The Washington times., 1908-12-10
President-Elect Wants Only
to Be Assured of a Real
Revision Of Tariff.
CONFERRING TO-DAY
WITH COMMITTEE
Ways and Means Members Meet
Ohioan at the Home of Mich
olas Longworth.
By JAMES HAY, Jr.

In the conference which will be held
this afternoon between President-elect
Taft and Speaker Joseph G. Cannon
with the Republican membership OF the
House Committee on Ways and Means
as witnesses of the campact, Mr. Taft
viii make no attempt to say whether
the rules of the House shall be changed,
but he will insist on an assurance that
the tariff VIII be revised as he wishes.
The meeting Will take place late this
afternoon at the residence of Repre-
sentative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio.
a member Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
This conference, Ike the one of yes
terday between the two men, came at
the solicitation of MI. Cannon It is
true that Mr.. Taft sent word to Mr.
Cannon yesterday morning that he was
ready TO see the Speaker. but this ac-
tion came only after repeated messages
from the Speaker that he, Mr.. Cannon,
desired the meeting.
Will Repeat Pledge.
II is confidently believed that Mr..
Cannon will repeat this afternoon in the
presence OF the Republican Representa-
tives at the conference, tho assurances
elect yesterday morning. The members
OF the House will be witnesses to a
pact which will be fraught with the
gravest Importance 10 all the people OF
this country.
The thing which has been personally
most gratifying to Mr.. Taft since he
came to Washington is his discovery OF
the cordial manner in which the South
and SOutheTners have responded to the
speech ne made before the North Caro-
Ina Society in New York. blazing the
way for that section of the United
States to achieve political power and
reach business prosperity.
These responses have come IN hum
sdreds OF iectefS from all the Southern
hy the Southerners who have called on
The President-elect-
Southern Visitors.
Eis Southern visitors today were Sen
ator TaIiaferro Of Florida and John NJ.
Parker, one Of the leading business men
of Louisiana. Both these gentlemen
told the President-eIect that ne mad
done more than any other man had
ever accomplished In the movement to
establish thorough friendliness between
the North and South.
They pointed cut that in substituting
the cry OF business prosperity for the
old-fashioned lectures on sectiOnalism.
or the eradication of sectionalism, he
had solved the problem of reaching an
issue on which the two sections Of the
country could join hands.
He had emphasized. they said, the fact
that the time has come to look to mate
rial matters, and to take a recess in the
art OF nursing old grudges, and he had
shown the South the way to assert her
power and claim her rights In national
affairs, and in the business wealth OF
the country.
Invited to Florida.
Senator Taliaferro invited Mr.. Taft to
visit Jacksonville. Fla, during his win
ter residence in the South. To this the
President-elect replied that he could
give no definite answer at this time. but
that heswould certainly accept the invi-
tation II he could find time to do So
Another important talk Mr.. Taft had
during a forenoon which was given ex-
clusively 20 interviews win promlnent
Long, Of Kansas. who was defeated Tor
reelection last November, and who has
been mentioned as a possibility for the
Mr. Long nor Mr.. Taft would admit
nat the Cabinet position had been dis
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ers who saw the President-elect
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