Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-30
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have been disposed of in half hour,
al most, but several Missourians pre-
sumably at the suggestion Of Speaker
Clark. discovered that the legislation
involved an important principle The
bill is apparently good to XIII time for
another calendar Wednesday or two.
Bills ON the calendar for discharge
Of committees from consideration-an
other of the new tangled inventions in
rules-are being pressed. The only al
tentative for Democrats is to vote
down the motions to discharge. But
that puts them in the attitude ofnp-
posing much legislation that MEM
bers do not like TO oppose in a year
when general elections are approach
ing Minority Leader. Mann has drag
ged the Democrats up to vote on q
dozen of these measures and it has
been very distressing. The newspaper
dispatches do not make much of the
particular bills but labor people. post
tai employees and others who want the
legislation are taking note and will
soak" the Democrats who voted
against them, when it comes to re-
election. There are many of these bills
which partisans utilize for political
capital ln<can2palgn time.
Undoubtedly the Democrats would be
doing the same thing if the Republicans
controlled the House, but none the less
the proceeding is painful. The leading
brows on the Democratic side are wrin-
Killed.. They feel the thorns in the side
and realize that il is very different
proposition having control of a legis-
lative branch where they can be held
responsible to the voters.
One hears it said that appropriation
bills. which constitute much of the work
Of every session OF Congress- are now
farther delayed in the preparation than
has been the case for many years. And
yet the twhip-and-spur program, which
was emphasized so much before the holt
days, called for the speedy enactment Of
all those measures. Congress has now
been in session the best part of two
months and only one appropriation bill
has yet been disposed of. There are "A
in all AT this rate ii will be along IN
May before the House gets the last of
these essential measures through
There is supposed to be a great and
powerful tariff revision program ahead.
A steel schedule and chemical schedule
have been made ready by the ways and
means Democrats and the Democratic
caucus is to project these into the House
speedily. Those measures MAY be dispos-
ed of with some expedition and give a
semblanee of legislative progress, but the
wooden revision and the cotton revision
to which so much attention has been
called, are not forthcoming and appar-
emily will not be for months. All the
ideas about those bills being brought
into the House during February have
been dispelled 1t will be May or june
or possibly July before the Democrats
reach those topics under the dawdline
methods now in vogue at the south enc
of the Capitol. @f
! 1t is suggested in some quarters tha'
/ the Democrats are playing politics y
prolonging the session. They may prefer
to force the session far into the summer
so that measures which, they champion
may be fresh in the minds of the people
when the great hurrah for Presldentia
votes is on. Such things have been done
in years long gone by. The people forge'
speedily and, If Congress should adjourn