The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-04-03
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 lt-Eseh Is to Handle
Railroad Legislation.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
Washngton.-When congress recon-
veneS the committees of both house
and senate will have Republican ma
1orities i'm control therein. Perhaps
the chief interest In one way centers
in two or three great committees in the
house, because these particular com
mittees 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 doctrnal legislative meas
ures Of the Republican party will be
made into law, because presumably
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 a believer
f. a high protective tariff There are
some other Republicans on the com
mttee 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 1t
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.
II is within the range of pOssiblli-
ties, or as some would prefer to put
it Of probabilities, that a Democratic
president win be elected and with him
q Democratic congress. In such a case
the Republican program. although even
put into legislative form during the
next session or two never could be
given the effect Of law II Is certain,
however, that the Republicans in the
next two years In congress will formu-
late n new tariff bill.
The tariff we have always with us.
il was with US during the war, al
though hostilities, through stoppage
20 a great extent Of IMPORTS, built up
about the highest tariff wall that It
was possible 10 erect. In other words,
we had comparatively few imports, and
as e pparatively little came into the
counWythe tariff seemingly ceased from
II oublng. Nevertheless the tariff
was still with MS. because men in con
gress still were thinking on it, and
were often talking on H.
John jacob Esch, Republican, of
Wisconsin, viii be chairman Of the
committee on Interstate commerce. Mr..
Esch's name was connected with the
first railroad rebate bill which went
through the lower house I'm the time Of
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the Esch-Townsend measure. Curlously
enough the name of Mr. Townsend,
now United States senator from Mich
igan, was more intimately associated
with the bin than that OF Mr. Esch,
whose name led the cOuplct That
first railroad rebate biz, as II gem
orally was called, went through the
house, but the senate failed to net,
and II was not until the next session
that another bin formulated In the
house, and known rs the Hepburn
measure, was passed by both houses
Ond signed by the president
Now Mr.. Esch Of Wisconsin Is 10
have another hand AT railroad lcgIsla-
tion. II IS big Job that he has ahead
o. him. It must be remembered again
that the administration is Democratic.
A bin which shall deal with the fu-
ture Of the railroads, ana which must
receive the sanction Of the president IN
order TO become law. must be free
from an approach 70 parisanshlp.
Otherwise "a veto may await H.
Fitting Roosevelt Memorial.
Before the members OF the Roosc.
welt permanent memorial national com
mittee are two plnns 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
viding Of a fund for the Americaniza
tlon Of incoming foreigners, ana The
other Is for a fund for the establish
ment in Washington OF a foundation
for the conservation OF wild life, prl
marily In the United States but Incl
dentally throughout the world
II is with the second plan that this
article concerns itself The American
ization plan probably viii strike al
Americans, and especially those who
knew Theodore Rooseyclts interest IL
the subject, as being fitting and proper
Exactly the same words may be uscc
concerning the second plan.
Theodore Roosevelt through ail his
life was d conseryationist He bclioyct
that the useful birds and mammals
should be preserved, but also thni
sportsmen should be allowed 10 take
their toll under such restrictions a,
would insure perpetuauon OF species