Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-02-14
EXTRA SESSION
IS NOT PROBABLE
Wanted by Neither Republican
Administration Nor Demo-
cratic Leaders.
NOT READY FOR TARIFF BILL
ohio Seeks Appropriation 10 Bring
Oiympian Games to Cleveland
Taft's Travels Will Begin
Soon--Paring Navy
Estimate.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

Washlngton.-There has been a
good deal of gossip, some earnest and
some merely flippant, about the proba-
bility of an extra session of congress.
AT this writing. it loes not seem like
gress together in extraordinary SEES
sion in the spring or in the fall, being
content to wait, perhaps, until the reg
ular session begins next December,
but 1t should be said that there is al
ways chance for change Of mind
1t is perfectly evident that Meth
er the Republican administration nor
the Democratic leadership desires an
extra session, and the reasons for the
like wish are Numerically opposed to
each other. The president is afraid
that II he calls an extra session to put
his reciprocity agreement into effect,
If the Republicans fail to do it at the
present session, the Democrats viii at
once begin the work of revising the
tariff, ard thereby, as the president
views 1t, give the business concerns
of the country some reason to be dis
turbed
Mr.. Taft seems to think that with
rest from tariff legislation for nine
months, between March and December,
the various industries of the country
will be able to adjust themselves to
the conditions which they think may
exist after the party which is coming
into power in the house has an oppor-
tunity to treat the tariff according to
its inclination.
The Democratic leaders do not want
an extra session, in the spring at least,
because they want to give the tenta-
tive ways and means committee of
their party full opportunity to study
the tariff schedules from every angle
and to be able to decide whether or
not, at the regular session, revision
shall be attempted schedule by SEIZED
ule, or by means of a general bill
which will touch virtually all of the
schedules.
Hopes of the Democrats.
OF course the senate in the next
congress still will be Republican, but
the Democratic house leaders seem to
nave lpllClL lcllIu luctI IL luGy IGNlOC
downward only such schedules as the
progressive Republican senators were
in favor of revising a year and a half
ago, a Democratic house bill can be
put through Republican senate. The
Democratic leaders also think that if
their bill is one which will appeal to
Republican progressives and if the cuts
in the duties are not too deep, the pres
ident may be inclined to affix his sig
nature, and thus make their measure
the law of the land
Representative Paul Rowland of
Ohio has introduced a bill in congress
asking for federal appropriation of
$250,000 to secure the holding of the
great international Olympian games in
this country. 1t is understood that
the city of Cleveland, which is Mr.
Howland's home, is willing to raise an
other $250,000 for the same purpose,
and this means of course that it is
the hope of the Ohio city that the
games will be held within its borders.
Congress seems just now disinclined
to vote money for purposes of this
kind, and frankness compels the state
ment that the chances for the passage
of the bill are not bright, although it
is understood that a good many of
the members believe that the money
would be well expended
Taft's Journeyings Begin Soon.
President Taft soon will start on his
spring and summer journeyings. 1t
must be understood that spring begins
early in Washington. It is nothing
unusual here for the naples to bud
and for the forsythias to put forth
their yellow blossoms as early as st.
Valentines day.
II is the intention of the president
to go to Springfield, ILL.,, to attend the
Lincoln memorial celebration on the
birthday of the martyred president,
February r. On the way to the cap
itaI of Illinois Mr.. Taft will stop at Co
lumbus, the capital of Ohio, for few
hours. He expects to be back In the
White House on February IA.
Four days after the adjournment of
congress Mr. Taft win go to Atlanta.
Gd, where ne Will SPEAK DelOT6 the
southern commercial congress. From
the Georgia city he will travel through
Tennessee to Cincinnati. stopping on
the way at Nashville and Chattanooga
1t is the intention of Mr.. Taft to re-
main in his home town several days,
and to go from there to Cleveland be-
fore returning to the White House.
The president already has accepted
invitations to visit New York city and
one or two New England cities be
tween March and the time that he
leaves for his summer home at Bev-
erIy, Mass. In the summer or early
fall, he expects to go through the mid
die west, and enc fixed appointment
has been made, that of a speech-making
visit TO the Kansas state fair at
Hutchinson toward the close of Sep
TENDER.
Hard to Cut Expenses.
When President Taft asked the
cabinet officers one year ago TO
cut their estimates for the APP
preparations for the next IL months
-NO@~O~~S@O~S~S~~~S
The Art of Gesture.