. Review of reviews and world's work . th the Democrats of the Senate, in favor ofthose measures and in favor of some kind of afarmers free list, though doubtless they wouldwish to amend the House bill. If the Demo-crats of the Senate have the sincerity andconviction of their brethren in the House,they will not acquiesce in the adjournmentof Congress until they have made a strongeffort to do something with the legislationthat the House has been passing. And if theprogressive Republican Senators are trueto their records,—and there is no possiblereason for thinking they will not be thus con-sist
. Review of reviews and world's work . th the Democrats of the Senate, in favor ofthose measures and in favor of some kind of afarmers free list, though doubtless they wouldwish to amend the House bill. If the Demo-crats of the Senate have the sincerity andconviction of their brethren in the House,they will not acquiesce in the adjournmentof Congress until they have made a strongeffort to do something with the legislationthat the House has been passing. And if theprogressive Republican Senators are trueto their records,—and there is no possiblereason for thinking they will not be thus con-sistent,—they will have no share in a move-ment to prevent the Senate from acting uponthese matters of tariff revision. TheCountrysMandate It is quite true that the TariffBoard can make useful researches,and that under ordinary condi-tions Congress might wisely await the reportsof the board on one schedule after this, of course, is what would happen, inthe normal order, if at the polls last Novem- THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. Copiri^ht by G. V. lUick. Wayhinj^lun SPECIAL SENATE COMMITTEE NAMED TO INVESTIGATE THE LORIMER CASE (Standing, left to right: William S. Kenyon, Luke Lea, F. H. Pease fclerk], John W. Kern, Wesley L. : Robert J. Gamble, Joseph F. Johnston, William P. Dillingham [chairman], Duncan U. Fletcher) ber the voters of the country had preferredto indorse the position of the Republicanparty on the tariff. But it so happened thatthe voters did the opposite thing. Theyelected a Democratic Congress for the sakeof having the Payne-Aldrich tariff energet-ically overhauled, without reference to thepainstaking work of a tariff board. Doubt-less the Democratic bills revising the textile,schedules are not the ultimate thing; and thework of a tariff board may well help to giveus a more complete revision of those schedulesat some future time. But Congress knowsenough already about a good many of theschedules, including wool and cotton, tojustify a sharp
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