Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-08
Taft Wants Senate Action on
Reciprocity Measure.
VIEWS MADE KNOWN TODAY
Should Effort Fail in Present Con-
gress. Extra Session Sure.
LEADERS ARE GIVEN WARNING
Administration Will Not Insist on
Permanent Tariff Board-Pres1-
dent Going West.

If administration senators mao dHS poup.
about the attitude of President Taft toward
the Canadian reciprocity agreement II was
removed when Senators Crane and Garter
returned to the Capitol today from con-
ference with the President at the Wmte
House The message which these sena-
tors brought tn their colleagues was that
there must be vote on the agreement at
the present session or Congress will be
called back in extra session almost imme-
diately after the adjournment March !.
Although Messrs. Crane and Carter de-
clined 10 discuss their mission To the
White House. the report soon leaked out
that the President was insistent upon a
vote. 1t is said he made plain his belief
that the country generally favored the
adoption of reciprocal trade agreement
with Canada: that the Mccall bill to put
the agreement into force Will pass the
House with large majority, and that
the Senate would enact the measure If
given an opportunity to vote upon II,
Senate Rules Interfere.
The rules of the Senate. which permit
untrammeled discussion of measure,
are the principal barriers to vote In
that body. 1t is known that Senators
Hepburn and Bailey are bitterly opposed
to the agreement and that the opposition
extends also to most of the progressive
republicans who represent agricultural
states Some of these senators have
limited that their relations with the
White House have not been sufficiently
pleasant of late to cause them to exert
themselves in support of an administra-
tion measure.
Senators Crane and Carter entered at
once upon Il campaign designed to ad-
vance the Presidents program. Already
;hcy have conferred with other senators
who are especially friendly to the ad-
iuiniStratiou and have sought to enlist
gI.ei.- services in movement to obvlate
the necessity of an extra session
Tire i'm, ression has prevailed at the
CAPITOL that President Taft would insist
uloii votes on both the Canadian agree
n.ent and the bill to create permanent
tariff board. but this partially was re-
Inevfd 1o,,aS according to the Senerai
repart at the Capitol President Taft
laced the Canadian agreement above the
tariff bodId measure and Wouid De sat-
i..ied If the former were enacted at this
session In the event the permanent
t.-iN board should fail it is believed that
~ appropriation would be voted IN the
closing days Of the session to continue
tie existing board for another year.
Presidents Future Program.
II an extra session should be called
by reason of the failure of the Senate
to grant vote on the Canadian agree
,oent. il is understood, the President then
would demand the creation of a perma-
mont tariff board, and might go so far as
10 rromise data on the wool and WOODEN
schedule of the tariff act II the demo-
,.rafic House desired II.
The President proposes TO continue ms
agitation in behalf of tarif Commls-
sion and reciprocity through speeches ne
y,;u make in the middle west III tie next
few days He is sanguine that puDnc
sentiment is strongly with him ana VIII
force both parties in Congress to accept
these propositions.
The President will talk upon these sub
ie,ts in Columbus, Ohio, Friday and at
Springfield H., Saturday. The President
VIII leave Washington Thursday for the
vest arriving at Columbus about mid
day Friday. In that city he will speak
hefore the corn congress and attend
dinner at night, leaving that city the
same evening for Logansport, where he
will take the trolley system controlled
l,v Representative Mckinley and start
for Springfield, which he will reach Sat
urday morning. In Springfield the Presi-
dent will speak before the Illinois legis-
lature and attend a banquet of the Lin
coin Society. where he will deliver a Lin
coin speech