The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-04-26
IN FEAR OF SENATE
DEMOCRATS ANXIOUS REGARD
ING ATTITUDE OF PARTY SEN.
ATORS TO TARIFF.
SEE TROUBLE IN SOME ITEMS
Sugar, Wool and Lumber Schedules
Likely to Meet Opposition-Other
important Legislation Which Must
Command Attention.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.


anxiety among the Democratic leaders
lest a minority of the Democrats in
the senate may make up their minds
to fight against the adoption of certain
| OF the provisions which the house will
make as a part Of the party's great
tariff program. There is still a dan
/ ger, 1t is said in other dispatches. that
q minority of the Democrats joining
| the Republicans and progressive Re
/ pubiicans may change parts of the
tarih bin so radically that the house
may refuse TO accept the senate's
hndings in the cases in point. This
VIII m"!n long controversy in the
conference between the two houses
and it may possibly lead TO compro-
misses of which President Wilson may
fail to approve
This does not mean that Mr.. Wilson
would veto the tariff legislation but it
means, If it should come about, that
he may urge With all his power the
necessity of following the spirit Of the
Democratic platform and may take
SSAAHA manu- III lilt NblaltICICt dS ne
has In the committee rooms already,
and insist that pledges shall be full
Elled as he thinks the members OF his
party at large believe they should be
fulfilled
One Democratic senator said the
other day that sugar was always sweet
excepting that when il entered into
the tariff cup and then it became in
stantly exceedingly bitter. There are
other things besides sugar which may
cause trouble in the senate. Wool and
lumber have not yet passed safely the
stage of troubling There have beeS
several tariff sessions in the last few
years and In every one of them these
three articles have been causes for
bitterness Of feeling long drawn ou+
debates. personalities which some.
times have been almost offensive. and
rows end ructions" generally. The
party In power admits that it will look
with much more complacency on life
when new tariff legislation is on the
statute books approved by congress
~ VIZ piObiucIl,
proval by the people.
Other Work Ahead.
There are other things besides tariff |
which soon must occupy the attention |
OF the Democrats, and a few of them |
are occupying their attention today.
Here are the principal things which |
the party in power hopes to put into
legislative form before the congress
now In session ends its life in March
1885,:
Tariff revision.
Currency reform.
Revision of the Sherman law.
A budget system to make easier the
Of the Appropriation bills
md legislation which will make for ef-
iciency and economy in the govern
nent's departmental service.
Philippine independence.
Panama canal legislation again in
'olving the question of free toll for
ships.
Legislation looking to food proven
ion.
Conservation with a leaning toward
ontrol by the states.
Revision Of the rules OF the house
ut revision OF kind which will not
make Ii appear that the dominant
arty wishes to restore a one man {
ule
Legislation for the compensation of {
aderal employees who are injured OF '
no gutter from occupational diseases q
the course Of their employment !
egislation which in another form will c
over employees engaged in interstate t
G
This Is recognized by the Democrats
5 a most ambitious program and com. a
aratively few OF them apparently I
link that all the things here set down D
an be accomplished within the life of u
he congress. Some of the leaders saw "
lat IL any three Of the greater things "
e done and find acceptance with the g
,untry. the Sixty-fourth congress, n
re the present one, will be found to
: well within the control OF the Dem h
ratio party a
Old Line Senators at Sea, ie
President Wilson and the Democrats &c
official life in Washington generally Al
g not the only ones in the capital ~
eply interested in the outcome OF "
riff legislation In the upper house N
this extra session. 1t is perfectly ar
parent that the old line Republican h,
lders OF the senate are on the I'M e.
rtain seat. They do not know "a
lether to become active fighters %
ainst the Democratic bill or to re-
main as non-combatants Naturally m
~ are looking TO the future and to tn