Show WILL IL PASS TilE THE TH BILL BIL House Republicans 1 Will Wil Agree Aree With f Senate on Por Port o Bican le BilL JiL Washington April Apri 5 The Republicans cans cas of ot the house in caucus cucus tonight de decided decide decided cide to take the short shortest possible route to a u termination ot of the he Porto Porte Poro Rican tariff tari problem by concurring in all ali al the senate amendments and sending the bill bU directly to the president preside t There Tere was wag waga wasa a 8 feeble protest from fr Cooper Coper of Wisconsin chairman of the insular committee and Mr Moody MoY of Memo Massa Massachusetts Ma who favored av re standing standing out o t against some of ot the Ule features feature of the civil civi government scheme heme attached d to the bill bi by the senate I They objected especially to the sen senate sn senate ate provision making all al the members of ot the upper council coundi of the Porto Rican legislature appointees appointee of the president and ad clothing them with wih the power to grant gt f franchises but the te sentiment of the caucus ca cus wits w s overwhelmingly against them None Noe of f the Republicans who voted against the original orgina house bill bi were present at the caucus tonight tonIght As soon son sona as a the Republicans absent from Wash Washington Wah WahIngton Washington ington summoned here as a early eary as a Monday Mon ay if I possible the matter will willbe willbe be b brought before the house houe under uder a special rule Previous to the caucus the th seven Re Republicans Republicans publicans who opposed the original bill bi er McCall of Massachusetts Lit Littlefield Littiefield of Maine Lorimer of or Illinois Crumpacker of ot Indiana Heatwole of ot Minnesota Minneta Lane of Iowa Io and Warner of Illinois held a conference and de decided decided not to from their former position Consequently they consider considered useless to attend the ed tonight it i conference |