The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
TARIFF REVISION.
May Be Held in Abeyance, But Effort t
 Secure it Will Be Made.


 Secure it wiIl Be Made.
 Washington. Dec. 10.-(Special) )- Tariff revisionists will have to walt at least until the business of the short session Is out of the way. President Roosevelt Is accounted as anxious for revision. but has pretermittAd pushing the matter until he has Mad complete opportunities for consultation with ev- cry Republican Senator and Represent ative of any consequence. The Pres ident has not disguised that his heart is amiabiy disposed toward doing something for the relief of that part of the people who believe that pros perity in this country would rest upon surer and more enduring foundations If there were more liberal trlde rela- ticns through the laws with other na- ticns than are embodied in the Dingley tariff on which the standpattars have solidly .squatted for keeps. Admitting a chance for consultation and deliber- ation. President Roosevelt has not at all yielded his original predisposition against regarding every item of every schedule as too sacred to touch. Two plans of handling the tariff have been discussed. One is that joint committee of members of the Finance Committee of the Senate and of the House Ways and Means Committee of the Fifty-nnth Congress shall consid- CT tthe question during the recess pc riod, to report to the regular session lncxt December. Another Is that the ways and Means Committee only shall do the tariff tinkering. But there has been divulged no sign of an under standing from the President on either | of these propositions. It Is believed that he Is not going supinely to sur lt Ar4 Ia sition, however mild in the direction of revision and that before the next year Is we'll under way he. will he heard from in quite positive terms which will put him into demonstrative opposition to the standpatters.
 Chairman Burton May Shift. It Is reported that Chairman Burton or the Rivers and Harbors Committee may be made Chairman of the Com mittee on Appropriations, of which Representative Hemenway of Indiana, now booked for the Senate. is chair man. The Rivers and Harbors Com mttee would surely miss. the guidance of Mir. Burton. whose ability and large and accurate information on the river ard harbor matters is not excelled by any member who has ever served on that Committee.
 Next in rank on the Republican side of the Rivers and Haroors Committed is MT. Dovener of West Virginia. II there Is anything In choosing men for the position on account of industry. in formation and heart in he-business, Mir. Dovener would hardly succeed 10 the place of chairman. Next in rank Is Mir Bishop of Michigan. who, next to MT. Burton. Is the best equipped man of the eleven Republican members of the Committee
 All the members of the Rivers and Harbors Committee were reelected so that if the composition of the Com mittee should remain the same in the Fifty-ninth Congress 1t will not lack for valuable experience and ability The numerous and extended hearings given by the Committee during a large part of last session should find 1t well repared for the work now pending. After Hemenway Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, as now con stituted. is General Bingham. of Penn sylvania, the Father of the House. He Is a little too venerable for the ex. acting and arduous duties of the posi- l tion. Next Is Van Noorhis Of Ohio who was not returned 70 Congress. Nc | Cieary of Minnesota, ranks next. but Is | hardly man of sufficient natiOua' scope to grace the important station 1 Little. of New York, who is next. has recently unsaVored his reputation bN | his much questioned glove contracts with the Government. and Uncle Joe Cannon would hardly put him to tho front. Walter P. Brownlow of Tennes
 see is next in line. but he has been SC very able in getting appropriations fol 1 his own district that he may have scared the life out of his own chances | .. R Fl. Watkins.