The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
Champ Clark Wants RepubIi- cans and Democrats PIac-
 ed Fairly on Record
REPUBLICAN PROMISES
 AMOUNT ID VERY LITTLE
Leaders of the Party In Power Do Not Favor Reduction Of Tariff and the Chances Are That Revision
 Will Be Up and Down.

Washington, NoVemDer 1z.-kSpeciai.l- Representative Champ Clarke, who will be elected minority leader of the House of Representatives to succeed Representa- tive Williams of Mississippi arrived in Washington today. It took the Missouri ian but a few minutes to make up his mind that the consumer can expect pre- cious little in the way of tariff revision from the present ways and means com mittee Although the democYtic party was badly defeated MT. Clask derives some consolation from the several sue cessful state races.
 The result in his own state is the big gest surprise of all to him but he att tributes it entirely to local issues and makes no doubt that Missouri will return again to the democratic fold.
 As minority leader MT. Clark will make the best fight of which he is capable to steer his party along a true democratic course this winter. As the tariff will be the question uppermost in the public mind he will seek to have the two parties placed on record on the important sched- ules of the proposed bill.
 Very Little Revision.
 Judging from the hearings so far held and from the tone of the republican press" said Mir Clark tonight, 'the prom ised revision of the tariff bids fair to amount to little with the cbances of the rates being raised or as many articles as they are lowered. The truth is that in the last campaign the republicans played both ends against the middle on the tariff question to use paraphrase often heard in republican circles.
 ''When tariff revision downward was wanted by republicans in Massachusetts it was promised. When revision upward was wanted it was promised. The stand patters. headed by Uncle Joe, construe the result as vindication of themselves and their policy, while the progressives, headed by such men as Governor Cum nins. of Iowa hope that President Taft will be able to dragoon Uncle Joe and his conferees into a substantial revision downward.
 s.Now. my guess, based on long observa- ton at close range" said the next dem oeratic leader, lis that in the end the three men who will do most to shape. form, fashion and mould the new tariff measure will be Uncle Joe. Senator Ald- rich and the Hon. John Dalzell. That will be truly a revision of the tariff by it's friends MT. Chairman Serene E. Payne, of the ways and means committee, is slightly infected with the idea of re- vision downward, not enough to hurt, of course, but just little. while Messrs. Cannon, Aldrich and Dalzell are abso- lutely immune.
 Promises In Missouri.
 "Now" added MT. Clark, "the average republican idea of what the republican tariff plank means was buntly stated be- fore the committee yesterday by former Congressman Rhodes of my state, when in arguing in favor of raising the tariff from 75 cents per ton to s or $6 ton on certain sort of an iron ore. He said that the republicans carried Missouri for Taff by promising to increase rates and he therefore, demanded that it should be done Many agree with him, in fact so far in the hearings the demand of those appearing before the committee is gen earlly for an increase. When the maxi mum and minimum tariff is mentioned 1t is generally with the intimation that the Dingley rates should be made the mini mum, which is carried out would simply mean that the last condition of the con s,lmer is to be made worse than the first
 .sThe democrats are in favor of maxi mum and minimum tariff as an aid to re- ciprocity but they are not enamored of the idea of making the Dingley rates the minimum. That's jumping out of the fry ing pan into the fire"
 Democrats Hopeful
 Reverting to the election, MT. Clark concluded "While on the whole we re- ceived bad trouncing last week, dem ocrats as rule seem cheerful and hope ful. The election of five democratic gov ernors in the north is promise of fu- ture success. The result in my own state is the greatest puzzle of all. It came about through an unusual concentration of unfortunate circumstances, which on the doctrine of probabilities Sil not be duplicated in 40 years Among other things just about 750001 democrats stayed at home on election day"
 The programme of Representative Payne, chairman of the ways and means committee, is to conclude hear ings on the tariff bill by the time Con gress convenes. The chairman is anx- ious to avoid as many special hearings as possible during the session.
 The tobacco interests will be heard tomorrow and sugar, agricultural prod ucts, wood pulp and paper schedules next week.
 Rush on Tariff Bill.
 Representative Gaines of West Vir- ginia, member of the committee. said today that the House bill would be reported the first day of the extra ses sion, about March l5. and ought to be able to get through Congress in about two months. It is probable that the rules and ways and means committees will be the only ones appointed at the extra session, which course prevents legislation on every subject other than