The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-22

gress in response to explicit recon-
mendations by the executive
"A subcommittee, consisting of
Messrs. Hall, Wacker, Smith and Top
ping. called on the president at the
executive office this morning, and they
were informed by the president that
he would probably communicate to
congress next week explicit recon-
mendations concerning the legislation
needed"
Doctor Aldrich Called In.
The president, Senator Aldrich and
Representative Payne of New York,
DaIzell of Pennsylvania and Hepburn
of Iowa participated in the conference
today. The chief subject considered
was tariff revision, but there will be
other conferences at which other queS-
lions will be taken up in detail.
An agreement was reached between
the president and the leaders of the
house and senate in favor of a decla-
ration for revision of the tariff at a
special session to be held after March
4, 1909. 1t was decided that the best
manner in which to prepare for the
legislation is to have Investigations
conducted by the ways and means
committee of the house and the
finance committee of the senate.
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form of hearings, but experts will be
called in TO assist the committee in
preparing data The plan is opposed
to the appointment of a tariff com
mission, such as is proposed in the
Beverage and LaFollette bills.
Antitrust Bill Amendments.
The amendments suggested to the
Sherman antitrust bill were discussed
briefly. The president said that a bill
would be presented providing for the
legalizing of traffic agreements be-
tween railroads. He called attention
to the fact that labor organizations
had been expected to agree to such
legislation in return for a provision ex-
empting them from the operations of
the law
The legislators present were not
ready to assent to the demands made
by labor in their bill for grievances
recently submitted to congress, and on
that account urged that it would be
inadvisable to attempt any revision of
the Sherman law at this time. 1t is
said that the president, while not ex-
actly rejecting 1t. was not disposed to
agree with the advice given him. He
declared that it was but justice to the
railroads to permit traffic agreements
under proper restrictions and control
by the interstate commerce commits
sion. and said that no interests would
be injured by such legislation. He
was not impressed by the statement
made to him that labor would regard
this as extending benefits to railroads
and Withholding them from unions
Bad Politics.
The president was told fatty that
such d course at this time would be
bad politics for the majority party to
play. On the statement that 1t was
not certain that labor had rejected un-
alterably the proposals for an agree
ment under which some of the bene-
fits would accrue to organized labor,
the subject went over until such time
as the president shall be ready to pre-
sent his bill in concrete form. Messrs.
Aldrich. Dalzell and Payne said that
they might be of different opinion
upon seeing the bill
Representative Hepburn talked
over with the president the terms of
the bill amending the antitrust law
as it has been modified since labors
attitude became hostile TO the general
scheme urged by the Civic Federation
Mr.. Hepburn Will introduce the bill in
the house probably Monday.