The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
ADMIN STRATION
SAYS HARRIS, IS
COMING BACK
Has Completely Recovered From
Recent Victory
REGULARS REGAIN GROUND
Combination Of Democrats and lnsur-
gents Has Failed to Hold
Together.

Washington, June 26.-"It was a
famous victory" that OF last Wednes-
day night in the senate, but the
more it is considered the more uncer-
tain 1t Is as to just who won IL and
what it all means At the time and
on its face 1t was most overwhelm-
ing and complete rout for the admin
istration and the regular republicans,
but since the senate has pulled itself
together and begun taking account
of stock the more uncertain ii is as
to what it all amounts. to- One
thing is certain, which is that the
combination of democrats and insur-
gents went to pieces as soon as the
object for which it was formed was
attained That was the bringing into
the senate OF the wool and free list
bills The regular republicans large.
ly regained the lost ground the next
morning by the action Of the Finance
committee in dumping both bills into
the senate at the earliest possible
moment, three weeks before they
were called for.
This put a new face on the entire
work OF the session, and since then
the outfit has been treading water
and trying to discover just where'it is
at. At last accounts this fact is not
yet established. Individual senator's
are yet busily engaged in sounding
their colleagues and trying to arrive
at some agreement or compromise or
plan of campaign or understanding
OF some sort which will let daylight
into tho cif.tatfpu ond an hIa tho can
ate to proceed toward accomplishing
something. The senate and the cor
ridors and the newspapers are full of
every conceivable brand OF rumOrs as
to the establishing OF a working hy-
pothesis, but every one OF them is
killed as soon as it leaves the nest.
And there we are. There seems to
lie nothing else to do except to 80
along pounding away at reciprocity,
with the hope that later the situation
will clear The muddiest water will
settle in time, and in time only. 1t
cannot be fastened. The program
will have to work Itself out The
vote on the Root amendment to the
reciprocity bill will be taken today,
with the certain result that the
amendment will be defeated by con
siderable majority. This being the
only committee amendment the
way will then be open to amendments
from the floor OF these there are
sheaves La Toilette, Cummings
Clapp, Nelson, Bristow and nearly all
the other insurgents are bristling
with voluminous amendments, and
Bailey on the democratic side will al
so unload a few dozen. These insur
gent amendments in effect include
the entire scheme of tariff revision
and embrace the insurgent idea OF
how the tariff should be revised II
is the insurgent plan to debate these
amendments for weeks, with the
double object of forcing the insur
gent tariff revision idea in between
that of the democrats and regular
republicans and at the same time kill
ing reciprocity
They will make a strenuous anC
bitter fight, but will be defeated OF
every proposition from start to finish
The republican friends of reciprocity
aided by practically the solid demo
cratic side of the chamber, will xii
every amendment as fast as they are
brought to a vote. Thus, with repub
licans and democrats absolutely re
fusing to allow the bill to be amend
ed in any particular the result IL
only a question of time. 1t may b,
three weeks and it may be three
months, but reciprocity in its origina
form is an assured fact.
The vicissitudes and wavering for
tunes of this bill in the senate would
make story possessing the inter
est of a work of romance, if full,
written out with all the inside hstor,
in detail. For months and up t
three weeks ago its passage in any
thing like its original form was a
lowed by those best informed to b
impossible. Then the presiden
brought to bear his immense Unfit
ence, and in order to rescue him an
the party from certain disaste
changes of views began to be note(
Reciprocity stock rose steadily unit
the explosion of last Wednesday
when it was admitted on all side
from first impression that the bi
was certainly dead In a few hours
however, it gasped and opened ii
eyes, and at date of writing is doin
very nicely once more. While it
running the insurgent gauntlet in tn
weeks to come if at any time
should appear to be in eXtremis ono
more | would yet believe that
would pick up another of it's min
lives and dodge along toward the go;
We can't lose it.
From the above resume it will /
seen that the demoinsurgio coalitio
could not hold together farther tina
to get the tariff bills out of cor
mittee. Then the combine went int
the air The insurgents formulate
a plan for tariff revision all the
own by amending the reciprocity bi
TO death. and the democrats swol
by all the great and little gods thu
not a hair of its head should
touched. The insurgent progra
now is TO put through a scheme
tariff revision ia no wise agreeiI
with either the republican or dem
cratic plan, and hope to promote /
chance for enactment by attaching
to reciprocity, while the democra
will oppose this almost solidly al
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