New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-25
CANNON FALLS IN LINE
TARIFF REVISION TIEUS
CONSIDERED PLEDGE.
Says Results Desired By People VII
Be attained - Not Fretting
about Speakership.
From RE Tribun. Bureau.

Washington, Nov. 24-Speaker Cannon
rived in Washington late this afternoon, and
Immediately gave to the press interview
which is generally regarded "a promise to be
good and as intended to inform the President
elect that if he is reelected Speaker, Mr.. Can
will cheerfully yield to the exigencies of the
situation. and make good the pledge of the
party and its successful leader, that the tariff
shall be honestly and thoroughly revised
THE election of Speaker for the 61st Con-
gress is yet a considerable distance in the
future" Mr.. Cannon said When that Con-
gress is about to assemble-which I presume.
will be some time In March-the Republican
members of the House OF Representatives will
hold a caucus has been the custom from the
foundation Of the party. and select candidate
for Speaker, to be supported by the party at the
organization of the House. l presume that the
Representatives will be perfectly competent to
select their Speaker. and do not any pres
ent need for fretting about the matter.
"Of course Mr. Cannon went on there will
be an honest revision of the tariff. We made
the campaign that issue. and every Republi-
member elected with that in view.
Every of those Republicans, without
ception, will, 1 believe strive to the best of his
intelligence and ability to attain the tariff
suits desired by the people who elected him. All
will not have the same views, and each
cannot have his way altogether. There
must be mutual concession and compromise.
out of which will come the result which, the
whole, is most acceptable or least Objectionable
to all That is according to civilized and en-
lightened. government. It is the barbarian who
expects to have everything his own way without
regard to his neishbor.
SPEAKER MUST ASSIST HOUSE
Whoever is elected Speaker of the next
NJ nor
form his functions as to assist the House in
arriving at the result which will best represent
the views of the responsible party in the
House striving TO carry out the will of the
people who elected him. II over thirty years
experience in the House, sometimes under one
party control. sometimes under the other have
never seen the responsible political party go
wilfulIy against what it thought to be the senti
ment of the people Mistakes have sometimes
been made in the case of the Wilson bill.
enacted by the Democratic Congress; but be-
lieve that the representatives in the House
earnestly tried to do what they thought tke
people wanted. They misled by the hasty
judgment passed on the Mckinley law in 1890,
and which would not, in my opinion, have hap
pened had the Republicans had more time to
explain that hill on the stump
The Republicans made no mistake when they
enacted the Dingley aw," said the Speaker as
the long life-as the lives of tariff laws go-of
that law shows. I believe they will make no
mistakes in the bill which they will enact next
summer with the concurrence of the Senate and
the President. There is thing of which you
may be sure. Those representatives will do
their very best to perform what the people
want for they must go before the people in 1910
and account for their acts. A Senator accounts
for himself once in six years, President once
in four years. but the Representative accounts
once in two years The Speaker of the House
has a double accounting-tO his constituents in
his own district and to his associates in the
House who elect him. No Representatives, and
especially no Speaker, will fail to do everything
within his power to carry out the we'll cOnsid-
cred constftutionally expressed will of the ma
tority of the people. This is why 1 believe that
we shall get the sort of tariff revision the peo-
pIe voted for l do not pretend to propheSy
dictate 1t Is and should be beyond any mans
power to dictate to the House of Representa-
tives merely speak from long experience and
the teachings of what l believe to be reason and
common sense"
THINK TAFT WILL BE SATISFIED.
Mr.. Cannon's friends maintain that in view Of
the published attitude of the Speaker, Mr.. Taft
doubtless will take steps to ascertain in greater
detail the Speakers attitude toward tariff re-
vision postal savings banks and those other
features of the national platform which Mr.
Cannon opposed before the convention, and that
sucb steps will satisfy the next President that
he has no reason to doubt the sincerity with
which Mr. Cannon II reelected. will perform his
part of the duty of Congress;
~, ITIyArEV ON THE ~ lRTEE