The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-10
IN BOTH
GREAT PARTIES
Republicans of Senate and
House Divided Between Reg
ulars and Insurgents.
SENATE DEMOCRATS
H0PELESSLY DIVIDED
Stormy Session of Congress Ex-
pected, With Much Anxiety
Over the Outcome.

WASHINGTON. April a.-Is is daily
becoming manifest that congress is fac
ing a stormy session and there can be
no forecast Of The probabilities.
The fact that both OF the great po-
litical parties are divided IS no longer
denied, and the leaders appear to have
little hope OF restoring more than surface
harmony.
There are virtually four parties. each
with a large representation, working AT
odds In the present session The RepuD-
lican minority of the house is divided
between regulars and insurgents as was was
evidenced by the vote on the speakership
contest The breach between these Two
factions Is even wider in the Republican
majority Of the senate.
a sharp line has been drawn between
the conservative Democrats OF the SEN
ate who are opposed TO any attempt TO
dictation by William j. Bryan and tne
progressive Democrats. including prac
tically all the new members and seVerol
veterans like Senator Stone OF Missouri,
who are Bryan adhcrcnts. The house
Democratic majority seems 10 nave cs-
capped break, but the leaders tcar inc
party contest In the senate may at any
time spread TO the other branch Inc
situation has interfered with the seiec
lion of committees and the beginning OF
legislative work
Uneasiness Apparent.
Probably there never has been con
arcss where so much uncertainty existed
ana where the uneasincss has been so
equally distributed between the TWO ma
jor political parties. or course; thIs Is
due in part 10 the fact that In the pres
ent congress the Democrats are In power
in the house and the Republicans are IN
control of the senate
The real cause of the anxiety is ne
lieved 10 be the ,proXimity OF inc party party
dard bearers for 1912 and the knowledge
that n slip by either in the extraordinary
session or the regular session may DC
termine the result OF the next hat'oha1
campaign
So far as the administrative programme
Is concerned there Is no room Tor spccu
lation President TAFT has recommend
ed the enactment OF legislation to carry
OH, provisions OF the Canadian reciprocity
| agreement, and II is no secret that ne
| would be glad TO have congress STOP a,
| that and defer the question of further
| fariff revision until the regular session
next winter.
Programme in Houss.
Neither is there any obscurIty about
! th. programme OF Speaker Clark, Kepre
sentative Underwood. chairman ot tht
new WAYS and means committee, auU
| other Democrats who are directing th'
! policy of the house. Their plan ior pro
! gr.sslvc legislation has been given out l.,
Now that the new majority in ,,Ia, IN,
house has adopted rules I1.. E,yine e,er ~ Ju9 en
] loved there is no doubt that measures
on the subject of direct election oo1trsn GI sbn
iJny,s ,,nforc elections, Canadian rcciproc-
iiy revision of the wooden and cottor
Schedules. and any further, tariff change;
| ennotn In yybateyer order is decrecd by
1hn WAYS and means committee. The Re
nublicans will be powerless to prevent
| ,rhc real legislative problem. therefore
| LII he al the senate end OF the capitol
Only time will tell what sort Of lineuE
there will he in the senate, on tariii mat
tnrs Previous sessions have indicated
| ,bat there arc Just as ardent protection
| tsIs in the Democratic representation az
i'm the Republican. and IKE sitaaeior
,n,y develop when tarifr questions are ia
ken up at this session :. ,r,,.
The division in the senate Is pecuiiar
or the fifty Republicans there arc twelve
| nnntinnnd nn PaRa Two.