Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
A. Mitchell PaImer's Chances for the
Presideney--charles Pilllne's In
terest In the Tariff-The
Wares and the Congress.
sionaI Delegation
Washington, Aug. o.

WILL Woodrow Wilson be candidate
w for a third term? The recent adven-
lures of the President lead many observers
here to believe that the President is looking
forward despite suggestions from the White
House to the contrary. Witness the several
letters or messages to Congress ,since the
executive returned from Europe. Although
the league of nations was the burning ques-
tion and the House had nothing to do with
it and the Senate had all to do with it., the
! President addressed Congress with regard to
soldier welfare and urged that something
be done Immediately Congress had been
discussing what should be done for the SOL
dier and regarded the Presidents message
as an intimation that he did not intend
that Congress should have all the glory.
B'rer Tumulty, who had been approached
upon the soldier problem, is said to have
had something to do with bringing this bright
idea up to the President. After this incident
there was a lapse and the league of nations
again became the issue. The House of Rep
resentatives was about to adjourn when the
railroad brotherhood chieftains walked in
very much as they did before the Adamson
cight-hour bill was passed and suggested
that the cost of living was high and that
they should have increased wages. The
| President saw the point and upon receipt of
letter from Director General Hines rushed
his letters to Republican leaders asking
them to halt the recess of Congress so that
something might be done to reduce the cost
| of living and give the railroad workmen
more pay. AS Congress had been consd
ering these problems it did look as If the
| President was again putting one over' on
the legislative body.
But speaking of presidential possibilities,
what also of the Republicans? They have
no candidate in sight.
| IF THE President should not run for a
L third term who would be his successor?
Champ Clark, of Missouri or Oscar I'm
| derwood, of Alabama, might still be willing
| to make the race. Neither of them is ex-
tremey confidential with the Presdent--and
! neither of them would expect to make the
| race with the support of the administration.
| Former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
| has been regarded as the probable heir of
| Woodrow Wilson should the latter decide
! not to run. But there are those who believe
that financial troubles and railroad troubles
| may eliminate about the time Mr.. McAdoo
| would put in an appearance and put him out
| of the running. Moreover, there are rumors
that the President and his son in law do
not meet so frequently as they once did and
that suggestions are not so fully exchanged
between the two men as they once were.
This brings the name of A. Mitchell Palmer,
of Pennsylvania, now attorney geheral to
the fore, and there are those who do not
regard the Palmer boom as an idle jest.
As alien property custodian, Mr. Palmer
built up an organization throughout the
country which included Republicans as we'll
as Democrats, and which had to do with
the dispensation of at least 81 900, 100000.
There is enough evidence in the dyestuffs
hearings and the senatorial opposition to
Palmcr's confirmation as attorney general to
show that he has secured host of powerful
friends in political and financial circles.
ISAAC BACfIARACH, who represents the
Atlantic City district in Congress, has
won his first tariff fight. He has succeeded
in obtaining favorable action upon 'Bach-
arach Bill in the House. The bill pro-
vidcs for high tariff duties on chemical
glassware which hitherto has been manu-
factured largely in Germany, but which
American factories have been encouraged to
make during the war. The bill also includes
increased duties on surgical instruments in
serted largely at the instance of Philadelphia
manufacturers, who claimed that they could
| not stand against German and Japanese
| competition. Charles Pillng, of Phadel-
| phia, appeared before the ways and means
committee in support of the latter PROPOSE
ton. 1t seems that prior to the war the
| United States, it's hospitals and public in
stitutions, were dependent upon Germany for
about so per cent of the surgical instruments
| used here.
| EVERYBODY in Philadelphia knows that
| ~ John Fiser, Of the Manufacturers
| Club, has strong convictions on the tariff
| that he is a protcctionist from way back.
| Hence, when Joseph H. Choate, Jr., the
| DISTINGUISHED New York lawyer, urged the
| IL. ,oF ,,,f 60 nf
| tariff on dyestuffs, Fisler and his friends
! of the Manufacturers Club were there with
| both feet. But since it subsequently ap-
| peared that the manufacturers signed up for
| q licensing system, which some of them did
not want, John Fisler promptly informed
| Washington that something was wrong. If
| Brother ChOate makes another speech at the
| Manufacturers Club under the auspices of
| A. Mitchell Palmer and his able New York
assistant, Alien Property Custodian Garvan,
| it is dead sure that John Fisler will be
| there with few of his convictions with
| regard to the ethics that hold among Phil
| adelphia manufacturers.
TINE Philadelphia congressional delegation
| L is deeply interested in the mayoralty
discussion. Congressman Ware, of the First
District, is naturally concerned over the
| success of the Wares, and all other members
take soundings accordingly. If the Wares
succeed in obtaining complete control of the
city, what effect will it have upon the future
representation in Congress? viii it be made
an out and out Ware annex, or will it run
along haphazard as it is now? George S.
Graham, of the Second District, does not
mix up much in these political talks, al
though he is the Pennsylvania member of the
| national congressional committee. The Third
| District representative has been much dis
cussed as a possible candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for mayor, and as it
is generally understood that he does not have
the approval Of the Wares it is difficult for
other members to philosophize as freely as
they might like to do. The Fourth District
representative, George w. Edmonds, and
George p Darrow. of the Sixth, do little
talking and much thinking. The two Georges