Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-05-23
WILSON STANDS PAT
PREDICTIONS or WHITE HOUSE
LAMB AMONG CAPITOL HILL
LIONS REVERSED.
EASY PROGRESS FOR POLICIES
Democrats and Republicans Alike Sur
prised at Way President Wins His
way-WiIl Get Such Laws as He
Wants.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

Observation-Disclosures of-the Dem
ocFatic party in congress today say,
In the way of what might be called an
admission, that when Woodrow Will
son was elected president the general
Democratic view OF it seemed to be
that after March it would be a case
OF White House lamb among Capitol
Hill lions. Today some of the Dem
ocrats say that it seems to be a case
of Capitol Hill lambs and a White
House lion.
Democratic senators and represen-
tatfves told President Wilson some
time ago that they thought it likely
he would win his tariff fight. Today
they are telling him that he has won
1t. Consistently with the original lion
and lamb theory the Democrats
thought at the first that the leaders
in congress would have their own way
in tariff legislation. Now they say
that they made mistake and that it
is virtually an assured thing that the
Democratic senators will get together,
preserve party harmony and give Mr.
Wilson exactly what he has asked for
in the way Of tariff reform
1t is difficult to determine which is
the more surprised in Washington to-
day, the conservative Democrats or
the Republicans, because of the com
paratively fairly easy way in which
Mr.. Wilson seems to be making prog
ress with his policies The Democrats
now not only say that his tariff bill
will go through the senate virtually as
he has approved it, but that he will
get currency legislation and antitrust
legislation in accordance with the
views which he will express as to
what form such legislation shall take.
Responsibility Is Wilson's
The tariff measure after it becomes
a law possibly may work the ruin
which some gentlemen predict for it,
but whether it works evil or good it
will be Woodrow Wilson's legislation.
A good many Of the formerly reluctant
Democrats in the senate while they
do not appear to have become eager
in their desire to support the presi
dent, seemingly have made up their
minds to support him, and voting sup
port from all his party in the upper
house is what the president needs be-
cause the Democratic majority there
is not large.
Some of the Democratic senators
who have leaned toward protection
have, as their progressive brethren
put it, been brought into line by presi-
Dental persuasion accompanied by a
showing of firmness. For a good
many weeks some of the upper house
men urged that certain schedules as
prepared by Mr.. Underwood and his
committee ON ways and means were
of kind to bring disaster to some
of the home industries Every posi-
BILE argument, personal political and
economical, was used to induce the
president to recede a few steps, but
the Democrats say today that he
stands where he stood at the first and
that his bill, barring a political or a
legislative cataclysm, will become the
law OF the land
The Democratic senators of both
factions finally have agreed among
themselves that they must have con
cord at any cost save that of future
elections.
Mr.. Wilson seemingly has won his
victory and his backbone has proved
to be made OF different kind of ma
terial than some OF his party breth-
rem thought when they first went to
the White House to hail him presi-
dent. The president, the Democrats
say. has been forced to make no com
promise in order to secure what they
declare now seems certain will be
the fruits of a victory won by stand
ing pat on a national convention plat
form and on the platform of promises
made by the party speakers in the
last campaign.
Same Old Tariff Drama.
Up to the present time there has
been no real debate OF the tariff bill
When the senat9 gets hold of the
measure there will be debate. for even
with the seeming assurance that the
senators will put the measure through
very much as Mr. Wilson wants 1t
there are many OF the upper house
men who will want to air their views
concerning the schedules and win
want to give them airing at some
length.
It is understood that Senator La
Toilette may talk for a day IN behalf
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 1t is sharply case of the ma.
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