Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-03-25
TAKE THEM S|NGLY
THAT is DEMOCRATIC PLAN FOR
HANDLING ALL MATTERS OF
NATIONAL MOMENT.
"THE WATCH ON THE SENATE
BY This Method Attention VIII Re
Conferred on the Upper House While
IL Considers Such Things as the
Tariff.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.


been given to the Democratic leaders
by the administration that it seems
desirable, from party efficiency
standpoint, to undertake no legislation
at the extra session except that relat-
ing to the tariff If present plans OF
the national Democracy are carried to
their logical end it seems that all leg
islative 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 ipnpor-
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
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
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, il the present plan
is carried out, 1t 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 1t 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
appropriation bills and minor bills of
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 well 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 If
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. G
1t is possible now to give def
nitely for the first time the names
of members of the next house of
representatives who will stand In OPP
position to extreme conservatism,
whether it manifests itself in the
Democratic or in the Republican
party.
There has been a cloud of doubt
over the positions, which some of the
men elected to the lower house of
the Sixty-third congress intended to
occupy: There is respectable min
ority of members outside of the Demo
cratic party who can be depended up
on to uphold advanced policies of Mr..
Wilson they do not go too far into the
radical field, and also to take a posi-
ton of opposition to high tariff pro-
nouncements or extremely conserva-
tive legislative announcements on
any subjects made by the conserva-
tives my party
rs of progressivism outside
cratic party fell under sew
4gnations. One man is writ
own politically as an Indepen-
mt other men call themselves Pro
gressive- Republicans; other combine
the party names of Washington and
Republican; others call themselves
straight Washington party men, and
the others are Progressives with a
capital P.
Forty-seven Are Proeressives.
There are forty-seven members who
fall into one or the other of these
classes According TO the list of mem
bers-elect of the next house which was
prepared by the house officials, there
will be LA Republicans in attendance.
All of the men who appear in the list
which is to follow are classed by the
Democratic authorities as members of
the Republican party, but only few
of them speak Of themselves as Repub-
leans. Those of them who keep the
party name invariably put the hyphen
and the word progressive before 1t.
So it is that from this total number of
Republicans written into the present
congressional directory as such, there
must be subtracted forty-seven, a num-
Der which represents the strength of
the contingent which either to a great
degree or entirely has separated il
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