Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-26
Republican Senators Assert
That It Will Be Defeated.
ANNOUNCE ElTTO PRESIDENT
Democrats Need Seven Insurgent
Votes for Control.
CAN COUNT ON ONLY THREE
House Leaders Warn Democratic
Senators Not to Support the
La Toilette Bill.

| No wool bill will pass this session of
| Congress. That was the information
taken to the White House today by sena-
| torial scouts of the regular and stand
patter type. And how some OF these
scouts did chuckie. 1t was a long and
| lusty chortle too, about the first genuine
! one OF its kind heard or seen in months.
| Even the sole,nn-yisa ged Senator Crane
| Of Massa chusetts, whose manner and
words calm the most violent party rack
| cts, smiled. Then came the expansive.
| soul-tickled cfuckle of the tall Senator
iSmoot Of Utah. Others followed through
| the day.
| The straw vote scouts Of the Senate
! have been over the field, and the way
| they have given it to the President is tnat
| when the democratic wool bill Is voted
| upon in the Senate tomorrow it Will be
defeated by the regular and the insurgent
| republicans. acting together. The La
| Toilette bill, offered a substitute 10
| the House. will be voted upon first. but
| the regular republicans and sufncient
| number of democrats to make majority
| of the Senate will. 1t IS asserted. give 1t
a solar pleXus blow and send it down Tor
| the count.
| OF course, that will not lay the wool
tariff revision in its little tomb After
uniting WIN the regulars TO
the democratic wool bill, the tnsurgent
senator's will wait until the farmers free
list comes up for vote August 1. Then
they will offer numerous amendments re-
garding the duties on wool, hoping that
some of these may be accepted by a
combination Of democrats and insurgents
forcing the question Of wool to confer
ence. Once in conference the fight would
be sharp, but the regulars believe that hot
weather would bring about adjournment
without action.
House Against La Toilette Bill.
Some Of the democratic senators be-
lieved, until last night, that the final out
come of the wool fight would be the ac-
ceptance by the Senate of the La Toilette
BILL thereby putting the whole thing in
conference, but certain House democratic
leaders Informed the Senate democrats
that the House would not accept the La
Toilette bill and that It would be useless,
as we'll as bad politics. to accept it.
The republican regulars today expressed
confidence that the defeat OF the House
bill by insurgents tomorrow and the de-
feat of the La Toilette bill by democrats
will bring about friction between those
two elements that will prevent any action
at this session and insure no downward
revision of wool.
The Senate regulars have not shown so
much satisfaction over a situation for days
as they did today in carrying their news
TO the President The truth is that Mr..
Taft has passed the word to the party
leaders that he would be strongly inclined
to veto any wool bill. The regulars, while
standing with the President. would con-
slider this about the most dangerous thing
the President could do on the eve of the
next presidential election. Their fight is
to save the White House from having to
show its hand at this time. The President
wants revision of the wool schedules, too,
wants it downward, ii is known, but he
holds that this is the most complicated
schedule in the tariff laws, and should
not be revised except after the fullest in
formation has been obtained. The tariff
commission has been hard at work upon
this schedule for months, and has been
told by the President that it must be
ready to report by next December. Upon
this report the President will base definite
recommendations to Congress for wool
revision.
1t has been the fervent hope of both
democrats and insurgents that some sort
Of wool bill might be put up to the
President, SO as to emDarrass him to the
fullest extent
Democrats Seven Short of Control.
The information from today's senatorial
callers at the White House is that the
democrats must have seven insurgent
SOIes " give tucUl d OIL one In
the passage of wool bill Senator
Smoot and Senator Crane are confident
that not over three insurgents will vote
with the democrats. On the other hand,
the democrats claim six nsursent votes
| in aiding them put through wool bill.
These are Senators Clapp. Nelson,
Brown, Poindexter. Gronna and Craw-
ford. Some OF the democrats hold out
hopes that Senator La Toilette. when his
substitute is beaten. will go to the dem
ocrats. If he does not do in the vote
tomorrow on the democratic bill he will
do in the final vote the question,
when pat as an amendment to the farm
ers free list bill.
Ten days ago. in a call at the White
House. Senator Smoot thought the demo-
Gratis and insurgents would get together
| upon wool bill. His quick change of
view has been governed, 1t is said, by
circumstances of the present time.
President Taft. it was said today, is
doing nothing to bring about a situation
that will enable him to escape taking ac-
| tion on a wool bill. He is not issuing In
structions orders to the regulars. and
| Is concerning himself mighty little,
| judging from his work today, ABOUT what