The Sauk Centre herald., 1906-05-03
CLIPPINGS
SENSELESS TWADDLE.
Want McCIeary Back as Revision
Expert.
BY W. W. JERMANE.

Expert.
BY W. W. JERMANE.
Members of congress from the
northwest states, the most of them
revisionists, are beginning to express
the hope that Representative McCleary
of Minnesota will be returned for at
least another congress owing to the
strategic position which he occupies
on the ways and means committee.
1t is the belief of these congressman
that the tariff will have to be revised
by the next congress, and they want
their section of the country to have
strong man sitting near the head of
the table in the ways and means
committee room.
The new tariff will be written by
that committee, and as it is reported
to the house it will be passed without
amendment. 1t is therefore necessary
that if any particular section of the
country wants its interests looked
after it should be represented in the
ways and means committee room.
With the end of the present con-
gress Representative Grosvenor of
Ohio will retire to private life. He is
| just ahead of Mr.. McCleary on the
committee. His retirement will push
the Minnesota gentlemen up to third
place. Chairman Payne, in the next
congress, will sit at the head of the
table. Mr.. Dalzell of Pennsylvania
will sit on his right hand, and Mr..
Met cCleary, should he succeed himself
this year, on his left.
This position will mean that Mr..
McCleary will be member of the
important tariff conference COM
mittee. On a bill as important as
the tariff bill each house will have
five conferees. Those for the house
will be the three gentlemen just
named, and the two ranking democrats
of the ways and means committee.
Mr.. McCleary's position on the
committee thus becomes matter of
the highest importance to all sections
of the country tributary to the twin
cities.
OF course, he is "stand-patter"
and will do his best to prevent revi-
sion to the last, bat after congress
shall have decided that revision must
be brought about and the ways and
means committee has begun the
preparation of a bill, then Mr.. Nc.
Cleary will no longer be stand-patter
but the personal representative on the
ways and means committee OF the
great northwest, and as that representa-
tive he will do everything that he can
do to see that its interests are
protected and it's demands complied
with.
That is the situation as to MI. Nc
Cleary as it has been outlined to the
Journal correspondent half dozen
times this week by various prominent
members of the house from the north
west, all of whom are interested in
knowing what the second Minnesota
district purposes doing at its primaries
next fall.
There is no politice in this friendli-
ness for Mr.. McCleary, for most OF the
gentlemen with whom l have talked
favor revision and think that he makes
a mistake in taking the stand he does.
But if the tariff is to be revised in the
next congress they want to feel sure
that one of the house conferees will be
a man who is intelligent, patriotic and
loyal to the section which he represents.
Mr.. McCleary, it is believed, will be
one of the greatest tariff experts of late
years by the time revision comes on,
reaching a position of prominence
similar to that occupied for so many
years by McKinley.-Minneapolis
Journal.
The above is fair sample of the
senseless twaddle that is being sent
out from Washington in the interest
of the reelection of the present
members.
We can think of many reasons why
Mr.. McCleary should be returned to
congress but the fact that he will take
a leading part in tariff revision is not
one of them. If we lived in the second
district and Mr.. McCleary would
promise to retire from the ways and
means committee and keep his radical
stand pat views under his own hat we
would support him for reelection,
but the idea that he is needed in the
capital to aid in tariff revision is too
ridiculous to entertain for moment.
He has repeatedly stated that any
tariff revision is unwise at this time
and when the time does come the only
safe revision is a revision upwards.
We are in favor of tariff revision,
but we don't want any revision en-
gineered by Payne, Dalzell and Nc
Cleary. 1t would be as wise to make
fox the guardian of your henroost or
secure wolf to watch your sheep-fold
as for those who believe in an imme-
diate, thorough and scientific revision
of the tariff to place the management
of such measure in the hands of
Payne, Dalzell and McCleary. 1t
would be ten times better to leave the
tariff untouched for hundred years
thanto empower these men to change
it.
AEA