The Prescott daily news., 1913-05-12
PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADVICE TO PARTY HAS sEMBLANcE
 TO AN ORDER.
MEMBERS PROMISE TO OBEY
Chief Executive Has Remeded Ills Confessed Ignorance concernIno Tariff TechnIcaIitIes by Course of Reading and Hard Study.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

party has made every attempt to get It's leaders together in harmony and to try to prevent trouble over tariff, currency, antitrust legislation. or any. thing else which might jeopardize the chances of party victory in the con. gressional elections one year from next fall.
 President Wilson, to a much greater extent that President Taft. at least during the former presidents first year in office, has consulted the lead CTS of his party and not only has ta- ken but has given advice, and 1t is said that he has given 1t with a seri- ousness snd insistency which makes 1t take on the semblance at least of an actual order. The president naturally wants tho Democratic party to make good" and he has told the leaders they can do so only by the sinking of personal differences, avoidance of strife over offices and forgetfulness Of merely local demands in the face of needs of the entire country. This is what Mir Wilson has told the members of congress, and 1t Is understood that they have agreed that, in 70 far as 1t lies In human nature to do, they will try to go ahead with constructive leg islation and to give the party a clean record at the extra session and at the first regular session of the Wilson ad- ministration.
 President Posted on Tariff.
 The president some little time ago confessed, as did President Roosevelt some years ago. that he was not as thoroughly informed about all the technicalities of the tariff and about the claims and counter claims of con testing parties as he might be. Mr. Wilson took means to remedy his con- fessed defect. Now that the extra ses- sion Is at hand 1t is said he believes he is equipped to meet men representing the different schools of tariff thought and to hold his own. not fearing great ly that anyone of them can stump him with questions or with arguments.
 It is known now that the president understands all about what the tariff legislation as proposed in the house is to be, and that he knows also what troubles certain parts of the legisla- ton may encounter in the senate. He has read the Mckinley bill, the Wilson bill, the Dinsley bill and the Payne bill. and he knows all that they con tain, and knows much, 1t Is said. of the arguments which were advanced for and against the different provisions in each. The president cut out for himself some time ago a reading and . study task which few men would like to take up, even If they did not have the manifold other duties ot . president as companion work.
 The Democratic legislators do not know yet whether they will give up time during the extra session to any subject other than the tarif. MT. VII son seems to have set 8 watch on the schedules and he may not wish to re- lieye 1t until the new bill Is on his desk ready for signature or veto.
 Vision of One Party Leader.
 One of the Democratic leaders. a progressive, has urged that the tarin alone be considered at the extra ses- sion. and that an attempt be made next winter to put through currency and antitrust legislation. He thinks that with these three big things dis posed of satisfactorily 8 Democratic house will return to sit in the capitol March 4, 1915. and that nothing fur ther. except the ordinary things of Is necessary to give sub stance to this beatific vision.
 The party members in both house and senate have learned. they say. that in his quiet way the president is a fighter: that he Is not insistent that thinEs shall be done quickly. but that they shall be done we'll So 1t Is that from present appearances 1t may be argued, seemingly logically, that the process will be of the slow kind and Of the sure kind, if MT. Wilson so can make 1t.
 There is only one big committee in the senate in which the conservatives have a shade the better of the pro sressives. This Is the committee on judiciary. It was found to be a hard thing to make this committee assured ly progressive The reason was that members of the judiciary committee are supposed to sit like judges and to he as free from bias as judges are sup nosed to be. It was rather difficult thing to say to a man whose legal at- tainments and whose service apparent ly had made him fit for the judiciary that he was not considered to he of the right progressive type. It ,.a olI iuSt how this com mittea