The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-12

for instance, has just returned
from a European tour on which
he was honored by all the nabobs
of the allied countries, but this
week he goes back to attend an
international labor conference
to meet while the nabobs and
potentates of the world are de-
Gliding the fate of world democ-
racy. The men most interested
in world democracy will thus
look on with such information as
the peace conference cares to
give out, while men chosen in
the old style will decide the is
sues. British labor, on the other
hand, will have real peace dele
gate. Probably if we likewise
had a militant political labor and
farmer movement, we too could
have placed a man on the nabob
as we'll as the bob conference.
Ihe Senate right
Senator Borah of Idaho still
holds to his declaration that
"Penrose must Co." so far as
the leadership of the senate fl
nance committee in the new con-
gress is concerned.
Senator Penrose of Pennsyl-
vania, who is in line for the
craftsmanship of that committee,
remarks that "Borah is only one
vote in the senate"
Under the rules of the senate
the chairman of committees are
chosen by a majority vote of the
senate itself. Under the custom
(which has prevailed the Repub-
licans in caucus have agreed up
on their slate of committeeman
and chairmen, and the Demo
Gratis in caucus have similarly
agreed upon their own division
of the jobs. Then the floor lead
er of the majority party has TAX
en- the two lists and offered a
motion that the men named
therein be elected to the COM
mittees designated. The motion
has prevailed by unanimous vote.
This year if Borah keeps up
his direct war against Penrose
there will be a serious struggle
in the Republican caucus, and
the progressive group may re-
fuse to be bound by the caucus
action. That was the case at the
beginning of the Wilson regime,
when the progressives voted for
Senator Clapp of Minnesota in
opposition to Senator Gallinger
of New Hampshire in the race
for president pro tempore of the
senate. At that time the total re-
publican vote was less than the
Democratic vote; in the new con-
gress the votes Of Borah and one
other Republican senator will be
enough to destroy the Republi-
can majority and to permit the
Democrats with their help to
control not only the chairman
ship of the finance committee
but every other committee place
in the upper branch of congress.
Borah and Norris and La Fol-
lette, however, are Republicans
by lifelong association. They
have no reason to be grateful to
the Democrats in the senate for
the treatment they have receiv-
ed during the past few years.
deep as is their contempt for
the political methods and OBJ
jects of the old guard of their
own party, and determined as
they are to carry on the war to
make the Republican party safe
for decent citizens, they feel
bound to recognize that the De-
mocratic gang in the senate is
not whit better.
California Labor Program
Members of congress have re-
ceived from the reconstruction
committee of the California
State Federation of Labor a re-
port dealing with wages and the
cost of living, and declaring that
the wage level must not be re-
duced during the reconstruction
period.
"Our resources of labor and
utilized resources have been In
creased during the war;" says
the report, "while those of other
countries have been diminished.
We have practically everything
that the world needs, and we
alone among the industrial ma
tions seem to be in a position to
export in vast quantities the