| Show MB PAT prediction OF WHITE HOUSE LAMB AMONG CAPITOL HILL LIONS REVERSED EASY PROGRESS FOR POLICIES democrats and republicans alike surprised at way president wins his way will get such laws as he wants by GEORGE CLINTON Wac hington members of 0 the dem socratic party in C congress today sa bay Y in fik the way ot of what might be called an admission that when woodrow wll son was elected president the general democratic view ot of it seemed to be that after march 4 it would be a case of a white H ouge house larob lamb among capitol hill lions ilona today some ot of the democrats say eay that it seems to be a case of capitol hill lambs and a white house lion democratic senators and representatives told president allson some time ago that they thought it likely be would win his bla tariff fight today tha th eyare are telling him that he be has won it consistently with the original lion and lamb theory the democrats thought at the first that the leaders in congress would have their own way itt in tariff legislation now no they say that they made a mistake and that it Is virtually an assured thing that the democratic senators will get together I 1 preserve party harmony and give mr air wilson exactly what hellas he has asked for in the way ot of tariff reform it Is difficult to determine which Is the more surprised in washington today the conservative democrats or the republicans because of the comparatively fairly easy way in which mr air wilson seems to be making progress with his policies the democrats now not only say that his tariff bill will go through the senate virtually as he has approved it but that the fair promise today Is that he be will get currency legislation and antitrust anti trust legislation in accordance with the views which he will express as to what form such legislation shall take responsibility Is wilsons Wll Wil sons the tariff measure after it becomes a law possibly may work the ruin v which some gentlemen predict for it but whether it works corks eyll evil or good it w will III be woodrow Wilso Wll sons nR legislation A good many of the formerly reluctant democrats in n the while tikey th ey do not nol appear to have become eager in their desire to support the president seemingly havo have made up their minds to support him and voting support from all his party in the upper house bouse Is what the president needs because the democratic majority there is not large some borne of the democratic sena senators tors who have leaned toward protection have as their progressive br ethern put it ltv been brought into line by presidential pei persuasion suasion accompanied by a showing of firmness for a good many weeks necks soa ot of the upper house hoo men urged that certain schedules as prepared by sir mr underwood and hla his committee on ways and means were of a kind to bring disaster to some of the home industries every possible argument personal political and economical was used to induce the president to recede a a few steps but the democrats say eay n today oday that he be stands where he stood at the first and that his bis bill barrone a political or a legislative cataclysm will become the law of the land the democratic senators of both factions finally have agreed among themselves that they must haven have concord at any cost save that of future elections president wins wine victory mr air wilson seemingly has won his victory and his backbone has proved to bo be made of a different kind of material than some of his party breth ern rn thought when they first went to the he white house to hall him prest dent the president the democrats say may has haa been forced to make no compromise in order to lo secure what they leclare declare now seems certain will bo be the fruits of at a victory won by stand eg pat on a national convention plat orm and on the platform of promises made by the party speakers in the last ast campaign it seeing likely to prove that mr Is going to accomplish something which mr cleveland failed to the latter once allowed i democratic customs cu bill to get a place on the statute books after de clining either cither to sign it pr veto it during the time of constitutional limit for either action this Is an old ild and oft repeated tale but it car ried led a lesson with it and the present president of the united states seems 0 have learned it mr Clevel cleveland alad lectured cong congress and eld it up to the scorn of the country its majority had failed to do hat it had been instructed by the people eople to do mr told contress la in advance what he expected it 0 do and it Is known definitely that thai the he w word rd went forth that a veto would e unless the tariff bill net met squarely the promises made in of the election same old tariff drama up to the present amo there aaa been no real debate of the tariff aratt bill when the senate sanate gets geta at 0 the tha measure there will bel bo for eien even with the deeming La aurance urance that tho the se natora will pue the ha measure through veri very much as wants it there aro are many t ta upped house men who will want ar their views the schedules and will vill want to give them at some length it is understood that senator la follette may talk forst or aday day in behalf of hla his ideas of the tariff and it la Is rumored that several other progressive republicans and some borne democrats intend inland ti to do the same thing in the house it ts Is sharply a case of the majority rule what tho