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Show JAKE THEMSINGLY THAT IS DEMOCRATIC PLAN FOR HANDLING ALL MATTERS OF NATIONAL MOMENT. "THE WATCH ON THE SENATE" r Tfcta Msthod Attention Will Be Centered on the Upper House While It Considers Such Things aa ths Tsrlft. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington. Sharp Intimation has beon given to tbo Democratic leaders by tli) adiuLnUlration that It seeuts desirable, from a party efficiency standpoint, to undertake no legislation at the extra session except that relating relat-ing to the tariff. If present plans of the national Democracy are carried to their logical end It seems that all legislative leg-islative matters of great national moment mo-ment will be considered by congress slugly. There are reasons for the present puiuning of the Democrats concerning the uiunnor of handling the lurger legislative leg-islative problems. It is apparent that the president, and the leaders with hlni, do not Winn to have the country's attention divided between tbe two houses of congress w hen vitally lmpor. tant mutters are up for consideration. Some one has culled this plan "the watch on the senate." In order to explain clearly Just what tbe plan Involves, let the subject of the turllT be taken. The house will consider con-sider tariff legislation, will pass the bills and then will send them over to the senate. Now If the house, after it gets through with the tariff, should take up some other piece of national legislation the country's attention would be divided between the subject under discussion in the house and the tariff discussion in the senate. This Is exactly what Mr. Wilson and those Democratic leaders w ho are staunchly supporting him wish to avoid. To Focus Eyes on Senste. As soon as the bouse gets through with tbe tariff bills, If the present plan Is carried out, It will do nothing ex eept meet often enough to keep within the law's requirements, and so the country can watch the senate and thereby remind It that its tariff tinkering tinker-ing Is under the public eye and that nothing "which should not be" would be allowed to go unchallenged. If the present plan of the Democratic Democrat-ic leaders shall be rnndo to apply to the future It will not mean necessarily that tbe bouse, after completing a big piece of legislation and sending it over to the senate, would simply mark time while the upper house was giving the legislation consideration. There are appropriation bills and minor bills of various kinds which the house can da-bate da-bate and pass whllo the senate Is doing do-ing duty on some matter generally accounted ac-counted of greater Importance. The point Is that the Democrats want to succeed In their administration administra-tion and, if the truth must be told, some of them are afraid of the senate. They want the senste to do as well as the house does and to put through tbe Democratic lrglnlatlon proposed by Mr. Wilson without any amendments of Importance. They think that this can be accomplished if public attention atten-tion Is focused on tbe senate, and if the Democratic senators generally are made to know that they are expected to live up to the spirit and to the letter let-ter of the platform of their party. Now Definitely Placed. It la possible now to give definitely defi-nitely for the first time the names of members of the next house of representatives who will stand In on-position on-position to extreme conservatism, whether It manifests Itself In the Democratic or In the Republican party. There has been a cloud of doubt over the positions, which some of the men elected to the lower house of the Sixty-third congress Intended to orcupy. There Is a respectable minority min-ority of members outside of the Democratic Demo-cratic party who can bo depended upon up-on to uphold advanced policies of Mr. Wilson they donot go too far Into the rudlcal field, and also to take a position posi-tion of opposition to high tariff pronouncements pro-nouncements or extremely conservative conserva-tive legislative pronouncements on any subjects made by the conservatives conserva-tives of any party. The ranks of progresslvlsm outside of the Democrstic party fell under several sev-eral designations. One man Is written writ-ten down politically as an Independent; Indepen-dent; other men call themselves Progressive-Republicans; other combine the psrty names of Washington and Republican: others call themselves straight Wsshlngton party men. and tbe others are Progressives with a capital P. Forty-seven Are Progressives. There are forty-seven members who fsil into one or the other of thene clssses. According to the list of mem-lers-elect of the next house which wss prepared by the House officials, there 111 be 144 Republicans In attendance. All of the men who appear In the list which Is to follow are classed by the Democratic authorities as members of the Republican party, but only a few cf them speak of themselves as Republicans. Repub-licans. Those of them who keep the psrty name Invariably put the hyphen and tha word progressive before It. go It Is that from this total number of Republicans written Into the present congressional directory aa such, thera must be subtracted forty-aeven. a number num-ber which represents the strength of the contingent which either to a great degree or entirely has separated It self from republicanism aa tt baa beaa understood In the past. The next house of representatives therefore