The Forrest City times., 1913-03-28
TAKE THEM S|NGLy
THAT IS DEMOCRATIC PLAN FOR HANDLING ALL MATTERS OF
 NATIONAL MOMENT.
1.-THE WATCH ON THE SENATE"
By This Method Attention Win Be Centered on the Upper House While It Considers Such Things as the Tariff.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

Washlngton.-Sha intimation has been given to the Democratic leaders by the administration that 1t seems desirable, from party efficiency standpoint, to undertake no legislation at the extra session except that relat- ing to the tariff. If present plans CT the national Democracy are carried 10 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. It 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 vitally 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- sider tariff legislation, will pass the biiis and then will send them over to the senate. Now if the house, after it 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 .ariff discussion in the senate. This is f1v u,ba nd thOSn 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 1t that It's tariff tinker ing is under the public eye and that nothing which should not be" would be allowed to so 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 a 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 Goes and to put through the Democratic legislation proposed by MT. Wilson without any amendments of importance. They think that this can be accomplished if public atten tion 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.
 It 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 op- position to extreme conservatism whether 1t 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 a respectable min ority of members outside of the Demo cratic party who can be depended up on to uphold advanced policies Of MT. Wilson they do not go too fla into the radical field, and also to take a posi- tion of opposition to high tariff pro nouncements or extremely conserva- tive legislative announcements on any subjects made by the conserva- tives of any party.
 The ranks of progressivism outside of the Democratic party fell under sev- eral designations, One man Is writ ten down politically as an lndepen- dent; 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 Progreesives.
 There are forty-seven members who fall into one or the othe- of these classes. According to the list of mem. 1 ters-elect of the next house which was 1 prepared by the house officials. there will be IA Republicans in attendance | All of the men who appear in the list ! which is to follow are classod by the 1 Democratic authorities as members Of | the Republican psrty but only a few i of them speak of themselves as Repub 1 licans. Those of them who keep the
 party name invariably put the hyphen
 and the word progressive before it 1 So 1t is that from this total number oi
 Republicans written into the present l congressional directory as such there