Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-11
MAKING STRENUOUS EFFORT TO
FORCE SENATE TO PASS CUR
RENcY BILL
DESIRES ENACTMENT TO
MEET TARIFF LAW EFFECTS
Wilson Fears Business Depression -
Result Of Passage Of Measure Lower
ina Duties and Believes Proposed
Currency Law Would Enable coun-
try to Meet Emergency.
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the currency bill, which has been pre-
dicted since it was announced the
president would try to force II tnro
congress in the special session, is fairy
on.
President Wilson has determined to
club recalcitrant senate democrats into
line and compel them if possible to ac-
cept the measure to which he has CIV
en- endorsement. Senate leaders are TO-
day conferring with reference to the
calling of a caucus and the considera-
ton of the currency measure as
partisan one.
Meantime, bankers assembled at
Boston, at the meeting of the American
Bankers Association, voiced their dis
approval of the bill In large numbers.
Country bankers are opposing the Dill
and many of them who attended the
Boston meeting are declaring they Will
not enter the proposed system. FOL
lowing the meeting Of the American
Bankers Association, a large number
of the bankers are coming to Washing
ton to lay before the senate banking
and currency committee their objec-
tons to the bill.
Wilson Urges Haste.
ident Wilson has been calling in senate
leaders and urging them to hasten the
passage Of the bill. He wants 1t made
6 party measure. He thinks the senate
democrats ought to caucus on the bill,
If 1t can not be hurried along other
wise, and jammed thru just as the tar
iff bill was forced thru.
AT the same time, the White House
ts RAISING J,a that 1ohhyy is at
work IN opposition to the bill and that
concerted efforts against it are pro-
ceeding from the big banks.
The president is getting the big stick
out and will fight the democratic In
surgents If they do not support the
measure. The three democrats on the
the banking committee who are oppos-
ed to the bill are Senators Hitchcock,
Reed and O'Gorman. He Is going to
bring all the pressure possible on these
senators and endeavor to whip them
into line. Thus far. neither OF the three
show signs OF yielding, tho it is an even
bet about the senate that O'Gorman in
the end Will do as the president wants
him to. Opinion is divided on the ques-
ton OF how firmly Senator Reed will
hold to his views. Senator Hitchcock
has broken with the administration and
the caucus before and will take an in
dependent course regardless Of any at
tacks from the White House.
Big Fight in Caucus.
However. there is a lot Of opposition
to the bill among senate democrats
who are not on the committee. II the
bill is thrown into caucus there Will be
big fight there over 1t. 1t is believed
by some that II a caucus is tried. the
caucus method Of legislation in the
senate will break. down and go to
pieces. A large number of senators OPP
pose 1t.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis, SEN
ate democratic whip. has been asked
by the president to take charge of the
fight in the senate. Lewis has consent.
ed and has suddenly changed front on
the currency bill. A few weeks ago. he
was strongly opposed to It. Now, he is
telling democratic senator's that the
president wants the bill passed and
that 1t Is their duty to pass 1t, as OPP
position to the president would be dis
loyalty to the party.
Senator Simmons favors the caucus
plan and Senator Owen, Senator Kern
and some other democratic leaders do
also, providing the situation does not
clear up soon without one.
The plan which is now being con-
sidered, providing 1t appears there can
not be legislation In the special session
otherwise. is to have Senators Owen,
Hollis, Pomerene and Shafroth. the
the four democrats who favor the Glass
BILL meet by amendments as to detail
as thew think aeedful, and then submit
it to caucus.
Situation Chaotic.
In spite of the fact the president has
set out to drive the bill thru the senate,
senators said today the situation was
chaotic. Predictions were heard that
II would be impossible to get a bill out
of committee before Nov. 10, and that
there would be no legislation In the
special session. The president tells the
leaders there must be bill passed be-
fore the session ends.
The reason for the anxiety Of the
president to crowd the bill thru the
senate is not far to seek. He expects
some depression as the result OF the
tariff bill. He has also been led to be-
lieve that big monied interests would
be glad to see his administration dis
credited by a repetition Of the 1907 ex-
perience. While talk of banking inter-
ests being willing to connive at a panic
Is not taken seriously in most quarters.
the administration Is said to be fearful
Of 1t. In any event, the president feels
he would be In shape to meet any de-
preston the tariff bill mag cause or
which may arise from any cause II he
had q new currency bill. Large num-
bers Of men in congress believe the
existing emergency currency measure
is ample to meet any situation that
NAV arise but few If the democrats are