will stand Democrats, 291; Republicans, 97; Progressives, progressive-Republicans and Washington party men. 47. Total, 435. Opponsnts of Conssrvstlsm. Here Is a list of the members of tha parties, and factions which can be said to stand In opposition to conservatism conser-vatism of the old kind and In support of real progressive measures as they view them, no matter In what parr they have their names written: ' California. William Kent, Independent; Indepen-dent; J. I. Nolan, Ban Francisco, C. W. Hell, Pasadena and William D. Stephens, Ixt Angeles, progressive-Republicans. progressive-Republicans. Idaho Rurton I French, progressive progres-sive Republican (?), Illinois Charles M. Thompson, Chicago, Chi-cago, and William lllnebaugh, Ottawa, Progressives; Ira C. Copely and John C. McKenxle, progressive-Republicans. Iowa. 0. N. llaugen, Northwood, J. W. Good, Cedar Rapids, 8. F. Prouty, Des Moines. F. P. Woods, Ksthervtlla and George C, Scott; progressive Republicans. Re-publicans. Kansas. Victor Murdock, Wichita, progressive-Republican. Michigan. It. O. .Woodruff, Bay City, Progressive. Minnesota. - Sydney Anderson, Lanesbore, C. R. Davis, St. Peters, C. A. Lindbergh. Little Falls and James Manahan, Minneapolis, progressive Republicans. Nebraska, 8. R. Darton, Grand la-land. la-land. progressive-Republican. New York Walter M. Chandler, New York. Progreslve. North Dakota H. T, Helgeson. Milton, Mil-ton, George M. Young, Valley City, P. D. Norton, Nottinger, progressl7e-ftepublicans. progressl7e-ftepublicans. Pennsylvania G. W. Edmonds, Philadelphia, W. D. E. AIney, Montrose, Mon-trose, C. E. Pattom, Curwensville, A. L. Kelster, Bcottdale, 8. O. Porter, Pittsburg. A. R. Ripley, Carlisle, J. M. Morln, Pittsburg, A. II. Walters, Johna-town, Johna-town, F. B. Lewis. Allentown, Washington Wash-ington party and Republicans; II. W. Temple. Washington. N. C. Kelley, liraddock, straight Washington party. South Dakota. C. N. Dillon, Yankton, Yank-ton, progressive-Republican. Washington. W. L. La Follette, Pullman, progressive-Republican; J, A. Falconer, Seattle, J, W. Bryan, Bremerton, Progressive. Wisconsin H, A. Cooper, Racine; J. M, Nelson, Madison; W. J. Cary, Milwaukee; Mil-waukee; E. E. Brown, Waupaca; James A. Freaf, Hudson; I. L. Len-root, Len-root, Superior, progresstve-Republt-ans. Harmony In the House. The first great caucus of the Democrats of the new house and conferences which have followed It prove that thus far there is a promise of continued harmony of ao tion among the 290 members of tha dominant party In tbe lower chamber. In caucusing and in conferring things seem to have gone on smoothly, and the Democratic leaders prophesy that the party In tbe bouse will be united on all matters pertaining to legislation. legisla-tion. Representative Underwood of Alabama Ala-bama will still maintain his place of leadership in the house and his position posi-tion aa chairman of the ways and means committee. He has associated with him on the committee Democrats most of whose names are known pretty generally throughout the country. coun-try. The minority members of tha committee, the Republicans and, possibly, pos-sibly, a Progressive member, will not be named until after the extra session ses-sion begins. It has been said time and again that the tariff Is a local Issue, tbia remark having been made originally by Geo. Winfleld Scott Hacock, Democratic Dem-ocratic candidate for the presidency against James A. Garfield. When General Hancock said: "The tariff la a local issue" he was jeered at all over the United States. The Jeering probably wss the result of a misunderstanding of Just what the old soldier meant. Today Democrats, Republicans, Re-publicans, high tariff men and low tariff tar-iff men say that events have vindicated vindi-cated Hancock and that the tariff Is the most specific kind of a local Issue. All Sections Represented. Tbe ways and means committee which will formulate the new tariff bills of congress Is divided In its Democratic Dem-ocratic majority Just about equal In a sectional sense. All parts of the United States are represented on It, and If tbe tariff Is a local Issue, virtually virtu-ally all the localities, giving each one a wide territorial sweep, will be represented. rep-resented. Here Is the list of the mem- bers of the majority of the wsys and means committee and tbe states from which they come: i Owar W. Underwood, Alabama, chairman; Francis Burton HarrUon, New York; Horsey W. Shackleford, ' MIouri; Claude Kitchin, North Carolina; Caro-lina; Henry T. Ralney. Illinois; Lin- ' coin Dixon. Indiana; Cordell Hull. Tennessee; W. 8. Hammond, Minnesota; Minne-sota; Andrew J. Peters. Mssnachu- . setts; A. Mitchell Palmer. Pennsyl- i vsnia; Timothy T. Ansberry, Ohio; i John 8. Garner. Texas new; James W. Collier, Mississippi (new); Augustus Augus-tus O. Stanley, Kentucky tnew-;. i These are the Democratic members of tbe new ways and means committee. commit-tee. The word "new" appearing after tbe lames of three members does not mean that they have Just come Into congress, but that tbey are new members mem-bers of the ways and means commit' tee chosen to Oil vacancies. It seems probable today that the minority mi-nority of tha committee, the Republican Repub-lican members, whoever they are to I be, with tbe possible- addition of a Progressive or a progressive Republican, Repub-lican, will not go to the trouble of preparing pre-paring 'minority report on the tar IX |