Fergus County Democrat., 1913-07-15

dress won many votes for that prop
osition, but it was defeated.
When the bill as passed by the
house went to the senate finance
committee and then to the democratic
caucus of the senate, Mr.. Walsh took
up this fight, contending that both
wool and sugar should be given a
small duty temporarily. Undoubted-
ly the final conclusion reached to
suspend the operation of the bill as
relates to wool until near the end of
the year may be credited to the able
and unceasing efforts of Mr.. Walsh.
Mr.. Walsh, of course, accepts the eau
Gus decision and will support the
measure when it comes to a vote, as
finally shaped after the senate gets
through with it and it's passage is alb
solutely assured by that body.
The Great Falls Tribune says:
"The effect of the decision of the
democratic caucus yesterday to post
pone the operation of the free wool
schedule until December l next, will
be to very largely knock out of the
hands of the wool spectators the
tariff club with which they have been
seeking, with the cooperation of the
republican press, to beat down pres
ent prices for raw wool. A reasoning
animal ought to balk at the argument
that because change in the wool
tariff will take place next December
wool that is sold now and will be
manufactured into goods that will be
sold before any change in the tariff
takes place, ought to bring a lower
price on account of the tariff"
In the same issue, the Tribune,
which has shown some disposition to
criticise Senator Walsh for not jump
ing into the band wagon at the first
opportunity, says:
| ''The Tribune finds it's confidence
| that Senator Walsh would be found
standing by the will of the majority
of the party as expressed in the party
caucus fully justified by the facts as
they come to us through the Asso-
ciated Press dispatch from Washing
ton. In fact, all the senators gave
personal assurance that it was their
intention to support the tariff bill as
decided on by the caucus, except the
two senators from Louisiana, who
agreed that they would support all
the schedules except the sugar sched.
ule. On that they will not be bound.
and will vote with the republicans
The result is very satisfactory to the
administration, and we believe to the
country at large. Business men gen
orally have become reconciled to this
change in the tariff, and what they
now want most of all is to get it done
and completed
: The Butte Post, independent, says
LAS the result of yesterdays round
up the new tariff bill can count or
} thirty-nine senate votes. That is 9
, majority of one. If Senator Walsh
; had decided to vote against the bill
; there would have been a tie, with the
! vice-president ready and willing tt
settle the matter in favor of the dem
ocrats.
r "For time the notion prevailed tha
: Senator Walsh would oppose the bill
! to the end. No conclusion to tina
effect was warranted, however, b!
r anything said by the senator himsel
1T was merely an opinion based up
' on his assertion that the bill, in it
2 general application, is not to be /,
2 good thing and that, in particular,
: threatens harm to Montana's inter
3 ests and amounts to a discrimination
3 against the constituencies in the west
! "While the discussion of the part,
1 and political aspects of the situation
q in the senate was progressing, MI
t Walsh insisted that democracy's can
/ paigning and platform declarations Il
e Montana warranted democratic men
bers of congress in policy of OF
n position. At the time there was NO
v nearly as much discussion of tina
g view, in the democratic newspaper
?, of the state, as might reasonably hav
It been anticipated; at the same time
y in several of the Posts democrati
t. contemporaries there was plain tai
to the effect that the proposed tari
bill is radically wrong in many of 1t
essential items and that the Walls
y view of involved injury to this stat
E. was we'll founded.
n "These objections have not been r,
d moved. However, it is settled, by hi
d own declaration made yesterday, ths
e Senator Walsh will vote for the bill
n his support amounts. under the ci
p cumstances, to saving clause in th
le senate. He counts only one, but
e. happens that he is in this instance
Is very important one. Whether th
y, senator was bound by consideration
re drawn from party policy to get in an
ID drill, liking to do 1t or not, or whethl
IL Montana would have liked 1t bett,
ly had he stood out-those are uueri,
IN that need not now be dealt with.
es "Multitudes among the senator
d. constituencies believe that his at