The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-11

members of the Sixty-second congress
who were elected Tuesday can not as
sumo office until March 4, but in all
likelihood they will not be called upon
to take their seats before the opening
of the regular session of that congress
in December of next year. Yet the
democratic congressional leaders are
ALREADY discussing the party policy for
Hell and 1912 in view of the heavy
responsibility which the voters laid
on the democratic party when they put
that party in control of the next house
|by a substantial majority.
The voters OF the country outlined
1.-THE character of legislation expected
lof the next congress by results of
their ballots Tuesday as surely as If it
were written into platform, and that
work is an honest revision of the tar
liff. Such, at least, Is the view of the
lprominent democrats now in Wash
Iington, who include leading members
| of both the house and the senate. In
a statement here today in which he
acknowledges the responsibility which
the election has put on the democratic
party and which he says must be met
frankly and conseryatively by the
democrats Of the house, Representa-
Tive Burleson of Texas, possibly the
lnext chairman Of the house committee
on appropriations, said: "The Sixty
second congress must revise the
Payne-Aldrich tariff. The vote of the
|country Tuesday was command
Ifrom the people to the next congress
Ito make that revision along honest
Hines, and we can not shirk that re-
lsponsibility. That revision should be
Imade fearlessly in the interest Of the
whole people. There need be no un-
lsettling of business, for we can revise
1.-THE tariff schedule by schedule. The
Ibest opinion inclines to the view that
this is the safest and most satisfac'
ltory way from business standpoint
Ito reform the tariff, and it has the in
dorsement not only of the leading dem
locrats, but President Taft and former
president Roosevelt have gone on rec
lord as favoring such plaa.
Il think we should begin with sched
lule K, and first of all give the people
tolls which it exacts This revision
lshould be made with view to reliev
ling the burden on the people, yet, also
with view to raising the necessar.
revenue. Then, with the wool sched
ule out of the way, we can take up ths
cotton, steel and other schedules, ont
latter another The order that thei
Prospective iniquities and inequalitiei
were shown up by the democrats anC
the insurgent republicans in the course
. of the recent tariff debate. That i
what the country has commissioner
the democratic party to do, and tha
lis the responsibility that this mag
nificent victory has brought to on
lparty."
While Representative Burleson wa
understood to be speaking solely fo
himself, his views are known to b
: entertained by several of the part
Headers. In fact, the speeches of thes
men in the campaign were all alon
the same line, as If there had been
: general understanding among the den
: locrats on the subject of gradual, bu
), isure and effective. scaling down to
revenue basis of the Payne-Aldric
tariff.
It is understood that the leaders
the new house, in which all tariff lei
islation must originate, propose I
send one "popgun" tariff bill after al
other to The senate, scaling down on
schedule and then the next, where
will be up to the republican progre
sives to vote with the democrsts an
enact the tariff revision or unite wit
the standpatters and precipitate sue
condidition as the senate republ
cans in 1892 brought upon their part
by choking off these tariff bills whic
the mouse had adopted. That actic
on the part of the senate brought u
on the party the same kind of disast'
that befell it yesterday because
failure to revise the Dingley tariff.
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