Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-03-14

reasons Tor the desire OF a good MANY
OF the Democrats to do nothing with
the currency until six or eight month";
additional tine has been given the
financial experts to study a plan which
they think will meet with the approval
OF the county.
AS TOR the tariff. the Democratic
majority says that 1t is not going to
tinker with it,. for the term implies
simply patching and repatehing. The
democrats apparently think that they
nave already outlined tariff program
which will prove to be constructive
and which will stand the test OF time
and business. What the dominant
party fears more than anything else,
and its members are free to say so
privately, that some OF the provisions
OF the new tariff law, when they go
into effect. materially will hurt labor.
A good many OF the Democrats do not
express the fear In just this way
Some OF them actually believe that If
the excuse of an experimental low
duty is offered that some great con.
Germs may discharge parts of their
working forces, lay 1t to the tariff, and
trust to the discomfort which is
aroused to reopen the whole tariff agi.
tation and possibly to bring back high
tariff conditions once more.
House Majority for Reductions.
The Democratic house leaders in
the congress just ended and who I'M
questionably win be the leaders in
the next house do not seem to be in
tn least disturbed about the ability
of the Democratic party to put
through the lower chamber quickly
and in order" Just such tariff meas
ures as the ways and means commit
tee shall outline
Take the house all In all and a
vast majority of it's members as the
body is at present constituted is in
favor of tariff reductions. There are
among the representatives, as among
the senator's, some Democrats of high
tariff tendencies, but the majority OF
the members of that party in both
houses, and great majority in the
| lower house, are In favor of reduc
tions, and with them stand Republic
ans of the house and senate of the
Cummins and LaFollette school, and
also the members OF the Progressive
| party, of whom in the new house there
are 10 and in the senate three or four.
1t can be seen from this that the
house will have little difficulty In put
! ting through such tariff measures as
the Democratic ways and means com.
mittee shall prepare, and it is believ-
| ed that the measures Will call for
radical reductions in some cases and
have what may be called conservative
| ly radical reductions In other cases
The senate, however as 1t will be con
stituted, will not stand for the deep
cuts which the house intends to make,
and so the chances ere there will be
compromise
Sounding New Members.
EtElbers of the new lower house
of congress are coming into Wash.
ington in numbers day by day.
The Democratic and Republican lead
ers are sounding out the senti-
ments of the incoming members of
their parties, primarily in a most del
icate way, to find out definitely Just
what their fractional affiliations" are.
The Democratic leaders want to know
whether the incomers are extremely
conservative, just plain conservative,
progressive, or radically progressive,
and the Republican leaders are trying
to find out just about the same things.
| The leaders OF the house Democ-
racy is man of marked conservative
tendencies He says so and his acts
prove him so. 1t must not be under
stood, however, that he is not progress
sively inclined along lines which he
considers safely progressive. His OPP
| ponents in his own party say that he
considers few things safely progress
sive and that therefore he is definitely
conservative. The great majority of
the Democrats In the next house will
be men who call themselves progress
sives and who are known at home as
such. This majority will hays
| marked influence on legislation and on
the upholding of President Wilson's
pOi1C1S5, WHlCH SFeIyUOut uSES Ue-
lieves will be advanced. 1t is not
thought in Washington that even the
conservative leaders of Democracy In
the house will attempt to prevent the
passage of Legislation that Mr.. Wilson
may recommend, even il 1t appears to
them to be "over radical"
Aside from the tariff, which viii
take up a large part of the time of
the extra session, and aside also from
currency legislation. which may or
may not be given consideration, there
will be thousands of bills dropped into
the hopper OF house and senate be
fore ten days of the extra session
have gone by. These bills win make
provision for multitude of things
which attempts have been made to
provide for before, but which have
failed for one reason or another.
Few new members of congress reach
the capital without full belief in their
hrpa sts that fhoy arc ordained fo be