Show 1 TAFT AfT S SH G HAROY 1 President is Making an Effort to Bring the Insurgents and Reg Regulars Regulars Regulars ulars Together CUMMINS CUI AND BORAH AT THE WHITE HOUSE Rumored That It is Not Probable the Two Factions Will Vill WillBe WillBe Be Reunited WASHINGTON Dec 3 In what was said to lo bo be an nn initial effort to bring about a semblance o 0 or Harmony In lit the divided Republican forces force of f the United States Stales senate President Taft Tatt Invited several regular and md progressive progressive sive leaders to the White House to lo loany any ary Gr Political Washington began to sit up and take lake notice when Senator Cummins of Iowa tho the recognIzed leader honder of the Insurgent wing of the senate arrived He HI was quickly followed by b Senator William E Borah Dorall or of Idaho progressive sive SIe Senator Bristow of Kansas had been be ell invited but failed to put in an au appearance Cummins and Borah Together The president did not attempt to lO hi bring Ing the senate leaders ea ers together t In hr hrone I one big conference There Thore never nover wore were nune than two In his private once office atno at cue CliO no time Ho lie saw Senators Cummins I and Borah Dorah together and then thon had hall a u private word with each alone In Insurgent circles It t was said the I preliminary conference with tho the president l ent had hod given co 0 definite prom promise promse I ise se of success The president was sous sported as conciliatory and rond is said to have declared ho was anxious to todo t toto I Ido do to all In his power to t j bring about uni unity ty lr of or action in the party part partA A leading member of the he progressive sive wing will In ht trIO senate was asked for lor lorTin forn Tin n expression Ou as fis to tho the outlook for bringing winging tho regulars and insurgents together No chance to Bring Together He Hc shook his head Such a n timing thing AS is possible he de lIe declared eared cd but bul It certainly corlan Is la not II probable rob able This opinion was echoed by others At the White House It was not ad admitted that President Taft was mak mali making making ing ins a special effort to bring tho the in or progressives Into line It was nas declared with a great deal doal of em emphasis basis that Cummins Borah I mud and Bristow w had been invited to call only as a part of the presidents plan plano to o consult as many man as possible of tho the and congressmen con regarding recommendations In his message and the he legislative program for lor the tho com coin coming coming ing ng session First Call In a 1 Year Senator Cummins call cali was the first he has hns made In over a I year car Ho He Homa ma made nade o no effort to conceal tho the fact that his presence at the time executive offices was WaH due duo entirely to the tho presidents dents lents Reports of time the le conference spread quickly the city however inch and it became known kiloton that tho the president lent dent practically had offered the olive I branch ranch to the progressives with many man manor of or t whom ho had bad not been on thy titi th most cost cordial terms 1 The Insurgents of both houses honses pi oh will hold a 3 caucus before deciding decidIng ing ng on any course of action Their tone one tonight t was hardly hard conciliatory concilIator Time The fact that this tills Is IB the short sear ses session i islon ion sion of congress with the time timo for legislative action limited will not pre pro present I vent sent the bringing cf d important legisla legislative tive lIo proposals to the attention of the tile country and congress said Senator Cummins shortly after leaving thin the White House Out line of or Program Tho senator gave pave the first outline of mf a program pro ram that thal is to lo bo be followed 11 by my tho the progressives In the session that opens Monday Monda It is Isho tho ho plan of or these members timbers to urge tho ho further consideration of or tho the tariff commission law a similar to that em embodied bodied In the neIld e bill and to toran draw ran attention again to measures for further control of common carriers It IL t is not probable that any au of crt first importance can ho be passed p by br congress at mt this session said Senator Cum Cummins Cummins mins Those of us who arc aro known own owna a as progressives will stand firmly firm however for tho the consideration of a tariff ariff commission on what we term a I satisfactory basis We will urge the adoption of or a resolution for the time election of oC senators b by my direct vote ole of the le people the tho pas passage sage of a measure providing for the valuation of or the tho physical property of I railroads and amid common carriers and an to Inquiry Into the Investment muted In the time properties of common carriers curriers We also aleo will urge the en enactment of or a law to limit tho mho Issuance of if stocks s and bonds of or common car carriers Hern It Il Is unlikely II n III e I that many man of these will ill make actual progress at mil thus this session but bul all nIl consideration iron Riven them will be so munch much gained There will bo be less work to do at an another another other time limo The senator macie It clear that the progressive senators will not await awall the tho report of President Tufts railway securities commission con omission before urging mother another bill for the control of or tho timo Is Issuing issuing suing of or railroad stocks les and bonds hon s |