The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-01-19
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.

oohihSeOhj JAM lot iJOJ.
The President has once more sent
alton broadcast among the
tive members of his party
by assuring members Of Congress
that there will be an extra session
Of the Fifty ninth Congress before
next December, despite the frantic
efforts Of the stand-patters to pre-
vent an changes in the precious
schedules which Representative
Dingley made, according to his
own statement, unduly high with a
view to permitting of virtual reduc-
ton through reciprocity treaties.
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No sooner had the word gone
forth that the President and some
Of the Congressional leaders bao
determined to call special session
in the autumn for the purpose of
revising the tariff than the repre-
sentatives of the protected interests
began to arrive in Washington,
led by Wilbur +. Wakeman, Sec
retary of the American Protective
Tariff League. kilograms began
to pour in from all directions, some
pleading, some threatening, but all
declaring that not one jot or title of
the protection now enjoyed by the
favored interests should be abated.
Representative Dalzell from what
someone has cleverly called THE
Steel Trust District of Pennsylva-
nia," and that grand old States
man-"Grand" sounds so much
better than notorious - General
Grosvenor, of Ohio, began an
active campaign in the House to
demonstrate to the President and
to the country that the tariff re-
vision sentiment i'll the Republican
party was infnitesimal.
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Meanwhile President Roosevelt
was sending for members Of Con-
gress and reminding them Of the
express promises made by Repub-
lican orators on the stump, that the
tariff should and would be revised
"by its friends" that the Repub-
lican party was committed to no
particular schedules and stood
merely for the doctrine of protec-
tion on a broad scale. The Presi-
dent warned his brethren that it
would be dangerous for them to go
into the next campaign without
having redeemed their pledges, but
all to no purpose, apparently, for
now the stand-patters maintain
that they have 1853 members of the
House out of total Republican
membership of 2Io, committed
against tariff revision and an extra
session. 1t is probable that this
claim is exaggerated but there
seems to be little doubt that a large
majority is opposed to any move
ment looking to the lowering of the
schedules.
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Just as the radical protectionists
thought, however, that they had
outwitted the President, he ex-
ecuted coup which has left his
Republican friends gasping. He
declares that he will call a special
session of Congress, anyway, not to
revise the tariff primarily, if
majority of Congress is opposed to
revision, but chiefly TO enact salts
factory railway rate legislation.
The President says, moreover, that
he will so word his call as to per-
NIT of tariff readjustment at the
extra session and he has no doubt
that when the new Congress con-
venes in special session it will see
the wisdom of following his advice
and making the necessary changes
in the schedules.
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1t remains to be seen what will
be the next move of the radical
protectionists, the patriotic servants
OF the Steel Trust, the Beef Trust,
the Standard Oil. Company and the
rest of those great corporations
which seek 50 diligently to benefit
and befriend the public.
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But for another class of states
men, the Senators who have cheer
fully helped the President in his
There is more Catarrh in this