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TO BE NO EXTRA SESSION
Congress viii Not Be Called TO
Revise the Tariff.
QUESTION TO COME UP LATER
Committee May BE Appointed to Con-
slider What Changes Shall BE
Made In Existing Rates.
Special Correspondence,

Special Correspondence,
Washington. Dec. 27-No extraoi.
binary session of congress will be
called next spring to revise tho tariff.
This statement can be made on the
best Of authority. The question has
been discussed by the president with
the republican leaders in both
branches OF congress ani It has been
decided that IL would be inadvisable
to precipitate discussion Of the tar
itf question during the coming year.
President Rooseyelt's cwn desire Is
that a reimbursement OF the present
tariff schedules be made at an early
date; but realizing that congress Is
the revising body, he has left the sub
ject for determination TO the Rpubli-
can leaders OF the senate and the
house. After having considered the
matter carefully, they have indicated
to the president their wish that the
question be postponed until after the
next presidential election. They point
out that at no time in the country's
history have the American people been
so prosperous as they are at present
Wages In many lines of business have
been increased, the farmers and plant
ers have been blessed With abundant
crops for which they are receiving
good prices and in all Industrial
branches OF business the people are
doing we'll TO take up the tariff ques-
ton would disturb, in the opinion of
many, the business Of the country par
ticularly on the eve Of 4 national cam.
paign A tentative promise Is made
that the question shall be considered
at the first session OF congress after
the next presidential election.
1t Is understood that the president
has acauiesced In this decision and
that the vigorous advocates Of tariff
have agreed that this curse may be
the best to follow. The idea now Is
that specia, session Of congress be
called to meet Immediately after the
Inauguration of the next president in
1899 to take up the subject Of the tar
III and determine IL with as little de-
lay as possible.
Pending that extraordinary session,
1t is suggested that commission be
appointed to consider what changes
shall be made In the present tariff
schedules. This commission Is TO con-
sist of tariff experts in End out OF con-
gress 1t will study the whole ques-
ton and submit a report to the presi-
dent who, In turn. viii send II to the
congress. 1t is not expected that the
ways and means committee OF the
house and finance committee of the
senate in any way will delegate TO this
commission their powers, but that the
commission simply will compile infor-
nation and perhaps make recommen-
dations that will be of value to the
congress committees and enable them
to reach conclusion more quickly
than If they had TO do all the work of
investigation themselves.
Serious difficulties we're presented
to the leaders cf the majority party
in congress In the consideration Of
the tariff revision question, but Il final
II was concluded that the plan here
outlined, was the best to pursue. 1t
is expected that the next republican
national convention will declare in ex-
plicit terms for readjustment OF the
tariff schedules along the lines indi-
Gated and that the action of the con-
gress. should the national campaign
result in a republican victory, will be
based on the promise made in the re-
publican platform.