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Show r : " " ' I All About flic Commilteo on Ways anlpl Tariff Measure That Now Enters flic Limcliglit How It MW W A IC 1 1 1 99 Measure Through Senate More DifficwU Than I Will Do Made, in Committee, Remade in House, With the 1 ff O A W WrL III HTh ('ofsVlr m! "" T'lcti I Work All to Be Done Over in the Senate.-The Lineup in I 1 I WT 1 Mil O 1 L L ? h dT a!vf Fa v Mef thTc fclL Both Houscs.-The Generals on Bach Political Side : : m ished Laub, mil) lndexoa, tlie Oustomsj , M 1 . Copyright. HiO.'t. by John TClfreUi WatUlns. WASHINGTON, March 13. Tlmt to begin Monday will bo tho fourteenth ox- tin .session of congress and tlic second called ' 1'or larid' i.inkcring. Tl. will P moot, to the day, on t Ins twelfth anni voraarv of 1 ho only other extra tariff session that culled by President JUc- 1 Kinley on March I..1. I8!7. That scs- sion, which passed the Dmgley bill, J wrangled until July "Jl. This years J special tariff session i.s not expected to 1 sit, as lou. since the Kcpublicuns will )10t hnvo to rip to tactics a Democratic tariff law, an they did the Wilson law. twelve veins ago. They will simply havo P to tinlior the Diuuloy law, made by P their own pari v. It is predicted that j thev will pack up their soldering jrons and" got back home before the summer sun has commenced to soften the asphalt H of the capitol plaza unless Senator La j .Toilette and his "insurgents" get to HBJ filibustering in the senate. It will be the Payne bill this time. P insta before it has been the Dmgley bill. Wilson bill. Mills bill, etc. The J constitution leelares thai "all bills tor P niising revenue shall ornynuto in the house of representatives." In that P house tariff bills are always reported bv tho committee on ways ami means, and j for brevitv the newspapers give them J the name of the ehairmaii of that com- mittco, who, in the sixty-first, a in the PIIIJ sixtieth e.onpress, will bo Kcpreseula. J live Sereno Pavne of New Vork. 11 is taken for granted that Uncle .Joe Can-j Can-j noil will be re-elected speaker ot the HH house, and that he will reappoint .dr. P, Pavne cluiimiau of this now all-impor- J tnnt committee, a'though he will have J the right, to arbitrarily select an oh- ijaaj ' score new member from Podunk should Jic wish to intrust him with the task ot H steering the new tariff bill through the The Linc-Up. It will be a hot fight. Tariff battles pniH ju congress are always hot. The lino- I up in the house will be 2H b'epublirmis against. 172 Democrats, a Republican )iuioritv of forty-seven, eight, less than in 'the "previous house. Hut in both PlB houses tin- Republicans are sepnintetl into factions varying from the con-Jirmeil con-Jirmeil "standpatters" to "Town idea 1IIJ revisionists, whije the Democrats vary in stripe from out-and-out free traders to "protectionists' The same shades pilj of difference will be found in the sen- i ale. wheie the line-up will be sixty lie- j P , publicans to thirty-two Democrats. j The Declaration of War, What these two armies will light for j supposedly is laid 'down in the plat- forma of the national conventions of I ast summer. Tho Kepnblionns then de-Hj de-Hj dared "for the impositinn of such duties as will ecpial the difference be-tween be-tween cost, of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries." They pill also declared themselves for a law lix- in'g maximum rates of duty to be im-1 im-1 posed by tho president against couii- PIIH tries discriminating against our goods H and for other countries minimum rates, PIH representing a "normal measiirc ' ol PIH 1 protection against our goods. They de- clared also for free trado with the j Philippines, except in sugar and to- H bacco. The Democrats, on tho other hand, declared for a free list, for "tniBt-controlled products." material reductions upon tho necessities of lite and upon articles which we sell cheaper HH abroad than at homo, and graduated re- PJII ductions elsewhere to "restore tho pill tariff to a revenue basis." Such were H tho declarations of war on tho tariff pill1 under which the voters fought m Iso-1 vembcr. Uut tho men who voted these PIH declarations at the conventions aro not the same bodies who willslinc up A'or the tariff fight in congress, and wo shall soon hear Republicans and Detuo-erats Detuo-erats reminding one another of "party pledges." I The battlo will begin with the organ- ization' of the now committee on ways Hl and means. Besides Chairman Payne, HH the speaker is expected to reappoint those Republican members of the for-HHJ for-HHJ mer conunittec as have been rc-elcctod. B Tho Democrats of the house wijl meet P in caucus, and, although having no liopc of electing him, will choose their PIH candidate for speaker. This candidate PIH J will become "minority