Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-20
UPPER HOUSE HAS PROGRAM
FOR SHORT SESSION ALL
ITS OWN.
RECIPROCITY AND REVISION
IN ONE OMNIBUS BILL
Strange Mixture Of Motivss to Cause
House Program TO Bs Torn to Pisess
Home interests involved in Tariff
Changes and General Principles Are
Forgotten.
Especial Correspondence.

lSpoC&Ai So1AScRSioSAASSS
Washington. April 20-When the
house Of representatives has finished
it's tariff programmes passed Canad-
ian reciprocity, its free list bill, and
several schedule revision bills-the
senate committee on finance will throw
the whole product to the winds and
proceed entirely on new lines.
The senate program will be based
on the omnibus bill plan. That is. in
stead Of bringing out the different
house bills as separate measures, the
finance committee will take up the en-
tire series Of them. reform them into
single, general tariff revision bill. and
bring this before the senate.
In doing this, the finance COMMITTEE
Will produce a situation calculated
greatly to weaken the chance for any
tariff legislation at all to pass.
A strange mixture OF motives will
account for the senate's adoption Of
this program. The regular republican
senator's OF course favor the omnibus
bill because it gives opportunity for
that log rolling which has always been
the determining influence in making
tariffs. They will be able to trade
among different interests and groups
and Industries; to hold one group in
line for high duties which it does not
want. with the threat that II reduction
is made at one point. 1t will have to
be carried thruout the list
Some Proeressives Favor.
For entirely different reasons. some
of the progressive senators favor the
omnibus plan. They represent agri-
cultural states, IN which there is much
disafection over Canadian reciprocity
deal They are not willing to vote for
reciprocity unless at the same time
they are certain that they will vote
for such measure OF revision in the
farmers interest as will copper" the
reciprocity vote r. to- ~1,o-.'5 vote
for an indepen,is~. -eri-,-~~t.' - and
It should pass, and il thereafter the
rest OF the revision program should
be shaped UP in an omnibus bill which
should be talked or logrolled to death
then the agricutura1-state insurgents
would have to brave a wrath which
some. at least, might not be able to
survive.
Then there are two elements Of dem.
ocrats. progressives and conservatives
on tariff. Among these the division.
and the divergence OF motives. is no
less acute than among the different
stripes OF republicans. Some Of them
represent states in which protection
sentiment has become factor too Inn
portant to be entirely ignored. It Is
crystalized about particular interests.
Industries and localities. It is respon-
sible for the bitter antagonism OF pow
erful lumber interests in Arkansas to
YaynnvA1 NJ fhn 1y1yo hoY d,,$f
counts for the fact that Senator Clarke
Of that state has largely been account
ed protection democrat
Local Interests At Stake.
This same influence has long made
the Louisiana senators frank protec-
tionists because OF sugar. It IL, making
itself felt powerfully in expressions
that come from the livestock and rice
industries Of Texas It has made Flor
ida only second to Louisiana. among
southern states, as protectionist
democracy. because of the Florida fruit
interests. It writes the story of Senator
Simmons vote for the lumber inter-
ests
And so thru the list OF local inter-
ests which Justify the historic remark
OF General Hancock
The truth il that half the members
session, based on the Canadian reci-
procity arrangement. puts them face to
face with fights for their political lives
That Is the long and short Of the mat
ter. There never was a time In the
memory OF veterans yet in service,
when more difficult political situation
confronted a great proportion Of the
members Of the senate. This is true OF
the insurgent middle west Of the lun1-
Der region Of the Ear northwest, Of the
New Englanders. and Of the men from
the Industrial regions Of the new
south.
Feeling Home Pulse.
The men situated as these embar-
raised senators are. conversation about
the nobility OF sticking for principle,
and riskfng the consequences. Is pretty
useless. These men want to know
which way the cat Is going to Jump
They are desperately trying to find
out which way the people at home want
them to travel and they ind that in
almost every state there Is sharp d.
vision OF sentiment, and every prosrsc.
that feeling will grow more bitter as
the dght is prolonged.
The senate is going to take plenty Of
time. There will be tons OF speeches
FoY bova /ne ~ %ha.o