The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-15
TARIFF MAKES A RUCUS
INSIDE OF BOTH PARTIES
REPUBLICANS SPLIT DEMO-
Gratis WITH EMERGENCY
BILL, ALSO THEMSELVES.
CRISP FIGURES In THE MIx-UP
Effort in Democratic Ranks to Keep
Congressman Who Voted for Farm
ers' Tariff Measure Off Ways and
Means Committee.

Means Committee.
WASHINGTON, D. c. Tariff
schisms in both the republican and the
democratic parties are in lusty bios
som and will in due course be in full
bloom. This always happens, more or
less, when a new tariff is proposed.
The republican schism, of course, is
developing with regard to varying
views as to the extent and kind OF
protection" needed. 1t resembles the
schism which split the G. 0. p. over
| the Payne Aldrich tariff. The demo-
cratic schsm is developing over the
old and troublesome question OF
whether a democrat can be good
democrat and favor any tariff whatso-
ever for the primary purpose OF pro-
teotion."
Most OF the republican trouble is
going to come i'll the framing of the
permanent tariff after the next con-
gress assemblies. Republicans are now
! having some trouble over the emerg-
ency tariff bill, but that is regarded by
political experts as device primarily
to embarrasS the democrats as well as
to tickle the farmers, and it has given
the democrats the greater share OF the
| trouble thus far. AS matters are shap-
ing up the unCompromising ant1-pro-
lection democrats, who seems to be
in the majority in congress, are gong
to try to punish the democrats who
voted for the emergency tariff bill III
the house of representatives by keep
ing them off the ways and means COM
mittee. Some of them are already on it.
There are now fifteen republicans
and ten democrats on the ways and
| x6yhIc oh
measures, and which has been for
sometime holding hearings for the
formulation of the permanent tariff to
be submitted to the next congress.
Three of the democrats were defeated
in the November election; all OF the
republicans were reelected.
If the same proportion OF majority
and minority representation IS allowed
in the house in the Sixty-seventh con-
gress as i'll the present congress, there
will be three democratic ways and
means vacancies to fill, caused by the
defeat of Messrs. Rainey of Illinois,
Hall of Tennessee and Dickinson of
Missouri. 1t is more probable that the
republicans will cut the democrats to
nine members. Shall these vacancies
be filled by democrats who voted for
the emergency tariff bill or by those
who voted against it?
The importance of the question is
increased by the fact that of the ways
and means democrats who have been
reelected four voted against the
emergency tariff bill and three voted
for it. The four were Messrs. kltchin
of North Carolina, Collier OF Missis
sippi, Oldheld of Arkansas, and Carew
of New York. The three who voted
Il, 1, NJ Of
Texas, Crisp of Georgia, and Martin
of Louisiana. If three democrats who
voted for the emergency tariff should
be chosen for the vacancies the Kitch-
in school would be III the minority on
the democratic side of the ways and
means committee in the next congress.
If two such democrats should be chos-
en- the Kitchin and Garner schools
would be evenly matched.
Gossip has it that there is likely to
be a tremendous encounter between
the Kitchin and Garner schools of
democratic tariff thought before the
democratic caucus of the house. Some
are urging that this caucus be held
before the end OF the present congress,
allowing democratic member-elect to
participate and barring participation
by democratic members who have
been defeated.
Others hold that it is best to let this
matter go over to the opening caucus
of the democratic representatives at
ter the next congress actually meets,
and their view will doubtless prevail.
Names which have been frequently
mentioned as possibilities in connec-
ton with the democratic vacancies on
the ways and means committee after
l ~
man r. Walton Moore and Thomas
w. Harrison, of Virginia; Fred H.
Dominick of South Carolina, Henry
b. Stegall of Alabama, Finis J. Gar
rett OF Tennessee, Carl Hayden of
Arizona, and Clarence F. Lea of Cal
ifornia. Representative Garrett has
been nominated for a federal judge
ship, and if he should be confirmed he
would not figure i'll the ways and
means problem If he should not be
confirmed he would be hard to defeat
for the committee, and there would
be no fight on him by the friends of
Representative Dominick in any event.
OF those named Messrs. Moore, Ste
gall, Lea and Hayden voted for the
emergency tariff bill; Messrs. Domi-
nick and Garrett voted against it: and
Mr.. Harrison was paired with re-
publican. If Garrett should be con-
frmed as judge the division among
the names remaining would be exactly
even on the tariff matter. Unless the
Kitchin leadership is overthrown,
which does not look likely, there
would appear to be little chance for
both Congressman Moore and Stegall,
who voted for the emergency tariff, to
be designated for ways and means,
and present democratic members of
the committee who so voted may be
ousted. 1t would then look like Domi-
nick or Harrison, who voted against
the bill, or both, with some western
democrat added. If the Garner-C Crisp
school should show the greater