Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-08-03
THE COMPROMISE WOOL BILL.

Any discussion of the La Toilette wool-re-
vision bill its merits, as compared with the
schedules of the present law and those proposed
in the Underwood house bill that the senate de-
clined to pass, is irrelevant superfuous and not
germane to the issue Briefly, it projects com
promise in rates between those now operative
and those of the Underwood bill But it was
not drawn economical revenue or party
policy lines, but purely and simply as IA play
at politics for the purpose of putting President
Taft in hole and for boosting the boom of
the Wisconsin senator for the republican nom
nation for president in 1922 and no one of the
coalition of AZ insurgents and democrats who
rushed the bill through the senate without refer
ence to committee or any consideration OF its
provisions, if he speak sincerely will contend
that the measure is an honest effort 10 revise
the tariff schedules downward in response to
what is alleged to be popular demand for
such revision. Every conservative element among
the American people will have nothing but dis
gust to express over the spectacle that IT,"
United States is making of itself Just at the
present.
The 30 democratic senators who voted for
the La Toilette bill have merely lent themselves
in a scheme for advancing the political fortunes
Of republican who has called about himself a
dozen or malcontent senators of his own par
ty to aid in the undoing of the president These
- democrats may consider good politics" and
therefore their duty to help in putting in nom
nation next year weaker republican candidate
than President Taft but the country will not
fail to understand that they are Juggling with
the tariff for political purposes--and that can
rot possibly help the democratic cause u ~
As to the prospects of this compromise wool
bill. it has gone to joint-conference com
mittcc of both chambers and it is very generally
expected that the house confereees will Weld
to those of the senate and that in the end both
chambers will pass the La Toilette bill and 'pu:
It up to the president" If they do he will ''put
it down" promptly and hard-he would veto if
almost surely the sun will set And his
prestige with the people would not thereby be
impaired by one jot or little. Nor could the
present coalition in the senate muster enough
votes to pass the thing the president IS veto
The democrats in the combine understood all
this of course, they never would have
brought themselves to vote for tariff measure
that would, as law, be admittedly protective
and entirely out of joint with present demo
cratic ideas of tariffrevision
OF the 80 republicans who voted against
the bill it must perforce be said that they were
consistent and sincere in their action and for
three reasons They prefer the Payne Aldrch
schedules to those in the compromise bill: they
are under obligations to await the report of the
tariff board before attempting revision; and they
could not conscentousy join their insurgent
brethren in the latters' attack on the admins
tration
In the whirigg of time and politics this
coalition may some day constitute genu.o
roll Of honor