Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-04-03
TAKE Them s|NGLY
THAT rs DEMOCRATIC PLAN FOR
HANDLING ALL MATTERS OF
NATIONAL MOMENT.
1.-THE WATCH ON THE SENATE
ss Thes Method Attention VIII Be
Centered on the Upper House While
1t Considers Such Things as the
Tariff.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.


at the extra session except that relat
ing to the tariff. If present plans Of
the national Democracy are carried tc
their logical end it seems that all leg
1slatlve 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
lslatlve problems. 1t is apparent that
the president, and the leaders with
MIN. do not wish to have the country 8
attention divided between the two
houses of congress when vitality 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-
slder tariff legislation, will pass the
bills 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 countrys attention
would be divided between the subject
under discussion in the house and the
tarlH discussion in the senate This is
exactly what Mr.. Wilson and those
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 it that its tariff tinker
ing is under the public eye and that
nothing which should not be" would
be allowed to go unchallenged.
If the present plan of the Democrat
ic leaders shall be made to apply to
the future 1t 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 &C.
counted of greater importance.
! The point is that the Democrats
want 20 succeed in their administra-
tion and, if the truth must be told.
some of them are afraid of the senate.
They want the senate to do as we'll as
the house does and to put through the
Democratic legislation proposed by
Mr.. Wilson without any amendments
of Importance. They think that this
can be accomplished if public atten-
ton 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.
1t 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 ODD
position to extreme conservatism.
whether it 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 Mr..
Wilson they do not go too far into the
radical field, and also to take a posi-
tion or opposition to high tariff pro-
nouncements or extremely conserva-
tive legislative announcements on
any subjects made by the conserva.
tives of any party.
me ranks of progressivism outside
or the Democratic party fell under sew
eral designations. One man is writ
ten down politically as an Indepen-
dent; other men call themselves Pro-
sressive-Republicans; other combine
me party names of Washington and y.
Republican; others call themselves
straight Washington party men. and ,.
me others are Progressives with
-
capital P. C
Forty-seven Are Progressives. G
There are forty-seven members who s
all into one or the other of these v
'lasses. According to the list of men, 7
,ers-elect Of the next house which was Y
by the house officials there I
will be 144 Republicans in attendance.
All of the men who appear in the list @
which is to follow are classed by the I
Democratic authorities as members of (
be Republican party. but only a few r
+ them speak of themselves as Repub- g
leans Those of them who keep the b
arty name invariably put the hyphen [
nd the word progressive before 1t.
10 it is that from this total number of n
republicans written into the present i
congressional directory as such, there h
lust be subtracted forty-seven, num- 7
er which represents the strength of Ii
ne contingent which either to a great n
egree or ehtirely has separated It. /