The Washington herald., 1922-01-01
Entire House Member.
ship Due for Choice
In November.


In November.
have formidable opposition for the
nomination.
If we turn now from these de-
tails of primaries and elections to
the issues developing in national
politics, we find = situation in which
recessions from Republican senti-
ment seem rather more likely than
additions to it. When Congress comes
together next Tuesday the first
event of nation wide interest will be
the case of Senator Newberry. The
Senate rollcall, which is to deter
mine whether Newberry shall re-
main in the Senate or be expelled
from II. should come within a week
The Republican organization has
clearly determined to make New
berry's retention a party policy. The
Democrats. of course, will vote
against Newberry. practically
unanimously. At least. one excep-
ton will be the eccentric Watson, of
Georgia, who appears to be a radical
when the rest of his party is con-
sentative, and conservative when
the rest is radical.
OF the Republicans, there are at
least six who are counted upon as
having made up their minds to vote
against Newberry, and six more VIII
seem to take the pos ton that tn
will vote against Newberry, unless
he takes the floor and makes a
satisfactory answer to the charges
against him. The vote is certain TO
be close, and the Democrats already
plan that il Newberry is permitted
to keep his seat. they will make the
event one of the political issues in
the coming Senatorial and Congress
sonal campaigns.
Soon afer the Newberry case, we
shall be in the midst of a tariff de-
bate which will be more chaotic than
anything of that nature that has
ever occurred. Senator Smoot has
admitted for his party that tariff
making this year is going to be at
tended by unprecedented difficulties.
Senator Smoot is an out and out
party man and a stubborn fighter,
and he will try to make as though
Republican tariff, in a historic
sense, as the circumstances permit.
Not All Like smoot.
But not all of Srroots Republi-
can associates on the S nate Financ
Committee are of his kidney or
heart. Senator Penrose, - the
chairman of that committee, would
ordinarily be expected to have most
to say about the tariff. but he has
no such authority as had his prede-
cessor in making the last Republi-
can tariff. Aldrich, of Rhode Island.
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way of a party dictator; and PEN
rose in the present state OF his
health is far from that.
Some Of us who observe the tariff
making closely think We notice a
tendency to make a pretty thor
oughg ding surrender TO the farmer
bloc. 1t looks, in short, as IL the
farmer bloc will be permitted to
have its way in the tarifn-making
as in most of the other things the
present Congress has done. If the
farmer bloc is permitted to dominate
the matchmaking, il will Of course
make IL high. The farmer bloc
leaders say that If they are per-
mitted to make the tariff high in
farm products they will not object
to high protection also on the manu-
factured goods in which Eastern
Republicans are interested. The
probabilities would seem therefore
TO point toward a additionally high
protective tariff. What the COM
mercial and political results OF such
a policy would be in the present
state of the country and the world
affords one of the most interesting
speculations within the scope of the
coming year. and of the Presidential
campaign that will be upon us with
in two years.
There can be no possible doubt
that the economic changes brought
to America by the war have made
the policy OF protective tariff Diff
ferent from what IL was in the
days of Aldrich, Payne and McKin-
ley. But 1t is equally certain that
neither the Republican nor the
Democratic leaders are able to see
as yet the political results of those
changes Before the next Presiden-
tial election comes, II not indeed
before the end of the coming year,
the Democrats of. the South are apt
to find among their ranks some
mysterious strangers in the persons
of high-hatted business men from
the East and North whose interests
in relation to foreign trade have
been reversed by the economic
changes which the war brought to
us.
Tax Worries G. o. r.
A few weeks ago it would have
been possible to predict with con-
fidence that the Republicans would
not go to the country with their
record on taxation as il now stands.
When the bill was being finished.
in November and October, the Re-
publican leaders used to say in pri-
vate conversation that II was mere
ly temporary measure. to serve
for the emergency of the year, and
that new and more complete re-
vision of the income tax and of
other aspects of the tax bill would
be made in 1922. Just now, how
ever. the Republican leaders seem
to have ceased to talk that way.
They say now that perhaps II is
better to let the new bill stand as
it is indefinitely. They admit that
the public expectation of what the
party should do has not been met.
But they add that the principal
thing that business men and other
heavy taxpayers complained of was
And uncertainty, they
say. has at least been eliminated
and would only be brought back
by talk of revision of the tariff
in the immediate future. Moreover.
while many of the changes that
business men wanted have not been
made. other changes that they
wanted have been granted All in