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and desperate a game for advantage
ate, in matters of organization and
the control Of legislation.
The opposition to Simmons, the
North Carolina senator, who voted
with Aldrich so often in the tariff re-
vision of 1909, for chairman of the
Senate finance committee, has prac-
tically been dissipated and he will
probably be given the Craftsmanship
of the committee that viii make the
tariff bills, This agreement as to Sim
mons was the result of President Will
sons wish TO have his party united
on the tariff.
Simmons had declared in his cam
paign that he would resign. If not
given the chairmanship, and it was
strongly limited that If he was over
ridden for the place, he and other
Democratic senators might bolt the
tariff revision program. So, 10 pre-
serve party harmony, the opposition
to Simmons was withdrawn, with the
Presidents approval. Some observers
are wondering if this policy will be as
disastrous TO the party as was Tafts
agreement to the reelection of Can
non for speaker, in the hope of keep
ing harmony in his party.
In the House il is announced that
the appointment of committees will
be held up until after the tariff bills
are disposed of in the special ses-
sion, and that membership on impor-
tant committees will depend very
largely upon how the members sup
port the administra TONS tariff pro-
grant This announcement of the pur-
pose 10 make whip of the commit
tee assignments is causing lot OF
protest, especially from New England
mem bers and those from other man
ufaeturing districts who are for pro-
lection, and an insurgent fight on the
tariff bills is from from improbable.
Three Parties in House; Two in Senate.
There will be three parties rec
ognized in the House, and only two
in the Senate, in the makeup of
committees. A number of House
members who affiliated with the Bull
Moose party last fall have decided TO
go it alone and cut loose from the
Republican party. In the Senate,
however. Senators Poindexter and
Clapp. the only senators who openly
espoused the Progressive party cause
last fall, have remained in the Re-
publican caucus and been recognized
as Republicans in the committee as
sisnments.
Exactly what the administration
legislative policies are TO be is as
little known as who its appointees
will be. Frankly, Mr. Wilson has
said that he has no definite program.
and that he will deal with different |
legislative questions as they come
along.
Mr. Bryan wants the party to keep |
its campaign promise by giving i'm
mediate political freedom and indie |
pendence of government TO the Phil .
ippnes, but the President and Sec
rotary of War Garrison are inclined |
to go slow. holding to the Roosevelt |
Taft idea that the United states |
should grant this freedom only when |
it becomes certain that the Filipinos |
are ready and fitted for self-govern- |
ment. While this question is not |
acute as yet, it contains the germs Of |
considerable party discord.
As to the other big questions that |
will be before Congress, the one de- |
of President Wilson and !
his advisers that is known is their |
determination, if possible, to hold
their party together and to solve
these big problems one by one, as
they are arrived at, in way that
will make living and business condl-
tions better.
How 1t is TO be done nobody pre-
tends to say with authority.