Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-03
CONGRESS IS PREPARING
FOR NATIONAL CAMPAIGN

lBY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONSl
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-"Just be-
fore Christmas ImMas good as | can
be- says the little boy. In the same
spirit, but with the presidential cleo
ton next November instead of Christ
mas as an incentive, the big boys who
compose the membership of congress
reConvened today, determined to do
everything in their power to win the
respect, admiration and support of the
dear pee-pul' for their party, prin
ciples and platform.
This years campaign for the preSi
dency is to be fought out on a record,
instead of a prospectus said promi-
nent NJ c. For which reason it be-
hOOves the lawmakers to get busy
and things started today with a rush.
Refreshed by holiday and with the
Christmas spirit still bubbling in their
veins, the Solons of both parties i'm
mediately began iOckeying for advan
tage. OF both parties no, of all three
parties, since Mr.. Victor Berger, the
Socialist delegation in congress, is al
so very much of live wire, and it is
understood has aspirations toward the
presidential nomination of his party
this year. A considerable wing of the
party has come to believe that Eugene
Y. Debs, perpetual presidential nomi-
nee, is too radical and that Congress-
man Berger would be able to poll a
larger vote.
Wool is Chief Issue
Wool is the principal copcern of
congress upon it's reassembling today
~ nior o.
publican members of the ways and
means committee, headed by Repre-
sentative Serene E. Fayne of New
York, former chairman of the commit
tee, have spent the holiday season in
preparing a revised wool tariff sched-
uic based on the report of the tariff
board and the message of President
Taft. With this bill, which is for CAM
pajgn purposes only, they will go be-
fore the country. This bill, it is as
serted by its trainers, gives all branch
eS of the wool industry che protection
necessary to place them on an equal
ity with foreign industry The Repub-
licans today presented their measure
to the full ways and means commit
tee and will urge the Democrats, under
the leadership OF Representative Un-
derwood to accept it. The Democrats
are preparing their own bill, however,
and will probably reject the Republi-
can measure with scOrn.
No Help from White House
Whatever tariff bills are passed"
declared Mr. Underwood, chairman of
the house committee ON ways and
means, will be drawn by the commit
tee. We are going to consider what
the President suggests, but the White
House will not write our bills for us.
The Democrats in congress have their
own ideas as to the kind of tariff leg
islation the country ought to have. We
embodied these theories in the bills
the President vetoed We favor a tar
if based upon real revenue basis. We
want to have some real competition
between our manufacturers and those
abroad, and to give the American man.
ufacturer the advantage. We intend to
repass the wool, cotton, iron, steel and
other schedules, and the bills dealing
with them will be framed along the
same lines as those the President We
toed. One thing Mr.. Taft may as well
know is that any tariff bills passed
will be our own"
Wool Report Fills Six Volumes
The report of the tariff board on
wool and wOolen schedules has been