Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-01-03

lot hVe or six years those of them
VINO nave been in the house that long
nave been virtually as progressive as
are tne followers of Theodore Roose-
Veit In the last campaign and who
gave up all further thought OF call
ing themselves Republicans.
If the Progressive-RepubIicans shall
reiuse to caucus with the Republicans.
ana shall caucus by themselves. there
really will be three parties in the
next house of Representatives. in ad-
dltion to the fourth majority party. the
Democracy.
Four Party Groups.
H ls recognized here as probable
that an attempt may be made in the
Observation-Disclosures caucus to get
the members to agree to act with the
Ffogresslyes IN most matters as
against the Republicans. An at
tempt to secure such action it is be-
ileved by many members of congress
VIII be resented and repudiated by
some of the Progressive-R Republicans,
possibly majority of them, who. be-
cause OF certain happenings in the
last SIX or eight months, dislike the
Ffogresslves more than they do the
ola line regular Republicans. 1t is
not believed by non-partisan observ-
ers here that the Wisconsin Progress
lye-Republicans, for instance. will con-
sent to anything like an afiliation
with the Progressives. The reason
for this is at once apparent to any
one who has followed the develop
ments of the last campaign and of the
events which led up to the virtual
elimination of Mr. La Toilette as fac
tor in the campaign for the presiden-
tial nomination.
The one sole surviving Progressive
Republican in the Kansas delegation
in congress, Victor Murdoch, it is said.
is likely to hold aloof from the Repub.
lican caucus, and it is expected that
Mr.. Murdoch will have in company
with him several members of the
house from the middle west. If this
shall turn out to be true forecast
OF the coming situation, there will be
four party groups in the next house
OF representatives, Democrats, Repub-
licans, Progressive-Republicans and
Progressives, each group caucusing by
itself, and each outlining it's own
government policies. There has been
nothing parallel to It within the men,
ory OF present members of congress.
Capital Society Anxious.
In this holiday season with con.
gress adjourned. Washington peo-
pie. and particularly those who
are known as society folk, are dis
cussing good deal, and some of
them worrying bit, over President
elect Wilson's intimation that he is
likely to do away with good many
of the at present recognized White
House social affairs The wonder is
in the capital whether Mr.. Wilson, as
has been limited, intends to drop from
the entertainment calendar the four
great semi-public receptions which
have been given every winter in
Washington for years.
In what he Is reported to have said
Mr.. Wilson set it forth that he thought
the handshaking receptions which
We're In no sense public business af-
fairs well might be dispensed with
Washington says that the four semi
public receptions are in a great
measure public business affairs, and,
anyway, society here would miss
these functions sorely.
No one in the capital believes that
the president-elect will care, or per
haps dare is the proper word to use
in this case, to cut from the list of
White House receptions the one which
is held every New Years day and to
which the public without regard to
race, color, creed or politics is in
vited