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Show NEW PffTS PLANS WHAT PROGRESSIVE MEMBERS OP THE NEXT CONGRESS ARE TO DO. TO HOLD THEIR OWN CAUCUS They Will Introduce Bills Bssed on Platform, Especially for Amelioration Ameliora-tion of Laborer's Condition and for Abolition of Child Labor. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington if the members of congress gauge things right there Is a good deal of Interest throughout the country among people irrespective of their political aftlllatlou in the legislative legis-lative plans of the Progressive parly's representation tn the two houses of the next congress. I'eople sppurently want to know what the Progressives Intend to do through their representatives representa-tives In the house and senate when President-elect Wilson calls congress together la extra session. It Is possible pos-sible today to give on sufficient authority au-thority some of the legislative plans of the Progressive party's loaders and members elect to congress. In the house of representatives in tbe Sixty third congress there will be Bluett-en members to hold Progressive credentials without any hyphen before or arter the name. In tbe senate there will be two Progressives, but Oefore they can so be written down there will be a necessity of removing an at present existing hyphen whlct helps to designate tbem ss Prog res-sive-Kepubllcans. They Won't "Go Over. In tbe next housn It ls( the intention of the nineteen Progressives It Is liosslhle there may be one or two more than this number to hold a caucus cau-cus of their own and to demand proper committee representation. It Is the expressed determination of the leaders of the Progressive party now here to refuse to listen to any over-lures over-lures from Progressive-Republicans to go over to them on any line of legislative legis-lative endeavor. The Progressive leaders say that the new party members mem-bers will be perfectly willing to act with the Progressive-Republicans on msny lines of legislation, but that the Progresslve-Keuubllcans must come over because Progressives are determined deter-mined not to take the Initiative and lo "go over." It is the Intention of the Progressives Progres-sives In house and seuate when the new congress meets to Introduce bills which If they should become laws will effect the planks of tbe Progressive party'e platform. The Progressives Intend If they can to beat the Progressive-Republicans In the rsce to the "bill basket" at the opening of the session. Men of all parties In Washington recognise that there Is precious little difference of legislative Intention between the Progressive-Republicans Progressive-Republicans and the Progressives, but the latter wsnt to get first credit If they can for the Introduction of measures looking to the amelioration of tbe laborer's condition generally, ind to the abolition of child labor In tbe United States. Will Urge Child Labor Law. There are of course other measures to which the Progressives at once will attach their evidences of loyalty, but their plan Is first to advocate bills which are known specifically as having hav-ing the sanction of the delegates to the party's convention at Chicago. Borne of the Democrats In congress ire talking of tbe necessity of Intro-lucing Intro-lucing Progressive messures .kin to ihoee which the Progressives Intend Lo Introduce, ft Is not likely that a hild labor bill will be one of those laving Democratlo sanction because n the Democratlo view a federal child abor bill Is unconstitutional, and It s said that Woodrow Wilson believes hst aii child labor legislation, or cer-alnly cer-alnly most or It, should be a matter or consideration and passsge by tbe ndlvldual states. , It Is known that every effort will , made by the Progressives to se- ure a foothold at least for child labor eglslatlon along the lines or the Ilev-rldge Ilev-rldge messure or some years since, j i measure which fslled of psssige be- suae of opposition on the unconstl- utional grounds already noted The regressive. It Is aald. feel that child 1 abor leglslstlon has a peculiar ba-nanltarlan ba-nanltarlan appeal which will keep Is is a live issue until some law against . t can be put on the statute books. , Why Secretary Wilson Is Proud. I It perbeps goes without saying i hat Secretary of Agriculture James i Mlson ef Iowa has absolutely no bought that he Is to be reap- totnted when .his presidential name- ake enters tbe White House. iecretary Wilson has served longer t ban any other cabinet officer tn tbe t Istory of the government He ex ects to return to his home la Trayer, aroa county. Iowa, early In March, i 'hen he will have served as secretary ( f agriculture for sixteen years. It may be f Interest to hear what i eeretary Wilson had to say In aa la- srrlew concerning tbe achievements I r tbe agricultural department esder i Is administration. This question 'as asked the secretary by a cor t sepondent seeking an Interview: t What will be those things upon hlch when yoe return borne after larch 4 yoa will look back with the ost pride?" "If yon start me talking shop here r tm win sever get away." the ewe- i irr exclaimed. "Bat there are tone lings ef which 1 ass snore thaa f rood. It It hard to pick out the pecial things. Well, here's one: rheo we weal down scat U see s about the boll weevil business whirl was destroying tl.a cotton crop, wi found a terrible slate of affairs. Tin south was then a one-crop country and If anything happened to