Show STUDS STANDS PAT PUT PREDICTION OF WHITE HOUSE I LAMB AMONG CAPITOL HILL LIONS LIONS' REVERSED EASY PROGRESS FOR POLICIES Democrats and Republicans Alike Surprised Surprised Sur Sur- at Way President Wins Wins His Way Way Will Get Such Laws Lawa a as He Wants By GEORGE CLINTON Washington l Members of the tha Democratic Dem party In congress ss today say In the of what way might be called an admission that when Woodrow Wilson Wilson Wil- Wil son eon was elected president the general Democratic view of It seemed to be that after March 4 It would be a case of a White House lamb among Capitol Hill Hm lions Today some of ot the DemoI Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- I crata ea say cay that it seems to be a case of Capitol Hill lambs and a n White House lion I Democratic senators and representatives representatives told President Wilson some sometime sometime time ago that they thought tt It likely he would win his tariff fight Today they are telling him that he has won it Consist Consistently with the original lion and lamb theory the Democrats thought at the first that the leaders in congress would have their own way in tariff legislation Now they say Bay that they made a mistake and that It ItIs Itis Itis Is virtually an assured thing that the Democratic senators will get together preserve party harmony and give Mr Wilson exactly e what he has asked for forIn forin In the way of tariff reform It is difficult to determine which i ithe Is II the more surprised In Washington today today to to- day Iday the Democrats Democrat's or the I Republicans because of ot the comparatively comparatively I fairly easy way in which Mr Wilson seems to be making progress with aith Ith his 1 policies The Democrats now not only say say ay that his 1118 tariff bill will go through the senate virtually as he has approved it It but that the fair promise today Is ls that he will get currency currency currency cur cur- rency legislation and antl trust anti trust legislation legis lation laUon in accordance with willi the views which he will express as to what form such legislation shall take Responsibility Is Wilsons The tariff me measure sure after it becomes a law possibly may work the ruin which some gentlemen predict for it it but whether it works evil or good It will be Woodrow Wilsons Wilson's legislation A good m many ny of cit f the formerly reluctant Democrats In the senate while they do not appear appear to have become eager In their desire tp t support the president president dent seemingly have made up their minds to support him and voting support support support sup sup- port from all his party in the upper house is what the president needs because because because be be- cause the Democratic majority there is not large Borne Some of the Democratic senators who have leaned towa toward d protection have as their 1 progressive put it it been brought Into line by presidential persuasion accompanied by a showing of firmness For a good many weeks some of f the upper housemen house housemen housemen men urged that certain schedules as prepared by MrS Mr Underwood and hisco his co committee on on Ii ways ways and means were of a kind to bring disaster to some of the home industries Every possible possible ble argument personal political and econ economical al was used to Induce the president to recede a u tew few steps but the Democrats say today that he stands where he stood at the first and I that his bill barring a political or a aI I legislative cataclysm will become the I law of the l land md The The- Democratic senators senators' of both factions finally have agreed among t themselves that the they must have concord concord concord con con- cord at any cost save that of future elections President Wins Victory Mr Wilson seemingly has won his victory and his backbone has proved d to be made of ot a different kind of material material material ma ma- than some of hi his hI's party breth breth- em ern thought when they first went to the White House to hail him dent The president the Democrats say has been forced to make no compromise compromise com corn promise In order to secure what they declare now seems certain will be bethe bethe bethe the fruits fruits' of a victory won fb by y standing standIng standIng stand stand- ing pat on a national con convention pl platform plat t- t form and on the platform of promises made by the party speakers In the thelast thelast thelast last cam campaign It seems seem likely to prove that Mr Wilson is going to accomplish something something some some- thing which Mr Cleveland failed to accomplish The latter once allowed a Democratic customs bill to get a place on the statute books after declining de de- de- de dining clining either to sign It or veto it during durIng durIng dur- dur dur dur- ing the time of con constitutional limit limitI all allowed for tor either action This This' is an anold anold anold old and oft repeated tale but it carried car car- I ned ried a lesson with It It and the present president of the United States seems seems' to have learned It Mr Cleveland lectured c congress and h held ld it up to the scorn of the country after Its majority had failed to do doI I what It had been Instructed ins r by th the people to do Mr Wilson told congress congress con con- gress in advance what he expected it to do and It is known definitely that I the word went forth that a veto would be forthcoming unless the tbd tariff bill met squarely the promises made de in advance of the election Same Old Tariff Drama there Up to tb the present time has been no real debate of the tariff bill When the senate gets hold bold of the tho measure there will be debate for even with the seeming assurance that the senators will wUl put the measure through very much as Mr Wilson wants it there are many of the upper house men who will want i ito views concerning tIle the to air their schedules and will want to give them I length i I airing at some It Is understood that Senator La Ln LaFollette Folletto Follette may talk for a day in behalf of ot his ideas o of or the tariff tarla and It is rumored that several other progressive progressive