Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-12-26
HOUSE COMMITTEE
WILL HAVE BILL READY
No Time viii be Lost In Further
Sessions of the Committee
Taft and Cannon In AC-
cord on Work to be
Done.

Washington, Dec. 26.-If the lead
ers of Congress in both parties are
able to bring sufficient influence to
bear upon President-elect Taft, a
special session to revise the tariff
Will be called Immediately after the
Inauguration. The purpose will be
as possible and secure adjournment
before the extremely hot weather sets
in. 1t is expected that the House
ways and means committee will have
the tariff bill ready to report when
the special session meets and no time
Will be lost in further committee
meetings.
Word is reaching this city from all
parts of the country that nothing las
done so much to clear the business
sky as the meeting of Mt. Taft and
Speaker Cannon, and their consequent
agreement regarding the character of
tariff revision desirable at this time.
Letters are pouring into Washing
ton from merchants, manufacturers,
shippers, railroad men and men rep
resenting various other lines of ac-
tivty and they are all to one ef-
feet The business world rejoices over
the meeting between these two lead
ers of the Republican party and their
frank and manly agreement and ex-
pressions of mutual confidence.
There is not only no difference be-
tween Mr.. Taft and Mr. Cannon as to
what should be done, but there is
none as to the manner of doing it.
Both take the pledge Of the party as
embodied in the national platform for
what it means and say they will work
together to make that pledge good.
! The tariff is to be revised keeping
clearly in mind the principle of pro-
/ lection and while of course all in
terests will not be equally satisfied
and there will oe the inevitable COM
plant on the part Of men who do not
get what they think they ought to
have, the new law as a whole will be
( expected to show an Improvement
over the existing one and to correct
some of its iniquities.
! There is to be no cutting and slash
I ing, no jumping at the throat of busi-
ness, no playing with fire in order to
things the agreement between Mr.
Taft and the speaker is taken to fore
shadow.
Speaker Cannon has been very will
ing TO discuss his conference with Mr..
Taft, and to many of his callers he
has pointed out that it would simply
be suicidal for him as speaker TO
stand in the way of carrying out in
good faith the platform pledges. Tar
iff revision is one of these pledges He
frankly admits that, personally, he
has not been convinced of the need
for revision, with its attendant up
setting of business for a year longer,
but that he does not think Of setting
up his personal opinion against the
opinion of the Republican party as a
whole, as expressed in the national
convention, and that it will be his aim
so to conduct himself as to help in
sure that the revision bill passed by
the House viii be genuine revision
bill
At no time, he adds, did he nave
any thought of doing differently and
he laughs at the efforts made by some
of his enemies to make the country
believe that there was for even mo-
ment any chance that he and the
president-elect would fail to get to-
gether on what is perhaps the most
important single uttcrance in the
platform.
Similarly the ways and means com
mittee is also actuated by a desire 70
report a bill that viii emOody both
the letter and the spirit of the Chi
cago platform.
Even the critical Nrw York Times,
ultra low tariff IN ita editorial posi-
tion, and heretofor" skoptical to the
last degree OF the purpose of the Re-
publicans 10 bring about genuine re
vision has editorially given the ways
and means committee a clean bin Of
health a few sentences from the
editorial Will give its sc1p. and gem
eral tone,
we note a not unnatural tendency
IN the opponents of the present high
tariff 10 mistrust the good faith Of the
ways and means committee In their
professed purpose TO frame a reason
able revision Of the tariff.
1--WE are inclined to think that this
mood of suspicion will be found not
justified by the event. Mr.. Payne,
backed by Mr.. Cannon, has undoubt-
edly pledged his committee 20 treat
the tariff honestly and in accordance