Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-06-28
DEFIANT DEMOCRATS

Speaker Champ Clarks defiant attitude on
the tariff legislation being undertaken by the
Democratic House of Representatives bears ont
the disposition that manifest in the lower
chamber Immediately after the assembling Of the
present Congress. All along the Democrats have
been inclined to do they pleased without
consulting the desires of the White House or
considering the fate of measures when thew
would later have to go up against the Republl.
can majority IN the Senate. 1t is, therefore
natural that the Speaker should assert that they
go ahead without worrying about the report that
The President Will veto all measures relating to
the tariff, other than the ratification of the Can
adam reciprocity agreement, should any of them
succeed IN running the senatorial gauntlet at
the extra session and reach him
We doubt very much that President Taft has
used the threat of the veto and believe that he
would sign bills making desirable changes in the
tariff should they be passed by both hauses We
still believe, however, that congress should give
It's authorization to reciprocity, dispose of the
direct election question, Dust Lorimer and adj
Journ, leaving reconsideration of the tariff until
tn" ntXt regular session in December
Entering with the tariff at this time and the
numerous hearings under way before congress
iunal mmittees look more like fishing expedi-
tiol,s than anything else. We cannot convince
ourselves that any good will come of the inves-
legations. as they are carried on, or that any
thing ore than political capital is sought
1T vas a foregone conclusion that whatever
bill en- wool the Democrats endorsed by caucus
would pass the House, but the vote on the mea-
sure III the Senate must remain decidedly un-
certain with every likelihood that it will be I'M
favorable Hence the nsistence of the majority
in pushing it to consideration shows that pos
sbe political effect given as much thought
as the ultimate fate of the bill
The chances about ten to one that the
measure will never reach the floor Of the Sen
ate from the finance committee of that body
Welle everyone admits the need of downward
revision of Schedule X which covers wool
and woolens, the Republicans prefer to wait un
til the tariff board can complete the investiga-
ton on which it is now at work and report its
recommendation.
And while Speaker Clark is asserting that
he Democrats will appeal to the country in the
event that either the Republican Senate or the
Republican President turns down bill alter
.ng the tariff it might be well for him to bear
=! mind the part the Democrats took in pre-
venting the creation OF permanent tariff com
mission, requested by the President That
was in the Sixty first Congress and as a result
Mr. Taft has had to use the tariff board as
makeshlft to conduct his Investigations Con
sequentlN inquiry to the various schedules
and as to industrial conditions that must be
considered in connection with them has been
slow and Congress has been denied the infor-
nation that it should have had Had the tariff
commission section been allowed by the Demo
Gratis to remain in the Payne Aldrich law
report on the wool situation would have been
available months ago. Let them bear this in
mind while they making their threats