The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-30
EXECUTIVE SHOWS cUMMiNs
STRONG PRESSURE Is EXERT
Ed ON BOTH SIDES.
Secretary Shaw Now Reeedes From
amendment" Plan.

The president listened closely but
did not say anything to indicate what
he thought of doing.
At the close of the governors talk,
however, he reached over on his desk
and picking up a telegram, handed It
to the governor to read. 1t was from
delegation of prominent Massachu-
sets business men and politicians,
dated at Boston, and it said there was
absolutely no truth in the statement
reported to have been made to the
Foss, the Massachusetts republicans
and business interests generally were
clamorous for tariff revision. Governor
Cummins read the denial and then
handed the telegram back to the pres
ident, and said good-by.
1t is significant that Cummins had
just been telling the president that
practically everybody in the middle
west was. for revision. Whether the
president wanted to suggest that pos
sibly was mistaken as to the middle
west, as Foss had been as to Massa-
chusetts, does not appear from any
thing that occurred at the White
House, but it does appear that the
president did not tell Cummins what
ne purposed to do.
Shaw for Amendment.
Secretary Shaw of the treasury de-
partment has come down. From being
an uncompromising "standpatter," he
has changed to an advocate of the
amendment He says tariff revision is
coming and that it might as we'll be
discussed All of which is likely to
surprise the people in the middle west
who have long known Shaw as the ex-
ponent of the exact opposite of the
Iowa idea
Of course it is due to the pressure
being brought to bear by the spresi-
dent, who has been talking to the par
ty leaders and some of them have be-
gun to yield. The only question with
| some of them is how to get down
gracefully.
Shaw has his place in the cabinet
at stake. If he remained a stand
patter" in the face of the administra-
TONS effort to revise the tariff, he
| could hardly remain in the cabinet He
would like to stay fer a couple of
years at least, and then begin his
campaign for president, for he too,
has the bee. His friends say he wants
to stay so bad he can taste it. So now
he is showing how the tariff can be
revised by means of system of draw
backs.
IF the Dingley law is to be modi-
fed at all it will be along the lines of
amendment instead of revision" said
the secretary. There is a difference
between the two terms. The friends of
the tariff will do nothing more than
ahmed and that is the true republican
doctrine
drawback principle so that there would
be refund of duties on hides brought
in and made into shoes, on tin made
into cans and sent out filled, on iron
made into wire and stoves and again
exported. Revisionists say that this
is only another name for revision, that
Shaw has Topped.
The president has seen enough party
leaders already to find that sentiment
is not all one way on the question of
revision. Some of his advisers, such
as Senator Hansbrough of North Da-
kota, have told him that the country
demands revision, while others, such
as Senators Scott and Aldrich, have
''standpat" victory.
Senator Burrows told him that he
did not know that there was any re-
vision sentiment in Michigan, while
Senator Cullom sees nothing in the
Illinois situation demanding revision
These little talks with senators and
other party leaders are to continue in
definitely and out of them the presi-
dent will make up his mind. He favors
revision, but of course, will not do
anything to divide the party, nor will
he publicly advocate revision, knowing
in advance that it cannot be accom-
plished If he sends a revision mes
sage to congress as he wants to do, it
will be a notice to the country that
the standpatters have yielded.