The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-03
FAT ONES LOSING MUCH AVO|RDUPO|S The Southern COngressmen Have the Advantage A R E A CCLIM A T E D The Democrats Don't Mind the Heat While Heavy Statesmen on the
 Republican Side Are
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A R B A CLIM A T E D

Wage ington, July 2.-(SpeciaL)- How many pounds have you lost?' That is the question which has super able date of vote on the reciprocity treaty in Washington, since the hot wave struck the national capitol.
 It is said President Taft weighed just before he left for Beverly and the scales showed him 10 pounds light CT than he was two weeks ago. The President is said to have seriously con sidered postponing his trip to his sum- mer home when he realized his lessen ing waist measurement.
 Vice President Sherman. Speaker Champ Clark, Senator Penrose, Ollie James, Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock and practically all those statesmen who are inclined to emb = point and finding compensation for the work and the fearfully hot weather in slowly contracting waist lines.
 Men like Senators Root, LaFollette and Cummins, Representatives Hard wick and Stanley, who are built more on the lines of 'lean and hungry Cas- sious," have this element of compensa- tion.
 The democrats bear up under the heat better than the republicans, most of the democrats coming from the south and being acclimated to the heat as 1t were In fact, the House democrats are actually planning as though they were thoroughly contented to stay on through the whole summer. For in- stance, when they bring in their revi- sion of the cotton schedule to the House they intend to start a school of instruction for the benefit of repub- 1icans and democrats alike who have never been able to fat thom the intr- cacies of the compound and complex provisions of the Payne law. Represen- tative Rainey of Illinois will be one of the teachers.
 MT. Rainey proposes to bring cotton samples, pasted on cardboard with the official description of the cloth, as set forth in the tariff bill, indicated be- low 1t. In addition, the information will contain the rates of duty imposed upon this cloth under the Dingley and Payne laws and under the proposed revisions. This method Of illustration was practiced by the re- publican insurgents in the Senate in 1909 tariff debate. MT. Rainey may have some extra samples with him for gen. eral distribution among the members, in order that they may follow his argu mentS.
 As to the revised cotton schedules itself democrats have now experts in the treasury at work estimating the amount of revenue certain proposed rates of duty will produce. They have finished the actual bill, except for the insertion of these rates.
 If the present plans of the demo- cratic leaders are carried out the cot ton revision bill will not reach the House until the second week in July. If the bill is completed in time it may be possible to hold party caucus on it the latter part of the first week in July In all probability it will take about 10 days to pass the bill through the House. In the meantime the dem- ocrats will busy themselves with the sugar and steel schedules, with the in- tention of bringing them before the House later if the Senate persists in its present rate of legislative pro- gress.
 One effect of the heat was to make the Senate establish a new record for brevity when 1t held a session lasting exactly three minutes and then ad- 1ourning over until Wednesday.