The Mena weekly star., 1913-06-05
PRES. WILSON IN | THE TARIFF FIGHT
protectcd Interests Alarmed at Iron Hand With Which He Holds Party TogetheF-The New
 Currency Bill.

Washington, June (SpeciaD = The large protected interests in the counlry have become so alarmed at sthe iron hand with which President fW1son holds his party together i'll 8the Senate, which insures the pass aoe of the pending tariff bill at an &p9rly date, thereby lessening the cost of living, that they have sent o powerful lobby to corrupt Con eress and defeat the pending tariif zbiU if possible. The country at Elarge is fully impressed with the Efacl that this bill is drawn abso- kIutely in the interest of the whole fneople of this country, and not in &ibe interest of the 'malefactors of great wealth" as Roosevelt calls Them. which has been the case ill 2au previous tariff bills for more than 90 years. Those Democratic
 spn3lors who have been Wabbling R9nd getting weak in the knees have khepn hearing from home in un- Rm,slakable terms, and they have Ebrcn told and are receiving letters &eycry day by the hundreds telling fthcm that if they vote against the kprosenl tariff bill, or if they vote amend it so as to make it ob-
 icrtonable to President Wilson, Niha' they will be left at home when Ether terms are up, and their po- klnical careers not only ended, but &lasled forever and branded as
 It is the power of these 8leHers direct from the people that is enabling President Wilson to hold khi, party. with it's narrow majority, &loeelher >on the tariff bill.
 President Wilson Sounds an Alarm. only a few days ago the president gave out an interview to the coun- try charging that a powerful lobby
 His at work to corrupt the Senate fand defeat the sugar schedule of the tariff bill. Since President Will
 son sounded this alarm letters have
 been pouring in on Congress by the
 thousands. The Progressive Re- &pu5lican senators have also been hearing from home, and they have
 been told that if they do not vote
 for this bill they will prove that
 they were merely playing the de
 Emagogue' when they denounced the
 Seli,lng tariff bill, which was the
 work of the notorious Speaker Can
 #uon and Nelson Aldrich. In view of this fact it is quite likely that several of the Progressive senators will vote for the pending bill when the day of final action arrives, for 1t is a great improvement over the existing Cannon -Payne-Aldrich bill. The New Currency Bill.
 When President Wilson called Congress together in special session, only one committee was named,
 which was the Ways and Means
 committee, and which has conduct ed the tariff bill through the House.
 The fifty odd other committees
 have not been named, but Carter
 Glass of Virginia, who has been
 working hard on the currency bill, will of course, be chairman of the
 committee on banking and curren-
 cy. President Wilson has indicated to Leader Underwood that he de- sires to be consulted in making se- lections to serve on this committee, and his wish will be gratifled. The president is very anxious for the currency bill to be passed at the special session, and the country
 agrees with him on the subject. The indications are that we will harvest
 another bumper crop this year, which will probably require one
 billion dollars to move, and when the time arrives for moving a great crop the demand is so great for money that other lines of industry
 actually suffer for the want of cap ltaL The new currency law will
 provide means whereby the cur rency will automatically expand in accordance with the requirements of business.