St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-05-17
HOT IN WASHINGTON.
Harris Thinks Senate Will Not Act
On Many Matters. -Recipro-
city Very Close.
Washington, May Is.

w GSu11SI MAY 1O-
Esteemed Neighbors:
AS effecting congress, variation
in temperature inevitably and al
ways brings with it variation in
temper. And the latter are likely
to produce disagreeabIe results.
During the winter and when
the weather is comfortably cool con-
gress feels like working, every
body is everybody else's best friend
and harmony of action gets things
done On the contrary wneE the sun
blazes so fiercely that the sparrows
get stuck in the melting concrete
pavements and the moisture begins
to trickle athWart the classic broWs
things take on different aspect. Ii
anything goes at all it goes awry.
Tempers are on a. ragged edge and
rebellion against everybody and
everything is rampant. They are
hopping and gasping for breath and
putting up a bluff of vast interest in
current legislation, while the local
papers are predicting all manner of
endings to those subjects now under
way and reporting various possible
results whereby congress can arrive
at some sort of a finish and go home.
AS to the course and results of leg
islation for the remainder of the
session every sort of possibility is
suggested and every conceivable wild
cat scheme is being proposed.
In the matter Of the resolution for
the election of senators by popular
vote, the ground has considerably
shifted in the past week. The So
n T1a0 ant RI. "a
resolution, which was adopted at last
winters session and which is design
ed to give congress the power under
popular vote of controlling the
time, manner and place of holding
such elections, is now fatRered in this
session by Senator BristoW OF Kans
sas, and it is claimed that several
polls of the senate agree that it will
be passed by a fair majority. When
this was done last winter it resulted
in defeating the resolution as amend
ed, as the democrat would not sane
ton any measure which might inter-
| fere with their election methods.
Whether it will have the same result
this session, if adopted, remains to be
seen.
AS to reciprocity, there are as
many opinions as there are people.
AS I have said, the finance commit
tee before which the hearings are
being held has a good majority
against the bill, which, however, will
not prevent it reporting it without
any recommendation either way. 1t
is expected to get into the senate for
debate next week On the hat ques-
ton of the bill as it stands it is prob
able that there is q very slight ma
| 1ority-three or four-for it. This
/ is very liable to later change either
way. A poll taken today shows up
this way: For the bill, Senators
Brown, Burton, Crane. Cullom, Ken
yon, Lodge. Lorimer, Penrose, Poin-
dexter, Root and Works, republicans,
and Bacon, Bankhead, Bryan, Chill
ton, Clarke, Culberson, Davis, Fletch-
er, Gore, Hitchcock, johnson OF
Maine, Johnston, Kern, Lea, Martin,
MARITIME, Myers, Newlands, O'Gorman,
fOverman, Owen, Painter, Percy,
Pomerin, Rayner, Reed, Shively,
Smith of Maryland and Smith OF
South Carolina, Stone, Swanson, Tay-
i lor, Terrill, Thornton, Tillman,
/ Watson and Williams. Thirty-siz
/ democrats and eleven republicans.
Against the bill, Senators Brande-
gee, Borah, Bourne. Bradley, Briggs
i Bristow. Burnham, CIapp, Clark,
4 Crawford, Cummings, Curtis. Di1ling-
lham, Dixon, DUPONT, Frye, Gallinger
4 Gamble, Gronna, Guggenheim, Hey
i burn, Jones. LaFoliette, Lippitt, Nc
Cumber. Mclean, Nelson, Nixon