leader," and the PIIJ speaker will appoint him tho ranking PIH 1 , Democratic member of the committee PPJ on wavs and means. It is supposed that PIH 1 Champ Clark of Missouri, John Sharp P Williams's successor as " minority lcad- PP or" in the last congress, will ugain re- HP ceivc this honor. Tho Generals. So the opposing generals on the door P of the house will bo Payne and Clark. Both arc lawyers. Pa3'ne is Gri, Clark PH 59. Payne was bom in New York and P Clark in Kentucky. So it will bo an- PIH other ease of Yankee Doodle against PP Dixie. Payne is of medium stature and PP very stout while Clark stands six feet PP I one and weighs but 175. The rungB of PPJ the lnddcr by which Payne climbed to PPJ congress wefo city cleric and district PPJ attorney. Clark has been a farm hand, PJ country" store clerk, country editor and PPJ Wfis ccii ting attorney. The northerner PPJ lias' been in congress since 18S3, tho PPJ southerner since ISOH. Payne liati been PPJ ou the committee on ways and mean3 PH since before the days of the cXin- PPJ ley bill. lie was active in framing lhat measure and was Dinfl's first. PH liputenant when his bill was eonstruct- PPJ od. As chairman of the committee on PPJ wavs and means he has conducted the PPJj legislative business on the Moor of tho PPJ liouse since he succeeded fr. Dinuluv. PH ' Clark has divided with John Sharp PPJ 1 Williams tho honor of being the wit. PPJ . of I lie house, and was a close friend PPJ W of r"nti Hoed. PPJl , )Ie is an eloquent orator and a great PpB ' drawing enrd on the lecture platform. PPJ During the. tariff debate he will often PPJ set. tho house to roaring with laughter PPJ ! at his stories told at the expense of PPJ his rivals in debate. P I All Lavycrs But Two. " j The other hold-over members of the PPJ, wavs and menus committee will be: Hc- PPJI , 1 publicans Dalzell. Pennsylvania; Ic- piip f'nll, Iasachusetts; Hill." Connecticut; PPJ 1 toutell, Illinois; Necdham. California; pillj f'alderhcad. Kansas; Fordnev, Miehi- PPJ ' gan: Gaines, West Virginia; Long- PPJ worth. Ohio. SIr. Roosevelt's son-in- PPJ law; Cruniiacker, Indiana. Democrats pilfl' Underwood. Alabama; Griggs, pilljl fSnnrcia; Pou. North Carolina;, and pill Uandell. Texas. All. of these men are PPJ ii, lawyers save Hill, who i.s president of PPJ a gas company, and Pordney. who is a PPI lumber magnate. The full' committee piipj " vill consist of nineteou men twelve PPJI . IJepiiblicans and seven Democrats. The PPJ I speaker will have power to remove anv PPJ of the above named and substitute PJIPI others, lie will have to fill at least piipj three vacancies caused bv tho retire- piipj jiient of Pionvgr.o. Republican, Colo- PPJ' rady; Cock ran. Democrat. New York, piipi and. danger. Democrat. Rhode Island. PPJ i .Appointments to th'ese vacancies will PPJ ?e eagerly sought of the speaker. Xo pillj ' o-nialtr honor can be conferred upon- a pnpj i u : ' f Tl 1 ' new member than such an assignment, i That on ways and means was tho sec-I ond standing committee appointed by the speaker of the first congress, in I7S0. A commit lee on elections was I chosen April 1.",, ami that, on ways and means July 2-1. which makes it 120 i years old." U was first .composed of one representative from each stale, but even then its membership was smaller than it is today. It was afterward limited to seven and thon to nine members, mem-bers, only the leading revenue-producing slates being represented. Pennsylvania sometimes had two audi even three members. But as tho country coun-try developed and new states were ad initted its membership was gradually distributed and ineioased'to the present figure. Among its noted chairmen hae been John Sherman. Thaddeus Stevens. Justin Morrill. William B. Morrison and William McKinlc. I Sit Like a Court Now. In Hie new committee room in (he re- cently completed liouse office building its members will sit, side by side upon ! a bench, like that of a courl only curved to form the arc of a circle instead of facing each other at a long ! table, as in the old committee room in the capitol. Under tho sixtieth congress con-gress the committee, as then organized, commenced its preliminary hearings on this tariff bill to be reported to the sixty-first congress. These hearings having been conclnded representative men in all of our large industries hav- , ing told their tariff wants and hav- i ing been examined by the Bepublicau and cross-examined by the Democratic members the oommittoo will report tho Paynn bill to the house, whero it will bo haggled over and patched, up with all sorts of amendments. Uncle Joe to Allow No Delays. Although Mr. Payne will bo the I?c-publican I?c-publican general on the floor of the house, ripcakcr Cannon will .Ijo tho Bc-publican Bc-publican commander-in-chief! there. He Wi 1 1 have solo