Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31
O. K. DAVIS WRITES
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session. It was his machinations that
 very largely caused the extraordinary and humiliating failure to pass the reg
 ular appropriation bills before the business house in the world that for
 five minutes would maintain a finance committee which so botched and bun
 5led it's financial affairs as the Dem- Jcratic Committee on Appropriations of the House bungled the financial az | airs of the United States Government the greatest corporation in the en- tire world.
 Now. the next committee in import Ance, as far as the progress of all
 parties are concerned, is that on in | .erstate commerce. This is the con- mittee which would handle all bills dealing, for instance, with the exten- sion of the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission, or creating 2 | Federal Industrial Commission, such as we Progressives advocate, for the control of our corporations doing an interstate business This committee handles such bills as the Pure Food Bill, and, in fact, all measures dealing with interstate commerce. You, Ot course, know that the most vital fac or in all Congressional legislation is the Chairman of the Committee which
 ,ay, in at least 95 per cent of the cases, the chairman is of more importance man all the other members of the com
 nittee put together No way has ever yet been devised for breaking this eX- lraordinary power of the chairman. It arises from the fact that he is al
 ways in a position to be of assistance 10 members of the committee in pro
 noting their personal legislatiOn-the local bills, affecting their own dis tricts and matters in which they have a direct and immediate personal inter- est. He can prevent such bills com ing up for hearing before the commit tee. He can facilitate or kill-pretty largely at willard this makes him, ot
 ourse. dominant over the committee.
 The present chairman of the Com
 nittee on Interstate Commerce is Mir.
 William c. Adamson, of Georgia. Ii the next House is Democratic Adam son will unquestionably be returneS O his post. His general attitude la
 hown by nothing more clearly than by he fact that he fought the present Pure Food Law with all his might; shat he is opposed to all pure food leg
 station; that he believes it is an in yasion of the constitutional rights ol ,he states; that he takes exactly the same attitude toward all measures O.
 federal control of interstate business; that he is opposed to extending the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission and that he may be
 ,ounted on actively to oppose the es- tablishment Of a Federal lndustrlai Commission for the control of corpora tions doing an interstate business. Ad- amson is not only tory but he IS al
 most wholly in sympathy with the eX- treme reactionry idea, He is agalnst progress in any form. Being iron Georgia he is certain of reelection, as Underwood, of Alabama, and Fitzger- aid, of New York.
 The third committee, that on Judi ciary, now has for it's chairman Henry ). Clayton, of Alabama another man of the Adamson type, without haVnS' perhaps, as much force Of character as Adamson has, and without the person al polish and adrOitness of Underwood lie has the old Southern Democratic idea of the constitution. He IS .tates' tighter; makes violent outcry at which he calls the centralizlng or government as being a tendency ot the Progressive proposition, and is ln gen 6Tal as IuOIOuSuIy b IOi NS 'AA- @ in the House. The Judiciary Commit tee would handle all measures affect ing changes in the Federal laws and rhe establishment of Federal courts.
 These four committees-Ways ana Means, Appropriations, Interstate Commerce and Judiciary-are the very heart of Congress, they are the citadel )f ring control. They are now abso- lutely in the hands of tories and they will continue there throughout Dem )cratic administration.
 The situation would be exactly sim lar in the Senate. The election CT MT. Wilson would mean that the Dem ocrats would unquestionably have a substantial majority in the Senate. l The terms of eighteen Republican | Senators expire on the third Of March lext. Their successors will be chosen | by legislatures to be elected next Nov ember. If MT. Wilson is successful, that will mean the election of Demo