Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-09
{. 0. ?. TO PASS
STAFT'S MEASURES
At NEXT SESSION
Will Rush Progressive LegisIa-
ti0n in Congress Before
# Democrats Come In.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-Feeling
enly the blows dealt by voters to
great political party of which he is
head, President Taft returned to
ashingtcn this morning from Gin
nnati, where he cast his ballot in a
/ost cause.
He had no comment to make upon
he result and went directly to the
white House, where it was stated that
Z he probably would not break his silence
concerning political affairs until after
his return from Panama, whittier he
&starts tomorrow.
u Disappointed as is the President at
y the loss of tn House of representa-
/ tives to the Democrats, his political adj
kvisers are ~pinning their hopes to the
TACT that a three months session of the
assent Republican majority In both
<anches of Congress Is about to begin.
is known that into that brief period
administration intends to crowd as
Ich of its legislative program as
RE seems to be the remotest chance
enactment.
Huch of the proposed legislation
f<1lch will be urged upon Congress in
&I Presidents forthcoming message
be of a progressive character, and
~ Is said here that the prospects are
client for harmony in the Republic
b ranks. An effort will be made in
F ne short session to pass as much pro-
|XIfessive legislation as possible because
the effect such measures woul have
<{pon the fortunes of the present adj
Illustration two years hence.
4 Interesting as promise to he the
81 Ouartc nf fha short cacofon tho .ad.
sembling of the new congress and its
conduct-with a Democratic House and
a Republican Senate serving a Republic
i can President-will attract far wider
attention. The first session of the new
ICongress, which will convene In a lit
tie more than a year, hence is practi-
#cally committed to tariff revision by
reason of yesterdays results.
All through the special tariff session
1 at which was passed the Payne-Aldrich
4 bill the Democratic minority commended
s that insufficient effort was being made
to revise the tariff downward. On this
question and the high cost of living,
4 for which the Democrats generally held
the cost of necessities to be responsible,
the Republican majority of the House
was overturned. Many of the ~Insurgent
Republicans who have been returned to
the next House hold the same views,
and even administration speakers, III
GLIDING the President, nave expressed
willingness to heed what seemed to be
a general demand for the reopening of
certain schedules
What About the TariH /.
The important question that is being
asked here, at the seat Of the general
! government, is what will be done
about the tariff when the hybrid Con-
gress convenes and it becomes neces-
J. sary to reconcile differences W
chambers of opposite political faiths.
Such a situation is not without prece-
dent, but in the past little attempt
was made to pass more than the neces-
sary appropriation bills and such meas
ures as were necessary for the con-
%tinuation of the government.
VI The peculiar situation will not be
without embarrassments to both
parties. 1t is not believed here that
the Democrats will care to undertake
to force tariff revision under a Repub-
lican President. Yet tariff measures
must originate in the House, and, in
asnuch as the Democrats will be in
control of that branch and in charge
of all of it's committees, 1t would APP
pear tilil Lit nil VI thC
could not be evaded, even If that
should be the desire of Democratic
leaders. The tariff is one of the ques-
lions on which the Democrats are
almost as badly divided as were the
Republicans. Coming into power in the
House and being IN the minority in
the Senate is expected to have a sober
ing effect upon the Democratic party
leaders, for 1t is generally conceded
that with the gains made in the Sen
ate and with the large insurgent Re-
publican vote in that body, that this
party could control the tariff situation
If a program compelling popular sup
port were adopted.
Differences of Opinion.
So many Southern States hav
adopted the policy of protection, while
in other sections where the Democracy
is strong there remains a sentiment in
favor of practical free trade, especially
free raw materials, that Republicans
may now sit back and view with a
measure of -complacency the spectacle
of their longtime enemies locking
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