Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-05
QUESTIONS TO CONFRONT NEXT
SESSION BEGINNING TO BE.
COME CLEAR.
IN NO HURRY TO SOLVE
OLD, OLD TARIFF PROBLEM
Leaders Of Both Parties Desire to Keep
Issue Alivs-Trust. Canal Zone Gov.
eminent, Parcels Post and Other Un-
settled Questions Certain to Be
Forced for Consideration.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, June 5.-The problems
! which the next congress and the mex
administration will be called on to fac
| are beginning to become clear. Tn
closer this session of congress come
| to adjournment, the more distinctly il
IL possible to outline these problems.
The hopes of those who earlier il
! the session had some faith that TIL
tariff problem would TO a partial ex
tent be solved this session have gon,
glimmering. When this session of con
sress winds up. the tariff will be a!
Tar from solution as before. Even j
one or two bills for revision of SEIZED
ules are passed. they will be make
shifts and the same subjects will re
quire further consideration in the mex
congress. The performance of the sen
ate regulars on the bill for revision o.
the metal schedule. wherein they alb
sented themselves or refrained from
voting on this sc;dule, letting tn.
democratic bill pass and insuring {
veto. shows the difficulty of getting
anything done in the revision of SEIZED
ules
Keep Tariff Live Issue.
/ The truth is that plenty of demo
Gratis in congress and plenty OF repup-
licans do not want the tariff issue re-
moved. They want to use it in the
campaign. And not only will ii be the
favorite topic for hundreds of cam
paign orators next fall but when the
next administration comes in, March 4
1913. 1t will have TO grapple with the
tariff problem. may have to call an
other extra session to consider it, ans
in the event there is no extra session
will have 20 direct the attention o.
congress to it in the regular session
beginning the first Monday in Decem-
Der. 1913. Neither the successor to
Mr.. Taft nor the Sixty third congress
can escape wrestling NTH this hoary
but extremely live subject.
Trust Problem eothers.
One reason why many men in con-
gress. who have hoped to see progress
toward solution of tariff made this
session. are disappointed is that they
understand clearly the difficulty so
long as the tariff is at the front. of
getting adequate consideration of other
grave questions which are pressing 70,
consideration. For instance. weeks and
months have been consumed this se.-
sion in talking tariff that might well
have been devoted to the trust and cor
poration problem. This problem has
not been entirely neglected but 1t is
nowhere near solution. 1t will go over
to the next administration The poll
ticians for the most part have been
afraid to try to dispose of ii on the
~ toll
time. it is demanding legislation more
and more insistently. 1t will be one
of the great issues whic,, the next ad-
ministration and the next congress can
not evade.
Banking and Currency.
Then. there Is the Question OF bank
ing ard currency legislation Even the
enthusiasts who at the beginning Of
this session hoped to see new Law on
banking and currency have lest hope
That anything will be passed either in
this session or the short session. The
result is they are devo:ins much en-
ergy to preparing for tn. new admins
tration and the new congress A grea.
deal Of work Is being done to organ
ize sentiment for banking and currency
reform in the Sixty-third congress.
This work Is being done by elements
friendly to the plan OF a national re-
serve association, either the Aldrich
plan or something akin to It. It has
not been hard TO hold in check this
winter and spring the movement for
banking and currency reform. This is
so because Of the timidity Of most
members Of house and senate about
having anything to do with currency
and banking questions in presiden-
tial year. Few members have given nay
serious study to banking and currency
questions and consequently few are
willing to grapple with them. But
with the emergency currency law
about to expire by limitation when the
new administration begins March 8.
1918. it will not be possible to escape
banking and currency reform much
longer. True. the emergency currency
measure might be extended for "a year
or two and it is likely this will be at
tempted.
ParesIs Post Looms Up.
A fourth large subject that is loom
ing up over the heads Of congress more
and more imposingly is parcels post.
Powerful sentiment for the parcels
post is driving congress. relucta 1tly, to
take this question up seriously The
house. in the posoffice bill, put in an
experimental proposition for parcels
post on rural routes. Everybody knows
what the house put it in for. Most Of
the members are unwilling to meet the
parcels post question squarely with an
election near. They are fearful Of be-
ing ground between the millslcre Of
rural sentiment on the one hand and
the milestone Of the small merchant on
the other Besides, they are aware
there are powerful interests opposed
TO the parcels post: for. while the ex-
press companies do not show their
hand in fighting the parcels post,
everybody understands that they are
hostile to the idea Of establishlishing
a real parcels post system. The senate
is showing a tendency to pass q par
cells post bill but the session 10 being
crowded 30 hard toward a close that it
ID not expected to do SO. And II the
session closes with only the expert
&4ertal proposition provided for, par
ceh post will demand consideration
more strongly than ever in 1913. It is
the conviction of most members o:
congress that the issue can not be
avoided s,,uc;. iioo:s::S:e-
Canal Zone Government.
1t looks now a. II bill for the gov.
eminent OF the canal zone and the reg.