference. IKE
change of heart will be evident IN the
House when the amended resolution comes
back TO II.
With this question out Of the way an
effort viii be made. probably with success,
- make the reciprocity bill the unfinished
business. II will then be In position 10
run the elongated gantlet OF speech mas
ing. The friends Of the measure, cohndeh'
of its massage. are not disposed TO contrib
ute TO the debate They propose TO give
me opponents q free field. In these tactics
they have the weather with them A num-
her of Senator'S are preparing broadsldes
against reciprocity bur, with &he thermom-
erer up in the nineties. heated oratory u
FAR from being a diversion. and as result
the discussion is likely TO be curtalled IL
the meteorological conditions do not change'
The bill has a sufficient number or sup
norters 10 see that the race does not slack
a.. and. II necessary. TO set the hour OF
converting forward 10 II o'clock instead OF
Henceforth warm weather may be SAID
- be as good for reciprocity as II IS TOT
corn
With reciprocity on the ways. the Demo
Gratis are looking about 10 see what is 10
become Of the other things which the IN
dustrious House has passed or is likely 70
mass What 70 do with the Farmers Free
List. which is something Of white ele-
phant or the hands OF the Senate minority
IS one problem which is TO be settled dur
ing the week AS the Democrats vary IN
point Of view from protectonists TO free
traders. so the measure is held in various
degrees OF affection or distrust.
AS a means OF wooing back the farmer
for the ina gined injury that may be done
him by reciprocity IN which light 1t was
evidently conceived by the Democrats IN
the House it is not looked upon as very
effective bit of legislative strategy. At the
same time, the Democrats are Disconnected
By the disntegratlon of the La Toilette
band Their hopes for tariff revision nave
somewhat dimned. The insurgents can
consistently oppose the proposed woolen
schedule on the ground that it was made
for the moment. and has no scientific
basis, and is. consequently. in opposition
TO the idea OF tariff commission. On
this point they agree with the President
How long reciprocity will occupy the
centre Of the stage, 10 the exclusion Of
other questions, depends upon the weather
and the endurance of those opposed 10 It.
There is beginning 70 be faint hope that,
after all now that work has been begun,
II may vet be possible TO adjourn before
the end OF summer
Whether the Democrats Of the Ways and
Means Committee will take up revision of
any other schedules. such as sugar and
steel, will depend. Of course, upon the
length Of the session.
There is a probability that We will I'M
dertake TO revise other schedules after we
have passed the wool bill and drafted
cotton bill" said Mr.. Underwood. chair
man OF the Ways and Means Committee,
to-day If the session continues until late
into The summer o. until fall we might as
well 20 ahead with our tariff programme.
After cotton. the sugar and steel schedules
would naturally be discussed.
But. If the Senate. is going TO get
through with reciprocity and refuse to
take any action on the farmers free list
and the woollen schedules, then a recess
probably will come, and our work can go
over until next winter"