Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-22
Want EXTRA SESSION
TO SPLIT DEMOCRATS
Republicans Want to Force
Tariff Issue.

Washington, d. c. November 21.-
The. belief that the democrats are go
ing to have an easy time agreeing
on the program they are to follow
with the control of the house in the
sixty-second congress has caused
some republicans here to favor a
special session of congress to be call
ed by the PRECEDENT for early in next
March.
Their argument is based frankly
upon belief that the democrats will
be unable to produce a tariff bill
would be any more satisfactory to
the country than is the Payne-AI-
drich law. 1t is set forth that in any
event President Taft would be GER
tain to get the credit in the country
for any good that might result from
| a special session, while the democrats
would be equally blamed for it's fail
ures. The worst that could happen
TO him, from the purely partisan pS4
litical point of view would be the en-
7cItment of such a measure as he
| could sign.
Expect Democratic Row,
They think the democrats will get
so tangled up in their attempts at
revision as to lose all the advant-
age they have obtained from the re-
cent election, and that there will be
full year for this inability of theirs
to sink into the minds of voters be-
fore the presidential election of 1912
If the president waits for the regular
session, the democrats would be able
| to delay matters so far into the sum-
| mer that conventions will have been
held and the campaign will be under
way before itappeared whether they
| were going to fail or succeed at their
tariff work.
lG is recognized that the demo
cratic chance of getting any tariff
bill through both houses lies in their
| ability to frame such measure as
win command the support of the
| publican insurgents in the senate. 1t
is clear now from statements re-
| ceived by the New York Times cor,
respondent from the leading progress
sive senators, just what kind of ia
riff bill this will have to be. 1t can
not be tariff for revenue only
measure. The insurgents are unan-
| imous for tariff based clearly on the
differential measure of protection laid
down in the republican platform OF
1908. They all declare their readiness
to cooperate with the democrats "or
anybody else" in the preparation and
enactment of that sort of a tariff bill
They are equally unanimous in de-
claring their opposition to any other
kind of a bill
Eager For Investigations.
There is considerable sentiment
among the house democrats against
that kind of revision, and there seems
| to be almost no democratic sentiment
for it in the senate. Some of the
| democratic senators, on the contrary
are for the protection of the products
of their states. The democratic gains
in the senate tat the recent election
have reduced the republican majority
from % to 10, and the insurgents hold
the balance of power. With the reg
ular republicans standing pat, the
democrats would have 10 make their
measure suitable to the insurgents TO
get it through. Republicans here do
not believe that they would or could
do that. 1t is this prospect that leads
some republicans to argue in favor
of a special session at the earliest
possible time
A special session, however, would
certainly bring the administration diff
ffculties in the way of Investigations.
The democrats are eager to get sew
eral committees to work probing the
departments, especially those of the
| interior and of justice, and they want
to know about the Panama canal ex-
penditures and the sale of friar lands
in the Philippines. 1t is argued that
these Investigations are bound to
come, and that the president would
get more credit from permitting them
to be started early than from trying
to hold them off.