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Show I HIS I HV "He leads a terribly fast life." p "Who Is he?" H "Mr. Paythellno's clmuffour." SMTOEPUI LINEOF IRK Steering Committee Has Practically Practi-cally Agreed Upon Legislation to Be Carried Out. PRESIDENT NOT SATISFIED? Rumors Around the Capitol That the Chief Executive Is Not to Have All He Wants Leaders Preparing Pre-paring for Campaign Party Factional Troubles. Washington. Members of what is known as tho steering cotnmltteo of tho senate practically have agreed upon what legislation shall bo put on its passage. In the upper houso at tho present session. Naturally Mr. Aid-rich, Aid-rich, being tho leader of tho Republican Repub-lican majority, is tho chief member of tho steering committee, and as most of tho other members nro In sympathy with tho Rhode Islander's views, It gocB without saying that, tho committee itself comes pretty close to being all-powerful. President Taft has been informed of tho commlttco's desires in tho matter mat-ter of legislation and It Is said by those who are closo to him that ho is not altogether satisfied. At a recent meeting of tho committee only two measures were discussed In detail, although al-though sanction was given to ono or two other monsures which will bo taken up for commlttco study somewhat some-what later. It has been said tho chances aro that tho scnato leaders would mako concessions to the Progressive Republicans Re-publicans on tho bill providing for amendments to tho lnterstato com-merco com-merco act It Is now practically assured as-sured that somo of these concessions will bo made In tho hope that thoy will be sufficient to mako tho insurgents insur-gents yield anil to Join tho regulars in putting tho bill through with some-thlng some-thlng like unanimity. As is nrottv well known President Taft seoms to think that In harmonious party action on tho chief administration measures lies tho principal hopo of Republican victory at tho polls next November. Tho Democrats In tho senate believe that tho concessions which Mr. Aid-rich Aid-rich Is ranking nnd will mako lator to tho Republicans who aro led by Senators Sena-tors Cummins and Clapp will not bo 'sufficient to mnko tho mlddlo and far westerners come Into tho harmony camp. Harmony was secured on tho postnl savings bank bill, but now It Is being intimated that tho senato loaders load-ers expect tho houso to mako such changes In that bill as will nullify tho effects of tho yielding of tho leaders in tho upper houso. Accused of Playing Politics. In othor words, tho Democrats aro saying that tho Republican leaders In tho scnato gavo way in somo raattors simply to get harmony in their own ranks, believing fully that tho house would take caro that tho concessions mndo in tho scnato would not be apparent ap-parent when tho bill finally becomes a law. It will bo remembered that Sonators Cummins nnd Clapp, in their minority report on tho lnterstato commorco bill, took excoptlon to tho provision which puts into tho hands of tho attorney at-torney general'B force tho government defense of all actions taken on appeal to tho lnterstato commerce court. Tho senators In opposition to this provision provi-sion say that tho attorneys for tho shippers and also law officers working under the Intorstnto commorco commission com-mission ought to represent tho government gov-ernment before tho court, because they aro well Informed as to all tho details of tho commorco cases from tho time of their Inception. It Is understood un-derstood thnt tho leaders will yield in this matter to tho Insurgent desires. de-sires. Seeking Public Opinion. Representative William B. McKin-loy McKin-loy of Illinois, chairman of the Republican Repub-lican congressional committee, Is got-ling got-ling first hand Information of political politi-cal conditions throughout tho country. coun-try. Somo timo prior to Mr. Mc-KInloy's Mc-KInloy's departure from Washington, Washing-ton, Representative James T. Lloyd, of .rllssourl, chairman of tho Democratic congressional committee, went all through tho mlddlo west trying to find out what ho could about tho political sentiment Boforo ho loft Washington somo few days ago Mr. McKInloy had a long conforenco with President Taft. Of courso no ono was allowed to know Just what the prosldont said to tho Republican Re-publican congressional committee's chairman, but there nro hints that tho president again declared it would be bad policy to mako any discriminations discrimina-tions ns between Republicans who nro trying to secure ro-oloctlon to tho lower houso. Once on a tlmo, It la said with Mr. McKlnley'a sanction, letters were eent out by tho Republican Republi-can congressional commlttco which in tone and temper were not to tho liking of tho so-called lnsurgcut Republicans. Re-publicans. This kind of letter writing wri-ting has been stopped, for tho president presi-dent would not sanction it, and now tho material that goes out is what may bo called "straight Republican" doctrine. doc-trine. Concerning New Tariff Bill. Of course it will bo nccessnry, or at least so the ruling powers In tho Republican Re-publican party declare to defend the Pnyne-Aldrlch tariff bill on tho stump during the coming congressional campaign. cam-paign. Tho members of tho Republican Republi-can congressional committee hope, howoverVthat at least four administration administra-tion measures enn bo put through congress at this session with unltod pnrty action back of them and then, as tho officials of tho commlttco view it, tho speakers can go beforo tho country nnd say, "Wo have carried out tho promises of tho Republican platform plat-form In largo monsuro, and wo plcdgo ourselves to carry out tho rest of tho recommendations beforo tho Sixty-first Sixty-first congress adjourns next March." Chairman Lloyd, of tho Democratic congressional committee, says that the Republicans all through tho west, and to somo extent through tho east, aro disaffected becauso President Taft has not carried out In full forco and effect what aro known as tho Roosevelt policies. Mr. Lloyd says that tho Republicans who nro disappointed ovor whnt thoy consider lack of aggressiveness ag-gressiveness on tho part of tho pros-cnt pros-cnt president, nro bound to voto for Democratic candidates for congress In order to mako their protest against tho disinclination of tho party to go ahead along progressive lines. Look to Roosevelt. Tho Republican managers In tho coming campaign, as tins been prluted bcrotoforo, may mako an attempt to get Theodoro Roosevelt to tako tho stump in support of his party and of tho Taft managoment of tho progressive progres-sive policies. It may bo that tho mighty hunter will return to America and Indorse In-dorse what Mr. Taft has done, but oven If he docs this there nro many officials In Washington having somo reputation for wisdom, who say that they doubt very much whether Mr. Roosevelt will consent to go on it speech-making tour, nnd that ho probably prob-ably will content himself with sitting in his study at Oyster Bay or In his editorial room in Now York city, thero to put out In written form what ho thinks about political conditions. Chairman Lloyd, of tho minority party's campaign committee, says that ho is convinced that tho unrost among tho people will result In Democratic victory. lie rcfors, of course, to tho complaints thnt hnvo been mndo about tho high cost of living liv-ing and tho feeling evident In some places that tho high prices aro trace-ablo trace-ablo to tho tariff. Republican Faction Troubles. The Republicans In Now York hnvo been hnvlng troubles, nnd whllo In a measure they havo been settled, occasionally occa-sionally mossongers from tho Empire stato Republican enmp are still being sent over to Washington to confer with President Taft and with Sonators Sona-tors Root and Depew. Tho feeling of most of tho Republicans seems to bo that tho party In Now York will not got Into a definite stato of peaco until un-til former President Roosevelt roturns. Tho men who are theclosestfrlendsol Mr. Roosovolt, men whom ho consulted consult-ed on political matters, and who In fact woro mombers of his official household, aro of tho opinion that the colonol will koop silent on administration adminis-tration affairs for a long tlmo after he comes back to America, and that ha will mako a closo study of tho first year of tho administration and of its outlined policies for .tho futuro, before ho says or writes a word In approval or disapproval. Sees Work for Ex-President. Ono of Mr. Roosevelt's closo friends, howovcr, a man who was nenror to him In an advisory way during his term as president, than any othor man In tho United States, Is now an office holder In Now York city. Unquestlon-ably Unquestlon-ably this Now York man, whoso Identity Iden-tity Is not hard to guess, Is particularly particu-larly Interested In Now York state politics. pol-itics. Ho foresaw tho row which recently re-cently broko out between the Republican Repub-lican factions In tho Empire State, and ho ennio to tho conclusion apparently, for ho Is n good Judgo of men and political conditions, thnt affairs In Now York could be Btralghtoned out only by somo ono with a strong hand, and 'ho had ono man in mind who at that tlmo was far away In tho Jungles of Africa. Tho Domocrats In Washington nra not at all unhappy ovor the troubles which aro besetting tho Republicans In Now York state. Tho Democrats hnvo. not It down as a certainty thnt thoy nro to carry tho next houso oi representatives, and they say freoly. that with a Domocratlo victory next fall another Democratic victory in the fall two years hence is cortnin to follow. fol-low. It is virtually a nooosulty that tho party which eloctB n president, shall carry Now York state. Tho Republicans havo troubles also In Ohio and In Indiana. In theso two states they have not taken on as sharp and virulent a form aB has tho quarrel In New York QEORQE CLINTON. |