The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-10
LINEUP OF NEW
CONGRESS SPELLS
PROGRESS
House Of Representatives Has Been
Captured by Members Who Stand
For Legislation That the
People Want.
Majority of Special Interests in the
Senate Is No Longer "Safe
and Sure"
BY OLSON GARDNER.

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. April TO-
The fight for peoples government
gains ground
The old order in the house OF rep
resentatives has passed Cannon has
been reduced TO the ranks. The ways
and means committee of the Payne
Aldrich tariff has been abolished. A
new majority has been Installed, with
new rules. new committees and new
declaration OF political purpose.
Gone are Tawney, Mckinley, Car
ter, Aldrich, Dick, Hale, Kean. Bur
rows, Scott and score OF othors
whose names have become synonyms
for special privilege
The house OF representatives has
been captured by the people. And in
the senate the people have good
lighting chance.
There are TO be peoples senators
on all the big committees. Men like
Bristow and LaFollette are to sit in
councils which have been conducted
under the private and exclusive man
agement OF Aldrich. Smoot, Hale and
the rest.
There are a dozen members OF the
senate who refuse TO bow the neck 10
party rule when party rule means
treachery to the people. Twelve pro
gressives. who are called Republican,
will act together on all progressive
legislation.
There are 20 Democratic senators
who are genuinely Democratic, and
there are 20 more who will find. IT.
harder every day to serve the big IN
terests.
The special privilege majority in
the senate is no longer safe" II can
Do sustained only by drawing on The
Bailey Democrats. The special priv
ilege majority has-lost its ablest lead.
ers-Aldrich and Hale--and must fall
back on such as Penrose, Bailey, Gal
linger and Lodge.
II required the fragrant injustice OF
the Aldrich tariff to show the people
once for all how tariff laws are made
and what Is their effect. 1t needed a
Wickersham in the department Of
justice to bring to light the full
iniquity of the New England railway
merger II Ballinger had not tried to
turn the power sites over to the Gen
eral Electric trust. and TO surrender
the peoples coal 10 the Guggenheims,
conservation would have remained an
academic issue. II took Frank Hitch
cock TO produce the Republican Pro-
gressive league. and Lorimer case
to bring about the passage-it soon
will be passed-of the Borah resolu-
ton.
So the people have set on foot the
initiative, referendum and recall
even to the recall OF judges. They
have started the movement which
will end In popular election of sena-
tors. They have begun TO adopt the
primary system for the choice or
presidential convention delegates.
They have taken over their house OF
representatives and are taking over
their senate. They are rescuing the
secondary cities by means of the
commission plan, and in some local.
ties they are even looking into the
matter of unjust taxation.
Hence this recent cry: Represen-
tative government is being des-
tIoyed,"
misrepresentation government is
being destroyed.
Senator Bailey and others who
voice this cry of special privilege
have only to add the prefix mis-"
TO make their cry truthful one.
And in all these changes Is seen the
verdict OF the people, pronouncihg
judgment against those leaders who
failed to keep their public promises.
These are the results of revision Of
the tariff In the interest of the spe-
cial benehciaries OF the tariff. They
show what the people think OF
cabinet which contains a Ballinger
and Wickersham. They are the
fruits of the compact between Taft
and Aldrich and Speaker Cannon.
They are the inevitable consequences