The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-01-04
WILL FACE ELECTION
ON THE RECORD MADE
DEMOCRATS WILL ASK NO HELP
FROM THE WHIT HOUSE 10
WRITE THEIR TARIFF
MI ASSURES.

eSAid5toH, ~ u ,tisSt before
Christmas I'm as good as / can be
says tie little boys In the same
spirit, but with the presidential elec.
ton next November instead OF
Christmas rs al incentive. the hoy:
Who compose tbs membership 81
Congress reconvened today. deter
mined 10 co everything in their pow
er to win the respect admiration and
support Of The dear pee-pul" for
their party, principles ard platform.
This Years. campaign for the
presidency Is to be fought out on a
record, instead Of q prospectus.
said a prominent N G For whicl,
reason it hehooves the lawmakers
to get busy, and things started to-
day With 2 rush. Refreshed by a
holiday and with the Christmas
spirit if not spirits-still bubbltng
in their veins, the 2olons Of both
~parties Immediately began Jockey
lug for advantage OF both partiee >
no, Ct al three parties, since Mr..
Victor Berger, tie Socialist delega-
ton in Congress, is also very much
OF a live wire. and it is understood
has aspirations toward the prestaen-
tial nomination OF his part, This
year a considerable wing OF the
part. Aas CONS 10 believe that Flu
gene :. Debs perpetual presidential
nominee, is too radical and that
Congressman Berger would be able
TO Poll . larger vote
Wool is the principal concern Of
Congress UPON its r~eazgembling to
Cay for ths oampaign session The
Republican members OF the Ways
and Means committee. headed ty
Representative Serene : Payne Of
%ev York, former chairman OF the
committee, have spent the holiday
season in preparing a revised wool
en tariff schedule based on the re-
port of the tariff board and tbs mes
sage cf President Taft. With this
bill, which Is for campaign purpos-
Is, only, they will 90 before the
country This bill. 1t is asserted by
its framsrs, gives all branches Of the
y ooi industry the protection neces-
saIy o place them on an equality
with foreign industry The Eepuh-
lioans today presented their mea-
sure to the full ways ana means
committee and will urge tbs Demo
crafts. under the leadership OF Rep
tentative Underwood, to accept it
The Democrats are preparing their
own bill. however, and viii probab-
" reject the Republican measure
with =corn
whatever tariff bills are passed"
declared Mr. Underwood, chairman
Of the House committee on way and
means, will be drawn hv the com
mittee We are going to consider
what the President suggests, but the
white House viii not write our bills
for Us The Democrats in Congress
have their own ideas IS 10 the kind
Of tariff legislation the country ought
70 have We embodied these theo-
RIGS in the bills tbs President yetoed
We savor : tariff based upon real
revenue bass. We want TO have
some real competition between u
manufacturers and those abroad.
and to give the American nlanufac-
tursr the advantage We intend to
repass the wool, cotton, IRON, steel
and other schedules, and the bills
dealing with them will pc framed
along the same lines as those the
President vetoed One thing Mr..
TAFT may as we'll know IL that any
tariff bills passed will be our own"
The report OF the tariff board on
the wool and woolen schedule has
been printed and properly indexed
and was distributed today among
The members OF Congress, While q
thousand extra copies were turned
over to the finance committee for its
usa and distribution. The report
fills six volumes Of about 40o pages
each Senator smoot, OF the Senate
finance committee superintended the
publication OF the report as chair
man Of the. Senate committee on
printing
4 an highly pleased with the re-
port declared the Utah senator,
and hope the findings will be &C
cepted by the American people. II
IL evident that 2 WOOL bill prepared
and based On the faces submitted in
this report will not interfere ma
t|erially with the great woclen indus
try maintained by the Republican
policy Of protection
The report shows that fine and
II edium woods, which represent
about 50 Per cent Ct our domestic
clip, cost net to produce from II
to IL cents per pound approve o.