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Senator Heyhugn joins Rank OF aThess
Who, yeanttfHt iiishsst Sort o. High
Victor Aardoaies Disco IRA gsd
by STreahles pf Being an lnsurssnt..
Tafts foHsrto Hughes. s3s% 81
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Washington Dec. ~ Special. i IL
the Democratic caucus which Is to. be
held next month carries ont the pres.
ent plan and authorizes the ways aud
means committee to name the other
committees oflthe house ii VIII make
that committee the great mower In the
'sixty.second congress more powerful
than the speaker, the committee on
rules and, in fact, more powerful than
all other committees combined,
The wirepulllng that has been going
on for the selection OF the. new ways
and means membership viii continue
right up to the time the caucus meets.
BY selecting the majority OF the ways
and means committee d long time IN
advance Of the meeting of congress- and
allowing It TO hold It's sessions: during
the; recess the Democrats Will escape
a great many difficulties. The other
committees can be selected during the
long recess and the ways and, means
can take Its time. It will also. avoid
persistent. personal solicitation from
members who are seeking good chair
manships and other committee places
IS Taft's offor,to Hughes.
When President Taft rendered the
appointment Of associate Justice to
Governor Hughes he wrote him that
IL the chief justiceship was vacant he
would offer him that position, but the
president did not want that statement
to bind him as to any future action.
No doubt for many months the presi-
dent had 1t in mind to make Hughes
chief Justice and probably would have
done so Il opposition In the, senate had
not developed to such an extent as to
render It impossible to make the APP
pointment. y s; II :,
Hepburn Among the Highest.
= It has always beer; supposed; that the
contest for being the highest protec:
Zionist in congress lay between rsena.
tor Scott OF West Virginia and Con-
gresham Joe Fordneyl Of Michigan.
Butsenator Hepburn Of Idaho Gamble
awarded the honor Of being ut least
oneJ.of the high protectiohlsts. In d
colloquy. with Senator Cummins d
Iowa and in reply to q question as To
how high he would make the tariff
Hepburn said: &c. ~
81 would make it,so high that a mon
would not have to have d, microscope
in order to find 1t; that he would be
In no danger of running against 1t In
the. dark; that he would be atsliberty
/ to,conduct his own business with bis
nelghbors or his fellow American cIti.
Zens without the threat that If you
do not yield to me / Will call In the
Hesslans.' 1t should be that high, all
right" so, -
The Burdens Of Murdoch. ~; Z.
Victor Murdoch. the Kansas con-
gresham, who first began lnsurging
! when he fought against the high rates
/ paid to the railroads for carrying the
mails, has been made to pay the pen,
atty of Independence x 4. IA ~.
You have no Idea what l have had
TO go through" he said. II have been
subjected : to sneers.. md insults, to
.teers and covert destinations. hare
been ostractzed for my oplnlonsl Ny
I. motives have been lmpugned, and / lin
fact. everything possible, has been
done to- make smy life miserable /
tell you, any man who undertakes to
do anything different from treadlng the
: beaten path marked out for. him, by
hissparty III congress. must suffer- g!
The friends with whom Murdoch has
talked know that this!hurtjfeellng has
taken deep. hold upon him. 1t has
/, poisoned his life and almost discour.
aged him from continuing a course
which has brought upon him SO much
misery. X. n IN 4
Danger In Waste Paper.
~ noticed In n Gridiron skit,r said
a Republican congressman, shat the
member who was taking the part OF
Champ Clark as speaker said In an.
swer to the question as to what he
would do with Uncle Joe Cannon that
he would make him chairman of the
committee on the. disposition Of waste
paper.'},I would have had. some one
come back by saying that Champ ought
not to do that, for Uncle Joe might dig
up some Of Champs free trade speech.
es and make trouble. ( \ NJ as
RI II q q'ta"jinn's Used to It.n u III I,
con lthatsIall right; Jim's used to
sit;rtwas THE 1remark Of IA senator the
day that the vice. president was turned
down on Ills quorum counting act, he
lsyent on to say that mYiee President
ssherman Ind ;1expers lat Saratoga