Show i PRESIDENT ADV ADVISED TO 10 USE TOMAHAWK I lao Ii Stock SoCk nn l ROUtE Section ceI iii ii of Tart Taft May Mn eon Con Conflict oh filet With W Local State Law LaH HE IS LIKELY TO DO 00 THIS Taft Begins Task of getting Some of the Into Line for the Adminis Administration A minis Railroad Measure PRESIDENT INSISTS UPON REAL PARTY DISCIPLINE Long and Short Haul Question Is Not Made Test of Party Loyalty But Other Pro Provisions Provisions Provisions visions Are So Considered ACTIVE AT WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON 7 ASHINGTON May 8 SUnder Under Undera vv a flag of truce hostilities be between between between tween the conservative Republicans and the tIle insurgents of the Senate over the administration railroad bill have ceased eased They will be renewed probably when Senators Cummins and Dolliver re return return return turn Thursday from Iowa where they have gone to open the campaign Senator Aldrich is expected to re return return return turn from Rhode Island Tuesday If he should attempt to precipitate a vote on any important amendment Senators LaFollette and Clapp will undertake to hold the floor Meanwhile the White House will b be the scene of the real activities Pres dent Taft having undertaken to bring brine Into line some of the neaT nea Insurgents whose attitude on the ral ra road bill bin has been a matter of doubt That work was begun yesterday and ani it was claimed Senators Gamble and Crawford of or South Dakota would Jm the 46 regular Republicans canvassed making the necessary n maj the ti 1 pro pio program program gram Vote Yote In III ii Tuesday day While hilI an understanding was rear reaCel e 1 In the House that the vote ote on tIle the ran road bill would be taken t now non seems certain the Democrats w wy WJ seek to have hac the bill With instructions that the sections I f r 1 the creation of ot a court of ot commerce be 19 eliminated The vote yote it is conceded will be close In the Senate the long and short ha lla T 1 provision Is the immediate sUbject t f controversy but It is receiving litte littemore littemore more attention than the stock and bor bordo bord 4 sections The President and the attorney attorney attorney ney general are pressing for their re ye retention and inclined to accede to the ther demands the regular Republicans wi ivi make a stand for the sections Some of the regulars however would be pleased if they were eliminated Among Amon those who are understood to t doubt the wisdom of oi their retention are Senators Aldrich Elkins and Root Roc all of whom concede the possibility cr c I legal complications over oyer their conf conff t with the state laws The President f is h net nC t disposed to yield however and At Attorney Attorney Attorney torney General Wickersham Is rep e seated as willing to vouch ouch for the a of the provisions Long Iong and Short Haul Danl No Xo special effort is being made tr to hold hotd Republicans in line against tn tIe long tong and short haul amendments It ItIs ItIs Itis Is generally recognized that local con conditions conditions are arc such that many of the sena sera senators senators tors from the interior states cann t avoid supporting this provision B But Butth t the th regulars count confidently upen making up among the Democrats t e losses on their own side of the cham ham chamber chamber hamber ber Conceding the probable loss boss c f 19 votes in favor of the amendment they say they will get 15 Democrats In opposition to the provision Their contention Is that most of t He Democratic senators whose w ose states tates sk skip the Atlantic Pacific and Gulf coast Continued on OD Pale Page Two PRESIDENT ADVISED I ITO TO USE TOMAHAWK Continued Front From Page Paste One Oae Oneas Oneas as well wen as some of ot those along the Mississippi will approve the provision If they get the fifteen Democratic votes and hold the forty Republicans they will have a majority of eight The nineteen Republicans who It is thought will vote for the amendments are Beveridge Borah Bristow Brown Burkett Carter Clapp Crawford Cum Cummins Cummins Cummins mins Curtis DIxon Dolliver Gamble Guggenheim Heyburn Reyburn LaFollette Nix Nixon Nixon on Smoot and Sutherland The sup supporters supporters supporters porters of ot the provision hope also to get Senator Jones vote President Taft at Work The President Is said to be urging Republican senators to keep the long and short haul question out of the bill but is not making it a test of party loyalty He takes the position that most of the amendments suggested would have haye the effect of or placing rail rall railroad railroad road charges purely on a mileage basis Refusing to concede that such would be the result the proponents believe if the tile provision should be Inserted he would pot veto the bill on that account as has been asserted he would do doOn doOn doOn On other points they find the President President President dent most insistent upon maintaining strict party discipline Senator Bran Brande Brand de d gee ee who is among the staunchest of the stalwarts Is la reported by his bIS col colleagues colleagues colleagues leagues as having advised the chief executive to quit kissing off of the In Insurgents Insurgents and to t get out his toma tomahawk tomahawk tomahawk hawk and the President Is said to have expressed no disapproval of the suggestion |