The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
LAFO[LETTE GOES AFTER TAFT'S SCALP Tries To Aid in Putting
 Him in Hole' HEARS BEE BUZZING Thinks Next Republican Convention Will Have To Recognize Him
 As the Real Tariff
 Revisionist
HEARS BEE BUZZING
By SYDNEY EsPEY

Washington, August 12-tSpeeiai)-A se- ries of recent developments in the Senate plainly demonstrate that Senator Robert M. LaF ollette of Wnconsn is after the political scalp of President Taft. and that Senator LaFolette4 will assuredly be a candidate for the republican presidential nomination.
 No other construction can be placed upon the activity with which the Wis consin senator is pursuing the task of tariff revision. The insurgent leader of the Senate is just as anxious today to get a tariff bill up to the President as Is any democrat of either the Senate or House, and in the event that the Presi- dent vetoes the bill, there is a general feeling that LaFollette as well the democratic party, will profit politically.
 Strange politics have been played in the Senate during the past 10 days. Even Senator Penrose, who, seldom says any thing that will acquaint the country with the fact that the Senase is not In control of the regulars, has admitted that the insurgents and the democrats have the upper hand, and the nominal leaders of the once powerful republican majority
 
 Senator Penrose. chairman of the Senate finance committee. and heir to the nan tie of leadership which fell from the shoulders of Nelson w. Aldrich, stood on the floor of the Senate and made the ad- mission that the republicans no longer longer have a majority here.
 This admission is but incidental to the fact that the urgent-democratc coali- tion in. the Senate jammed through the LaFollette substitute for the wool blll and that the same group of insurgents and democrats have put through the farmers free list bill. with amendments proposed by the insurgent wing
 It is practically certain today that these bills will be agreed upon in conference, and that they will eventually reach the White House. The President is admit tedly in an embarrassing position, and Senator LaFolhtte, believing that he knows the temper of the country, is bid ing his time and anticipating that the President will veto not only these, but all other tariff bills that may be sent to him.
 Once this is done, 1t will be feather in the cap, not only of LaFollette but the democrats of the House and Senate, and the insurgents and the democrats will go immediately to the country, making the Iarl11 issue pTlOT lo dihl dIter the launching of the next Presidential campaign
 The senator from Wisconsin has adrot- ly managed to have his name appended both to the wool bll and the free list bill. If the wool bill is finally agreed to in conference, 1t will go to the President as the Underwood La Toilette bill. The same name will be borne by the free < dist pni, and there is no doubt that Sem ator LaFollette will also attempt to amend the cotton bill when that Is sent over to the Senate
 President Taft has assured regular re- pubIicans of the Senate and House. 1t is reliably reported, that he will veto all tariff legislation which may be passed in advance of the report of the tariff board The insurgents and democrats take little stock i'm the prospective repore of that