Show PUN LINE WOR steering committee has practically agreed upon legislation to be carried out PRESIDENT NOT SATISFIED rumors around the capitol capital that the chief executive to Is not to have all he wants leaders preparing for campaign party factional troubles trouble washington Al members embers of what Is known as the steering committee of the senate practically have agreed upon what legislation shall be put on its ita passage ln anthe he upper tipper house at the present session naturally mr air aldrich aidrich being the leader of the republican majority la Is the chief member of the steering committee and as roost most of the other members are in sympathy with the rhode islanders views it goes without saying that the co committee itself comes pretty close to being all powerful president tatt taft has been informed of the committees committee s desires in the matter of legislation and it Is said by those who are close to him that he be Is not a together altogether I 1 satisfied at a recent meeting of the committee only two measures were discussed in detail although sanction lon was given to one or two other measures which will be taken up for committee study somewhat later it has been said the chances are that the senate leaders would make concessions to the progressive republicans public ans on the bill providing for amendments to the interstate commerce a act e t it Is now practically as th that at some of these nese concessions will be made in the hope that they will be sufficient to make maka the insurgents yield and to join the regulars in putting the bill through with something like unanimity As Is pretty were we known president taft seems to ahli tharl that in harmonious party action on I 1 fe e chief administration measures ales UPS tle the principal hope ot of republican v victory ictor atthe at the polls next november the democrats in the senate believe that the concessions which mr aldrich aidrich Is making and will make later to the republicans who are aie led by senators cummins and clapp will not be bu sufficient to make the middle and tar far westerners come into the harmony camp harmony was secured on the postal savings bank bill but now it la Is b it g tm a ed that that the senate lead e arbi e expect pc it t the he house use to make such ch gesila that bill as will nullify the effects fatta of the yielding of the leaders in 1 i athe I he upper house accused of playing politics in other words the democrats are saying that the republican leaders in the senate gave way in some matters simply to get harmony in their own ranks believing fully that the house would take caro care that the concessions made in the senate would not be apparent when the bill tin I 1 com a law IN it will be remembered that senators cummins and clapp la in their minor minority alty report on the interstate commerce bill took exception to the provision which puts into the hands bands of the attorney generals force the government defense of all actions taken on appeal to the interstate commerce court the senators in opposition to this provision say that the attorneys attorney s for the shippers and also law officers rs working un under de the interstate commercio com merce merco commission ought to represent the government before the court because they are well informed as to all the details of the commerce cases from the time of their inception it is understood der stood that the leaders will yield in this matter to the insurgent desires seeking public opinion representative U D mckinley of illinois chairman of fhe republican congressional committee Is getting first hand band information of political conditions throughout the country some time prior to mr lr tie me departure from washington representative james T lloyd of missouri chairman of tho the democratic congressional committee went all through the middle west trying to find out what he be could about about the political sentiment B before he left washington tome some few days ago mr air mckinley had bad a long c conference on ference with president tatt taft of course no one was allowed to know just what the president said to the republican congressional committees chairman but there are hints that the president again declared it would be bad policy to make any bisci imana alons as between republicans who aro are trying to secure re reelection election to the lower house once on a time it Is said with mr sanction lon letters were sent out by the republican congressional committee which in tone and temper were not to the liking of the so bo called insurgent republicans public ans this kind of letter writing has been t topped stopped tor for the president would not sanction it and now cow the material that goes out Is what may be called straight gh gees R republican doctrine concerning new tariff bill of course it will be necessary or at least so BO the ruling powers in the republican party declare to defend the payne aldrich tariff bill on the stump d using during the coming congressional congressI orAl cam laign the members of the can congressional committee hope however that at least four administration measures can be put through congress at this session with united party action back of them and then as the officials of the commit committee tob view tt thy speakers can go before the country country and sa aa we have bave carried out the promises of the republican platform to in large measure and we pledge ourselves 0 u 0 ve to