Show PLAN LINE OF WORK steering committee has practically agreed upon legislation to be carried out PRESIDENT NOT SATISFIED rumors around the capitol that the chief executive Is not to havo have all he wants leaders preparing for campaign party factional troubles washington members embers At of what Is known as the steering committee of the senate practically have agreed upon what legislation shall be put on its passage in the upper house at the present session naturally mr aidrich being the leader of the republican majority Is the chief member of the steering committee and as most of the other members are in sympathy with the rhode islanders views it goes without saying that the committee itself comes pretty close to being all powerful president taft has been informed of the committees desires in inthe the matter of legislation and it Is said by those who be are close to him that he be Is not altogether satisfied at a recent meeting of the committee only two measures were discussed in detail although sanction was given to one or two other measures which will be taken up for committee study somewhat later it has been said the chances are that the senate leaders would make concessions to the progressive republicans public ans on the bill providing for amendments to the interstate commerce act it Is now practically assured that some of these concessions will be made in the hope that they will be sufficient to make the insurgents yield and to join the regulars in putting the bill through with something like unanimity As Is IF pretty well known president tatt taft seems to think that in harmonious party action on the chief administration measures I 1 lies the principal hope of republican victory at the polls next november the democrats ts anthe in the senate believe that the concessions which mr air ald aid rich Is making and will mako make later to the republicans who are led by senators cummins and clapp will not be sufficient to make the middle and far westerners come into info the harmony camp harmony was secured on the postal savings bank bill but now it Is being intimated that the senate leaders expect the house to make such changes in that bill as will nullity nullify the effects of the yielding of tho the leaders in the upper house accused of playing politics in other other words the democrats are saying that the republican leaders in the senate gave way in some some matters simply to get harmony in n their own ranks believing fully that the house would take care that the concessions made in tho the senate would not be apparent when the bill finally becomes a law it will be remembered that senators cummins and clapp in their minority report on the interstate commerce bill took exception to the provision which puts into the hands of at the attorney generals force the government defense of all actions taken on appeal to the interstate commerce court the senators in opposition to this provision say that the attorneys for the shippers and also law officers working under the interstate commerce commission ought to represent the government I 1 before the court because they are well informed as to all the details of the ahe commerce cases from the time of their inception it Is understood der stood that the leaders will yield in this matter to the insurgent desires seeking public opinion representative william B mckan ley of illinois chairman of the republican lican congressional committee la Is getting first hand information of political ca I 1 conditions throughout the country some time prior to mr mc Kin leys departure from washington representative james T lloyd of missouri chairman of the Denlo democratic cratic congressional committee went all through the middle mid dle west trying to tap find out what he could about the political sentiment before he left washington some few days ago mr mckenley AIcKin ley had A 6 long conference with president tatt taft of course no one was allowed to know just what the president paid to the republican congressional committees chairman but there are hintel that the president again declared it would be bad policy to make mabo any discriminations as between republicans Republic ana vho abo are trying to secure reelection election re to the lower house once on a terae 1 it la ii said with mr ali mckinless McKin leys sanction letters were seni cent out by the can congressional committee which in tone and temper were not to tho the liking of the so called insurgent republicans public ans this kind hind of letter writing has been stopped for the president would not sanction it if and ana now the material that goes out la what maya may be called at straight republican doctrine concerning new tariff oil bill ot of course it will be neb necessary essary or at least so BO the ruling powers in the republican party declare to defend the tha payne aldrich tariff bill on the stump during the coming congressional campaign the members of the republican congressional hope at least tour four administration measures can be put through congress at this session with united party action back of them and then as the officials of the committee view it the speakers can go before the country and say wo iwo have carried out the promises of the republican platform in largo large me measure asuro and we pledge ourselves to carry out cherest th the erest rest of the recommendations before the sixty first congress adjourns next march chairman lloyd of the democratic congressional committee says that the republicans all through the i west and to some extent through the east are disaffected because president taft has not carried out in full force and effect what are known as the roosevelt policies mr lloyd says that the republicans who are disappointed over what they consider lack of aggressiveness gressi veness on the part of the present president are bound to vote for democratic candidates for congress in n order to make their pro protest test against tho the disinclination of the party to go ahead along progressive lines look to roosevelt the republican managers in the coming campaign as has been printed heretofore may make an all attempt to get theodore roosevelt to take aake the stump in support of his party and of tho the tatt taft management of the progressive policies it may be that the mighty hunter will return to america and andje iii dorse what mr air tatt taft has done but even it if he does this there are many in washington having some reputation for wisdom who say that they doubt very much whether mr air roosevelt will consent to go on a speechmaking speech making tour and that he ably will content himself with sitting in his study it at oyster day bay or in hla his edit editorial crial room in now new york city there to put out in written form what ho he thinks about political conditions charman chairman lloyd of the minority bartys campaign comm committee ltee 11 says ays that ho Is convinced iti the unrest among the people hilj will result in democratic victory he refers of course to the complaints that thai have been made about abou i t the high co cost st of living and the feeling evident in some places that the high prices are traceable to the tariff republican faction troubles I 1 the republicans in new york have been having troubles and while in a measure they have been settled acca occasionally sio nally messengers from the empire state republican camp are still being sent over to washington to confer with president taft and with senators root and depew the feeling of most of the republicans seems deems to be that the party in new york wll not get into a definite state of peace until former president roosevelt returns the men who aro are the closest f friends ot ol mr roosevelt men whom he consult ed on political matters and who in fact were members of his official household are of the opinion that the colonel will keep silent on adminis affairs for a long time dime after he comes back to america and that he be will make a close study of the first firs I 1 year of the administration and of it Us outlined policies for the future before he says or writes a word in approval or disapproval sees work for ex president one of mr Roosevelt Roosevel ts 8 close friends however a man who was nearer t to him in an advisory way during hla his term as president than any other man in the united states is now an office holder in hi new york city unquestionably this new york man whose iden city Is not noi hard to guess Is parti cu barly interested in now new york state pol itice lie he foresaw the row which recently broke out between betwee n the republican factions in tho the empire state and he came to the conclusion apparently for he Is a good judgil judge of men and political conditions that affairs in new york could be straightened out but only by some one with a strong hand and ho he had one man in mind who at that time was far away in the jungles of africa the democrats in washington are not at all unhappy over the troubles trouble which are besetting the republicans in new york state the democrats have set it down as a certainty that they are to carry the next house bouse ol of representatives and they say freely that with a democratic victory next fall another democratic victory in tha cho fall two years hence is certain to fol low it is virtually a necessity th thil tha A the party which elects a president shall carry new york state the republicans have troubles also in ohio and in indiana in these two states they have not taken ou on as sharp and virulent a form as has the tiu quarrel arrel in new york GEORGE CLINTON |