Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-04-13
FROM WASHINGTON.


Busy-Democrats Dflatoyy-
| wAsHrxsTos. d. c. Aprii II Especially
senator Hale Is taxing lively interest
/ in the operations OF the txri5- He has
been proddinx the special senate com
I nistee, nos ine1iring into the high
cost ct living. He h@lieres il viii bring
cut sc1se facts and information which
viii SHOW ths people during the campaign
y bat the r-sl sitaztion is The special
1 committee undertook this task several
weeks ago, bat il takes 9 long time 70
l gather information upon so broad . sab
1 !ers. and il has seemed doubtful whether
much Of a report could be made before
Congress sd5oarus-
When the consideration of plan OF in
vessigzsio1 which would cost about
81. m. came up the OF beg day in debate,
senator Hale speedily took s part. He
warned senators THAI they we're bound to
hare rsaDy inqaixies On this subject as the
congressional campaign progresses. 1t
was accordingly very desirable that ali
the information sho0ld be collected as
| speedily A. can be. presented to the SEN
ate and printed 80 that it would be
accessible.
| No one realizes better than Senator Hale
| that Maine. as well as the rest Of New
| England, will fare badly If another tariff
! revision Is undertaken within q few years.
/ He was one Of those who resisted the
revision of ths Dingiey lav as long as
be could and no~ ne proposes TO get
before the pu bic as mach information as
possible 10 make plain the strong points
| OF the Payne law The first year or two OF
the Life OF tariff Las are always
| turbulent Plenty OF people are ever
ready to emphasize the fact that taxes are
/ aurdsnsouse. and they can find paragraphs
and sections in tariff laws that do no;
please them
The Sex England senators have had in
| tariff during the last twenty years since
| the controlling influences in legislation
mas been steadily swinging westward.
| The interests of the West in tariff are
naturally not identical with the interests
| OF the East and OF New England Maine
| obtained less under the Payne law than
| it had under the Dingiey law. 1t will
undoubtedly have less under the next
/ tariff law, whenever it il enacted, than
it has new under the Payne law. Hence
the anxiety of the Maine men in Congress
to meet the current criticisms of the
Payne Law il, the belief that after il has
| been in operation for a couple of years,
| its good features will be more generally
recognized.
With the closing days OF Congress no:
| many weess away, Representative Bur-
leigh is hurrying his share OF the work on
the public buildings bill. Another series
Of hearings is under way this week be-
| fore the subcommittee of which be is
| chairman. There are four OF these sub
committees. The first is known as No. 1,
| being on revision Representative Bar
| thoidt- Of Missouri, the chairman OF the
entire public buildings committee, is the
chairman also Of subcommittee No. l.
The preliminary work OF investigating
public buildings bills is parceiied out be-
| tween subcommittee Nos. 2. 3 and 4.
These three are now humping with actiyi-
ty. Gov. Burieigh is chairman Of sub
| committee No. 2. which, as has heretofore
been stated. has charge OF preliminary in
vestigations into all public buildings bills
from New England and several other
| states, as far south as North Carolina and
as far west as Kansas.
When these subcommittee have COM
pleted their labors their work goes to the
| subcommittee on revision, which is COM
posed OF the older and more experienced
| members of the entire committee. Chair
man BarthoIdt and Gov. BurIeigh are both
members OF it. By next week the sub
committees expect to have their work
completed so that the subcommittee on
revision can take hold and when that sub
committee has had its say, virtually franz
ing the omnibus bill as it will be pre-
sented to the House, the entire committee
will be called together for q series of
| meetings.
The committee will, in all proba bility
have its o. K. upon the omnibus bill,
which will be ready for report TO the
House by the end OF April. The House is
| now considering the last of the great
supply bills, known as the sundry civil
appropriation bill, and the omnibus
public buildings bill must be in shape 10
be brought into the House very soon
thereafter whenever Speaker Cannon says
the word.
Because OF the desire to conserve the
public funds, there is an effort to limit
the public buildings bill to 100000 or
81, 10000. As Gov. Bnrleigh puts it, the
committee is trying to cut the garment to
fit the cloth this gear. But it is very
difficult to frame an omnibus bill within
that limit which will be satisfactory.
There is strange pulling OF wires now
adays over the length OF the session OF
Congress. The republicans are getting
ready to close out the work in hand
They prefer to do what there is to be
done, and get home to talk to the people
n pAuf he ruPn0ze nf fhair achi1 mania