The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-01-26

| making such changes In the measure
! that 1t will not receive final endorse
ment.
President Taft Is emulating the
Roosevelt strenuosity in his endeavor
to get the factions together on the
/ Longworth bill, which more nearly
meets his views OF the form which the
! Legislation should take. The Demo
Gratis will not feel at all bad II the
Republicans continue to disagree I'M
til the end. for If tariff commission
Legislation is not enacted at this SEES
session the present minority party In
the house believes that it will be cas-
Ter for 1t next year to undertake down
ward tariff revision with a greater as
surance of winning the approval OF the
country
Appropriation May Be Cut.
1t is even possible that the present
tariff board may pass out OF existence
because OF the refusal OF congress TO
appropriate $4,000 for the continu-
ance of its work. There Is a disposl'
ton to cut the proposed sum In nail
and II this is done, while the board
can continue its work for some time.
It's funds will disappear comparatively
early and It will be necessary to ask
u Democratic house for further APP
preparation, and it may be that the
Democrats, intent on tariff revision
according to their own views, Will re-
fuse to vote the money.
OF course II tariff commission Is
authorized the present board will dis
appear. but 1t may be that the three
members who constitute 1t will obtain
m membership in the commission. The
tariff is still by far the most momen-
tOus II not the most sensational mat
ter before congress. 1t IS sure OF
life Of perplexity TO the parties long
aft er the Lorimer case has been for
gotten and long after Mr.. Ballinger
and Mr. Pinchot have passed from
public attention.
Statehood for Arizona in Peril
The wonder is in Washington if, aft
er years of striving for sisterly rec
oenition, Arizona is going to be left
out of the Union of the states for
some time to come.
In about two weeks the people Of
Arizona will vote on the adoption OF
the state constitution which was drawn
up at the constitutional convention. II
the document in its present form Is
sanctioned the friends of statehood
fear that the president and the con.
gress of the United States will inter
pose a veto and that the territory Will
be obliged to wait much longer before
it can become a state.
The progressive Republicans in Con-
gress say that IL Is the old time reac-
ton which is manlfestng itself In a
disposition to refuse to sanction the
constitution Of Arizona In its present
form. The conservative Republicans,
and the president, too, for that mat
ter, say that they are opposed to Ari-
zona's constitution principally because
it mAes The recall apply to judicial Of
fees so that If a judge renders
decision which is unpopular, even
though 1t be founded on sound law,
he can be kicked off the bench simply
because he has seen fit to do his
duty"
progressives Say Stand Firm.
Many of the progressive senators
have written letters to the Arizona peo.
pie telling them to stand by their
cause, that the constitution is simply
progressive. and not radical, and that
It would be better for the territory to
remain out of the Union for a while,
certain that it will get in eventually
under the conditions that 1t desires
rather than to yield anything to the
clamor OF reaction.
Senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon
whose influence It is said was largely
responsible for the election of pro
gressive majority In the Arizona con.
stitutional convention, has written a
letter to President Hunt who presided
at the convention and in it he says
this:
The question of whether the presi
dent will or will not approve the Arb
IONA constitution should be wholly i'm
material The people of Arizona had
better lose statehood than yield the
control of their own state government.
Dictation from one man in Washing
ION should be as distasteful to ne peo-
pie of Arizona as dictation from London
was to TIE American colonists."
President Taft before long will APP
point the members of an International
Joint commission provided for under
treaty between the United States and
Great Britain The members of the
commission will attempt to settle boun-
Diary questions and water power
right disputes between this country
and Canada.
The terms of the international treaty
contain one curious feature. The com
missiJners are given the right to fix
tn cir own salaries. The wonder is just
what the limit Of modesty Will be
II IA understood that one or two mem.
hers of congress who failed of recognl-
ton will be named for positions on the
commission Representatives ana sen
ators receive 81 500 year as salary
The question which is agitating wash
ipp,on in an amused way is whether or
mot these officials of government when
they become international commission
ars will be content with the pay whfch
: hey drew as representatives ot only
one nation.
why didn't we have a story Oh
tho Rre2' he asked.