Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-17
TAFT MAY COME.
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shire, California and divers other
states furnishing a large product.
Senator Johnson has said nothing in
regard to his attitude on the matter
beyond allowing it to be announced in
the finance committee that he favored
the Root amendment. As far as
known he has no plans for making
any speech on the reciprocity bill but
will confine his activities to voting for
the BILL first with the Root amend
nent and if that is taken out, for the
bill without the Root amendment
Business is very quiet among the
Maine folks over at the House end
of the Capitol Sam" Gould is away
in Maine attending commencements
and looking after personal business.
Representative Asher Kinds won
golden opinions anew fer himself the
other day by the very excellent eulogy
upon the late Representative Amos l..
Allen which he delivered in the House.
1t was very thoughtful and appreci-
atiVe eulogy, more meritoriouS by FAR
than the usual run of those efforts. 1t
was q friendly thing on Representative
Kinds part to carry through the ar
engagements for exercises in memory
| of Mr. Allen as under the practice the
House does not eulogize members who
have died during the existence of a
previous Congress. Mr.. Kinds has
gone on a trip to Maine and that leaves
Representative d. J. McGillicuddy and
Representative Guernsey, the only
Maine lawmakers on the ground.
Mac" is over at the Senate a good
deal these days and he and Senator
Johnson have been putting their heads
together deal. The two Maine Demo-
Gratis voted in the House for q pro-
vision that is contrary to the Root
amendment. The House Democratic
leaders. including Speaker Clark and
Chairman Underwood of ways and
means. declare that the House viii not
Weld to the Root amendment, if that
amendment is adopted by the Senate.
That raises an interesting question as
TO whether Sam" and Mac" will
stand with the House leaders or
whether they will join the Republicans
and Senator Johnson in standing up
for the Root amendment, when ii
comes to conference, The pertinent IN
curry may not come to h head for.
Het-till the Senate votes on Canadian
reciprocity. The Maine Democrats in
the House will have plenty of time to
think about what they will do on that
burning question OF course if the
Senate votes the Root amendment
down the Maine Democrats will noi
be embarrassed by having 10 vote on
the question again when the people of
Maine have come to know something
of the significance of the Root amend
ment
The impression grows here thar
President Taft may make some in
cursions into Maine during the late
summer or early autumn. He has am
nouneed that he will make a cruise
along the Maine coast sometime before
be starts away on his autumn trip
into the West and It is understood that
he is not averse to. journeYing up into |
the Kennebec Valley and into Central |
Maine, perhaps as far as Waterville |
He has made no decision yet but it |
is known that he rather likes :he idea |
of visiting some of tie cities on the |
kennebec.
DR.. Woodbury. Pulsifer, clerk of the |
commerce committee. Of which Sen
ator Frye is chairman, has gone to
New York for a month. With the de- |
parture of Senator Frye for Maine,
the committee is taking up no meas |
ures at the extraordinary session and |
the meetings of the committee are all
most solely of the routine nature in
volved in the approval of presidential
referred there for report.
The Senate is gradually restricting
business as far as possible to the Can
adam reciprocity" bill, just as the
House is trying to do little or nothing
beyond the disposition Of the so-called
legislative program outlined by it's
caucus.