Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08
TARIFF QUESTION
COMING UP AGAIN
FoRDNEY OF MICHIGAN HEADS
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
IN THE NEW HOUSE.
MAJORITY TO START THINGS
Will Formulate Program, but Fact
That Administration Is Democratic
May Check It-Esch Is to Handle
Railroad Legislation.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

by GD"HhO OEAlNs
Washington.-Whe congress recon
senes the committees of both house
and senate will have Republican ma
jOrities in control therein. Perhaps
the chief interest in one way centers
il two or three great committees in the
house, because these particular COM
n,ittees will formulate the legislation
which, if enacted into law, will be most
far reaching.
II must be remembered, of course,
that the administration is Democratic
while congress today is Republican.
Therefore it seems hardly likely that
any great dOctrinal legislative meas
ures of the Republican party will be
made into law, because presumably a
Democratic president would not ap-
prove them.
Joseph W. Fordney, Republican, of
Saginaw, Mich, will be the chairman of
the ways and means committee in the
coming congress. 1t is this committee
which will formulate tariff legislation.
Mr.. FOrdney is known as o believer
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some other Republicans on the COM
mittee who believe in more moderate
tariff, but taking the majority of the
committee all in all, it represents much
higher tariff views than those of the
Democratic majority of the same COM
mittee in the last house.
What will the Republican party do
with tariff legislation with a Demo-
cratic president in the White House?
The answer is that it will do what it
can in a program way at the next
session or two, and then may have to
lei the program go over until Re-
publican president is elected in order
TO see it put into effect.
Higher Tariff May Be Prevented.
1t is within the range of pOssibili-
lies, or as some would prefer to put
Il. of probabilities, that a Democratic
president will be elected and with him
Democratic congress. In such a case
he Republican program, although even
put into legislative form during the
aeXt session or two, never could be
given the effect of law. 1t is certain.
however, that the Republicans in the
aeXt two years i'll congress will formu-
ate a new tariff bill.
The tariff we have always with u.s.
It was with us during the war, al
though hOstilities, through stOppage
10 a great extent of imports. built up
about the highest tariff wall that it
was possible TO erect. In other words
We had comparatively few imports, and
as comparatively little came into the
'oUn} ,ythe tariff seemingly ceased from
doubling. Nevertheless the tariff
MAS still with us, because men in con-
yress still were thinking on it, and
we're often talking on it.
John Jacob Esch, Republican, of
Wisconsin, will be chairman OF the
committee on interstate commerce. Mr..
Esch's name was connected with the
through the lower house in the time of
Theodore Roosevelt. 1t was known as
he ESch-TOwnsend measure. CuriOusly
enough the name of Mr.. Townsend,
low United States senator from Mich
gan, was more intimately associated
With the bill than that of Mr.. Esch,
whose name led the couplet That
irSt railroad rebate bill, as it gen.
orally was called, went through the
.ouse, but the senate failed to act,
md it was not until the next session
hat another bill formulated in the
house, and known as the Hepburn
Measure, was passed by both houses
md signed by the president.
Now Mr.. Esch of Wisconsin is to
lave another hand at railroad legisla-
ion. 1t is big job that he has ahead
,f him. 1t must be remembered again
mat the administration is Democratic.
4 bill which shall deal with the fu-
ure of the railroads, and which must
receive the sanction of the president in
rder to become a law, must be free
rom an approach to partisanship.
Otherwise a veto may await it.
Fitting Roosevelt Memorial.
Before the members of the Roose-
Telt permanent memorial national COM
nittee are two plans suggestive of the
form which the memorial should take.
Both of them are appealing and it
seems to be generally believed that
both may be adopted.
One of the plans has in view the pro-
Tiding of a fund for the AmericaniZa-
lion of incoming foreigners, and the
other is fer fund for the establish
ment in Washington of a foundation
FOR the conservation of wild life, pri-
narily in the United States but Incl
dentally throughout the world.
1t is with the second plan that this
article concerns itself. The American
lzation plan probably will strike all
Americans, and especially those who
knew Theodore Roosevelt's interest in
the subject, as being fitting and proper.
Exactly the same words may be used
concerning the second plan.
Theodore Roosevelt through all his
life was a conservationist. he believed
that the useful birds and mammals
should be preserved, but also that
sportsmen should be allowed to take
their toll under such restrictions as
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