Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-28
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CONGRESS-.

The Washington Star is published
81 the national capital and is in q
position to keep closely posted on
national affairs. In speaking OF the
session OF congress which just ad-
journed the Star passes comment as
.oalows:
The session has been long. and, as
we all now see, too long. So far as
the public welfare is concerned. ad-
journment might have been taken
two months ago, before either of the
TWO great parties met in national
convention. Since then only political
m~aneuverings have marked the time,
and in a large measure they have
been fruitless.
At the outset the overshadowing
question was the revision of the tar
id. Attemps in that line al the extra
session had failed. The President
had vetoed the bills sent to him, and
in effect served notice Of an inten.
ton to repeat the performance unless
congress based its future action on
the reports OF the arif board it had
created.
The warning was UNDECIDED. Con.
gress repeated the tariff performances
of the extra session, and the Presi.
dent his vetoes. and that ended the
chapter. Overriding the vetoes was
effected in the House. but failed in
the Senate, and the Payne law stands
intact.
There is more than a suspicion tina;
both sides are satisfied with the gen
eral result, and there have been indi,
cations that it was being played for.
At any rate the tariff as an issue In
the present campaign rests upon the
contention of the democrats that the
republicans have refused to revise
the tariff downward and upon the con
tention of the republicans that the
democratic platform has for its object
the complete destruction of the policy
OF protection.
In a way this simpliies matters for
the democrats. If, as they believe,
there is a ground swell rolling for
them. and z President and q Congress
are voted 20 them in November. the
Payne law, with all the defects they
have described, will confront them
for action, and they a take it W
in its entirety and either revise ii
in its entirety. or. attacking it SEIZED
ule by schedule. indicate what the
full party purpose IS as respects Gus
toms duties.
In several matters the democrats
got the worst of the encounters.
They were obliged to retreat on thei,
proposition 10 halt naval progress,
and were defeated in their drive at
the civil service law. On both OF
those questions public sentiment
manifested itself in favor of the re.
puse
T@enera. result of the session
ibe a valuable asset for the re-
pub7icans if they were in trim to
nse ii. But, as conditions exist to
day, they are almost helpless. Not
only do their divisions continue. buf
they gnov in bitterness every hour,
with the promise OF a democratic IN
umpt through the aid of votes OF
disaGected republicans The repub
liczns and the progressives are light
ing each other far more ferceiy than
either are fighting the democrats and
il that continues and does not bring
! democratic victory it viii be = sign
that the acct miracles is NOT past
~ the state har association meet
II u be held af Jamestown the law