Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16
DEFEAT OF LEGISLATION
STARES THEM IN FACE
Loyalty to House Bill May Give Vic
tory to Opponents.
ADJOURNMENT WITH SENATE
House Will Be Ready to Quit August
10 IF Upper Body Has Finished
Work by That Time.

barrass the democrats in that body.
To effect a revision Of the wool sched
ule OF the present tariff law. which the,
consider most obnoxious. the democrat.
stand between a positive prohibition OF
the Constitution and a formal repudia
ton of the wool revision bill agreed to b,
their democratic colleagues In the House
Suggestions for way out are being In
vited.
There are two wool revision PROPOSE
lions before the Senate-the House demo
cratic bill and the La Toilette amend
ment. Neither the democrats nor the in
surgents can put through either withou
the help of the ohers.
Must Make a Choice.
The Senate has agreed to a date 70,
voting on the House wool bill. In case
the La Toilette amendment is offered az
on the substitute. Desiring to protec,
the House wool bill and to be loyal te
their House colleagues. the democrats
would have to vote against the substi-
tute. Their votes. together with those
posed to tariff revision until the tariff
board reports, would defeat it.
Then the vote would come directly on
the House wool bill. That is not accepta-
BILE to the insurgents. and the combined
votes of the insurgents and republican
regulars. again opposed to revision at
this time, would defeat it.
But it is suggested that the La Fol-
lette substitute be put up as separate
bill Then the democrats. after show
ing their loyalty to the House demo-
Gratis by voting for the House bill. and
seeing it beaten. properly could unite
with the insurgents and vote for the
la Fe,iette bill. But that program. fine
as It looks, runs counter to a constitu-
tional provision-that requiring all
revenue bills to originate in the lower
house Of Congress.
Reconciled to Wool Bill.
In the predictions made to the Presi-
dent yesterday by Senators Smoot and
Crane that a wool bill-and probably
the La Toilette bill-would be passed
by Congress before adjournment many
other senator's concur. Others, how
ever-and some of them progressive
dispute the prediction, and they argue
that a compromise Will not be made
between the insurgents, supporting the
La Toilette measure, and the demo-
Gratis. supporting the House schedules
1t became definitely known yester-
day, however, that most of the repub-
lican regulars are reconciled to the
program for the early passage of the
La Toilette bill. While, of course, they
will vote against both the La Toilette
and the House bills. they could attempt
TO filibuster against action on that La
Toilette bill. as vote on that as a
separate measure is not included in the
vote agreement But several of those
most opposed to a revision of the wool
schedule until the tariff board reports,
which will be next December, declared
yesterday that they contemplate no
filibuster.
Have an Understanding.
The insurgents and the democrats, it is
believed. generally understand each
others attitude toward the House wool
bill and the La Toilette bill. The in
surgents have made it clear to the demo-
Gratis that the House bill is not satisfac-
tory to them because its low duty on
raw wool IS not high enough to protect
the owners of the sheep herds. In that
regard the La Toilette bill is more salts
factory to the insurgents because 1t pro-
the House bill does
Defeat in the Senate is predicted for
tho farmers free list bill passed by the
House. Many amendments will be offer
ed to II. If some are not adopted that
Will operate to make votes against it.
II others are adopted that will tend to
make other opposition votes. And the
general result will be, 1t is being pre-
dicted, that there will be a sufficient num-
Der of votes among insurgents and demo-
Gratis in opposition to unite with the re-
publican regulars to defeat 1t.
There is. too, general prediction that
the statehood resolution will pass in the
Senate with the Nelson or some similar
amendment That provides for the elimi-
nation from the Arizona constitution of
the judicial recall feature. Senate leaders
do not think the amendment will be OBJ
noxious to the democrats in the House
who want TO get the democratic territory
OF Arizona into the union as a state. and,
therefore. are predicting it's acceptance
by the lower branch.
The House reapportionment bill will
have opponents in plenty In the Senate,
but there is a big sentiment that the SEN
ate should not meddle in the family af-
fairs OF it's neighbor.
May Adjourn August 10.
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