The Green Forest tribune., 1910-02-11
chairman, is, of course, the most in.


 fiuential member of the committee.
 It seems natural, however, that MT. Mann, to whom the president natural ly would look for first ald, should pre- fer to stand aloof because he has pre- pared an interstate commerce meas ure of his own which differs in a good many respects from that which MT. Taft has caused to be introduced. MT. Mann's bill, for instance, does not provide for a commerce court for speedy judgment on cases that may come to it through the interstate con- merce commission by the process of appeal
 It is believed that the committee which has the administration bill in it's keeping will report it favorably and will fail to report the Mann bill. This means that the committee must override its chairman, which is most unusual and not altogether com fortable proceeding MT. Townsend will champion the presidents bill on the floor, but who will be his lieuten- ant it is hard to tell, for no one of the chief men of the party thus far has done any volunteering.
 In the senate, MT. Elkins has intro duced the presidents interstate con- merce amendment measure The West Virginia senator is the chairman of the senate committee on interstate commerce and he is the proper per son to introduce the bill and to guide it's destinies but not even MT. Elkins friends will claim that he is in any sense a debater or skillful hand in piloting legislation through the shoal waters and the rocks of trouble which frequently are found in the senatorial sea.
 Postal Savings Bank Bill.
 In the house the postal savings bank bill has no great company of friends among the leaders. The bill is in the postoffice committee, and naturally Representative Weeks, who is the committees chairman, should be it's sponsor on the floor of the house, but the chances are that Representative Foss of Illinois will undertake to do the work that the president wishes to have done MT. Foss for years has been the chairman of the house com mittee on naval affairs, and when he ] undertakes the pilotage of the postal savings bank bill he will be somewhat out of his element.
 The presidents conservation rec concentrations are likely to lack out and-out champions in both house and senate. The bills, when prepared and introduced, probably will go through because they seem to be immensely popular with the country, but for some reason or other they do not seem to be at all popular with the Re- publican leaders. The Republican members of the committee on public lands do not seem to care to stand sponsor for MT. Taft's measures for conservation. Who it is that will take up the work no one can say, but the Democrats say that good many Re- publicans are losing fine chance for popularity with the country and to se- cure reelection for themselves, by this holding back at time when the presi- dent needs strong friends willing to stand in the open and to fight for him, and not to be content merely to ex- press a willingness that the legisla- tion should go through
 Tariff Very Much to the Front.
 After a long, hard, hot wealth CT session of congress which end ed in the passage of the Payne Aldrich tariff bill, it is likely that most persons thought the tariff would be practically dead issue. Very like ly the majority of the Republicans in the house and senate thought that it would be, but it now seems certain that the tariff is to raise it's warlike front again in the campaign preceding next November's election and that it may be formidable enough to frighten most of the other issues out of the field
 The leaders in congress recognize the power of the tariff as a continued trouble maker. Representatives of the two schools of tariff thought are pre- pairing for the fight that they know is to come. The Democrats are going Ito present the action of the Repub- lican congress as a high protection" act which was unjustifiable, and the Republicans are going to defend it as the best tariff bill ever passed" Some few of the Republicans, how. ever, those who belong in what is known as the insurgent camp, have spoken their minds so freely in oppo- sition to some of the tariff schedules that they probably will be contented to forego any attempt at a defense of that which previously they in part have denounced.
 Both houses of congress have the privilege of printing pretty much anything that they choose as a public document, 90 that it can be franked through the mails. One of the re- suits of this privilege is that both Democrat and Republican campaign documents are sent out at the peo- ple's expense. In connection with the tariff matter it may be said that Sena- tor Thomas Carter of Montana, a regular" Republican, has succeeded in having printed President Tafts Winona speech, and this pronounce ment of the president will go to many of the voters of the land as a public document In his Winona speech MT Taft said that the tariff bill passed by congress at it's August session was the best tariff bill the Republican party ever enacted into law.
 It must not be supposed that the Republicans Nare having everything their own way in the matter of reach. ino the country with camnaipp mata