that on crop, they were out of business. Th negro labor was packing up and mor Ing away. Everybody was scared tfl death. Well, we did some good work down there to get rid of the boll weevil; but more Important than thai one thing was whst It led to. Taught South How to Farm. "We began the business of teaching the southern farmer how to make th most of his farm. We found a man In each county best fitted to direct this work. lie knew where the need was greatest and could drive about from place to place allowing bis neighbors neigh-bors what ought to be done. Tbe south Isn't a one-crop country any more. , "Then we saw thnt there had to be some animals on that land; that we should have to look to the south pretty soon for beef. The homesteaders homestead-ers were taking up the land of the great western cattle ranches and the ranchmen were beginning to give up. So we tackled the pasture question, and helped the southern farmer about his hogs and rattle. Secretary Wilson also talked upon what has been done and what he hopes may be done further In the way of putting demonstrators on the farms In all tbe states of the Union. "There are no post graduate Institutions Insti-tutions to supplement the agricultural colleges," snld he. "We have to train our own men in many branches. Congress Con-gress has not permitted us to pay the salaries that would keep them with us In all cases, and these trained train-ed men have sometimes been taken away from us. liut we keep on training train-ing 'em Just the same. It is the same about road building; tho technical institutions in-stitutions turn out civil engineers, but tbey do not teach them practically bow to build roads. We are training road experts. We should like to train a half dozen superintendents for New York state. "Another thing I like to talk about Is what we did to redeem the dry belt west of the 100th meridian. The soil Is good, but there Is little rainfall. rain-fall. There were great tracts of almost al-most useless land, given over to half-wild half-wild animals. We visited the deserts of the old countries In search of the plants and grain that could be grown In soil like that and learned the ways of cultivating them. Do you know about Durum wheat? We are grow, ing 75,000,000 bushels of It a year now. and last year we exported 30,-000,000. 30,-000,000. Then we had to have legumes for that land the plants that take nitrogen from the air and put it in the soil We sent four times to Asia and Africa In this search. We brought over the yellow blossomed rea If a and Installed It wh.re It would do the most good." Pensions for Eft-Prssldsnts? 1 When Andrew Carnegie proposed bis plan to ponslcr: ex presidents or the United 8lates at the rate of $25,000 a year n order that they might take life easier and lend their counsel aa private citizens to the lawmakers of the Union, tt was strongly strong-ly suspected that ak Scottish-American philanthropist bad no thought that the pension plan ould be accepted, but that Its suggestion might stir congress con-gress to tske action looking to tbe rare of ex presidents and their families. fam-ilies. The argument In congress against pensions for ex presidents Is an eld one, and In many respects, apparently, a perfectly proper one, that we should have no civil pension list It haa been held that If this country once begins to give pensions to men who have held civil Jobs under the government, there will be no end to it, and also that thi pension giving mlgat be much abused. It always has seemed to be the fear of congressmen that some mn with a pull or personal popularity who have held some kind of government Jobs for awhile might by their Influence Induce congress to give them pensions. There are some civil pensions granted by the United states, notably those given by special acts or congress to the widows ot presidents. As a rule, however,, rlvil pensions hsve stopped at this point, and w bile it seems probsble now bees u He of the agitation that some plan may be evolved to pension ex presidents, probably a long time will elapse before anything like a plan for general civil pensions will be sanctioned sanction-ed by tbe congress of the Uulted States. Plsn Tariff Hearings. The Iemocratlc members or the ways and means committee already ire mapping out a scheme for tariff bearings In order that revision bills nay be presented to the bous as soon is tbe extra session w hlch Is to be call-d call-d by President-elect Wilson opens. It an be said on good authority that the sool schedule will be given first election el-ection at the hands or the commit-ee, commit-ee, and probably will be the first of he tariff bills to be passed by the ouse la next spring s extra session. Congress has not been long In ses-ilon. ses-ilon. and yet already 8pesker Champ 'isrfc bss broken two gavels by vlo-enl vlo-enl nse In making attempts to bring -epreseutellves to order. There has eea no actual disorder In the boose. ut only a.i overplus of enthusiasm then popular leaders and popniar reflected re-flected members generaUy have en-ered en-ered tbe chamber. The speaker feels hat It Is his duty to check boisterous inthnsUsm. and so It Is that two gav-i!s gav-i!s already have been broken. Will Uuree Child Labor Law. las a special plank let Intj It which wcetvee tbe blows of the gavel. This ilaak has to be replaced at the be- j tinning of every session, for It always ouad to be sprang and splintered inder the heavy blows which It has adored tiering the seasons stele. |