Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-06-24
LOBBYING AND
TARIFF BILLS
President Did Good Stroke Of
Work in Exposing the
Methods of LOBBYISTS
TO PRESS CURRENCY BILL
Every Effort Will be Made to
Pass the Currency Bill
at Special Session

WAOI1INU lON, II. u, June ~
Especial )-Presdent Wilson has done
great work for the country in call
Ing it's attention to the fact that a
powerful lobby has been at work to
defeat the benefits that should re.
suit to the people in reducing the cost
OF living by lowering the tariff. It
has been ascertained that no less than
one hundred and seventy-five big
interests" are now maintaining lob.
bies in Washington to defeat the tar.
tff bill and if not defeat to emascu-
late it so that the tariff robbery can
go on unmolested. In 1894, when
the previous democratic bill was up,
with the duty off of coal, few of
the wealthy coal mine owners "sold
$4,000 worth of coal mine stock to
two powerful senators for $1,000 each,
and so for a bribe of $4,000 each,
two senators were able to force a
duty on coal. Lobbying is always
going on when tariff bills are up, or
any important measure is to be legis-
lated on. BY President Wilson call.
ing the attention of the country to
this great evil, and turning the search
light of publicity on them, their pow
er for evil has been largely destroy
ed.
The President Also Accused
The Hon. Chas E Townsend of
Michigan, bids fair to go down into
history as a sherlock Holmes" de-
tective. He has discovered that Hon.
Woodrow Wilson is also guilty of
lobbying Yes, it may as we'll be ad-
mitted that Wilson is lobbyist, he
is lobbying in the open for 94,OOO,O00
people while the professional lobby
lists are lobbying in the dark" and
for small class of people and against
the ninety four million. President
Wilson already has the overwhelming
support of Democrats everywhere, but
he now has added quite as overwhelm-
ing support Of the independent vot-
ers. The outcome of this lobby in
vestigation insures the safe passage
of the tariff bill in the shape it came
from the House.
Who Are the Lobbyists?
This is an interesting question and
the American people should know
who they are. They are mostly ex-
senators, who remain in Washington,
after failing of reelection at home.
Senator Poindexter named ex-senator
Dick, of Ohio, Butler of North Caro-
lima, Dubois of Idaho, and also ex-
congressman Littaur of New York
and Watson of Indiana. Many other
ex-senators and congressman of less
note might be added to the list for
Washington has many of them. The
Sugar trust has the largest lobby of
any interest in Washington. and they
have a large suite of rooms in the
Colorado Building, corner of 14th and
G streets, under the direction of
Frank c. Lowry, who wants to see
that the sugar trust is not hurt, and
has admitted spending over 5000, 900
lobbying.
Currency Bill to BE Pressed
President Wilson is insistent that
currency bill be placed on the
statutes during the present extra
session. He has been deeply impress
ed by the business men of the coun-
try for the necessity of this reform
During the panics of 1898 and 1907
money could not be had with any
kind of security and the new bill will
provide means whereby money will
be issued by the Government in un-
limited quantities until all demands
for "ready money" have been salts.
fed. At the close of the war the
federal government has issued about
three billions of bonds and those
bonds could be deposited in the treas
ury by the banks and get banks notes
from the Government. In other words
the Government bond was the basis
Of our circulation and when the bonds
we're plentiful and it is we'll known
that during the few years following
the civil war, this country enjoyed
the greatest prosperity ever knowr
in it's history. But now the Govern
ment has taken up the bulk of it,
bonds and so other high class secur
tiles will have to be used as bash