The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-28
REPUBLICAN .
SITUATION IS
IN CONFUSION
Not Much Constructive Leqis-
lation Will Be Attempted
at Short Session
DEFEATED REPUBLICANS WILL
NOT Be IN PLEASANT M00O
Appropriation Bills Will Be About
the Only Legislation Attempted and
Their Passage will Be Necessary In
Order to Avoid an Extra Session,

Washington, Nov. 2S.-When con-
gress meets week from today it
will have just three months in which
to perform whatever may be the de-
mands Of Republican administra-
ton. After that the fate of the Taft
legislative program will depend upon
the will Of Democrat house and
a Republican senate, condition
which will continue until the end of
President Taft's present term of Of
flee.
Confronted with q situation strewn
with confusion, the success or failure
of the approaching short session Is
believed to rest with the character Of
the coming executive message. Many
Of the regular Republicans, who were
defeated in the recent elections are
not expected to carry with the best Of
grace the blows so harshly admin
istered and this fact Of itself cuts out
for the president a task Offering diff
ficulties far more perplexing than
any that have been presented to an
legislative within q score Of years.
Realizing that he will be criticized
II he fails to demand Of congress fur
ther revision of the tarin-especially
q wool and woolen schedule-and full
ly cognizant of the fact that the pros
poets would be all against the success
of such program II submitted,
the president, 1t is said, has not made
up his mind definitely what his course
will be. The chances are that he
will not insist upon action during the
approaching session but that he will
offer to the Democrat house and the
Republican senate q year hence, q
programme for tariff revision which
will be bolstered up with facts and
the tariff board.
F Out of the whole membership Of
congress only comparatively few have
reached the city and there has been
little opportunity for exchange Of
views as to what should be done dur
ing the remainder Of the present con-
gress. So far as there has been ex-
preston the predictions Of con-
gressmen are against any extended
program. Nevertheless the admin
istration is confronted with a diff
Guilty in carrying out the plans formu-
lated before the change in the politi-
cal complexion of the country had
taken place for, gratifying as was the
record of last session from a party
point of view, President Taft finds his
demands for Legislation still incom-
plete.
Personally the president has made
It clear to his callers that he does
Sn4 %N III, vi ne
his program, although compelled
to alter his plans somewhat Just be-
cause the Democrats are about to
come into control Of the house. The
short time that remains of Republi-
can majorities in both branches of
the national legislature is used by the
president as an argument in favor of
pressing forward. Many OF his call
ers concede the point he makes but
being more familiar than he with
filibustering methods, they are not so
sanguine as to the feasibility of the
administrators ambitions. The re-
volt against Cannon rules, which the
country applauded only a short year
ago will not tend to heighten the
chances Of quick action for admins
trative measures at the coming ses-
sion.
Appropriation Bill.
Within the short session which be-
gins next week, fourteen regular ap-
preparation bills, carrying an aggre-
gate of a billion dollars or more must
be passed. Otherwise, there would be
necessity for an extra session next
spring.
Leaving the appropriation bills out
of consideration the Democrats are
disposed to take the broad position
that legislation of a general character
should be postponed until they come
into the degree of power that has
been conferred upon them. Contend
ing that the last election was on ex-
preston Of the popular will they
urge that it should be needed to the
extent of permitting the Democracy
to take the initiative in whatever new
action is to be considered. The
Democratic leaders are much embar-
rassed by the presidents position in
favor Of beginning the revision of the
tariff by schedules. They go even
farther than Mr.. Taft in their de-
nunciation Of the wool schedule and,
while preferring themselves to desig-
nate the way Of its rewriting, they
admit that they would find 1t difficult
to resist an effort at reduction when
SO ever and by whomsoever it might
be undertaken. Such also Is the case
with the reference to other sched-
ules; they could scarcely do less than
cooperate in reductions at any time.
There is some sympathy among
Democrats with the presidents plan
for federal Incorporation act and
for the modification or the law relat-
ing to Injunction and trusts.
All these questions are complicat-