Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-05
ID REVISE THE TARIFF.
Commission Promised Next Win
 ter by Cannon and Payne.
NOTHING WILL BE DONE NOW
Speaker Tells Manufacturers Delega- ton That He Is More Troubled About Period of Liquidation Follow ing Long Prosperity Than Revision.

Washington, Feb. 5.-Congress will
 not appoint a tariff commission at the
 present session. Revision of the tariff
 will be undertaken next winter at the short term.
 These announcements in substance
 were made by Chairman Payne of the house committee on ways and means in the presence and with the tacit ap- proval of Speaker Cannon, the occasion
 being a call upon those leaders by a tariff revision delegation from various parts of the country, comprising repre- sentatives of many of the biggest man. ufacturing and industrial concerns in the United States and headed by James W. Van Cleave of St. Louis, president of the National Association of Manu- lecturers; former Governor N. J. Batchelor of New Hampshire and II. E. Miles of Racine, Wis, chairman of the tariff committee of the National Association of Manufacturers.
 The delegation arrived in Washing ton and organized at the New Willard hotel. They called at the White House and paid their respects to the presi- dent. Later they went to the capitol and were received in the ways and means room by Speaker Cannon and Chairman Payne. There they spent more than an hour, presenting their case and listening to replies by the two foremost Republican leaders in the house, which, while they were cor dially couched, were practically re- fusal of all that the delegation had journeyed to Washington to plead for.
 In introducing the subject of the ap- pointment of tariff commission, in line with the Beveridge bill recently offered in the senate, MT. Van Cleave said it was the firm belief of the vast interests represented by the members of the delegation that wholesale re- vision of the tariff could be best got at by commission appointed to ascer- tain all the multitudinous facts apper- taining to so complex and important subject. Other speakers branched into concrete illustration of his points by citing the conditions existing in his particular business.
 Speaker Cannon, interrupting one of them, asked, Do understand that you favor a minimum and maximum tariff?. ...-.=--..--
 Then" said the speaker, q am glad to hear your medicine, for that is pre- cisely the kind of tariff I believe in myself"
 The speaker remarked that what troubled him far more than the prob lem of tariff revision was the presence of ''the period of liquidation" following twelve years "of such prosperity as the world has not seen in all its hls- tory" and he ventured that if the coun- try could have the opportunity to re- turn to its status of six months ago that chance would be hailed and em- braced by every man within his hear ing as of inestimably more worth than any tariff revision that the skill of man could frame.
 "The national conventions" contin- ued Speaker Cannon, may determine that the next congress shall revise the tariff. If to the Democrats should be Intrusted the power, we know the tar iff will be revised, and if with the Re- publlcans remains the majority we know the power to revise will be in the next congress vested"
 President Roosevelt will be urged by the delegation to send a special mes sage to congress in favor of legislation To establish a tarlff commission. The senate committee on finance decided to give the delegation an opportunity to be heard in support of such bill.