Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-24
NEW PARTYs PLANS.
%HAT PROGRESSIVE MEMBERS
&C THE NEXT CONGRESS
ARE TO DO.
TO HOLD THEIR OWN CAUCUS
They Will Introduce Bills Based on
Platform, Especially for AmeIiora-
ton of Laborer's Condition and for
Abolition of Child Labor.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.


Washington--If the me nbers OF
congress gauge things right there is
a goot deal of interest throughout the
country among people irrespective of
their political utilization in the legis-
1ative plans of the Progressive party's
representation in the two houses of
the next congress. People apparently
want to know what the Progressives
intend to do through their representa-
tives in the house and senate when
President-elect Wilson calls congress
together in extra session 1t is pos
sible today to give on sufficient au-
thority some of the legislative plans
Of the Progressive party's leaders and
members-elect to congress.
In the house of representatives In
the Sixty-third congress there viii, be
nineteen members to hold Progressive
credentials without any hyphen before
or after the name In the senate
there will be two Progressives, but
before they can so be written down
there will be necessity of removing
an at present existing hyphen which
helps to designate them as Progress
sive-Republicans.
They Won't go Over.
In the next house it is the intention
of the nineteen Progressives-it is
possible there may be one or two
| more than this number-to hold eau
Gus of their own and to demand
proper committee representation. II
is the expressed determination of the
leaders of the Progressive party now
here to refuse to listen to any over
lures from Progressive-Repu to
go over to them on any line Of legis-
lative endeavor. The Progressive
| leaders say that the new party mem
bers will be perfectly willing to act
with the Progressive-Rspublicans on
many lines of legislation, but that the
rogressive-Republiean must come
over because Progressives are deter
mined not to take the initiative and
TO "go over"
1t is the intention of the Progress
sives in house and senate when the
new congress meets to introduce bills
which If they should become laws will
| effect the planks of the Progressive
party's platform. The Progressives
intend if they can to beat the Pro
neutrality-suspicious. in the race to
the bill basket" at the opening of
| the session. Men of all parties in
| Washington recognize that there is
precious little difference Of legislative
/ Intention hat hn
Republicans and the Progressives, but
the latter want to get first credit If
they can for the introduction of
measures looking to the amelioration
| of the laborer's condition generally,
and to the abolition of child labor in
the United States.
viii Urge Child Labor Law.
There are of course other measures
| to which the Progressfyes at once
will attach their evidences of loyalty,
but their plan is first to advocate bills
which are known specifically as hav-
ing the sanction of the delegates t.
the party's convention at Chicago
| Some of the Democrats In congress
are talking of the necessity of intro
/ ducingt Progressive measures akin to
| those which the Progressives intend
to introduce. 1t Is not likely that a
child-labor bill will be one of those
having Democratic sanction because
in the Democratic view a federal child
| labor bill is unconstitutional and ii
| is said that Woodrow Wilson believes
| that all child labor legislation, or GER
| tainly most of 1t, should be a matter
for consideration and passage by the
individual states
| 1t Is known that every effort will
be made by the Progressives to Sc
| cure foothold at least for child labor
| legislation along the lines of the Bev.
! eridge measure of some years since
| a measure which failed of passage be-
cause of opposition on the unconsti
tutional grounds already noted The
Progressives, it is said, feel that child
| labor legislation has a peculiar hui
manitarian appeal which will keep is
as live issue until some law against
it can be put on the statute books
Why Secretary Wilson Is Proud.
J - PEI 6OOS WlllOul say III
that Secretary of Agriculture James
Wilson of Iowa has absolutely no
| thought that he Is to be reap
| pointed when his presidential name
sake enters the White House.
Secretary Wilson has served longer
than any other cabinet officer in the
history of the government. He eX
poets to return to his home In Trayer
Tama county. Iowa, early in March
when he will have served as secretary
of agriculture FOR sixteen years.
| 1t may be Of interest to hear what
Secretary Wilson had to say in an In
terview concerning the achievements
of the agricultural department under
his administration. This question
was asked the secretary by a cor
/ respondent seeking an interview:
What will be those things upon
which when you return home after
| March 4 you will look back with the
| most pride?"
IF you start me talking shop here
/ you viii never get away" the score
larry exclaimed. but there are some
things of which am more than
/ proud It is hard to pick out the
special things Wen, here's one:
When we went down south to sec