The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-27
WILL NOT REVISE TARIFF
Leaders in Congress Refuse I
Change Present Schedule.

Washington, Dec. 22=There will
be no revision of the tariff at the
present session of congress- This is
now assured. Even the supporters of
the revision idea, now admit
that congress will not listen to their
demands.
In spite of the vigorous protests
by the agricultural Implement men
of the west and the shoe and leather
manufacturers of the east the leaders
of the house have passed the word
which seals the fate of any measures
which would bring about desired re-
vision
President Roosevelt next year may
think it wise to refer to the tariff
revision sentiment but there is not
the slightest chance of any attempt
by congress to change the existing
schedules.
There have been some serious de-
mands made for tariff revision with
IN the last six months or year which
have not reached the public. Speaker
Cannon and other prominent Repub-
lican leaders have at one time or an
other met representatives of various
important industries which claimed
they are being Disseminated against
under the existing tariff schedules.
The shoe men of Massachusetts, have
thorough organization, and they
have presented the cause of free
hides not only to their own delega-
ton but to influential Republicans
from other sections as we'll. The pro-
test of the agricultural implement
men is not new one. 1t has been
presented privately to the president
and to number of Republican lead
ers
There will be no legislation until
after the next presidential election,
whether the president recommends
it or not. There is good deal Of
tariff revision sentiment scattered
about the country, but the trouble
is it is not cohesive. The Massachus-
etts men want free hides, but the
western cattle growers paw the
ground when such thing is even.
suggested. The people in the tree
less, semi-arid belt of the middle
and southern west have presented a
pttition for reduced rate on lumber.
but the representatives from Wash
ington, Oregon, and tie panhandle
of Idaho, where they still have val
liable forsts, cannot be induced to
look at the situation from the same
point of view. The southerners who
were once rampant free traders are
now gradually becoming protection
lists all along the line instead of
for their OWN local products.
In coming to their decision regard
ing the tariff, which practically is
positive now, the Republican leaders
are united in the belief that it would
be political suicide for them to at
tempt to touch the tariff schedules at
the next session of congress, either
at an extra session or otherwise.
They are willing the president should
refer to the possibility of tariff revi-
sion in his message next year, not
as an immediate necessity but a.
something to be decided in the future.
The Republican leaders probably will
get together on a declaration in the
next nationpl platform, suggesting
and possibly pledging moderate re-
vision of the tariff along protective
lines. Beyond this they are unwilling
to go, and their one argument, re-
peated day and night to all corners
is that every party which has revised
an existing tariff has suffered at the
polls the succeeding year.