Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-04-19
GOSSIP FROM The NATIONAL CAPITOL

sumption is to be made frcc-with
an axe. There is to be no halfway
or halfhcarted legislation about this
caucus, or about the house either.
SO far as the dignified legislative
body that deliberatcB on the other
side Of the capitol is concerned, there
is a strong possibility that both the
sugar and the wool interests will
have their inning there, and that the
latter at any rate may win out in the
shuttle. Already the senators are be.
ginning their study Of the cnvir0ning
conditions, so far as they relate to
the growth Of the beet and cane sugar
crops, the extent Of the acreage in
VOWED and the geographical condi-
tiOns, the factories and refincrics
where the product Is manufactured,
the amount Of capital invested and
the number Of people dependent upon
that industry for a livelihood for
themselves and their families. The
Cuban and Philippine situations will
also enter into their cOgitations, as
will the vital question as to how far
free sugar is to help the consumer,
how much it will help out the frugal
and thrifty housewife, and the toll
crS in the much discussed high cost
Of living.
The wool question will be taken
up in much the same manner, eS-
p~ecially by the western senators,
and those Of the southwest whose
people are and have been for many
years widely known on of
their heavy wool interests. And, by
the way, there has been a lot of rot
and p%Oppycock uttered in aucus and
out of it about the interests" The
word INTERESTS has a queer v
apparently in the mouths of some
radicals, who evidently have no bow
els of mercy or Of justice for the
men or the Women who will have all
their means invested in farms or il
hccp. The cry that somebody is
"intercstcd' in cultivating beet or
cane sugar, or 'interestcd' in raising
sheep IS quite enough to start the
page in the house; but it will be vast
ly different in the senate, for, al
though Of late a few dcmagogues
have slipped in, that body will main
tain its Oldtime reputation for dclicb-
GRAFTON unaffected by outside clamor
or other improper influences. There
the wool issue will be net and dis
ness to all concerned, with the like
Iihood Of the farming element Of the
country getting a square deal.
The presidential nominations for
fat and Other federal jobs have been
withheld at the White House, for the
purpose of satisfying President Will
0 about the character Of the ap-
pointmcuts recommended to him by
either the democratic senators or
representatives or failing the en-
dorsement of the national legislators
by the national and state executive
committeeman. When they begin to
make their appearance in punches.
and that will be in the course Of a
few days, there will be some exciting
passages at arms on the floor Of the
senate, precipitated by the republi-
CdH StIldtOlS Ill IclillullOU lUT TIC
manner in which their democratic
confercrs held up the nine or ten
hundred postmastcrslip and other
nominations made by President Taft
during the last few months of his
administration. 1t will be remember
ed that, in quite a large number of
instances, those nominations were
made at that period, as alleged by
Mr.. Taft, because the terms of the
offices had expired. that there were
so many vaiancies to be filled, and
that it was his duty as the chief exc
cutive to see to it that the names of
proper men or women to fill them
We're promptly sent into the senate.
The democratic senators refused to
see matters in that light; they init
mated that as Woodrow Wilson had
been elected by the people, no offices
should be filled or nominations there
for be made until he was sworn in.
linen, they added, all of the vacant
positions would be filled by fit and
proper men of their own party. They