Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-11
WHAT TO EXPECT IN CURRENCY
Senator Brandegee Believes There No Telling What the Democrats in Congress May DoSees Ruthless Slaughter of Many Industries Through Passage of Tariff Bill

ierity in the senate, If they can be dragooned into supporting this me= ton against their own tudSments this great measure can be dragged out upon the open floor of the senate and some sort of a bill patched together there It would seem doubtful that after the horrible experience in the framing Of the tariff bill the senate democrats could be driven to the attempt to perfect this great basic measure in ar1- other secret caucus
 Can Only Wait and See.
 However, no one here knows what will happen. We can only wait and see We know what happened in the congressional election in the third dis tricf of the state of Maine, and l am firmly convinced that long before year from today shall have rolled by, the record being compiled by the lead CTS of the democratic party, both in foreign and domestic affairs, will be repudiated by the country and re- publican house of representatives will be sent here to Washington with or ders from the people to change both the manner and kind of administrar . tion which exists at present, the pre- liminary to the complete return of the republican party to power
 What Senator Mclean Thinks.
 When seen shortly after the passage of the tariff bill, Senator Mclean was asked what he thought of the news from the Maine election and he made the following statement:
 If the democratic party in congress were not controlled by free traders and cotton planters, it would have recom- mitted the Underwood bill this after noon instead of passing it. The Amer jean people want prosperity and real progress and they never commissioned Mir. Underwood and his southern friends to go to any and all tariff ex- tremes If the democrats in the con- gress from the north had not fallen so easily to the blandishments of their eloquent friends from the south, if they had not surrendered their COnyic tions and individuality to the secret caucus, there would now be a chance to take from the bill some of the rank injustices and discrininations which they knew and admit it contains.
 News from Maine Too Late.
 "The news from Maine is good. but it comes too late to- prevent the dom inant influence here from jamming through a tariff bill by the agency of the secret caucus, which otherwise would have been defeated in the sen ate this afternoon by large ma jority.
 He was asked if in his opinion the news from Maine would have any eff feet on the action of congress on the banking and currency bill, and he said that a revision of the tariff by free traders in the silly season of the thir- teenth year of the century is enough in itself to bring many QualmS to the superstitious, and if we immediately add to this a revolutionary banking and currency system, I fear more than ordinary courage will be required to enable the business interests of the country to get by. The financial ex- perts who appeared before the com mittee on banking and currency, and especially the democratic experts from the south, all gave it as their opinion that the banking and currency system could best be adjusted in February and March when the demands upon credit are at the low ebb of the year.
 Wisdom Better Than Speed.
 The secretary of the treasury has assured those who may need extra cash for crop movement that he will bring to their aid fifty million, or more when wanted, and there is already printed five hundred millions of emer- gency currency waiting to be used under the provisions of the Vreeland- Aldrich act. If the proposed Owen and criticism during the months of October and November it should be much improved It contains many good features and few very bad ones. Nothing can be gained by haste. Mem bers of congress are all "het up' and tired out. I sincerely hope that the news from Maine will cause triumph ant democracy to stop long enough to realize that wisdom is of more con- sequence than speed when we are dealing with credit exchanges amount I5~TJ