The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-10
Sisty1 E0ilftFFc Sagress

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS eXpectsd eNSn tHouSh ~ Sotti'"iiS
no surprises. The actual presentation Of the pro-
gram for preparedness forms the most vitality inn
portant section Of the program outlined, although
the blunt designation, of the Teutonc "war plot
tiers" by the head Of the nation ones who ''have
poured the poison Of disloyalty into the very
arteries OF our national life will doubtless att
tract the greater attention of the wqpld for the
moment The determination of the government,
supported by loyal citizens from many lands to
close 'the hand Of power" over these creatures
Of passion, disloyaity and anarchy" as voiced by
the President IS as9ntspoken the recent revela-
tons and charges Justify. ..
National defense and the means OF providing
money to carry out the administration plans, adj
nlttedly, are the chief problems which the sixty
ldifh congrdSs will face, salthpugh democratic
leaders who had hoped Ii make military prepared
ness a non-partsan, question are not confident of
success, notwithstanding the widespread endorse
ment given President Wilson's Program by promi-
nent members and organizations affiliated with
minority parties. The chief stumbling block is
the method of raising the enormous revenues
which will be needed and certain Republican lead
ers have already Indicated they ready to make
political capital of the Democratic dilemma should
the party in power find itself compelled to resort
to bond issue or any of the tariff measures hith-
erto condemned by them. With leaders of both
parties looking toward the national campaign
next fall the session promises to be Of unusual
interest. ~ FIR
The new Congress is still Democratic, but not
so Overwhelmingly as it has been on previous oc-
casons when President Wilson addressed it. In
the senate the party has slightly increased major
ity, but political fortunes have reduced the al
most unwieldy force in the House that came in on
the Democratic landslide that elected Mr.. Wilson
so that now the party will have only majority
over all of twenty-four votes. This is regarded
as narrow margin in body composed of ABS
members, requiring party detection of only thir-
teen votes to defeat measure.
The new house as officially classified consists
Iof 22o Democrats, 1917 Republicans, six Progress
sives, one Independent, one Socialist and one
vacancy through the recent death of Represent
ative Witherspoon of Mississippi. In the senate
there ffty-six Democrats and forty Repub-
leans Republicans ranks in the house have been
swelled by the return of many familiar political
figures who were leaders in the long period of Re-
publican supremacy. Among them former
Speaker Joseph G."Cannon and William B. Nc
Kney, former chairman OF the Republican legs-
latiye committee both of Illinois; Nicholas Long
worth, of Ohio sorrih2faw of Colonel Roosevelt;
William A. RoaeGbefg, Of Illinois { Rbenezer J.
HILL for years,a Republican power on the Ways
and Means committee, and John Q. Tson, both
of Connecticut; George E. Foss of Illinois, for
mer chairman of the Naval committee; Cyrus A.
Sulloway, of New Hampshire, former chairman
of the Pension committee, remembered as tower
ing above the heads of all other members; George
w. Loud, of Michigan; Benjamin K Focht, and
Daniel F. Lafean Of Pennsylvania and many 9TH
ers. Prominent members of the Sixty-third House
who do not re-appear at this session are Oscar w.
Underwood of Alabama, who now is a Senator;
A. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania; Robert F.
Broussard, of Louisiana, who also went to the
Senate; Charles L. Bartlett, of Georgia Timothy
T. Ansberry, Robert ]. Buckley and Stanley J.
Bowdle of Ohio; Jeremiah Donavan, of Connec-
ticut H. Robert Fowler, of Illinois Henry George
Jr., Lathrop Brown, Herman A. Metz, Frank F.
Wilson, Henry M. Goldfogle and Jefferson NJ
levy, of New York; Richmond Pearson Hobson
of Alabama, who has led the fight for national
prohibition c. H. Burke and f. w. Martin, of
South Dakota; Victor Murdoch, of Kansas, and
many Others.
New Democrats in the Senate are Mr.. Under
wood of Alabama; James D. Phelan, of Califor-
MIA; J. c. w. Beckham, of Kentucky; Mr.. Brous-
sard of Louisiana; Edwin s. Johnson, of South
Dakota, and Paul O. Husting, of Wisconsin. On
the Republican side the new senator's are Charles
Curtis of Kansas, formerly member James w.
Wadsworth Jr, of New York. andy Warren G.
Harding, OF Ohio. Senators who have retired
after years OF service include Root, of New York,
Burton OF Ohio Perkins, of California Thornton
|of Louisiana; Bristow, of Kansas; Crawford, Of
South Dakota and Stephenson, of \ Wisconsin,
Others who retired after short service are White,
Of Alabama, and Camden of Kentucky. = as1
In relative Importance on the administrations
Legislative program the army and navy increases
in the fve-year plan for perfectng the national
defenses come first. Allied with them is the
revenue problem which involves consideration If