The Prescott daily news., 1913-02-13
By GEORGE CLINTON.


 Washington.-Was dispatch es have discussed thoroughly the sub feet of which school of Democratic thought is to control the next senate. It seems, as has been said in this cor respondence before, that the Demo crats who say they are of the more progressive school will be in the ma jority of their party in the senate and will control the committee assign ments and other matters of party mo ment. The subject of seniority of service and the claim which 1t has to recognition in the matter of commit tee chairmanships also has been dis cussed and reasons have been given why Senator Tillman. who is the rank Ing Democrat on the committee on interstate commerce, may not be chosen by his Democratic colleagues to preside over that important body.
 If MT Tillman prefers the chair manship of the naval committee, on which he Is at present the ranking member of the minority side, and fore goes all claim to the chairmanship of the committee on interstate com merce who will be named as chair man of this committee which probably will have before 1t for consideration the most important legislation to be undertaken by the Democratic admin istration?
 It still seems likely that Senator Simmons of North Carolina will be chairman of the committee on finance which Mir Aldrich of Rhode Island ruled so long and which recently has been ruled by Mir. Penrose of Penn sylvania. There are one or two other committee chairmanships which have been decided in advance, but the mat ter of the chieftainship of interstate commerce Is still in abeyance.
 Place of High Honor.
 It was the interstate commerce committee of the senate which formu- lated the railroad rate legislation and which brought into being the interstate commerce commission. It deals large ly with trust matters because the out put of trusts enters into the com merce between the states. It Is a committee of the first importance and its recommendations made to the sen ate as a whole can be a power for good or evil.
 Again. who is to be the chairman of this committee? There is not a Democrat, nor Republican for that matter, in the senate who would not feel honored to sit at the head of the interstate commerce table. Stephen R. Elkins of West Virginia now dead held the chief place in this commit tee when railroad rate legislation of the greatest Importance was enacted Mir Elkns was not entirely in accord with all the provisions Of that legis lation but the Republicans of the Roosevelt school succeeded in getting a report from the Elkins committee which was fairly to their liking, and what they did not like they changed b. amendments
 When lIr Taft proposed additional legislation for tho regulation of com merce among the states q bill outlip- inE his views and those of Nr. Wick eraham aud some other government officials was considered and approved by the sero.e committee on interstate commerce. There were Progressive Republicans in the senate however. who succeeded in oyerthroving sev- eral of the provisions of the commit tees report The Democrats say that whom they get control of the interstate commerce committee they will see to it in advance that the party members in the senate shall stand solidly be- hiDd the report when it comes to the floor
 Gore May Be Promoted,
 If Mir Tillman does not become chairman of this highly important committee there are three other Dem ocrats now sitting on the minority side of the committee who will still hold office after March when the minority side becomes the majority side Thomas P Gore, of Oklahoma, is member of the committee He is fairly well down on the list, but there is a feeling that the progressive Dem ocrats may attempt to give MT. Gore promotion. The question is how far they will care to go in their rejection of the claims of seniority of service Senator Newlands of Nevada and Sen ator Clarke of Arkansas rank Mir. Gore in the Democratic membership of the present interstate commerce committed
 The Democrats are going to con slider long and deeply before they set tie the question of the interstate com