The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-01
General Opinion Is That Senate
Will Exonerate Chicagoan
and Give Him His Seat.
HALE FEARS APPROPRIATION
BILLS MAY NOT BE PASSED
Maine Solon Warns Confreres
That Democrats Are Ready to
Frame New Measures.

ment of the senate. reached shortly after
6 o'clock tonight te yc.= at 1:5o tomor-
row afternoon on the resolution TO un-
seat Senator Lorlmer of Illinois, and tC
make unfinished business" OF the bil
to create a permanent tariff board, ma
terially improved the legislative situa
ton.
This improvement does not by any
means wipe out the probability Of all ex-
ira session Of congress. but 1t gave q
ray of hope, which was seized upon eager
ly by the advocates of Canadian reel
procity.
The storm clouds which hung menac-
ingly through an all-night session last
night lifted late today and: when the
p. m. until IL o'clock tomorrow there
was a. promise OF further clearing OF
the legislative skies. After a day Of con
stant search for a basis of agreement
opposed to the tariff board, and the pro-
tariff board senators, most of them op-
posed to Lorlmer. got together In a
modus viVendi which cleared the situa.
ton and obviated the impending danger
OF another night session.
So there Will be q. vote tomorrow after
noon on Senator Lorimer's case and there
Is little reason to doubt that it will sus-
tain Lorimer
Magazines Win Fight.
The tariff board bin is at least in a
materially improved position. The vote
OF 53 to 81. by which it was made the
unfinished business. would indicate that.
should it come to a vote, the bill would
be passed by substantial majority,
Some go SO Tar a s 10 say II will receive
the entire Republican vote of the senate.
Senator Hale gave notice he would at
through the senate tomorrow afternoon
and evening These are the agricultural.
the postoffice. the diplomatic and con-
sular. the fortifications and the Military
academy supply measures.
As n part OF the arrangement clearing
up the situation. IT practically was agreed
that the proposed increased rates on
from the postoffice bill ending the pos
sibility OF IA liliDuster on that measure.
IL also was said some other seriously con-
troverted items In appropriation bills
mated.
II Senator Hale's programme is carried
out tomorrow, and there Is every reason
to believe 1t will be. the senate will be
left with only the sundry civil. the naval
and the general deficiency appropriation
bills 10 dispose of, MI. Hale warned the
appropriation measures. there would be
a strong chance that many OF the most
important OF these would eventually come
in extra session from the Democratic
house.
Extra Session Anyway
No senator was so sanguine over the
improved legislative session as 10 pre-
dict that the probability of an extra ses-
sion had lessened materially. If all of the
appropriation bills should be carried into
law, The only extra session factor that
would remain TO be disposed of is Ca
naGian reciprocity.
ment cannot be Said TO have changed.
unless 1t profits by the clearing away
OF other matters leaving reciprocity TO
stand on its own merits. Although made
the unfinished business of the senate
by decisive vote, the permanent tariff
board bill cannot be said TO be "off the
rocks"
The Democratic vote was almost solid
against the advancement of the measure,
and Senator Money OF Mississippi. while
pleading with senator's 10 adjust their
and avoid an extra session,
declared he was prepared to wage long
fight against the tariff board.
There appears to he somewhat more
procity 10 vote. Senator Young Of
Iowa pleaded with senators to face the
measure squarely "and to vote solidly
The advocates OF reciprocity have held
that. II reciprocity could be got out into
the open, with no other measures pend
ing behind which senators might mask
their opposition TO the agreement. vote
could easily he reached
Stranger things have happened than
a vote on that measure before adjourn
ment," said one influential senator to-,
night. The senator was a leading factor
in bringing about the agreement on the
Lorimer and tariff board matters, and
temper of the senators than any other
man in the senate. He Is strongly op-
posed TO the reciprocity agreement
Senator Hale of Maine is opposed both
to reciprocity and the tariff board and
he has shown no disposition TO Yield es-
peciaIly Gu the reciprocity agreement,
Factions Patch up Peace.
The end OF the senate tangle over the
tariff board bill came late today after a
series of conferences between the war
ring factions. which began when the re-
cess of the all-nieht session had been
ordered this morning.
When the Informal conference agree
mcnt WAS brought TO the floor, however
1t seemed threatened with defeat. For
nearly an hour the agreement to vote on
the Lorlmer case at 1870 o'clock tomor-
row afternoon hung In the balance.
The principal thing most OF the sena-
Tors seemed tn want was TO avoid a ses-
sion tonight, Many of the senator's arc
comparatively elderly men.
Senator Hale paved the way for the
adoption OF the Lorimer agreement and
the tariff board bill. by an earnest state
ment as TO the situation regarding an
propriation bills.
''lrhc senate" said Mr. Hale, "has been
in continuous session since yesterday
morning with the exception of about
three hours. Such a session as that held
last night, the burdens of the next few
days close upon us. was too exciting
for human systums.
Tomorrow l shall ask the senate TO
take up the appropriation bills and after
sitting until $50 In tho afternoon / shall
move IA recess until p. m, for a brief
night session,
~ believe there is no rcnson WHY WE
should not pass tie agricultural. tho
postoffice, the diplomatic and consular
the fortincations and the military acaG-
emy bills. With these out OF the way. we
would have left for the last two or three
days of the session the naval the sun
dry, clvil and the general deficiency bills,
II have been appalled, at the amour
OF work involved In these latter bills
The first two OF them carry over 5000.
Continued on Pago Nine.