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Show SAYS TREATY WILL PASS MATE Senator Penrose Declares Tariff Bills Will Be Kept in Abeyance. WASHINGTON, June 23. Chairmat-Penrose Chairmat-Penrose of the aenate committee oi finance said today that tha Canadian reciprocity bill would not fail by reason rea-son of the new coalition between insurgent in-surgent Republicans and Democrats, which placed the regular Republicans in the minority. Speaking of that coalition, he said: "It is a rope of sand, and it will not hold. The performance of tha in-surgents in-surgents and Democrats on Wednesday wa effective for the time, but the differences dif-ferences between the two element are so radical that the combination will not continue, and if the purpose of it was to defeat Canadian reciprocity it L sill f"'1 , yL- "Witb the tariff quest loa dumped . into the senate in connection with reciprocity rec-iprocity dclav is to be expected, but in the end reciprocity will go through ami it then will remain to be seen what shall be done with the tariff bills now brfcre the senate and those yet to be prevented." The outlook in the senate -ii for a long and aomearbat dreary period ol debate, with no visible prospect ol relief. , Under present conditions, with ao party in control, and no leadership recognized no one can aay in advance what is going to happen or when anything any-thing muv transpire out of the ordinary. Even Democrats and Jnaurgenta agree that the probabilities are favorable U the success of the reciprocity bill, and a majority of the Democrat are now unquestionablv opposed to any amendment amend-ment of it. There is a bare possibility of agreeing on the La Kollette-Bristow-Cumuiins tariff amendments, but in the face of the certainty that the president will take a positive position against all amendments, it ia extremely doubtful whether an rider can be placed on the bill. . Rumors of a recess of congress from July 1 to October 1 to tide tb extra session over the beated season were reviewed today along with an agreement agree-ment in the senate to adjourn iron today until Monday. None of th sen ate or bona leaders avowed knowledge of the recess plan assuming definite shape. The adjournment of the senate ovei until Monday waa to allow Vice Preai dent Sherman to leave the city on business. So long aa the senate ia without with-out B president pro tem the vice president presi-dent may not be away for more than a day at a tim and aa an election ha been impossible, Mr. Sherman's liberty ia greatly circumscribed. . |