power to recognizo members mem-bers wlio wish, to speak, and ho need pay no heed to mcmbors who aro try- I ing to al tract his nttontlou.. "I Lave I caught, tho measles, whooping cough and influenza, yofc novor yet tho spenk-j spenk-j er's eve," onco said a Tcuucsscean who had been in the liouse six years. Yet " 1 i no member will bo able to talk without Mr. Cannon's permission. Before each session a list of those who by previous agreement are to be recognized will be placed upon his desk. His committee on rules, of which ho will be chairman and which he will 'Mpoint, will limit the debate on the tariff bill to so much time on .both sides, and the speaker will see that when the time is up a vote is taken. , .., , The battle in the senate will he different. dif-ferent. There tho bill will be referred to the finance committe. Its chairman, Senator Nelson W. Aldnch of Rhode Island, Is-land, who piloted the Diuglcy bill twelve vears ago, will again bo tho "enoral-ni chief ot tho Republicans of. that chamber. He is now b7 years old, with white hair and mustache. Uo h a wealthy merchant so wealthy that his daughter was accepted by John D. as a "ood match for the latter s son. lie has been in the senate lor twenty-eight twenty-eight years, and, being a born leader, he has there risen to be a power superior su-perior to all of its other leaders, lie is betler acquainted with the intricacies intrica-cies of tariff legislation than anv other senator. So. while a lawyer will steer tho Pavne bill through the house, a merchant will pilot it through the sen- ,tThirtfen men will do the first tinkering tinker-ing with the Pavne bill after it reaches the senate. These members of the finance committee, with Chairman Aldneh. will be. Burrows. Michigan; Penrose, Lenn-svlvania; Lenn-svlvania; Hale, Maine: Hopkins. Illinois, Illi-nois, and three other Republicans to succeed Piatt, New York; Ilansbrough, North Dakota, and Allison, Towa; also Daniel, Virginia; Money, Mississippi; Bailoy. Texas; Taliaferro. ! londa. and one other Democrat, to succeed Teller of Colorado. Thus there will bo eight Republicans and five Democrats on the committee, all lawyers thus tar. except Aldrich, Money and Taliaferro. J he four vacancies will be tilled bv the senate "coimuitl.ee on committees, and not-by the presiding officer, as in the liouse. The commander ot the. Democratic Demo-cratic forces in tho senate will be the nuking Democratic member, Mr. Daniel. rinJffiUry Chairman Aldrich win IP&!lt such Hfnooth piloting f in the senate. M tI ZtWS loy in the 1,,JUSC. xZMSU been roportcd to thP ZZ dont Sherman will h:, member addressing 'hp0 'SRSTj mine senator can talk ' V 1 long as his breath i,m , 04 3Bl ' yo apuy iMmit'- sit, will, the Demociu? bu t sit on the l)iMn0?5S, A halt dozen senators iSh,nJw$i are to dcuth, and it? i so. In tho u,)p0r hou5i?Mi! been possible to fr, ''IBiaa when the proper LiWt senators to slop talking lt' his filibuster nlSliZlWii ence report on the CuLikK summer La Follcttc hours and forty-thr 0 len of Nebraska w:,3 on fiflBS teen hours in ),w JMSi against the repeal nfffflMfol clause of the s,ctmaf Senator Alilrieli'e tactic', iTV less be tho same as-,vhc iKi1" nig the Dinglcy hill throws!, twelve years ago. By pro" he and his lieutenant! aiSm citing the DcnocraU fJMK talking. Thus a n. " ,flML A' will complain. ,fY,m I he duty on this iiSTaJBS' "No." Mr. Aldricl, chalantly, without auv lml Nothing that the lninorittjBL' even Mr. T lllnuui may ay'CPT any extended response fmaK ,t lieutenants. Senator BurronP' and say nothing. HeiinlonJP r II ale will not appear tfct Si turbed. As soon as lh liWr" tired of talking the vote cilV1 graph under discussion TiaP and the minority will havchjff , of tho Republican tariff eloofc." be on the house side SfiuiJfcis3 in adopting these tacMti t:Br'i fhe error of his mmoncnti dK ' in charge of the Wilson ViiuBWtj to answer all criticisms JHtt" themselves against nil uaSBis?. result, was that thev kept r-5. 1 session until the end of PT twice as long as tlin irjsJHwf4 Dinglcv bill. And with all thev dosed both their ftHi' dufiablo list with Epson jmf "fe which schedule this MtffsriBi! Q gaily belonged had to nftJrrjjBil fermined bv the courts. Kiinl! The public has no roslitrjpK vast number of articles aiB tariff must be fixed H.tlhBp1 specified rates on saiicroilB!.1 acorns, corset lacings, joss RtB 1(1 gosrcles. snunk and wormi.iljK lr entered, along with the tl J-f other articles entering ouruBW , After the Payne bill hulfv nroved by President TaitijPtp Treasnrv clerks will tafattSPR and from it compile an Kirafw book with an index of 20C1)SpMf' Dnder the same cover mllMptt tho Dincloy law. for cqiamiijyy handbooks, in sheep hindiieSB W in the hands of all eu?toiaofeW 1 tho law goes into effect, A?!,.1 .TOnN ELyRETHTy. |