Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-04-23
pROTECTIONISTS NEED NOT
COUNT ON REMAINING OF TAR
IFF BILL BY SENATE-FORMER
. PROGRAMS NOT REPEATED.
FEW CHANGES EXPECTED
THE BILL AS ENDORSED BY THE
j.. DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS WILL BE
SUBSTANTIALLY THE BILL PASS
ffEDsIN BOTH HOUSES.
Especial STAFF Correspondence

WASI1lNu1ON ~. ~, April L.
just rounding the curve into full view
and rushing forward in the straight
away is the ADMINISTRATORS special SEES
sion express. 1t has been a long time
climbing the grades and penetrating the
defles. Woodrow Wilson is surely
is feeding large shovels full of coal into
the iron horse. Reports of Instructions
upon the track are now discounted. A
fortnight after the start and when for
q month and more the air had been filled
with fOrebOdings about trouble, the rails
seem clear for a record run. Mr.. Bust
ness Man need not hesitate. Whatever
kind of factory he operates, whatever
line Of business he may be in, he should
send down to Washington and ask his
congressman for a copy of the Under
wood tariff bill. He can tell right now
what the new tariff law is going to be.
And that is what wise Mr.. Business
Man will do. 1t will be futile to put
ones hopes in the senate. From all in
%dicatiOns, the old time procedure as to
tariff revision will not be. In other
words the senate will not build the tar
m measure all over again, as it did in
1894 with the Wilson bill, as it did with
the Dingley bill in 1897, and as ii did
with the Payne bill in 1909. OF course
the heavens may fall, but all indications
are that the tariff law of the next four
years has been drawn and made public.
Nh That is in no small degree President
Wilson's great Legislative triumph. He
has plainly won with the house demo
Gratis, who have caucussed ten days and
more, with a net result that they have
registered approval of the ways and
means bill and, alike of what President
Wilson said was good. There has been
no break in the program worth mention
ing. The country has been reverberat-
ing with lugubrations as to prospective
revision. congressman have been BON
barded with protests from home. The
democratic portion Of them have none
the less gone steadily ahead, finching
not under fire. A yielding to home senti-
ment there has certainly been. But this
was demonstrated in the democratic eau
GUS, Fight Was made there; man after
man was swept down by the majority.
OHly>tO rise and march along with the
procession that had trodden upon him.
Great political discipline is that.
Washington has not seen its like in
many, many years. Democrats propose
10 die or to survive together apd as a
hIatter of discipline and of party policy
II is, superb. There may be a fatal rush
over the high bluffs of error but the
democrats Of the house think otherwise.
A spirit of radicalism pervades the pop
dlar legislative branch. The members
thereof reason that the country applauds
even radicalism on the tariff. They
think they feel it. When such an inspir-
StiOn prevails, the more conservative
men argue it wise to hold to what they
already have.
nov about the esnate in a tariff connec-
ton. For tariff, with a little patronage
now and then, is about all there is for
discussion nowadays in Washington
with President Wilson keeping the line
SO tightly down. All senate OutpOsts of
opposition to the president had yielded
before the Underwood bill was actually
through the house democratic caucus.
DETECTION and despair were written up
on the faces of the little army of sugar
fighters. They found. for som reason or
other, that they could not frame comb
nations. The old ways of doing things
at Washington would not work. There
xra,-> 49,, Mo ,pa..ln,t .-o. -.
ing his way. The democratic spirit of
sinking with the ship or riding into port
with everybody on board has been de
structive of obstruction schemes.
Thus 1t is that the extra session of con
grRss,~ dominated in both branches by
democrats, is very different from other
sessions of congress that Washington
has seen. There may be serious revul-
sions ahead, but up to date exceptional
luck attends and it affords a powerful
impetus to progress. Little heed is given
the. old arguments and the old Outcries.
They no longer command attention. Con
crosses and presidents have heard the
same tariff word for 20 years. 1t NAV
be just as true as ever, but the fact re-
mains that few people seem to care. 1t
begins. to look very much as though vot-
sys out in the states do not care. Other
wise their representatives in Washing
: ton. would be speedily taking notice.
There is great curiosity as to how a
session of congress so remarkably begun
will conclude. That the Underwood tar
ia bill will become law, substantially in