Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-14
FRAME-UP
Republicans Likely to RuHle
Serenity of Opponents.
PLANS FOR NEXT CONGRESS
Strongest Men Put Forward for Com
mittee on Rules.
BATTLE OF GIANTS PROMISED
Democrats Wary and Inclined to Bel
ligerency-Prospective Speakers
Position That Of Moderator.
PLANS FOR NEXT CONGRESS
BATTLE OF GIANTS PROMISED

The republicans are planning a
frame up on the democrats in the
approaching Congress in the makeup
OF the republican membership of the
House committee ON rules In looking
over the democratic membership Of
the rules committee the republicans
have concluded that the opposition is
likely to be an easy mark" and they
intend to put in a fine battery for their
representation on the committee.
1t will include probably Mann, Ohm
sted. Cannon, Norris and Asher Kinds,
or some of them. With a skilled, re-
sourceful and aggressive set Of men on
the rules committee, the republicans
hope to have some fun with the enemy
brought in.
Fitzgerald to the Rescue.
mandeer Fitzgerald-they will have to.
it is said-when they get into a tight
place, and there will be the spectacle
of 'Fitz" dropping the shears and
pruning knife and blue pencil in the
appropriations room and rushing into
the House every time the democrats
get begged down with rule And it
surely will make the goosef1esh break
out on some OF the democrats to have
to call on him.
Underwood is good parlianentar-
the fighting. but it is prophesied he
will have his hands full with that re-
publican bunch of highbinders. All
that Champ Clark will have to do will
be to sit up on the throne and look
pleasant and put questions. 1t is feared
that If he should ever try to make an
original ruling it would be a breach
OF democratic principles.
The republicans will see to it. it is
declared. that there won't be any Of
this car business. 1t would never
do for a democrat to be car. The
line Of cars died with the speakership
Of the Sixty-first Congress-
Clark as Moderator.
Moderator Clark Is the way they
are beginning to talk about him al
ready. He can call the House to order,
adjourn 1t, announce the years and nays
and order out the mace in time of riot,
they say, and that's about all that
will be coming to him.
All this kind Of talk, the democrats
retort, comes from the arrogance of
long power which the republicans
have enjoyed, until they have come to
really believe that all of the capacity
is lodged in republicans"
"One would think from that sort Of
balderdash," said democrat, bitterly,
that the people are divided into two
MISCONCEPTIONS and imbeciles. 1t
seems to me, il I recollect Alright, that
the democrats have managed to run
the House several times since the civil
war. 1 am getting sick and tired Of
this republican supercihousness, and
1 allow we are likely to show them
thing Or two before we get through
with This"
Courageous and Confident.
All jesting aside, the democrats are
not belittling the task before them in
the next session, but they are going
at it courageously and confidently. They
claim that at any rate they are not
afflicted with irreconcilable factional diff
ferences, while the republicans are. they
charge, and they look to see some fun
on the other side of the chamber when
the standpatters and the progressives
clash.
The democrats are looking over the
field to discover the possible opportunity
Of making some political capital out of
the admisintration's war maneuvers."
The opening day of the extraordinary
session of Congress will witness. it is
said the introduction Of flood of reso-
lutions calling upon the President for
an explanation of the ordering of the
troops to the border.
The democrats. being in control Of the
purse stringe Of the nation through the
appropriations committee of the House,
and intent upon economy, will base their
demand upon economical reasons; they
will want to know why the expense has
been incurred.
Back of That, Politics.
But back Of that will be the political
consideration. 1t is democratic policy, OF
course, to disparage the republican adj
,ninistration and crticise it at every turn,
and some Of the democrats think there
is opportunity in this Mexican incident
for good political capital.
The anti-administration republicans in
the Senate intend to take up the case at
that end of the Capitol, and Senator La
Toilette will try to beat the democrats
to it, with a resolution Of inquiry.
Batting the administration" promises
to be favorite game early in the COM
ing session, but in this connection 1t may
be said that others than the democrats
and administration men will be in
terested in eliciting information from the
executive branch as to the recent dotngs
on the border.
Some of the men In congress who sup
pose they are in close touch with the adj
ministratfon are very much in the dark
on the proceedings.
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