The Detroit times., 1911-04-04
|nlFF LOBBYISTS
|0URIhG IN FOR
EXTRA SESSION
nys and Means Committee Will
xake Up Wool Schedule First and
Agents Work Hard To Obtain
Hearings.
Democrats Will Act on Reciprocity
and Other Matters and Groom
Themselves for 1912.

| WASHINGTON, April 3.-The van
guard OF what promises to be the DIG
Eest group OF tariff lobbyists ever ~
attendance on congress, arrived touay
Cor the opening OF the special session
tomorrow.
IA Though the Democratic idea Is Tor
echednle by schedule revision, WIN
I. the inference that only Legislative
workers" for certain schedules would
be plying their trade, It developed TO
day that there will be more agents at
work than during the session that
framed the Payne bill.
Primarily. all lobbyists are working
TO secure hearings before the ways
and means committee. Chairman I'm
derwood has announced that the wool
schedule will be taken up first. II Is
believed that cotton, steel and sugar
scheduies will be taken up soon.
schedule X" as the wool section is
called, aroused more opposition from
progressives and Democrats during its
passage as a part OF the Payne bill,
than any other schedule. The rates
have been pronounced "Indefensible"
BY President Taft A bitter fight
seems certain.
Getting Ready for 1912.
The Democratic party Is today being
groomed for its greatest race-the
White House handicap
A triumphant Democratic majority
n the house today is filing its lungs
for the shout OF JOY which will be let
loose tomorrow when one of its num-
Der takes the speakers chair and the
Republicans become the minority.
Upon the record which the Demo
Gratis In the house make between now
and November, 1912, the leaders be-
1ieve depends the result OF the White
House race. They are going to work
A desperate earnest from now on.
william Jennings Bryan is here today,
and will be present tomorrow. Gov.
Hudson Harmon, Of Ohio, potential
candidate for president, Is also on
hand.
Champ Clark who confesses he
would not mind being considered as
Nominee for chief executive, will be
Al the speakers chair.
In preparation for November, 1872,
tie Democratic house expects to carry
ont the following program OF legisia-
<ion:
Canadian reciprocity.
Re-apportion representatives UNDER
the thirteenth census so as 10 insure
no losses in the Democratic congress
men.
Revise the Payne-Aldrich tarin
achedule by schedule.
Introduce q program OF economy
and retrenchment In governmental ad'
ministration.
To Probe Department Of Justice.
Investigate the department OF JUS
tee, for its alleged non-activity In
trust prosecutions - particularly
against the steel combine; investigate
the postoffice department, in connec-
ton with the second-class mail matter
controversy, and the interior depart
rnent as an aftermath of the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy.
There will be some sort OF inquiry
into the influence which Wall-st. Is as
serted to exert in shaping government
policies.
Though congress meets tomorrow,
President Taft at noon today had not
vet written his message. The execu-
tive expected to dictate il this after
noon. II will be very short, probably
not more than a few hundred words,
and probably will only urge the enact.
ment OF the Canadian reciprocity
agreement. He may include a recon-
mendation that the Democratic house
postpone its tariff work until a re-
x,r,rf is made nv the tarifY board