The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03
TnLMAN URGES A RIDER.

| It is curious to see how tho success
Of bad methods will encourage the fur
thor use Of such methods. The law;
defying, annulling rider, which was put
upon the sundry civil service bill,
which compelled President Taft to veto
| the bill entire because Of that rider,
| but which President Wilson signed un-
der protest was condemned by all Of
| the best Judgment Of the United States.
| President Wilson, at the time he signed
| the bill with this rider upon it, ex-
pressed vigorous disapproval of that
| form Of legislation, and announced that
the rider would be disregarded by his
administration, and that though 1t pro-
vided that no money carried in that
bill should be used to prosecute law
less combinations by labor men or by
farmers, contrary to the Sherman anti
trust law, there was plenty Of money
available otherwise for such prosecu
tions, and that either labor men or
farmers who violated the law would be
prosecuted in spite Of that rider. But
we now have proposition from Sena-
tor Tillman to repeat IN quite as OBJ
iectionable form the same evil by i'm
posing rider on the tariff bill, which
will carry in some sort Of tabloid form
the essence Of the administration IS
currency bill.
In spite Of the denunciation by all
Of the better elements Of the country Of
the idea Of carrying general legislation
in the form Of riders on appropriation
bills; in spite Of the warnings urged
by President Taft against the sundry
civil bill with this rider upon it; In
spite Of the strong repugnance ex-
pressed by President Wilson against
this rider, the Senator from South Car
olina actually has the gall to propose
this new and vicious rider upon the
tariff revision bill It Is not In the
least likely that President Wilson, in
view Of his denunciation of this man
ner Of legislation, would be disposed
to consent FOR one moment to this sort
Of proposition
But after all, there Is no certainty
but that the President might be won
over to this sort Of procedure, since his
anxiety to pass the currency bill is be-
coming very keen, and since the polit-
ical edgency may In his Judgment jus
tify q powerful effort to reach the end
aimed at in some manner, no matter
how revolving that manner may be.
President Wilson evidently antici-
pates trouble over the passage of the
tariff revision bill. He foresees more
OF less upheaval in business and indus
trial circles by reason of its enactment,
and his determination is fixed to make
the banks Of the country sort Of pro-
tective insurance against tho troubles
which he anticipates. Naturally, the
banks would refuse to stand in as q
guard against the troubles Of the party
bringing which the Democratic party
may have to face upon the passage of
this tariff bill, but the administration
currency bill puts board OF politicians
in charge Of the currency and OF the
bank reserves, and gives the politicians
on that board such absolute power over
the banks that almost anything could
be required OF them. This il is, no
doubt, which emboldens Senator Till
man to urgs this method of reaching
the legislative result which the Presi-
dent has already declared that he de-
sires, through means which he abhors
1t Is a most interesting situation, and
the public Of the United States will
keep watch OF it with the keenest in
terest.