The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
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insist that tariff revision must come
in accordance with the bills sent
from the House. Therefore, it would
appear that the tariff coalition which
went up like a rocket almost immedi-
ately came down like a stick. The
gulf which divides the democrats and
insurgents is far too wide to bridge,
tariffically speaking, and each must
fight 1t out alone.
The insurgents have now discover
ed that they were used as monkeys
to pull the democratic tariff bills out
of the furnace of the Finance commit
tee, and that they have not received
In return as much as little ointment
to rub on their blistered hands. AS
to tariff revision it now appears that
the regular republicans will stand by
the president in insisting that there
shall be no hap-hazard and wildcat
legislation on the subject at this SEES
sion, and that the subject shall wait
until December when the tariff board
of experts shall have reported and
the matter can be considered intelli-
gently with all the up-to-date facts at
hand. There is no republican dis
position to hinder or delay tariff re-
vision longer than il can be safely
and properly done from a non-parti-
san and scientific standpoint.
OF course there is the possibility
later that the insurgents and demo-
Gratis may unite for a brief moment
on some one item of the tariff and
put it through, but this cannot be as
long as the insurgents insist on
tariff revision only by amending reci-
procity. The democrats will have
none of that In view Of the facts
| that the president is emphatic in the
declaration that there must be no
tariff legislation as this session and
that he will veto any such sent him,
and on the other hand with Speaker
Clark insisting that the House will
continue to send tariff bills to the
senate and that the senate must act
on them before adjournment 1t would
seem as if that "gentleman's agree
ment" between the president and the
speaker of which congress heard so
much last winter and in which the
former was alleged to have promised
not to interfere or object to the
House program would have to be re-
ratified. Certainly it now seems to
| be awfully strained In the mean
time the speaker is singing 20,
promise mel" and the president Is
looking coldly askance.
Another incidental fight as side
issue is due in the senate this week
on the request that the senate recede
| from the Bristow amendment to the
resolution providing for the popular
election of senators. 1t will be re-
membered that the vote on the amend
ment was a tie in the senate, and
that it was only adopted by the de-
Gliding vote of the vice president.
This renders the result very uncer-
tain when the vote is again taken on
the question of eliminating the amend
ment in accordance with the House
request. 1t is likely that yet another
rumpus will ensue, accompanied by
much hot air, over the question OF
accepting the report of the senate
committee on territories, which has
decided to acquiesce in the House
resolution in favor of the admission
as states of Arizona and New Mexico
after they shall have voted once
more as to retaining certain sections
of their constitutions. In the case OF
Arizona II is the matter of the recall
of the judiciary which that territory
has insisted thus far in retaining in
| its constitution as state. There
is much hot sentiment against this
idea in the senate, and there may be
some delay in getting the committee
report accepted because of its re-
Itention.
In the meantime, while the crash