The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-27
DEMOCRATS RECKON.
 ON 30 ADDITIONS. ID HOUSE MEMBERS.
Will Not Acquire Control, But Will lnStiII Great Confidence in Party, Is Washing
 ton Belief
Ky HUGH ". ROBERTS Washington Bureau. The Age Herald.
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 Washington, April Special -- Democrats will gain an even so mem bers of the House as result of forth coming congressional campaigns. ac- cording to best reckonlnss in local democratic circles.
 To recover control of the House. they will require SS additional mem bers. While their calculations. as pointed out Sunday, do not compre- bend the acquisition of control, they will be sensational to the extent of insulting such confidence in the party as to make the presidential campaign relatively certain.
 The following gains are contem- plated: In Connecticut 1, Illinois c., Indiana 6, Iowa 1. Kansas 2, Ken lucky ?, Maryland 1, Massachusetts :, Michigan 2, Minnesota 2, Missouri 10, New Jersey 6, Ohio 10, Oklahoma 5. Pennsylvania 1, Tennessee ,, Texas l, and West Virginia 3.
 TrnceabIe To Tariff
 Much of democratic confidence is traeeable to the unpopularity of the tariff which republicans. at the in stance of "big business" are attempt ing to enact, that tariff which IS termed by Senator Walsh of Massa- chusetts, democrat. as "monstros- ity without precedent or proto- type"
 The bill in all probability, will have had it's initial effect before the elections in November. It will have raised a wall against importation and made it impossible for Europe to pay AL A for the United States to develop for eign markets necessary for the con sumption of American surpluses. tt will have increased the cost of liv- ing in the United States.
 It IS unpopular with republicans as is indicated by the division be- tween the House, on the one hand. and the administration and the Sea ate on the other, and by the fact that with the tariff as an issue in the re- publican primary in tho Eleventh district of Illinois, Representative Ira Copley, member of the ways and means committee of the House, went down in defeat.
 Not To Restore Prosperity
 As indicative of the fear on the part of the sponsors of the bill, Sen ator McCumber of North Dakota chairman of the finance committee and co-author of the "monstroeity, warns against q possible conviction on the part of anyone that the tariff will restore prosperity. Nothing in recent annals has been more pa thetic than that appeal of McCumber
 Do not depend on this tariff" he said in effect. Tt will furnish an opportunity for better conditions :n my opinion, but will not restore pros perity. l urge manufacturers to he satisfied with less profit than they are receiving today, and laborers to work harder for smaller wages. Then if such spirit is extended to the middlemen and retailers, and the consumers, who must practice ecoa- omy, why prosperity will return"
 That republican leaders, them selves, are fearful of the political ef- feet of their tariff, is most en- couraging to democrats They are convinced that the republicans would continue to delay the enactment of the bill but for pressure exerted by ''big business" which paid the cam paign expenses of 1920.
 Will Attack Treaty Democrats will make fearful as saults against the treaty. It's weak ness will be demonstrated when the House and Senate will endeavor to Teconclle ulIIerenceS respecting for eign and domestic valuations as a basis for duties. The House stands for foreign valuations, and the Sen ate for domestic
 But the Senate would compromise by the inclusion of a clause giving the President power to increase rates if it be demonstrated to the l President that foreign goods, under existing duties, are able to enter and compete with American goods There is apparently no hope for the consuming public. And demo- crats contend that republicans would i give the President too much power when they put him, lone individual , in charge of 100000, 900 breakfast tables in the United States.