Our land = La Nostra terra. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 191?-1913, 1913-05-03
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON D. c.
Munsey Building
Washington D. C. April 26 1913.

1SHSEd3 uebdLe On the LdTilI DILL mas
been raging back and forth for four
days now and it is entirely safe to say
that not member of that body has
changed his convictions for or against
either the bill or any OF it's four thou
sand items. In the main the debate has
taken the same old range made fami-
'Gr TO followers Of proceedings in Wash
eon by hundreds. perhaps even thou
= ! IDS, of pages of the Congressional
tecord Republicans assail the Demo
cratic bill as disaster breeding meas
ure o. free trade. Democrats defend it
a. a measure of relief tu the people of
the country from the high cost of liv-
ing and assal the Republican theory
aud practice of high protection as un-
constitutional robbery. Wit, metaphor
an 20 try are employed icd riminate
Iy by both sides and, for all practical
ad yantage, the report of the proceed
ings as tesween Republicans and Demo
Gratis might be taken from any one of
Il : many similar sham battles that
hs.a preceded this one.
Ba. a new and striking element has
been injected into this debate by the
band of Progressives in the House.
The stanpat newspapers. Republican
and Democratic alike, have devoted
little or no space to this significant fea
ture of the present debate, but it is a
feature which will increase rapidly in
importance as the tariff bill proceeds
along it's we'll oiled way and which is
bound to gain vssty in public recogni-
ton and approval before the tariff bill
received the presidents signature.
While Republicans and Democrats are
emphasizing By thei speeches the fact
that the pending bill is a product of
the same old vicious method of tariff
making that has marked the enactment
of rsavious tariff laws. the Progress
sives have steadily called attention to
the name in which the consistancies
and defects charged by Republicans or
admitted by Democl q IS emphasize the
necessity of change not merely in ta-
riff rates but, in what is of even great
er i,a7o,. ance, III tle method Of tariff
m zig. The repub ans go ga l : ahead
pointinx cut items in the measure
which more o. / IS o1v.olsly are the re
suits Of Ignorance or indolence, and at
the same time, Democrats after Demo-
cra+ make admission that in this, that
or the other respect the bill is not
right and could be improved. Thus,
while neither side admits the logical
imnljcation Of its argument, both sides
are steadily adding to the proof of the
necessity for the creation of perma-
nent, non partisan, scientific Tariff
Commission. which shall secure to all
+ba noeple of the whole country, not
mo -ely for the rr.Eate Use Of the majo-
r;+v members of the Ways and Means
Committee, full information about
every item considered in tariff bill
The proposition of the Progressive
Marty is the establishment of non
,,artisian. scientific Commission, report
10 bo+h to tha President and t. either
,r9-,ob Of Congress, which sail report
&C. as to the cost of production, eff
o,encv of labor, capitalization. indus
4rial organization and efficiency and
tho General comp tive position in this
.onntrv and abroad of industries seek
mo nsotec.ion from Congress. second.
os 70 the revenue producing power OF
the tariff and its relation to the re-
so,,rces of government; and third, as
- tho effect of the tariff on prices,
l,,.rations of middelmen, and on the
Fmobss.nq power of the consumer. .
- &c worth while to consider the
,.ar;ng upon this proposition OF GER
81, foc+s brought out in the debate IN
+l l'' House this week. Mr.. Palmer OF
~ .a..I,ania. one Of the leading Demo
- on the WAYS and Means Commit
@ frarklv admitted that under the
liao hin. although American manu-
- ,.srs can conhune to produce II
r.I he to a somewhat less extent IL
"''' and with less profit j near
some v Tins admission Of the Gripping
i' an. # the pending bin upon Amer
iL0'' iL0''.,,racturers at once iosplfes the
can .t,on whether it would not De pet
'-',.,'' t'fore enacting such a measure t'
tH' 80 oh full information regarding
have a. ,,a+ters as would enable th'
ali Al9' of a measure which woul(
saa'5.s't .a.t to ali concerned and y ...'I 3ol'
ne gus. .nstber it Is necessary to efippi'
any ~, nne 20 o. consumers el of the pod ict Q
to I. give io5ustry ,s lover prices on the god
-6ey purchase .....;or i, dp.ie
t. :5.+sa and .so9 tnst la. ffs5 the duty on fer
Palmer I.,oe.e. ass,e. an essential element il
rao'an| aI ''',T r,s1ufaetIres. had tee1 in
ai steei 30 "a a ton to 10 per cen