Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-21

| .loiS lilo all puDllc DullQlngS from
New England and a number of other
states. as far south as North Caro-
lima and as far West as Kansas.
When these subcommittee have
completed their labors their work
goes to the sub committee on revision.
which is composed of the older and
more experienced members Of the en-
tire committee. Chairman Bartholdt
and Gov. Burleigh are both members
OF it. BY next week the sub-com-
| mitteeS expect to have their work
completed so that the subcommittee
on revision can take hold and when
| that sub committee has had its saw
virtually framing the omnibus bin as
it will be presented to the House. the
entire committee will be called to-
gether for "a series of meetings.
| The committee will have its q X
upon the omnibus bill. which will be
| ready for report to the House bv the
end of April in all probability. The
House is now considering the last of
the great supply bills, known as the
| Sundry Civil Appropriation bill and
the Omnibus Public Building bill must
be in shape to be brought into the
| House very soon thereafter whenever
Speaker Cannon says the word
! Because of the desire to conserve
| the public funds. there is an effort to
limit the public building bill /, $40
| 100000 or $l2.o00.000. AS Gov Bur
leigh puts it. the Committee is irving
| to cut the garment to fit the cloth
| this year But it is very different to
| frame an omnibus bill within that
| limit which will be satisfactory
Senator Hale is taking a lively in
terest in the agitation over the tariff
| law. He has been prodding the
Special Committee Of the Senate
which is investigating the high cost of
| living in the hope that it will pro-
duce some facts and information
which will show the people during the
| campaign what the real situation is.
The special committee undertook this
task several weeks ago but it takes a
long time to gather information uuon
So broad subject and it has seemed
doubtful whether much of report
could be made before Congress ad
| journs
When the consideration of ii plan of
| investigation. that would cost about
$4,000 came up the other day in de-
| bate. Senator Hale speedily took a
part. He warned Senators that thev
We're bound to have many inquiries on
this subject as the Congressional
campaign progresses. 1t was accord
ingly very desirable that all the in
formation should be collected as
speedily as can be- presented to the
Senate and printed SO that it would be
| accessible.
No one realizes better than Senator
Hale that Maine, as well as the rest of
New England, will fare badly if
another tariff revision is undertaken
WITHIN d few years. He was one of
those who resisted the revision of the
Dlngley law as long as he could and
now he proposes to get before the pub
Tic as much information as possible to
make plain the strong points of the
Payne law. The first year or two of
the life of d tariff law are always
turbulent. Plenty of people are ever
ready to emphasize the fact that taxes
are purdensome and they can find
paragraphs and sections in tariff laws
that do not please them
The New England Senators have
mad increasingly difficult battles to
wage over tariff during the last
twenty years since the controlling in
iluence in legislation has been steadily
swinging westward The interest OF
the West in tariff are naturally not
identical with the interests of the
East and of New England. Maine
obtained less under the Payne law
than it had under the Dinglev law. IT
VIII undoubtedly have less under the
next tariff law, whenever it is enacted.
than it has now under the Payne law
Hence the anxiety of the Republicans
IN Congress to meet the current criti-
clsms of the Payne law in the belief
that after it has been in operation for
couple of years, its good features
VIII be more generally recognized.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett S Hail of An
Susta and Mr.. and Mrs ]. Frank
Names of Lewiston We're in the city
recently on their way to New Orleans
where the first session OF the I'm
perlal Council of Shriners is being
held.