Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-01-06
Projected Bill Would Reveal
Amounts OF Cotton and
Wool in Cloth.
TAFT'S PLAN TO SAVE PARTY
President Wants Republicans to
Unite and LegaIize a Genuine
Tariff Commission-NextY Years
Budget Will Be Fully
One Billion.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

Washington-It is said on seem
lngly good authority that President
Taft has given his sanction to bill
far reaching in its effect which will
compel the afiixing to cloths which
enter interstate commerce of state
ment of the amount of cotton and of
wool which they contain. This meas
ure is called here in Washington a
textile pure food bill" The Trainer
of the measure. Victor Murdoch OF
Kansas. says that no reason exists
why the consumer should not know
how much wool and how much cotton
l,c is getting in his clothes just as he
knows under the pure food law how
much adulteration he is getting
An effort is being made to get the
two Republican factions in congress
to pass a measure of this kind. 1t is
expected that there will be a good
deal of opposition and it may be that
the pure fabric law" will have as
long journey to passage as that
which the pure food law took before
It arrived at it's station on the statute
books.
Taft's Tariff Commission Plan.
AS fixed daily task President
Taft is laboring to bring togeth-
er the Republican factions in con-
gress in order that he may secure
legislation legalizing a genuine tariff
commission. One year ago Mr.. Taft
might have worked nights as well as
days along the same line of endeavor
and at the end of "a hours he would
have been at the beginning, for the
| regulars and insurgents were so hos
| tile to one another that attempts to
patch peace would have been met
not only suikily. but defantly.
This year Mr. Taft, so the men close
| to him say. has some real hope that
| he can induce Mr.. Cummins, Mr.. La
| Toilette, Mr. Murdoch and others to
link arms with Mr.. Aldrich. Mr.. Hale,
| Mr.. Boutelle and others and to present
| united effort on behalf of tariff
| commission. 1t remains yet to be seen
| whether the president will be success.
| full, but the politicians say he thinks
If a genuine tariff commission Is sane.
toned and is allowed to go to work In
businesslke way to pass on proper
and improper duties" that the Demo
Gratis next year when they are in con
| troll of the house will not think'it wise
to upset the legislation. All this is
mere speculation. but 1t casts light
on one of the chief ends of the ad
| ministrations winter endeavor and on
the views of some of the Republicans
of what they must do in order to save
the presidential election to their
party.
| Shall! We Fortify the Canal?
The layman who is neither a legis
lator nor an army officer would find
himself unquestionably confused, but
probably interested. if he were here
in Washington to listen to the argu
ments for and against the erection OF
Notifications by Uncle Sam to guard
the Panama Canal. A great many OF
the legislators are opposed to forti
flying the waterway. while virtually all
the army officers are in favor of 1t
President Taft has endorsed the forti
fication plan strongly in his annual
message, in which he says:
1T is also well known that one OF
the chief objects in the construction
of the canal has been to increase the
military effectiveness of our navy. BY
convention we have indicated our de
sire for. and indeed undertaken, its
universal and equal use Failure tc
fortify the canal would leave the at
tainments of both these aims in the
position of rights and obligations
which we should be powerless to en-
force and which could never in any
other way be absolutely safeguarded
against a desperate and irresponsible
enemy"
The arguments which pass between
the legislator and the army officer or
the question of whether or not bis
guns ought to be placed on the 18th
mus run something like this:
The legislator says: The cana
should be neutralized, and all nations
should be asked to bind themselves t.
preserve its neutrality. In this way We
will be saved the expense of fortified
ton and all danger of the canals de
struction in time of war will be avert
ed"
The army officer says: IAN ounce o.
gun metal is worth pound of neu
| tralization. II a country at war witt