The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1902-11-29
tFrom our Regular Correspondent

ttrOm our Regular correspondent
"What is the President going TO say
about the TARIFF Is the question each
new congre ssioual rival asks when
he reaches Washington, and they are
coming III crowdq. The answer no
man can give and it is probably safe
TO say that Mr.. Roosevelt himself
does not know. AT the oyster Bay
conference it was determined that it
would be unWise TO disturb the extra
ordinary prosperity the country Is
now enjoying by tampering with the
tariff schedules When the President
got ready 20 write his message he call
ed another conference OF republican
leaders and it was determined that If
proper trust legislation we're euactrd
at the short session that Won. y. .n
~ would be reasonable to expect, that
a tariff commission could be establish
ed to investigate the situation and re-
port to the first session OF the Fifty
eight Congress and that 1t would
then be time enough to decide if
those tariff schedules " hich would be
better for amendment were of sutfi-
cient Importance to warrant the at
tempt. Now, however, the western
members are urging the President
to expedite the work and chairman
Babcock and others say that there
must be an extra session to deal ex-
clusiveIy with tariff revision.
Much interest attaches to the tariff
position of Representative Cannon,
who it is generally conceded will be
the next speaker. In this connection
it is recalled that last summer, after
the trip he made on the Dolphin with
Secretary Moody, Mr.. Cannon was in
terviewed in Washington and said,
"The Tariff Will be revised sometime
but not at the next session of Congress
or by the succeeding Congress, unless
there is a check to the present pros
perity.
it in his power TO make or mar the
hopes OF the tariff revisionists. There
will probably be three vacancies in
the Ways and Means Committee. MIR
Hopkins aud probably Mr.. Long, will
go to the Senate and Major Steele has
not been reelected. Messrs BabCoCk
and Tawney are strong revisionists
and the appointment of three
Other of the same faith would give
the revisionists within one of major
ity on the republican side of the table
The present Indications are, too, that
the revisionists will MAKE fight on
| the retention of Mr. Payne az chair
man.
The Cuban situation il far from
satisfactory and tx occusiouing the
President much anxiety, The Cub
ms ne become < over co"fdeut ANA
de inclined 10 regard themselves as
entirely independent of the markets
and espionage of the United States.
| General Bliss, who has gone to cuba
! to negotiate treaty providing that
while the Cuban tariff on imports
! from the United States shall not be
| changed, that III imports from all
| other countries shall be increased 80
! per cent, and that in consideration OF
this change the United States shall al
low discount of % per O. mt from the
/ Dngley schedules ON Cuban imports,
reports that there are many difficult
les in the situation. The opinion OF
| the President and OF his OH ial fam
lily is that the Cubans are exceedingly
unwise and ungrateiul aud it has been
/ determined To make no further cen
cessions but to stand by the provi-
sious of the Platt amendment TO the
letter.