Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-05-13
WILSON STANDS PIT
PREDICTION OF WHITE HOUSE
LAMB AMONG CAPITOL HILL
LIONS REVERSED.
EASY PROGRESS FOR POLICIES
Democrats and Republicans Alike Sur
prised at Way President Wins His
Way--WiII Get Such Laws as He
Warts.
Ru GEORGE CLINTON

Ely GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington. Members of the Dem
ocratic party in congress today say,
In the way of what might be called an
admission, that when Woodrow Will
son was elected president the general
Democratic view of it seemed to be
that after March it would be a case
OF White House lamb among Capitol
Hill lions. Today some of the Demo
Gratis say that it seems to be case
OF Capitol Hill lambs and a White
House lion.
Democratic senators and represen-
tatives told President Wilson some
time ago that they thought it likely
ne would win his tariff fight. Today
they are telling him that he has won
It. Consistently with the original lion
and lamb theory the Democrats
thought at the first that the leaders
in congress would have their own way
In tariff legislation Now they say
that they made mistake and that 1t
is virtually an assured thing that the
Democratic senators will get together,
preserve party harmony and give Mr.
Wilson exactly what he has asked for
in the way of tariff reform
1t Is difficult to determine which is
the more surprised in Washington to-
day the Conservative Democrats or the
Republicans because of the compare
lively fairly easy way in which Mr..
Wilson seems to be making progress
with his policies. The Democrats now
not only say that his tariff bill will
go through the senate virtually as he
has approved it, but that the fair
promise today Is that he will get cur
rency legislation and antitrust legis-
lation In accordance with the views
which he will express as to what
form such legislation shall take.
Responsibility Is Wilson's.
The tariff measure after it becomes
law possibly may work the ruin
which some gentlemen predict for it,
but whether it works evil or good it
will be Woodrow Wilson's legislation.
A good many of the formerly reluctant
Democrats in the senate while they
w 1iOL appear " nave USCOuu6 6dSGI
in their desire to support the presi-
dent, seemingly have made up their
minds to support him, and voting sup
port from all his party in the upper
house is what the president needs be-
cause the Democratic majority there
is not large.
Some of the Democratic senators
who have leaned toward protection
have. as their progressive brethren
put it, been brought into line by presi-
Dental persuasion accompanied by
showing of firmness. For a good
many weeks some of the upper house
men urged that certain schedules as
prepared by Mr.. Underwood AMI his
committee on ways and means we're
of kind to bring disaster to some
of the home industries. Every posi-
BILE argument personal political and
economical. was used to induce the
president to recede a few steps, but
the Democrats say today that he
stands where he stood at the first and
that his bill. barring a political or a
legislative cataclysm will become the
law Of the land
The Democratic senators of both
factions finally have agreed among
themselves that they must have con-
cord at any cost save that of future
elections.
President Wins Victory.
Mr., Wilson seemin ely has won his
victory and his backbone has proved
to be made of different kind of ma
terial thar some OF his party breth-
ern thought when they first went to
the White House 10 hail him presi-
dent. The president, the Democrats
say, has been forced to make no COM
promise in order to secure what they
declare now seems certain will be
the fruits of a victory won by stand
ing pat on a national convention plat
form and on the platform of promises
made by the party speakers in the
last campaign.
1t seems likely to prove that Mr..
Wilson is going to accomplish some
thing which Mr.. Cleveland failed to
accomplish The latter once allowed
a Democratic customs bill to get
place ON the atute books after de-
clining either to sign it or veto it dur
ing the time of constitutional limit
allowed for either action. This is an
old and oft repeated tale, but it car
ried a lesson with it and the present
president of the United States seems
TO have learned it.
Mr. Cleveland lectured congress and
held it up to tie scorn of the country
after its majority had failed to do
what 1t had been instructed by the
people to do. Mr.. Wilson told con-
gress in advance what he expected it
to do. and it is known definitely that
the word went forth that a veto would |
be forthcoming unless the tariff bill
met squarely the promises made in |
advance of the election.
Same Old Tariff Drama.
Up to the present time there !
has been no real debate of the
tariff bill When the senate gets (
hold of the measure there will be
debate, for even with the seeming
assurance that the senators will put |
the measure through very much as |
Mr. Wilson wants ii there are many I
of the upper house men who will want /
TO air their views concerning the |
schedules and will want to give them
airing at some length.
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