Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-08
FACING REAL PROBLEMS AND sio
ONES IN ASSUMING CONTROL
OF HOUSE.
TARIFF TO eE REVISED,
BUT WHO WILL DO WoRk3
Men Who viii Burn Midnight Of, and
Get At Real Meat Of Thinss Wanted,
and Wanted BadIy-Ne Delivers, Ia
FolIsttss or curnminsss Ready 70 ee
Called Into Service.
Especial Correspondence


Washington. March s.-Confronted
now with the certainty Of an extra ses-
sion only a month ahead: a session
which must largely make up the dem
ocrutic side Of the issues for 1912
democratic leaders are confronted with
grave concern for the performance they
are to give.
A new set Of issues has been forced
upon them by the Bailey Owen breach
in the senate in the last hours of the
session. Until that incident, the re-
sponsible managers Of the party in
congress were confident that they could
give such a demonstration on the tar
III question as would command the
country's confidence. and conserve
their opportunity in 1912.
But Senator Bailey has suddenly
raised the Arizona issue to the first
significance. The historical analogies
Of tho present situation are apparent.
Maine and Missouri were tied together
IN all considerations OF their admission
to tho union: Maine a free state, Mis-
souri, slave state, it was the contest
between conservatism and progress
siveism The Kansas war grew out OF
the contest to determine whether Kan
sas should come in slave or free: and
the Arizona war 10 over the question
OF whether Artsona shall be bond or
free. That Il the issue as IS per cent
of the people Of Arizona have seen and
voted upon it Senator Owen would tie
Arizona and New Mexico together. as
Maine and Missouri were tied. to
maintain the balance in the senate.
One Issue Msnaoss.
Thus does one new and far-reachdng
issue s,,ddenly raise a menacing head
to alright party leaders and to COM
plicate their difficulties. It will be
brought to the fore Immediately upon
tho meeting Of the extra session. and
whatever 10 done or not done. IL wiz
be projected thence to the 1917 cam
paign.
Tue immediate and pressing question
before the democrats. however. 10 to
prepare for the extrat session. They
must organise the house. ana that, UNI
der the now plan Of naming committees
thru Q committee. - no easy task. The
democratic members Of this commit
tee-namAng body have been appointed.
but their work u by no means done.
Pleaded With fafk
A months respite to prepare for the
extra session was earnestly pleaded Tor
by the democratic leaders. vino told
President Taft they simply must have
It They were right Tho ways and
means committee has two huge tasks
on hand. First. It must mako up the
committee roll OF the house. and that
task viii take up good share OF the
months intermission. There WILL be
little opportunity for them to concen-
trats attention upon the tariff SEIZED"
ules that await revision. They Will &C"
'complish marvels II they are able to
have a single popsun bill. covering an
entire schedule, ready for report oy tnc
time the house Is In sessdon.
This 10 the embarrassment wnlcn
was foreseen by democrats and others
who urged that the committee naming
authority be given, not TO a legislative.
hut n an Overhead" COMMITTEES. like
rifles. 20 a. TO free ways and means
frorn the double duty that now encum-
hers II. But 1t is too late for chanee
r,a r,or,x must be done az IL has been
started.
Shy on Com pstsnt Men.
N.v+ IN the problem OF getting at the
work. In that OF finding men to do 1t.
The real, illuminating. enlishtenng
commanding work Of the 1909 tariff
session was done by a little group or
insurrent senators: men equipped for
the analytical studies they made. and
gifted with the power to present their
conclusions In forceful manner. These
men won the country to their view OF
tho tariff; and the country went. not
democratic, but anti-republican. on the
tariff issue, because Of the work these
men had done.
That sort Of a task involves bound
less energy, clear heads. the willingness
to consume freely OF the midnight oil,
the capacity for concentrated study and
endless application. Who Is to provide
these talents for the democrats?
lnsuresnts Had the Goods.
The republicans in 1909 allowed Dol
flyer, La Toilette. Cummins. Beverage.
Clapp. Bristow and Nelson to run the
tariff debate, because they had the
goods" who 10 to dig "the goods" out
Of documents, counting rooms, finan-
cial and commercial reports. for use in
directing a democratic revision. Where
are the trained publcists and econom-
lists who can do the heavy work ahead?
That. is the question democrats are