The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-02-08
REPUBLICANS To
AGREE ON TARIFF.
IN CONNECTION WITH HOUSE
BILL REVISING IRON AND
STEEL SCHEDULES.
OPPOSE AID VAL0REM
Senate Finance Committee to Be Al
vlsed-6eIieved That There Will
Be Substitute for Under.
wood Document.

Washington, Feb. 2.-As a result OF
conference of Republican senators
at the capitol after the adjournment
OF the senate, the Republican view OF
the tariff situation will be presented
to the senate and to the country at
large in connection with the house bill
revising the iron and steel schedule
The meeting was attended by most
Of the Republican members of the
finance committee and also by some
of the other Republican leaders, but
none of the insurgent senators were
present.
AS first move in carrying out the
program will be meeting of the
finance committee. The full commit
tee will be advised of the desire of the
Republicans for a general hearing on
the iron and steel bill, and it is be-
l1eved Democratic members of the
committee will offer no objections.
The hearings will begin next week.
No effort was made to decide wheth-
er the Republicans would present a
substitute for the Underwood steel
bill or content themselves with a d.
rect effort to defeat that measure, but
it is believed that there will be a
substitute as the ad valorem system
which characterizes it is unacceptable
to Republican senators generally.
With the bill once in the senate,
whether on a favorable or an adverse
report, the purpose is to discuss it at
length so as to present all phases Of
the Republican side of the tariff ques-
ton.
Notice Given Of Treaty Votes.
Senator Hepburn of Idaho effectually
blocked the effort of Senator Lodge
and other members of the committee
on foreign relations to have the SEN
ate grant unanimous consent to the
fixing of day for the voting on the
arbitration treaties with Great Britain
and France. The Massachusetts SEN
ator asked that voting begin Feb. 20,
but, declaring that he desired earlier
action, Mr.. Hepburn refused his as
sent to the proposition.
The objection of the Idaho senator
caused a spirited colloquy between
himself and Mr.. Lodge and at it's con-
clusion the latter abruptly demanded
the regular order, which was the con-
sideration of the treaties. He subse.
quently withdrew the demand.
Mr.. Lodge gave notice that on next
Monday he would ask the senate to
take up the treaties and to vote upon
them if no senator was prepared to
speak.
After refusing disputed features to
the bill providing for the sale of the
unallotted lands in the Standing Rock
Indian reservation in North Dakota
and South Dakota, the senate passed
that measure. The lands embrace
more than 100000 acres.
May Halt Money Trust Probe.
Developments in the proposed con-
gressional inquiries into the money
trust" the shipping combine and 9TH
er interests have surrounded the flu
ture of those Investigations with un-
certainty. The common report, how
ever, that the money trust probe would
be halted until after the presidential
elections.
Representative Lindbergh of Mime.
sofa, author of the resolution, de-
clared he had not been consulted as
to a postponement Representative
Henry of Texas, chairman of the house
rules committee, announced that he
would insist on an investigation.