Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-25
SAYS
NOT TO WORRY
ABOUT TARIFF
SPEAKER DECLARES REVISION
WILL BE HONEST
is SURE PUBLIC WILL GET WHAT
1T VOTED FOR
Arrives. in Washington in Optimistic
Mood-states People Have
No Occasion Now to
Fret
[By Associated Press,l

u <ARAAAAN0 ICANs WV AIGNAeLA
w ing there would be an honest re-
vision of the tariff and that
there was no present need of "fretting"
about the election of a speaker of the
house in the Sixty-first congress,
Speaker Cannon arrived today from
Illinois for the approaching session of
congress.
To the newspaper men who greeted
him he said he believed the people
would get the sort of revision they
voted for.
Cannon issued a statement later in
which he stated he was not attempting
to dictate to the house and that
through the election of members the
people We're certain of having their
views enacted into laws.
Citing an example of hasty action
leading to misinterpretation of pub
lie statement, he expressed an opinion
that no mistake would be made next
summer in the revision of the tariff.
In his statement the speaker said:
THE election of the speaker for the
Si..ty-first congress is yet u consider
able distance in the future. When that
congress is able to assemble, which l
presume will be some time in March,
the Republican members of the house
will hold a caucus, as has been the
custom, and select a candidate for
speaker to be supported by the party
at the organization of the house.
Thinks Them Competent
81 presume the representatives will
be competent to select their speaker
and l do not see any need for worry
ing about the matter.
''Of course there will be an honest
revision of the tariff. We made the
campaign on that issue and every Re-
publican member was elected with that
end in Iiew.
Every one of those Republicans will,
I believe, strive to the best of his abil-
ity to attain the tariff results desired
by the people who elected him. All
will not have the same views and each
one cannot have his own way alto
gether.
"There must be mutual concession and
compromise out of which will come
the result which on the whole Is most
acceptable or least objectionable 10
all That is according to civilized and
enlightened government.
whoever is elected speaker of the
next house must so perform his func-
tions as to assist the house in arriving
at the result which will best represent
the views of the Republican party IN
the house, striving to carry out the
will of the people who elected him.
Made No Mistake
'The representatives made no mis-
take when they enacted the Dingley
law and 1 believe they will make no
mistake in the bill which they will
enact next summer with the concur
renee of the senate and the president.
There is one thing of which you
may be sure. Those representatives
will do their very best to perform what
the people want done, for they must
go before the people in 1910 ana ac-
count for their acts.
1.-The senator accounts for himself
once in six years; the president once
in four years, but the representatives
account once in two years.
mo representative will fail to do
everything in his power to carry out
the well-considered wishes of the ma
jority of the people.
"This is why 1 believe we shall get
the sort of revision the people voted
for. 1t is and should be beyond any
mans power to dictate to the public.
I merely speak from long experience
and the teaching of what I believe to
be reason and common sense.
Resume Tariff Discussion
At todays tariff hearing before the
wavs and means committee of the
house, Representative Boutell OF Iln-
nois questioned w. l.. Kann of the
Pennsylvania American Plate Glass
company as to whether the American
laborer would benefit from an increase
in the tariff, and when told that ne
would not, Mr.. Boutell said:
For three weeks this committee has
conducted these hearings, and all those
who appeared before it did so Yolun-
tarily. No one was asked.
.'The testimony uniformly has shown
that increased duties will not accrue
to the benefit of the laborer and that a
decrease In the duties will not accrue
to the benefit of the consumer.
'It seems that, no matter what we
do. if we. raise or lower the tariff, 1t
will only benet-. one class, the one
which you belong to-
s'The poor manufacturer? suggested
Mr.. Kann.
Wants Information
"Precisely.' replied Mr.. Boutell.
at want to know what will be ac-
complshed by a revision of the tariff. p"
Representative Paul of North Caro-
lima secured the admission from Mr..
Kann that eleven plate glass COM
panies which he represented en-
deavored to put up the prices of glass
at the same time.'
After discussion regarding the re-
suits that would follow an increase in
the duty on plate glass, Mr.. Clark or
Missouri said to the witness;
"You get little here and there, too
small for any one to come here and
testify, but altogether you reap for
tune"
Favors Increased Duty
A. L. Faulkner, who, as president of
the National Glass Workers associa-
tion represented the labor interests
of the glass industry spoke in favor
of an increased duty ON smaller sizes OF
plate glass.
A. e. Guard of Fairbury, ILL.,, for the
bottle manufacturing interests; Fred
Garner of Corning, N. H, for the cut
and engraved glass industry; George
w. Blair of Pittsburg, also for cut
glass, and George Wells and Edward
Bauch of Rochester, N. Y, represent
ing optical goods industries. favored
retention of the present duties.
MI. Payne had not heard from An
drew Carnegie in response TO his In
vitation to appear before the commit