Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-10
REVISION MEANS fight
Congress to Divide on PROPOSE
tion of How the Tariff
Should Be Revised.
;uMMlNs WILL TAKE PART
New Senator From Iowa Looked Upon
to Help Load Those Who Favor Real
Revision-condition in House and
Senate Probably Will Be Re-
versed.
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washington, NOV. NV men IL COMICS
to revising the tariff along the lines
which have been indicated by the high
tariff element in congress. there is
likely to be considerable trouble.
1t has already been made plain that
the old faction of standpat republicans
hope to dominate the revision. They are
for the least possible measure Of
change in the schedules. consistent
with attaching the name Of revision
to the process. They want to re-enact
the Dingley schedules in all essentials,
just so far as possible, label it re-
vision, and point with pride to the fact
that their pledge has been carried out.
This is the substance of the declara-
ton by Chairman Payne of the ways
and means committee, who favors a
maximum and minimum tariff, and
uses the word REIMBURSEMENT" That
word is always used by the opponent
of revision. Mr.. Payne wants a re-
adjustment under which those sched-
ules which are found too high will be
reduced. and those which are determ-
ined to be too low are to be raised.
When the idea of a maximum and
minimum tariff was first brought for
ward 1t came from the revisionists, who
wanted to fix something like the pres
ent schedules as q maxima, and then
scale off 20, or 30 per cent from this
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other countries over the difference, in
reciprocity agreements. That idea
didn't please the high tariff people.
But presently the protectionists came
around with cheerful acquiescence
in this PLAN They were for the maxi
mum and minimum tariff: only they
wanted to fix something like present
schedules as the minima, and to add
on penalty Of 20 or 25 per cent to
make the maximum, which should be
enforced against countries discriminat-
Ing against this. They proposed in short
to catch their commercial flies with
vinegar instead of molasses.
There is already wonderment how
this plan will work. The new congress
will do the revising, and there viii be
a considerable accession Of strength to
the revision side in the senate. There
will be present as a senator, Mr. Cum
Minis, Of Iowa, who Is probably en-
titled to be recognized as the foremost
national republican Of the tariff re-
duction school. He wants revision that
will revise, and has been studying the
tariff for a good many years. His will
hi q fv
fight are quite generally recognized; he
has done nothing for the last ten years
but fight, and he has at last swept ev-
erything before him in Iowa. Now he Is
to transfer his activities and his trou-
blesome disposition to Washington,
Just at the time when his favority is
sue will be at the front.
There is strong expectation that
Cummins and LaFollette will hitch up
with a bunch of other radically dis
posed western men, when the tariff
comes up next year, and make real
fight. Cummins, despite he will be a
new senator, is looked to for leader
ship Of the republican insurgents on
this question. 1t would have been to
his advantage if the great fight on this
issue could have been postponed until
he could have been seasoned for two
or three sessions of the senate: but
that couldn't be arranged for his es-
pecial benefit. He will be plunged into
the thick Of things from the first, just
as LaFollette was tossed into the midst
of the fight on his pet subject, railroad
regulation, the instant he landed in a
senate seat
Unless the house rules are revised.
the tariff bill will have to be made in
the house, as the constitution requires,
and debated in the senate, whose rules
will permit The fact that tariff re-
vision is ahead constitutes one of the