The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1911-01-13
Tariff Legislative Program and
Selection of Committees for
Next Session.
NEW TREATY TO END SCARES
Pending Pact With Japan Relied on to
Insure Long Peace With the L.
landers-Prospects of the
Ship Subsidy Measure.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

they meet In caucus In the middle Of
January will appoint a tentative"
ways and means committee. 1t is I'M
derstood that all the Democratic mem
bers elected to the new congress will
be present at the caucus, although
of course the new members can have
40 voice In legislation until the pres
ent congress dies. They can. and will
be. taken into consideration, however,
In caucus matters which have to do
with the program OF the party when
1t comes into full power In the rep
resentative chamber.
1t Is altogether probable that the
tentative committee will become the
legal ways and means committee
when the subsidiary bodies of the
next house finally are appointed. 1t
is to be the duty OF this tentative COM
mittee to frame such tariff legisla-
ton as the Democratic party finally
concludes 1t will take up for consid-
Grafton next December.
1t has been disclosed also that to
the tentative body will be given the
WOih VI Wudl Is 10 D0 knOWH as
committee on committees. In other
words, because Champ Clark, the next
speaker Of the house, has agreed that
the neutrality-suspicious. power shall
pass from his hands, 1t will be trans
mitted to the ways and means COM
mittee, which will undertake the task
Of assigning members to committee
positions and report the results Of Its
work to house caucus of all the party
members 1
Delicate Task for COMMITTEES.
The chief legislative duty of the
tentative ways and means committee
will be the planning for tariff revi
sion under Democratic auspices, but
this work will not be much harder
than that Of naming the membership
of the committees of the house This
latter labor not only will be hard. bu,
1t will require the exercise of caution
and of rare diplomacy. for there il
great jealousy in the matter of com
mittee appointments. The Republi
cans found this to be the case and Il
is hardly possible that the Democrats
being human like the enemy" will
be any less susceptible to the prompt
ings of personal ambitions and to the
showing of keen disappointment at thu
failure OF personal hopes to be rea
liked.
Congress may use its good office
to prevent the establishment Of re
formatory institution almost unde
the shadow Of the walls of the hous,
at Mount Vernon where Washington
lived and died. Few projects of re
cent years have attracted more atten
ton In the capital than this one to es
tablish penal institution close t
what most Americans consider groun,
of an almost sacred nature. 1t |
probable that another location will b
found for the reformatory.
Rely on New Japan Treaty.
Washington officials hope and be
lieve that when the new treaty wit
japan Is signed, and ratified by tn
senate of the United States and b
the emperor's council, the main tror
bles out of which it was feared wa
might spring will be removed from tn
field of friction.
The Japanese officials and to som
extent the Japanese people never hav
forgotten that 1t was the United State
which gave to the empire the impetu
to modern civilization. While tn
masses Of the Japanese people wer
and still are angry because of discrin
nations made In America against tn
islanders because of their color, Their
have been some leaders of the peopl
who have seen fit to remind them col
stantly of what America did for Japa
In the year 1854. when Commodor
Perry at the mouth Of the guns OF hi
ships opened the Japanese ports to tn
trade OF the world and let in not onl
trade, but civilization.
1t Is thought probable that tie ne
treaty with Japan will In certain dil
lomatic ways touch on the question
Japanese exclusion and will 80 arrans
, matters that the western coast. an
the rest Of the country, too, for ths
natter, need no longer fear that labc
the lruurer because of the influx Of tn
II this matter can be q
treaty so that further raci;
bacoh-an be avoided, the Washin,
mas settled is that Japan and Americ
VIII remain friends for years to com
and that the recent war scare wi
serve only to remind people OF no
easy 1t is to conJure up trouble out {
conditions of peace.
Civil Service Pension Bill.
Representative Goulden of Ne
York has introduced retirement pei
sion bill for government employee
under the civil service. This is onl
one OF several bills OF the kind whic
have been introduced, but It gain
prominence from the fact that II
sponsor Is Democrat and because
the present Republican house does nc
pass the measure. II will fall to the IL
of a Democratic house either to pas
or reject the legislation
There is an immense amount {