The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-11
COMPLEXION OF THE SENATE.

SSh1 oI1ZAloN w IHE OhNA AIEi.
We have from tho American Protec.
tive Tariff League, leaflet showing
the dangers To the American pro-
tective policy in the prospective COM
position of the United States Senate,
1t appears to he conceded on all hands
and not denied by the League, that the
next House of Representatives will be
Democratic. The interesting question
then comes up. how will tho Senate
stand! 1t is in an attempt to answer
this that the leaflet is sent out.
The Sixty-secoud Congress will begin
its life on the 4th of March next Sup
be Democratic, the leaflet proceeds TO
say that "the question Of the complex
ion of the Senate is worthy of careful
consideration. " To make this considera.
tion expert, the League has procured
the services of cone of the most ex-
perienced. abest, and most conservative
members in either house Of Congress
one whose political Judgment is highly
| rated-"to make a prognosis of this
question. That eminent authority
has worked ont table showing what,
in his estimation, is probable. The
Senate as constituted now, is rated as
having fifty-cight Republican members
and thirty -four Democrats This League
expert, however. Classics the Senate
as forty-threc Republicans, thirty.four
Democrats. ten 'insurgents, and five
doubtful, total Of nincty-two. The
doubtful list comprises Senator from
Delaware. one from Nebraska. the two
from North Dakota and one from South
Dakota. The ten "insurgcnts com
prise one from Idaho, two from Iowa,
one from Kansas two from Minnesota
one from Montana. one from Nebraska,
one from Oregon, and one from Wiscon.
sin
The expert expects that Delaware,
Indiana, Missouri. Nebraska. and North
Dakota will each elect Democratic
Senator, "wbile Michigan, Montana,
New Jersey. New York and Ohio may
each lose a Republican Senator And
he mournfullv SAYS that "at best it is
not an easy matter to figure out MA.
joutv of regulars after March 4,
l91l.' And again he says, ''In 1913
the regular Republicans will likely
lose Kansas, South Dakota, and Colo.
RADIO, with no gain in sight On this,
the League sorrowfully comments:
With the Senate so constituted, the |
rock Of safety against harmful agita-
tion of the tariff, resolves into sand";
but more hopefully adds, "we do not |
vouch for the accuracy of this estimate
and foresight, and it may not come
true
In case it should happen that the Re.
publcaus lose the States indicated, they
would lose ten Senators. These ten |
would be added to the Democrats, and |
the Senate would then stand, Rcpubli-
can, forty-eigbt members; Democratic,
forty-four members. But the "insur
gent" Republicans would then be in
command of the situation If even three
of them should revolt against the ma.
chine, that would beat it; the vote in
such case would be forty.scven against
the machine TO forty.fve for it,
There is, however, the suggested pos
siblity of beating some of the "insur.
gents This is not likely in Idaho, for
neither of the Idaho Senators goes out
with the present Congress. The same
is true of Iowa; also of Kansas. in
Senator Moses L. Clapp's
term expires next March; and il is not
likely that he can be defeated. The
Montana "insurgent' is probably Sen.
ator Dickson. His term does not ex-
pire until 1913. In Nebraska. Senator
Burkett s term expires, but he will sue.
ceed himself if any Republican is cleo
ted. in Oregon. Senator Bourne is
counted an "insurgent,' but he is not
radically so he holds until 1918. In
Wisconsin. Senator La Follotte's term
expires in March next, but it, is not in
the least likely that the Republicans can
elect any other Republican.
1t is not easy to see, therefore, how
the stand -patters'' are going to avert
the incoming tide that will smash their
machine. With the concessions made in
this leaflet from the Tariff League, The
days of stand-patism seem to be
so that it is altogether likely
that the next Congress will take up the
question of revising the tariff. If it
would do so, and even revise it down
ward to the extent of giving us the old
DiDgley law, we would be infinitely
better off than we are now; for it gave
MS magnificent credit balance Of trade.
which the new tariff law has destroyed
THE GREAT TEDDY'S HEALTH.
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