The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1911-01-13
TWO HARD TASKS
FOR DEMOCRATS
Tariff Legislative Program and
Selection Of Committees for
Next Session.
NEW TREATY TO END SCARES
Pending Pact with Japan Relied on to
Insure Long Peace With the 10
ISnders-Prospeets Of tho
Ship Subsidy Measure.
ax GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington Is fully expected
that the Democrats Of the house when
they meet In caucus In the middle OF
January will appoint tentative
ways and means committee. II Is UNI
derstood that all the Democratic mem.
bers elected to the new congress VIII
DO present at the caucus. although
II course the new members can have
no voice In legislation until the pres
ent congress dies. They can. and will
be. taken into consideration. however.
In caucus matters which have TO do
with the program Of the party when
II comes into full power In the rep
/ fesentatlve chamber.
II is altogether probable that the
tentative committee will become the
legal ways and means committee
when the subsidiary bodies Of the
next house finally are appointed. II
II TO be tho duty Of this tentative com
mittoe 10 frame such tariff leglsla.
ton as the Democratic party finally
concludes II will take up for consid'
Grafton next December.
II has been disclosed also that TO
the tentative body will be given the
work Of what Ia to be known as n
committee on committees. In other
words. because Champ Clark. the next
speaker Of the house. has agreed that
tho commltteeappolntin power shall
| pass from his hands. II will be trans.
mitted 10 the ways and means com.
mittoe. which will undertake the task
OF assigning members TO committee
positions and report the results OF It's
work 10 house caucus Of all the party
members
Delicate Task for Committee.
The chief legislative duty OF the
tentative ways and means committee
will be the planning for tariff reyi.
sion under Democratic auspices. but
this work will not be much harder
than that Of naming tho membership
Of the committees OF the house. This
latter labor not only will be hard, but
II Will require the exercise OF caution
and Of rare diplomacy. for there 10
great jealousy In the matter OF com.
u'ittes appointments. The Ropubh.
cans found this TO be the case and Il
is hardly possible that the Democrats,
being human like the enemy" will
be any less susceptible to the prompt.
ings OF personal ambitions and to the
showing Of keen disappointment at the
failure OF personal hopes TO be roa.
LIKED.
Congress may use its good Offices
TO prevent the establishment OF a 70.
formatory Institution almost under
the shadow OF the walls OF the house
at Mount Vernon where Washington
lived and died. Few projects Of 70.
cent years have attracted moro atten.
ton In the capital than this one 10 es.
tablish penal institution close to
what most Americans consider ground
OF an almost sacred nature. II is
probable that another location will be
found for the reformntory.
Rely on New Japan Treaty.
Washington officials hope and be
lieye that when the new treaty with
Japan Ia signed, ana ratified by the
senate OF the United States and by
the emperor'a council. the main trou,
bles out Of which It was feared war
might spring will be removed from the
field of friction.
The Japanese officials and TO some
extent tho japanese people never have
forgotten that II was the United States
which gave TO the empire the impetus
TO modern civilization. While the
masses Of the japanese people were
and stu are angry because OF dlsorlm.
nations made In America against the
islanders because Of their color. there
have been some leaders Of the people
who have seen NJ 10 remind them con.
stantly OF what America did for Japan
In the year 1854, whom Commodore
Perry at the mouth Of the guns OF his
ships opened the japanese ports 10 the
trade OF the world and lot In not only
trade, but civilization.
II Ia thought probable that to new
treaty with Japan will In certain dip.
lomatic ways touch on the question Of
Japanese exclusion and will 80 arrange
matters that the western coast. and
the rest OF the country, too. for that
patter, need no longer fear that labor
= TO suffer because OF the influx OF the
islanders. II this matter can be ar.
ranged by treaty so that further racial
troubles can be avoided. tho Washing
ton feeling Is that Japan aud America
will remain friends for years to come
and that the recent war scare will
serve only to remind people OF how
easy Il Is TO conjure up trouble out Of
conditions OF peace.
Civil Service Pension Bill.
Representative Goulden OF New
York has introduced a retirement pen.
sion bill for government employees
under the civil service. This Is only
one OF several bills OF tho kind which
have been introduced, but II gains
prominence from the fact that It's
sponsor is a Democrat and because II
the present Republican house does not
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