the leaders ot of the dominant party want to hava done la Is done and the program that they fix 01 for or general debate and for debate der the five minute rule la Is adhered to in the senate no majority rules against the debating wish or of the individual it Is expected that this bill freighted with so many joys or woes boes accord ing to the way in which it la is looked at will bo be passed by the house at tho the time agreed upon and that it will be passe passed by y a great vote it has been put cynically within a day or two that two good old traveling companions reached washington together the tariff and summer bummer weather the latter tor for 4 a few hours now has quit the company of the tariff but the two com companions comparto panto ns will gel together once more shortly and the capital and the capitol will present again the scenes of recent summers it is the same old tariff drama over again in tho the same setting and with a good many new faces among the minor actors A good many of the members ol of congress say with a perfect abandon of frankness that it Is jd jut st as well the dominant ones limited general debate to a few days and will limit debate under the livo avo minute rule to only a few days more even such tariff patriots as mr air payne and mr fordney it Is fald eald are glad in their hearts that the thing as far as the house is ia concerned is to be over quickly no friction there while some persons who se seem am always to be looking tor a row have found on several occasions 3 symptoms of friction between president wilson and one or two of hla his cabinet officers nothing really has developed yet in tho the way of trouble which any political opponent of the president could lay his finger on and say here la Is where they come to the parting of the ways these a elmin gly aro are the plain facts in tho the caso case thus far and men of at all parties here say that as far as peace and concord in the cabinet are concerned they are there to sit at the family council table twice a week and probably to bo be present whenever the official ones got get together on othe occasions lu ili between there seemingly however has haa been a slight difference of opinion on tho the face of things between attorney general and tho the president note that it Is said on the face of things but nothing has happened to show that mr wilson up to date does not agree with his cabinet officer the be seeming on ing di ference lies in the fact that mr air wilson on one or two occasions occasIon 3 has expressed views which seem to 0 o be counter to those expressed by mr Mc Reynolda in a specific case the attorney general has said that the case of the american telephone and telegraph company charged with being p monopoly in n restraint of 0 trade or something much like that should be referred to the interstate commerce commission instead ot at go ing the way ot of prosecution does this mean that there Is a radical difference a of t opinion on trust matters between president wilson and his attorney general it seems to ba a case in which w aich mr believes that regulation rather than prosecution should be used in dealing with certain kinds ot of alleged trust cases there are some people who hold that the te telephone ephone I 1 to Is a natural monopoly and that therefore it should be subject to rekula regulation tion rather than to court procedure delleves Sel leves in competition in an article which mr wilson wrote for a magazine he be stood against seemingly at least that for or which hla his cabinet officer has just juit chosen to 6 endorse the president apparently be llever in a return to competitive conditions dit ions but whether his hia views on corn petition extend to concerns like telephone companies is not yet to be decided perhaps he it s is tn in accord on bu this thin particular proposition with his cabanet officer or otherwise it might be a case tor for a hu hurry irly up consulta consulia uon and a request id for a speedy ez es pla nallon of why a member of the official family chooses to go counter to the views ot of the head of that official family mr air Mc Reynoldo tho the present attorney general was appointed to an office in the attorney y generals department by theodore roosevelt roosevell mr roosevelt it is known believes that big business affairs should bg b looked after by a commission similar tu to tha antera tate commerce commission which regulates common carrier matters it la Is possible that amri mr me mc reynalda took his view of the telephone case from mr roosevelt but at any rate wherever ho he got it washington Is yet waiting to eee aee it he and the president tire are to come to logger heads over it the he president of the united stater bel bellevo belle eves vc in a return to competitive dmn me ihoda ills his tariff bill his bla party me members bers say shoats that he arants wanta about upon a competitive basis the natural thing to suppose is that he wants to extend hia bis plan of competition competti on to tit the great greal cocora corporations of the united states as thelex lit today I 1 chere seems to bo be no doubt whatsoever that at ma th tf of the next regular lin selon a bill to do away with ith trust condit condition ioni in the united states will be introduced tn in the awer louea houta of congress con gresh and the chances are also that tha t a similar bill will bo be introduced luto irto the uever house what la going to tb elsif roii or th the epher other 7 |