sive Republicans and some Demo Democrats r ts Intend to 10 do the same thing In the house It is sharply a n case of the tile ma ma- Ity rule Iule What the leaders of the dominant party want to have haye done is done and the program that they fix for general deb debate te and for debate under un Un- der the minute five rule Is adhered to In the senate no majority rules against the debating wish of the in In- It Is expected that this bill freighted freight I ed with so many many- joys or woes accordIng accordIng according accord- accord Ing to the way In which it is looked at will be passed by the house at the time agreed upon and that It will be passed by a great vote It has been put cynically within a aday aday aday day or two that two good old travelIng travel travel- traveling traveling ing companions reached Washington together the tariff and summer era er r. r The latter for a few hours now has quit the company of the tariff but the two companions companion will get together together to to- get gether er once more shortly and the capital l and the capItol will present again the scenes of recent s summers It is the same old tariff drama over again In the same setting and with a good many new faces among the minor actors A good many of the members rs of congress say with a perfect abandon of frankness that it is Just as well the dominant ones limited general debate de do- bate to a few days and will limit debate under the minute five rule to only a few days das more Even such tariff patriots as Mr Payne and Mr Fordney it Is said are are glad in their hearts that the thing as far as as the house is is' is concerned is to be over quickly No Friction There I While some persons who seem alwa s to be looking for a row have found on several occasions symptoms of friction dent Wilson and one or two of his bis cabinet et officers nothing really has developed developed de do- yet In the way way of trouble which any po political opponent of oC the president could lay his finger on and say here is where they come to the parting of the ways These seemingly are the the- plain facts In the case thus far and men Imen of all parties here here say that as far tar as peace peace and concord In the cabinet are concerned concerned concerned con con- they are there to sit at the family council table twi twice e a week and probably to be pr present sent whenever the official ones get together on occasions in between There seemingly however has been beell beena beella a slight difference of opinion on th the face of things between Attorney General General Gen eral and the president N Note te that it is said on the face of oC thi things gs but nothing has happened to show that Mr Wilson up to date does not agree with his cabinet officer The seeming seething lies In the fact that Mr Wilson on one or two occasions has expressed views which seem 0 o obe obe be counter to those expressed by M. M Mf in a specific case The Attorney General has said that the case of the American Telephone and Telegraph company charged with being n Po monopoly in restraint of trade or something much like that should be referred 1 to the Interstate commerce commission Instead instead of i 1 of going going going go go- ing the way of ot prosecution Does this mean that there Is a radical difference of opinion on trust matters between President Wilson and his attorney general It seems to be a case ase in which Mr believes that thai regulation rather than prosecution should be used In dealing with certain certain tam tain kinds of ot alleged trust cases There are are some people who hold that the telephone is a natural monopoly and that therefore it should be subject subject sub sub- to regulation rather than to court proc procedure dure Believes In fri Competition In an an article which Mr Wilson wrote ote for a magazine he stood against seemingly at least that for tor which his cabinet officer has Just chosen to en en- dorse The president apparently believes believes believes be be- In a return to competitive conditions con con- but whether his views on competition com corn petition extend to concerns like telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone companies Is not y yet t to be de Perhaps he Is In accord on this particular proposition with his cabinet officer or otherwise It might be a case for a hurry up consultation consulta consulta- tion Uon and nd a request for tor a speedy a er cx- n of why a member of ot th the of official ot- ot t- t ram family II chooses to go counter to the he the views of the head of that official family Mr the present attorney attorney ney general was appointed to an of of- lice fico in the attorney generals general's department department department depart depart- ment by Theodore Roosevelt Mr Roosevelt It Is known believes that big business affairs should be looked after by a commission similar ar to u ii I I the Interstate commerce commission which regulates common carrier mat mat- tens It is possible that Mr Mc- Mc Re Reynolds Reynolda took his his' view of the tile telephone tele Ide- Ide ph phone ne case from Mr Roosevelt bulat but bul at any rate wherever he got It Washington Wash ington is yet waiting t to s 's see see e If f he and the president ar are are to como come to loggerheads loggerheads loggerheads logger logger- heads over It I The president of ot the United States StateR believes In a return to competitive I methods His tariff bill his party members say shows that he ho w wants things about upon a competitive I basis bass The natural thing to suppose Is that he wants t to extend his plan of ot to the great corporations corporations corpora corpora- of the United States as they exist ex ex- 1st today There Ther seems to bo be no doubt whatsoever what i that at at the beginning of the next r regular gular session a bill to do away with trust conditions In the United States will be Introduced In the lower lowerhouse lowerhouse lowerhouse house of ot congress and the chances are also that a similar bill will be Introduced Introduced introduced Intro Intro- Into the upper house What Is going to be become como of either the one I or or the other I |