The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-08
Decision VIII Be Made on Reciprocity and PrOpos-
 ed Tariff Board
VIEWS OF SENATOR'S ARE
 NOT ALTOGETHER ALIKE
Bailey of Texas Opposes Reciprocity Bill, While Stone of Missouri and Others Favor the Measure
 As It Now Stands
BY wArTERsoN sTEALEY

Washington, February 7.-lSpecial.)-
 Convinced of the wisdom of acting as
 unit caucus of democratic senators has
 been called for Friday morning at 10 o'clock to consider two pending proposi-
 tions. These are Canadian reciprocity
 and the tariff board bill. both of whicn
 are being urged by the administration
 with all it's power and upon both of whc.s
 the republican forces are badly split.
 It will be determined at the caucus
 whether the democratic senators shall
 vote their individual views on the Can
 adlan agreement or whether a party pol
 icy shall be decided upon which all will
 follow.
 The indications are that the individual
 views will prevail. because while ma- jority of the democratic senators are un-
 derstood to favor the measure there is a strong minority that seems peculiarly
 'sot'' in it's views.
 Chief among these is Senator Bailey of
 Texas. who is said to oppose the agree
 ment on the broad. general ground of op- position to all trade agreements as cal
 culated to lead to retaliation.
 Senator Stone of Missouri is enthus- ! asticaly in favor of the agreement and represents the opinion of many of his democratic colleagues who believe they
 cannot afford to block a step in the right direction.
 Following the House democratic caucus
 of last night, when the democrats deter
 mined to support as a party the agree
 ment, the senatorial caucus will be
 watched with interest as showing wheth- CT there is to be cooperation between l the party representatives in the two l bodies
 Democratic leaders today are con graduating themselves upon the unity
 and peace of the party gf thering last night. They point to 1t as duplicate
 of the first caucus held on January 19,
 and contend that it's result is another
 indication that so far as the House
 Is concerned there will be harmony
 of action and an absence of diversions, ! friction or dlscori.
 l It shows. too, 1t Is contended, that | the split among House democrats upon | the tariff board bill when Champ Clark | and Oscar Underwood. with about 30 of their colleagues, went in one direc- | tion and some democrats in the other, was unimportant and without signih- canoe
 Representative Maynard of Virginia, who as member of the census com
 mttee cast his vote against New Or l leans for the Panama exposition, Is out in a statement saying that the | exposition at Jamestown in 1907 to cell | ebrate the 400th anniversary of the | first settlement got precious little | southern support and therefore he does
 not feel that he should be criticised for voting for San Francisco, Maynard says Alabama gave the | Jamestown exposition but six votes out of nine. Arkansas one out of seven. | Florida one out of 3. Georgia eight out of eleven. Kentucky. with II, 'gave two votes to the mother from who territory she was formed" Missouri | four out of sixteen; North Carolina | five out of ten South Carolina four out of seven. If the rest of the coun- | try had voted as did the south Norfolk would have had no exposition" Representative A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania while at the White House | this morning expressed the opinion that | if the present harmony now In the democratic party continued through the
 next Congress 1t will be impossible for the next democratic candidate to go | down in defeat.
 We now acting as unit said
 MT. Palmer. ''The caucus last night was | of one mind. This was practically true of the caucus three weeks ago, when 227 | men gathered together and stood together
 for the same principles. 1t Is only neces-
 sary for the party to maintain har- monious front through the next Congress. | Then we can go before the country with | the assurance to the people that we will
 achieve results is we are given complete
 control of the government machinery l Senators Johnston and Bankhead and | Representatives Richardson, Taylor and | Burnett and delegation of citizens from | north Alabama appeared this afternoon before the board of review to argue for | increased governmental aid in the Muscle Shoals project for the Tennessee river. The delegation represented that with change from the gravity type of dams | recommended by the army engineers, to | the hollow type advocated by the promo | ters of the power company wishing to use the waterpower to be developed. the assistance to be rendered by the govern ment will really not be increased. It is
 not known when the final decision will be made.
 | Senators Stone of Missouri. Bradley of | Kentucky and other senators. whose states would lose congressman under the republican caucus bill, announce that
 such a bill cannot pass the Senate, so it
 is still the 4s3 bill or nothing. Uncle Joe | and his cohorts are working for no leg
 islation on anything else except ship sub
 sidy and regular appropriation measures. The House today passed Representative | Wash Taylor's bill authorizing the Pen l sacola Mobile and New Orleans railroad | to construct bridge across Mobile river | on a line opposite the city of Mobile. | l Injured Man Found