Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-01-13
TARIFF FOR
REVENUE ONLY
NO PROTECTION MEN WANTED
ON WAYS AND MEANS
COMMITTEE.
BY NEW DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS
Southern Representation to Be Cut
Recommendation Of Taft Com.
mission Will Not BE
Considered.
BY NEW DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS

effort Is being made Dy the Democratic
leaders in the house of representatives
to make certain that the foundation
of the ways and means committee IN
tic next house shall insure that not
a scintilla of protection shall appear
in bill that is TO represent the Demo
cratic icca of tariff "for revenue
only" This fact was brought out IN
the gossip about the forthcoming eau
Gus Of the Democrats on this question
which Is to be held this month.
Eevery Democrat who has voted fol-
protection on the products OF his state
Is being asked to step to the rear
Another interesting feature of this
program is the disposition manifested
by the Democratic leaders to invite IN
northern Democrats who had compare
lively little show on the Democratic
end of the ways and means committee
when the Payne tariff was being form
ed. The intimations are that even pro
lection bound Pennsylvania is to be
given a place on the committee by
naming REPRESENTATIVE Palmer OF thai
state, and that the Northwest may be
represented by Representative Ham
nond Of Minnesota and the Middle
West by Representative Dixon of In
diana.
The meaning of this shapeup in the
ways and means membership is that
Democratic leaders are convinced that
the South must give up part OF Its
present representation on the commit
tee, and that the growth of protection
sentiment among the Southern Demo
Gratis is distasteful to the leaders who
insist that only tariff for revenue shall
be framed by the party when it comes
into the opportunity Of making tariff
measure, which will be in the next
congress- Not only are the Demo
cratic leaders insistent upon southern
protectionists being showed to the
rear, but they are preparing to ignore
any suggestions emanating from tar
III board or commission. The Demo
cratic leaders are engaged in denounc'
ing what they characterize as the
frame up" of the Taft administration
for a tariff board Of investigation
made up of Republicans, as the pres
ent board is declared to be.
No recommendations of such com
mission, it is said, will be given the
slightest consideration by ways anG
means committee to be named by the
Democrats who will control the next
house. the point is now being made
that the Democrat leaders have studied
the situation as it existed when last
their party framed tariff bills, an6
they discover that chief among the
complaints was that the Southern
states to heavily dominated the com
mittees which framed the Mills anG
Wilson bills Is and 20 years ago.
Here is the latest Democratic pre-
diction of the makeup of the ways
and means committee, as 1t will be
agreed upon by the Democratic eau
Gus to be held within a few days:
Underwood of Alabama. chairman;
Randall of Louisiana, Harrison of New
York, Kitchin of North Carolina
shackelford Of Missouri, James o,
Kentucky, Rainey Of Illinois, Dixon Of
Indiana, Peters of Massachusetts, HUI
Of Tennessee, A. Mitchell Palmer OF
Pennsylvania and Hammond of Min
nesota.
N. p. Ry. Must Pay for Surveying.
The Northern Pacific Railway com
pany will be required to deposit will
the interior department $64,512 in pre-
payment OF the cost of surveying AZ
townships of railway granted land il
Montana and AZ townships in Wash
ington. Instructions to demand The
amount were issued by Secretary Ball
finger.
The lands designated for survey IL
Montana arc in the south central par
Of the state Immediately north Of thu
Yellowstone National Park
The townships in Washington arr
declared to be heavily timbered.
The greater part of this land, say'
statement issued by the interior de
partment, although granted to tn
Northern Pacific under it's origina
grant, has escaped taxation by tn
states in which it is located by reasol
of never having been surveyed.
Legislation pa ssed at the last sessio
of congress provided for the surve
of these lands. The railroads, unde
the law, are required to advanc
money to pay their proportion Of tn
cost of these surveys.
ISoLATE TOWN, THEN ROB eANt