The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-03-25
BIZ eEoReE CLINTON.

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been given to the Democratic leaders
by the administration that it seems
desirable, from a party efficiency
standpoint, to undertake no legislation
at the extra session except that relat-
ing to the tariff. Ii present plans OF
the national Democracy are carried to
their logical end 1t seems that all leg
islatiye matters of great national mo-
ment will be considered by congress
singly,
There are reasons for the present
planning of the Democrats concerning
the manner of handling the larger Leg
islative problems. 1t is apparent that
the president, and the leaders with
him, do not wish to have the country's
attention divided between the two
houses of congress when vitality impor-
tant matters are up for consideration.
Some one has called this plan the
watch on the senate
In order to explain clearly just what
the plan involves. let the subject of the
tariff be taken. The house will con-
slider tariff legislation, will pass the
bills and then will send them over to
the senate. Now if the house, after 1t
gets through with the tariff, should
take up some other piece of national
legislation the country's attention
would be divided between the subject
under discussion in the house and the
tariff discussion in the senate. This is
exactly what Mr. Wilson and those
Democratic leaders who are staunchly
supporting him wish to avoid.
To Focus Eyes on Senate.
AS soon as the house gets through
with the tariff bills, If the present plan
is carried out, it will do nothing ex-
cept meet often enough to keep within
the laws requirements, and so the
country can watch the senate and
thereby remind it that its tariff tinker
ing is under the public eye and that
nothing which should not be" would
be allowed to go unchallenged.
If the present plan of the Democrat
ic, leaders shall be made to apply to
the future it will not mean necessarily
that the house, after completing big
piece of legislation and sending it over
to the senate, would simply mark time
while the upper house was giving the
legislation consideration. There are
various kinds which the house can de-
bate and pass while the senate is do
ing duty on some matter generally ac-
counted of greater Importance.
The point is that the Democrats
want to succeed in their administra-
ton and, if the truth must be told,
some of them are afraid of the senate.
They want the senate to do as we'll as
the house does and to put through the
Democratic legislation proposed by
Mr.. Wilson without any amendments
OF Importance. They think that this
can be accomplished if public atten
ton is focused on the senate. and ii
the Democratic senators generally are
made to know that they are expected
to live up to the spirit and to the let
ter of the platform of their party.
Now Definitely Placed.
1t is possible now to give def
nitely for the first time the names
of members of the next house o.
representatives who will stand in op
position to extreme conservatism
whether it manifests itself in the
Democratic or in the Republican
party.
There has been a cloud of doub
over the positions, which some of the
men elected to the lower house o
the Sixty-third congress intended t.
occupy There is respectable min
GRITTY of members outside of the Demo
cratic party who can be depended up
on to uphold advanced policies of MI
Wilson they do not go too far into tn
radical field, and also to take posi-
ton of opposition to high tariff pre-
nouncements or extremely conserva
tive legislative announcements Of
any subjects made by the conserTa
tives of any party.
The ranks Of progressivism outsid
of the Democratic party fell under sey
eral designations. One man is writ
ten down politically as an Indeper
dent; other men call themselves Pre-
gressive-Republican other combin
the party names OF Washington an
Republican: others call themselye
straight Washington party men, an
the others are Progressives with
capital P.
Forty-seven Are Progressives.
There are forty-seven members VIII
fall into one or the other of thes
classes. According to the list of men
1ers-elect of the next house which wa
prepared by the house officials, Their
will be LA Republicans in attendance
All of the men who appear in the lis
which is to follow are classed by tn
Democratic authorities as members o
the Republican party, but only fey
of them speak of themselves as Reput
licans Those of them who keep tn
party name invariably put the hyphel
and the word progressive before il
So it is that from this total number o
Republicans written into the presen
congressional directory as such, Their,
must be subtracted forty-seven. MUM
Der which represents the strength o
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