Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14
MORE TARIFF TALK
Indications Point to Hopeless
 Task For Revisionists.
NO ACTION BY CONGRESS- PROBABLE
Speaker Cannon Expected to Hold the New House In Hand as the Oid-RepubIicans Control
 the situation.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 14.-Careful calculations as to the strength of the tariff revisionists in the house this win ter compel the conclusion that the Te- visionists have an impossible fight be fore them in case they determine tc force the tariff issue. Not only are the revisionists among the Republicans in a conspicuous minority, but as things stand now Republican reyisionists could not carry the house in tariff re duction contest even If they were to unite with the Democrats. Predictions that congress will take no action on the tariff are therefore made adyisedly, says the New York Globe.
 Indications are that the tariff revi. sion talk will be more vigorous than usual this winter but that it will end in talk, as usual, is quite evident when a careful survey is made. Speaker Cannon will not have the new house quite as well in hand on tariff as he had the last one, but he will be able to control it about as he wishes.
 One of the weak spots of the house from the Cannon and high tariff view point is the ways and means compit- tee. Four of the eleven Republican members-Tawney of Minnesota, Me Call of Massachusetts, Babcock of Wis consin and Hill of Connecticut-lean toward tariff revision. This does not, of course, give the revisionists control of the committee, but as there are six Democrats it makes the revision senti- ment rather too formidable for com fort.
 It is expected Speaker Cannon will find a way to mend this situation. One suggestion is to give Tawney the chair manship of the committee on appropri- ations and transfer McCleary of Min nesota, strong high tariff man, to the ways and means. Something like this will probably be done, and at the same time the number of Democrats on the committee may be reduced to five.
 The control by the opponents of revi- sion of the ways and means committee would give them an immense advan- tage Should revision contest become so bitter as to induce the Republican revisionists to unite with the Demo- crats, something not at all probable, there would be great practical difficulty in getting the revisionists of the two parties to agree But, even if this should happen and an agreement should be reached, 1t is calculated more than two-thirds of the Republicans would go with the speaker and would enable him N defeat any tariff revision plan that might come up.
 There are but two delegations in the house, considering states that have del- egations of any size, that would line up solidly for revision should a fight be made. These are the Massachusetts and Wisconsin delegations. Even in the Minnesota delegation, a state where there is strong revision sentiment, Me Cleary would have TO support in oppos- ing any change in schedules. In Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Kan sas and Nebraska the revisionlsts have a decided minority of the representa- tIves.
 The Pacific coast has no revision members in the house, and there are few from the Rocky mountain states. In the east, aside from Massachusetts, the revislonlsts have little place on the delegations to the next house.