The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-01-12

BY NEW DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS
Southern Representation to Be Cut
Recommendations Of Taft Com
mission Will Not Be
Considered.

mission Will Not Be
Considered.
Washington, Jan. 9.-Every possible
effort is being made by the Democratic
leaders in the house Of representatives
to make certain, that the foundation
Of the ways and means committee in
tile next house shall insure that not
a scintilla of protection shall appear
in bill that is. to represent the Demo-
cratic i6ea Of a tariff "for revenue
only" Thic fact was brought out in
the gossip aboutsthe forthcoming eau
Gus of the Democrats on this question
which Is to~be held this month.
Eevery Democrat who has voted for
protection on the products of his state
is being asked to step to the rear.
Another interesting feature Of this
program is the. disposition manifested
by the Democratic leaders to invite in
northern Democrats who had compare
lively little show on the Democratic
end of the ways and means committee
when the Payne tariff vas being form
ed. The intimations are that even pro-
lection bound Pennsylvania is to. be
given a place on the committee by
naming REPRESENTATIVE Palmer of that
state, and that the Northwest may be
represented by Representative Ham
mond of Minnesota and the Middle
West by Representative Dixon of In
diana.
The meaning Of this shapeup in the
ways and means membership is that
Democratic leaders are convinced that
the South must give up a part of it's
present representation on the commit
tee, and that the growth Of protection
sentiment among the Southern Demo
Gratis is distasteful to the leaders who
insist that only tariff for revenue shall
be framed by the party when it comes.
into the opportunity of making a tariff
measure, which will be in the next
congress. Not only are the Demo-
cratic leaders insistent upon southern
protectionists being showed to the
rear, but they are preparing to ignore
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if board or commission. The Demo-
cratic leaders are engaged in denounc-
ing what they characterize as the
frame up" of the Taft administration
for a tariff board of investigation,
made up of Republicans, as the pres
ent board is declared to be.
No recommendations of such a COM
mission, it is said, will be given the
slightest consideration by a ways and
means committee to be named by the
Democrats who will control the next
house, the point is now being made
that the Democrat leaders have studied
the situation as, it existed when last
their party framed tariff bills, and
they discover that chief among the
complaints was that the Southern
states to heavily dominated the COM
mittees which framed the Mills and
Wilson bills Is and 20 years ago.
Here is the latest Democratic pre-
diction of. the makeup of the ways
and means committee, as it will be
agreed upon by the Democratic eau
Gus to be held within a few days:
Underwood of Alabama, chairman;
Randall of Louisiana, Harrison of New
York, Kitchin of North Carolina,
Shackelford of Missouri, James of
Kentucky, Rainey of Illinois, Dixon of
indiana, Peters of Massachusetts,, Hull
Df Tennessee, A. Mitchell Palmer Of
Pennsylvania and Hammond of Min
neSOta.
N. P. Ry. Must Pay for Surveying.
The Northern Pacific Railway com-
pany will be required to deposit with
the interior department $64,512 in pre-
payment of the cost of surveying 40
townships of railway granted land in
Montana and AZ townships in Wash
lngton. Instructions to demand the
amount were issued by Secretary Ball
niger. g-,
The lands designated for survey in
Montana arc in the south central part
Of the state Immediately north of the
Yellowstone National Park.
The townships in Washington are
declared to be heavily timbered.
The greater part of this land, says
a statement issued by the interior de-
partment, although granted to the
Northern Pacific under it's original
grant, has escaped taxation by the
states in which it is located by reason
Of never having been surveyed.
Legislation passed at the last session
of congress provided for the survey
Of these lands. The railroads, under
the law, are required to advance
money to pay their proportion of the
host of these surveys.
ISOLATE TOWN, THEN ROB BANK.
5ynamiters at Houstonia, Mo-, Cut
Phone and Telegraph Wires.