The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-12-11
ROOSEVELT WILL SEND A SPECIAL
TARIFF MESSAGE To CONGRESS


those boys doing with that legislative
bill? Why don't they get it reported
out of subcommittee?
ooh, guess they are getting along
FIRST rate Hemenway will answer, on
his dignity at once when Uncle joe
begins 10 scold.
No they're not" the speaker prob
ably will answer. They're two days
behind Don't they suppose congress-
mas anything to do but sit around
here and walt while hey play mum
hly-peg?"
Net Enthusiastic Over Revision
For reasons peculiarly their own,
members of the house committee on
appropriations are not enthusiastic
over tho talk of tariff revision. l.
would mean the passing Of some OF
committees pres ige. Theoretically
the ways and means committee is the
moot important of he important
committees Of the house. The ways
and means chairman is the titular
leader of the house majority. and the
man selected by the minority as rs
leader always Is placed at the head
of the minority members on ways and
means
As a matter Of fact, however, the
ways and means committee is import
ant only when a general tarin bill ~
under way. In times Of peace as 1t
were. appropriations Is the big com
mittec Of the house and it's members
WELD the real influence in legislation.
There was rejoicing in the appropria-
lions room when Chairman Payne,
OF ways and means, was passed by
and Chairman Cannon, Of appropria.
tions. was elevated 10 the speaker
ship. He was succeeded in the chair.
manship by Jim" HemeDway, OF In
diana. and now Hemenway is to have
Vice President Elect Fairbanks sena.
torial toga Appropriations rejoicing
has been renewed. Another member
of appropriations, young Elmer Bur
kett, Of Nebraska. also is going 10 the
senate, having defeated William j.
Bryan for control of the Nebraska
legislature. Recently Mr. Moody. OF
Massachusetts. prominent appropri-
ations member, was called to the
presidents cabine.. In fact II was
coming to be recognized that service
on TIE house appropriations commit
tee was the highway TO political pre-.
ferment
But should congress undertake re-
I.n ptf ION
might be changed The ways and
means then would have the center of
the stage.
Tariff Bills the Road to Fame.
Every big tariff bill has made the
fame of some one man, generally the
chairman of the ways and menas com.
mittee whose name Is attached to the
measure. Such names as Morris
Mills, Mckinley, Wilson and Dingley
became household words In America
and their fame spread to The most dis.
tant lands. Serene f. Payne, Of New
York. Is the present chairman OF the
ways and means committee, having
attained tina. position by seniority OF
service In the natural order Of
things a bill to revise the tariff would
be known as the Payne bill and the
New Yerker's name would become as
familiar as the others.
Pennsylvania Delegation.
Penns ylyania's representation In
the Senate has been dubbed the Ions
and short of il. The term was applied
when Boies penrose escorted Philan'
der G. Knox TO the bar of the senate
ON Monday in order that the oath
might be administered to the latter
Some one remarked that it looked
like a father taking his son to school
Penrose towers something over six
feet unshod. while Knox is little
mite of a man, five feet two or three
inches.
What Senator Quay's SUCCESSOR
lacks In inches. however, he makes
up in quantity and quality of gray
matter in the brain. Veterans of the
senate recognize that a new power
4 mas entereS into their recognition
The probabilities are that MIR Knox
will not have to serve any lengthy
period of probation before he is Civ
en- full fellowship in that inner cir.
Gle of senator's whose will is sena.
torial law
The Republican Strong Man.
The recognized strong man ON the
Republican side of the senate now
is Spooner, of Wisconsin. who has
inches and gray matter in just about
the same proportions as the endow-
ment of Senator Knox. There has
been no little comment on the fact
that the two senators who probably
are the largest intellectually are the
smallest in stature Some one has
termed them the twin pigmy-giants
Democrats Are Alert
Democratic senators and represent
atives are keeping a close watch on
the. trend of sentiment touching the
reduction of representation In con.
gress from those states which have
DISTINGUISHED a Rortion of their con
sti<ational eIectefate The bill intro.
fducsd by Senator Plat. of New York,
was something Of a shock. as hereto