The Sentinel=record., 1911-02-26
TAFT READY
 FOR THE CALL
EXTRA SESSION WILL BE CALLED FOR APRIL q, ACCORDING TO
 AGREEMENT.
Clark and Underwood Ask Month in Which to Prepare Democratic Plans Said AIdrich Will Return to the
 Capital.

Washington, Feb. 25.--So probable Is 1t that an extra session of congress Will be necessary in order to get ac- ton on the Canadian reciprocity agreement that President Taft has fixed April 4th as the date on which such session may be called. The April date was selected after consultation with Champ Clark, who will be speaker of the next house and Representative Underwood, of Alabama, who will be chairman of the ways and means committee, which will have charge of and report the reciprocity bill in the house.
 The president had intended to con vene the extra session at any earlier dates but Representative Clark and Underwood told him they would like to have a months time after the pres. ent congress adiourns in which to map out the democratic plans for the next session.
 There was no change in the situa- tion in the senate today regarding the Canadian reciprocity agreement and the leaders see no hope of bringing to vote at this session the Mccall bill to carry the bill into effect. Many remedy the situation but apparentl' rumors were circulated of moves to remedy the situation, but apparently they were all without foundation. The most persistent of all was one that Senator Aldrich'<famed for winning legislative battles which his colleagues thought lost, was speeding to Wash ington at the urgent solicitation of the president to take charge of the situation in the senae
 The Aldrtch rumor apparently was a distortion of a telegram which the senator sent from Jekyll Island, Ga, where he has been for several weeks in search of health, saying that if he were here he would vote for the Ca nadian agreement. The telegram was to one of the senate leaders asking that pain be arranged for him in favor of the Mccall bill if it comes to vote this session. The fact that such a telegram was received was whispered about the senate and crea. ted some surprise as many senators mad believed Senator Aldrich, Like Senator Hale of Maine, would oppose the reciprocal arrangement
 Many correspondents sent reports to their papers, some saying that Senator Aldrich would be in Washington on Monday and other that he left Bruns- wick, Ga, early today and would reach here Sunday.
 Jekyll Island, where Mir. AIdrirh nas been sojourning, is isolated so far as communication is concerned, and therefore, in the absence of contradic- tions of the story, it gained currency. It is not believed by any of Senator Aldricn's immediate friends in the senate, nor at the White House.
 As a matter of fact no one believes that the coming of Senator Aldrich would alter the situation in respect to the Mccall bill
 The measure is opposed by Sena- tors Cummins, Bristow and Clapp and many other insurgent republicans The arrival of MT Aldrich and any at tempt by him to force the considera tion of the bill upon the senate would be like shaking red rag in the face of bull, It would serve, according to the Nconcensus of opinion in the senate, only to intesify the insurgents fight against the measure. Not only that but his friendship for the bill un- occasionally would alienate some of his best friends like Senators Hale, McCumber, Shoot and others, who aided him in framing the Payne-Ald- rich tariff bill, but who are opposed to the Canadian agreement.
 Senator McCumber spoke against the bill today, basing his argument on the disastrous effect which he said it's enactment would have upon the farm ing industry