carry out the rest real of the amme recommendations r e c 0 before the sixty first congress adjourns next march chairman lloyd of the democratic Democrat le congressional committee says bays that the republicans republic its all through the west an and d to some a extent through the east are disaffected because president taft has not carried out in full fall force and effect what are known as I 1 the be roosevelt policies mr lloyd says that the republicans who are disappointed over what they consider lack ot of aggressiveness gressi veness on the part of the present prea president are bound to vote tor for democratic ean candidates d I 1 dates tor for congress in order to make their protest against tho the disinclination of the party to go ahead along progressive lines look to roosevelt the republican managers to in the coming campaign ns as has been printed heretofore may make an attempt to get theodore roosevelt to take the I 1 stump in support ot of hta his party and of 0 the tatt taft management duio progressive policies it may be the mighty hunter will return to america and indorse what mr tatt taft has done but even it if ho he does this there are many officials in washington having some reputation for or wisdom who say that they doubt very much whether mr air roosevelt will con consent sent to go on a speechmaking speech making tour and that he pr probably e b will ft content himself with sitting in his study at oyster nay bay or in his bla editorial room in new york city there to put out in written form what he thinks about political conditions chairman lloyd of the minority bartys campaign committee says saya that he Is convinced that the unrest among the people will result in democratic victory lie refers of course to the complaints that have been made about the high cost of living and the feeling evident in some soma places that the high prices are traceable to the tariff republican faction troubles the republicans in new york have been haying having troubles and while in a measure they have peen been settled occasionally sio nally from the empire state republican camp are still being sent over oer to washington to confer w with ith president taft and with senators root and depew the feeling of most of the republicans seems to be that the party in now york will not get into a definite state of peace un til former president roosevelt returns apparently a great many people expect that as soon as aa mr roosevelt returns to abi this country he be will have something definite to say eay about the tha present administration str atlon the republicans who think that president taft has not done his best to forward tho the roosevelt policies fire are seemingly beamingly convinced that mr air roosevelt at once will get out his bis big stick and use it on the administration of the roan man who during hla his presidency was his secretary of war and his closest friend other republicans believe thattie that the be mighty hunter on coming back will say kind ly words tor for the tha administration and will insist that mr tatt taft has been all right and that hat the only difficulty Is that his methods have been misunderstood the men who are the closest friends of mr air roosevelt men whom he consulted on political mat matters tors and who in tact fact were members of his official household are of the opinion that the colonel will keep silent oo on adminta affairs for a long time after ile be comes back to america and that he will make a close study of the first year of the administration and of its on outlined policies for the future before he says or writes a word in approval or disapproval sets sees work for ex president one of mr air Roosevel ts close friends however r a man who was nearer to him in an advisory way during his term as president than any other man in the united states Is now an office holder in new york caty Un question ably this new york man whose identity Is not hard to ghessi guess Is particularly interested in novi new york state politics lie ile foresaw the row which recently broke aut between the lican factions in the empire state and he be came to the conclusion apparently for he Is 6 a good judge of men and political conditions that affairs in new york could bo be straightened out only by some one with s P strong hand and he had one man tn in mind who at that time was far away in the jungles of africa the democrats in washington are no not t at all unhappy over the troubles which are besetting the republicans in new york state the tha democrats have set it down as a certainty that they are arc to carry the next house ot of representatives and they say eay freely that with a democratic victory next tall fall ai another lother democratic victory in the tha tall fall two years hence la Is certain to fot fol low it to Is virtually a necessity that hat the party which elects a president shall carry new york state the republicans have troubles also tn in ohio and in indiana in these two states they have not taken on as aa sharp and virulent a form as has the quarrel in new york the republicans 11 en twisted twitted about the difficulties w they seem to have fallen into ret reir that his tory shows that the cepul ans rel as they may always agether in time lime to save the day a en they ask the democrats who e twit ting ling whether or not this be said as aa truthfully of the party Is dow in the minority the dt As an dwer that their party troi tro e all behind them I 1 |