The National tribune., 1911-03-16
TARIFF REVISION.
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the Mckinley Dill was Trained III liio
Ways and Means Committee as menu
Der of that very COMMITTEES. No Sena-
tor is q closer student of the fiscal sys-
tenn of the Government probably than
he. and as Senator Penrose entertains
antagonisric views on many PROPOSE
tions of tariff some interesting sessions
of the Finance Committee may be ex-
pected with two such sturdy Creeks on
the Republican side of the table.
Postmaster-GeneraI Hitchcock Ia
ments the passing of Senator Penrose
to another Craftsmanship. The Post
master General, unable to drive his
horses particularly well with the Mas
sachusetts Republicans. has accordingly
found great solace in the Pennsylva-
MAN, who has been willing to do all in
his power to carry out Mr.. Hitchcocks
wishes with reference to legislation at
feeting departmental policies. The head
of the Post Office Committee over In
the House has been Representative
Weeks. of Massachusetts, but with his
transfer to the minority came a pros
pect that Senator Crane, of Massachu-
sets, would be the Chairman of Post
Offices as Senator Penrose went to Fin
ance, but now Ii seems more likely that
Senator Bourne, of Oregon, will have
charge of legislation that the. Postmas-
ter-General seeks.
Just what the strong ties are between
Senator Penrosa and the Postmaster
General no one seems to have discov-
cred. Both are Harvard graduates and
bachelors and both have given some
attention to politics. Anyhow, Sena-
tor Penrose has been an invaluable ally
of the Postmaster General during
stressful periods when such an ally was
valuable. g.
Representative Kinds.
rrho ,,,l;ar,ay Of a pepubl;oap
House. Asher Kinds, resigns his place
to become Representative in Congress.
A former Representative in Congress.
Charles R. Crisp, of Americns, Ga,
takes up the duties of parliamentarian
in the Democratic House. Young Crisp
is remembered very pleasantly in Wash
ington, where he served as Secretary to
his father. the late Speaker Crisp, and
where he was his fathers immediate
successor on the latter's sudden death
in the midst Of the 54th Congress. He
has been practicing law in Georgia, and
has also been elected a County Judge
of recent years.
Ardent partisans have been expecting
that Representative Kinds, with his
very superior equipment as parlia-
mentarian, would proceed forthwith up
on the assembling of Congress to tie
the House, its Democratic Speaker,
Democratic parliamentarian and all
their sympathizers into hard knots and
maintain the status. Mr.. Kinds, on the
contrary, purposes to attempt. nothing
OF the kind. He is withal a modest
man, but is looking to success by other
tactics. He has no desire in the world
to "show off, and above all things does
not care 20 draw the jealousies and ami
mosities of Democrats and Republicans
alike by doing parliamentary tricks"
now that he has become member Of
the National House.
The 'liveliest thing in Washington
while the President and most of his
Cabinet art taking their March, vaea-,
tons is the Economy Commission. Its
experts are driving ahead under full
pressure, employing more experts and
getting reforms under way as fast as
may be. su..44
gree Il matter of "beating the, Demo-
cratic House to it." For the Democrat
&c House has plans for going thru the
Departments and applying its own idea
OF economy. Apparently the Democrat
ic Investigators will find that the F,eon-.
omy Commission has operated in prac-
tically every Bureau and Department.
The work may not have been finished,
but it will answer for political purposes,
and Republicans will claim the credit
FOR undertaking it.
Chicago now has three members of
the Cabinet-MacVeagh, Dickinson and
Fisher; New York one, in Wickersham;
Pittsburg one, i'm Knox; ST Louis one,
in Maggie, and Boston virtually two, as
Secretary Meyers interests are chiefly
in Boston and Postmaster General
Hitchcock's voting residence is only just
outside the city
Wilson, of Iowa, is practically the
only member of the Cabinet who does
not hail from a great center of popula-
ton.