Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-05-21

OF his ideas Of the tariff, and 1t Is
rumored that several other progress
sive Republicans and some Democrats
intend to do the same thing. In the
house it is sharply . case OF the ma
5ority rule. What the leaders OF the
! dominant party want to have done is
done and the program that they NJ
for general debate and for debate un-
der the flve-minute rule is adhered to.
In the senate no majority. rules
against the debating wish Of the In
dividual Il.
It is expected that this bill. freight
ed with 30 many joys or woes accord
Ing to the way in which 1t Is looked
at. will be passed by the house at the
time agreed upon and that 1t will be
passed by great vote.
It has been put cynically within .
day or two that two good old travel
ing companions reached Washington
together, the tariff and summer wealth
er. The latter for a few hours now
has quit the company of the tariff.
but the two companions will get to-
gether once more shortly and the
capital and the capitol will present
again the scenes Of recent summers.
1t is the same old tariff drama over
again in the same setting and with
good many new faces among the minor
actors.
A good many of the members Of
congress say with perfect abandon
of frankness that 1t Is just "a well
the dominant ones limited general de-
bate to a few days and will limit
debate under the nve-minute rule to
only few days more. Even such
tariff patriots a. Mr.. Payne and Mr..
Fordney 1t is said are glad In their
hearts that the thing AZ far an the
house is concerned is to be over
quickly.
No Friction There.
While some persons who seem
always to be looking for q row
have found on several occasions
symptoms OF friction between Presi-
dent Wilson and one or two OF his
cabinet officers nothing really has de-
veloped yet in the way Of trouble
which any political opponent Of the
president could lay his finger on and
say here Is where they come to the
parting OF the ways" q
These seemingly are the plain facts
In the case thus far, and men Of all
parties here say that as far as peace
and concord In the cabinet are con-
cerned they are there to sit at the
family council table twice week and
probably to be present whenever the
omcial ones get together on other
occasions in between.
There seemingly. however. has been
slight difference Of opinion on the
face of things between Attorney Gen.
eral McReynolds and the: president.
Note that 1t Is said on the face OF
things, but; nothing has happened to
show that Mr.. Wilson up to date does
not agree with his cabinet officer. The
seeming difference lies in the fact that
Mr. Wilson on one or two occasions
has expressed views which seem to
be counter to those expressed by Mr..
McReynolds In specific case. 3
The Attorney General has said that
the case Of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company, charged with
being a monopoly In restraint OF
trade, OF. something much like that,
should be- referred to the interstate
commerce commission instead of 60
ing the way of prosecution. Does this
mean that there il radical difference
of opinion on trust matters between
President Wilson and his attorney
general! It seems to be case In
which Mr.. McReynolds believes that
regulation rather than prosecution
should be used in dealing with GER
tain kinds Of alleged trust cases.
There are some people who hold that
the telephone Is q natural monopoly.
and that therefore it should be sub
ject to regulation rather than to court
procedure.
nsilsvss In Competition.
In an article which Mr.. Wilson
wrote for q magazine he stood against,
seemingly, at least, that for which his
cabinet oncer has just chosen to en-
dorse. The president apparently be-
lieves in q return to competitive con-
ditions. but whether his views on COM
petition extend to concerns like tele-
phone companies is not yet to be de-
cided. Perhaps he 10 In accord on
this particular proposition with his
cabinet omcer, or otherwise 1t might
be q case for hurry up consultar
ton and q request for speedy ex-
PLANTATION of why q member Of the Of
ficial family chooses to 60 counter TO
the views Of the head Of that ofdcial
family. . sis s
Mr.. McReynolds, the present attor-
ney general, was appointed to an Of.
fee In the attorney generals depart
ment by Theodore Roosevelt Mr..
Roosevelt, It is known, believes that
big business affairs should be looked
after by q commission similar to
the interstate commerce commission,
which regulates common carrier mat
tiers. It is possible that Mn Nc
Reynolds took his view Of the tele-
phone case from Mr.. Roosevelt. but
at any rate wherever he got 1t, Wash
ington is yet waiting to see II he and
the president are to come to logger
heads over 1t,
The president Of the United States
believes in . return to competitive
methods. His tariff bill, his party
members say, shows that he wants
things about upon competitive
basis. The natural thing to suppose
IL that he wants to extend his plan
OF competition to the great corpora
lions Of the United States - they en- 1
ist today. n 8 .,l
There seems to be no doubt what
soever that at the beginning Of the
next regular session bill to do away
with trust conditions In the United
States will be introduced in the lower
house Of congress and the chances are
also that similar bill will be intro
duced into the upper house. What
is going to become Of either the one
or the other? $s
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