The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-11
Taft Believes Work VIII Be
 Done In Extra Session
HIS OWN AID IS PROMISED
President-Elect Talks Plainly After Interview With Cannon and Says Republicans Will Do the
 Right Thing With Tariff.

Washington, December 10.-William H. Taft, President-elect, said tonight that it was his belief that the House of Repre- scntatives would make an honest and thorough revision of the tariff at the extra session, which he is to call for that purpose upon his inauguration as Pres ident.
 This belief he bases on conference he had yesterday with Speaker Cannon and a session today with the republican mem bers of the ways and means committee of the House.
 Wien the suggestion was made that the Senate would have something to do with the tariff bill after the House had passed it. he replied that there was also someone else who also would have some thing to do with the bill, which, inter preted through the medium of previous utterances, indicates clearly that MT. Taft is determined even to the exercise of the veto power to prosecute the pledges of the party.
 MT. Taft said that he had been some what misled regarding the attitude of the speaker by the press reports of MT. Can non's speech in November before the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. The official report of that speech, he said, had given him an entirely different im- pression.
 MT. Tafts statement, covering both his interviews yesterday with MT. Cannon and that today with the republicans on the ways and means committed, follows;
 T had an interview with Mr. Cannon yesterday. and with lis concurrence and at the suggestion of a member of the ways and means committee, with the de- publcans members of that committee this afternoon, and from my conversation with them, and the examination which they are now conducting and expect to con- duct, I have every reason to be confident that they are keenly alive to the obliga- tion which is on them, as representatives elected to represent the republican party, to prepare an honest and thorough re- vision of the present tariff. I was in- formed that they have taken three times as much evidence as has been taken in the preparation of other tariffs, and that they are going to make an additional e~iiu iAhCPShoCAt SAoAb u SSt et siAS WI dence themselves by the use of subpoenas and under oath, with view to reaching the difference in the cost of production of various articles brought within the tariff fere and abroad.
 T found them quite anxious for as much harmony as possible, in which sympat hized with them, and prepared for consultation on points of difficulty that might arise at any time in the future. The plan is to prepare bill on such evidence as they have and will have in the course of the hearings, and then to call for ad- ditional evidence as to the items whenever it should seem necessary. Not only from conversation with the members together, but with the members individually, l am qui-e convinced that they are, in good faith, going to prepare a bill which shall be thorough revision on the basis of the platform of the republican party
 "The discussion covered other things, like the Philippine tariff, and l am very hopeful that there will be no difficulty in reaching an agreement between the vari- ous people interested in those-those rep resenting the Philippine islands and those representing the sugar and the tobacco interests, so that there will be no dis- pute, and that the matter may be incor- porated in the new tariff bill without an issue"