The Green Forest tribune., 1912-12-27
NEW PARTYS PLANS
WHAT PROGRESSIVE MEMBERS OF THE NEXT CONGRESS
 ARE TO DO.
TO HOLD THEIR OWN CAUCUS
They Will Introduce Bills Based on Platform, Especially for AmeIlora- tion of Laborer's Condition and for Abolition of Child Labor.
By GEORGE CLINTON.


 congress gauge things right there is a good deal of interest throughout the country among people irrespective of their political utilization in the legis- iat1ve plans of the Progressive party's s representation in the two houses of the next congress. People apparently want to know what the Progressives intend to do through their representa- t1ves in the house and senate when President-elect Wilson calls congress together in extra session. It 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 will 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 helps to designate them as Progress sive-Republicans.
 They Won't "Go Over.
 In the next house 1t is the intention of the nineteen Progressives-it is possible there may be one or two more than this number-to hold a eau GUS of their own and to demand proper committee representation. It 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 lative endeavor. The Progressive leaders say that the new party mem bers will be perfectly willing to act with the ressive-Republicans on many lines of legislation, but that the Progressive-Rep must come over because Progressives are deter mined not to take the initiative and to "go over."
 It 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 blanks of the Progressive party's platform. The Progressives intend if they can to beat the Pro- gressive-Republican 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 between the Progressive. 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.
 Will Urge Child Labor Law.
 There are of course other measures to which the Progressives at once will attach their evidences of loyalty but their plan is first to advocate bills which are known specifically as hay. ing the sanction of the delegates to the party's convention at Chicago Some of the Democrats in congress are talking of the necessity of intro ducing Progressive measures akin to those which the Progressives intend to introduce. It is not likely that a child-labor bill will be one of those having Democratic sanction because in the Democratic view federal child is said that Woodrow Wilson believes that all child labor legislation, or cer- tainly most of 1t, should be a matter for consideration and passage by the individual states.
 It is known that every effort will be made by the Progressives to se- 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, 1t Is said, feel that child labor legislation has a peculiar hu- manitarian appeal which will keep is as live issue until some law against 1t can be put on the statute books.
 Why Secretary Wilson Is Proud.
 It perhaps goes without saving 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- Pects 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.
 It 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 you will look back with the most pride?"
 If you start me talking shop here you will never get away" the secre- tary exclaimed. "Bu* there are some things of which I am more than proud. It is hard to- pick out the special things. We'll, here's one: When we went downAsouth to see