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Show BATTLE OPENS I INMATE I Today a Vote 'Will Be Taken on Direct Election; Tuesday Reciprocity Comes Up. STRONG OPPOSITION H TO ROOT AMENDMENT H House May Present More Tariff Bills if the Session Is . Long Drawn Out. WASHINGTON", June 11. Opening of the fight on the Canadian reciprocity bill on the floor, of the senate Tuesday with house Democratic leaders urging the sen-ate sen-ate to defeat the Root amendment to the paper schedule; vote In the senate toinor-row toinor-row on the popular election of senators; resumption of the wool tariff revision de- 1 bate on Tuesday this Is the week's pro- 1 gramme of congress. Several conferences arc planned, includ-lng includ-lng a caucus of -Democrats in the house Wednesday nlghL to' consider extension of the progressive programme. House Investigating committee will continue. ' There is much .speculation as to the probability of adjournment, which Sen-7i Sen-7i tor Smoot and some others predict as 'early as July 27. while Democratic Leader Underwood says, "If tiie extra session continues until late summer or autumn" a more comprehensive scheme of tariff revision will be undertaken by the house. Early action on the reciprocity bill, hoped for by the president, scums unlike-ly unlike-ly unless the Hoot amendment, which has been objected to aa fatal to the agree-menl, agree-menl, is defeated. Pightiug the Amendment. Mr. Underwood and other Democrats who oppose the Hoot amendment, now fl propose to exert all the influence they can to prevent favorable action on the amend-merit, amend-merit, so that It will be unnecessary fur the bill to be referred to the lower branch of congress. Word from the senate finance commit-tec commit-tec that It has practically wound up Its business for the extra session has reached the house-. Democratic representative:) jH are about convinced that the Senate com- JH mlttco will not pass on any of their tarirr jH bills, the free-list nnd wool bills and one yet to come, probably a revised cotton schedule on which a house sub-commlttcc Is working. Whether the Democrats of the ways and means committee will take up ie- ' vision ' ol ' any other schedules, "such as sugar and steel, will depend' on the length of the session. Further Tariff Revision. "There is a probability that we will undertake to revise other schedules after we have passed the wool bill and drafted at. cotton bill." said Mr. Underwood, chairman of 'tho ways and means (.'Oiii-hi (.'Oiii-hi U toe. today. . "If the -session -continued !intil late- Into, the summer or Into.Uio' all. we might ns well zo ahead' with our arfff programme: After cotton, sugar ntl stool schedules would naturally be discussed. "Uut If the senate is going to get through with reciprocity and refuse to takf any action on the farmers' freo list and the woolen schedules, then a recess probably will come and our work can H go over until next winter." Flan of Senator Stonz. I!ccausr of the attitude of the senate finance committee toward the house tar- Iff bills. Senator Stone, backed by other JM Democrats, has served notice that after IH waiting a reasonable time for the com- mlttco to art, motions will be made to lH have k discharged from consideration of bills referred to it such as the free list bill and the wool till). This action would force discussion on these measures to the front and disposition cf the bills in thnt way might be made. In. the senate tomorrow the eoiistitii-tlonal eoiistitii-tlonal amendment providing for the popu- lar election of United States senators jH will be voted on. lH Indications point strongly to Its pass- lH age bv the necessary two-thirds ma- IH Jority. |