The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-15
REPUBS SCARED AT SITUATION Democrats May Control
 Next House. ALL BECAUSE OF TARIFF May Ask for Special Session Alter
 Election. Speaker Cannon Called Rooseveit's aBinnr on the Paper Trust Matter But Nothing VIII
 Be Done.
BY ALFRED J. sToFER.


 year in enough of the district to give the Democrats control of the next House of Representatives.
 For that reason efforts are being made this soon to induce the President to call Congress in extra session i'm mediately after the November electioG for a revision of the tariff. This is cer- tainly the aim and hope of the Ameri- can protective Tariff League with head. quarters in New York.
 It is proof positive when The Amer ican Economist. organ of the League, prints conspicuously a carefully pre- pared letter from Vice President Fair banks to Representative Overstreet, of Indiana. suggesting such a course
 The "stand-patters" are confident that as the House is now organized they can retain more of the high tar fir rates than If they were to wait for the next Congress. even though the coming House of Representatives should have small Republican ma jority.
 The demand for lower tariff duties is so strong in many of the States which will continue to send Republi- cans to Congress that the high pro- tectionists have come to the conclusion that 1t is better to act this year than to put the matter off until the spring of 1909. And what worries them is that if some sort of revision Is not made within the next coming two years, the people are liable to rise up in their wrath and change the Senate from a pronounced majority in favor of high tariff to one favoring reduct- ions in the schedules that will make them sick.
 Fairbanks for High Tariff.
 Fairbanks is known to be the candi- date of the high tarin fellows. At least, they think in the event of the failure of Taft to capture the nornina- tion they might stand fair chance of bringing about the nomination of the Indianian. Speaker Cannon would suit them better, but they do not talk as if they thought old Uncle Joe" stands any chance in the Chicago Convention.
 Speaker Cannon's resolution in rela- ton to wood pulp from which print paper Is made and the charge that the paper trust is holding up the publish CTS of the land. promises to result in nothing this session, even though Pres ident Roosevelt in his latest message to Congress insisted that something must be done in that matter.
 The American Economist is making all manner of fun of the adminisgra- tion on account of the attitude of the presiding officer of the House. It says that Uncle Joe'' called the adminisss traitor, .bh1ff." S~-s-asssA
 People in the South will doubtless be interested In reading exactly how the organ of the stand pat" tariff crovrd treats the matter, and here 1t is:
 The wood pulp anl paper matter has come to be regarded as favorite of the administration. President Roose welt referred to it in his recent mes. sage to Congress. after having practi- cally ignored 1t during the entire ses. sion up to this time. Special efforts have been made by the friends of the movement to remove the duty from wood pulp and to reduce the duties on print paper. to secure action by q spe cial bill in the present session. There were intimations that this result might be obtained through an agreement on ehe part of the Democratic leaders to aI4 low the bill to go through without de- bate or amendments intended for cam paign consumption.
 BOmbsheII from eammon.
 "Whtle this subject was under con sideration, Speaker Cannon cast E bonbshell into the ranks of the aEita- tors and put the proposition squarely up to President Roosevelt's adminfs. tration whether a fifteen per cent duty has come to be a really terrible affair He has also asked the pointed ques. tion, what steps have been taken, by the administration to dissolve the pa per trust-if there be one-or to de- stroy any paper manufacturers com
 
 restraining trade and putting up price> to the detriment of the publishers Of the eountry?'
 These questions have not yet bepl answered They were put in form tr require an answer from the executiy, heads of the administration who ar. charged with the duty of enforcing tn, antitrust laws. Until these questions have been answered and 1t is demon strated that the administration Is pow erless to enforce the laws of the Unit ed States against an unla wful combina ion in the wood pulp and paper bus iness-if one exists-it Is expected that less will be heard around the corridors of the Capitol about putting through 2 bill to remove the fifteen per cent dut, on print paper and It's materilas.'
 Such whacks as these in the organ o: the high tariff men are not calculate to preserve the temper of Presideu> Roosevelt with Congress.
 The American Economist for many months has been abusing Secretar3 Taft unmercifully because he is in favor of a revision of the tariff and lacking the President.
 Working on Roosevelt.
 Many of the House Republicans ai this writing are doing their utmost to call Roosevelt of. They want n smooth him down if possible and Ee. him to agree to an early arjournment of Congress ifsthey will pass a portion of the bills he insists must be placed on the statute books before the closs of the session.
 The President is liable to break loose again if the men responsible for legislation do not keep step to the 'mu- sic.
 It is a noteworthy fact that attacks upon the administration in Republican newspapers within the past year have been more vicious than even thoaa which have appeared in Democrat!. papers, and all because Roosevelt and raft are known to be for a revision Of the tarin.