The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-05-08
WILSON STANDS PAT
PREDICTION OF WHITE HOUSE
LAMB AMONG CAPITOL HILL
LIONS REVERSED.
EASY PROGRESS FOR POLICIES
Democrats and Republicans Alike Sur
prsed at Way President Wins His
Way-Will Get Such Laws as He
Wants.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY 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 VIII
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 Dem
ocrats say that 1t seems to be case
of Capitol Hill lambs and White
House lion.
Democratic senators and represen'
tatives told President Wilson some
time ago that they thought it likely
he 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 a mistake and that 1t
Is virtually an assured thing that the
Democratic senators will get together,
preserve party harmony and give MI
Wilson exactly what he has asked for
In the way OF tariff reform.
II Is difficult to determine which is
the more surprised in Washington to-
day, the conservative Democrats or
Tho panuh1iponc hacouGa pf the com
paratively fairly easy way in which
Mr. Wilson seems to be making prog
ress 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 he will
get currency legislation and antitrust
legislation 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
q, law possibly may work the ruin
which some gentlemen predict for it,
but whether II works evil or good 1t
will be Woodrow Wilson's legislation.
A good many of the formerly reluctant
Democrats in the senate while the,
do not appear TO have become eager
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 presl-
Dental persuasion accompanied by
showing OF firmness. For good
many weeks some Of the upper house
men urged that certain schedules as
prepared by Mr.. Underwood and his
committee on ways and means were
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 few steps. but
the Democrats say today that he
stands where he stood at the first and
that his bill, barring political or a
legislative cataclysm. will become the
law OF the land.
The Democratic senator's of both
factions finally have agreed among
themselves that they must have con
cord at any cost save that Of future
elections.
Mr. Wilson seemingly has won his
victory and his backbone has proved
to be made of different kind OF ma
terial than some of his party breth'
rem thought when they first went to
the White House to 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 national convention plat
form and on the platform of promises
made by the party speakers in the
last campaign.
Same Old Tariff Drama.
w w lh' piNp'bN ih'i' hoo
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 it
there are many 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
1t is understood that Senator In
Toilette may talk for a day in behalf
of his ideas OF the tariff. and it is
rurlored that several other progress
sive Republicans and some Democrats
intend to do the same thing. In the
house It is sharply case OF the ma.
jority rule. What the leaders of the
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