The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-02
TAFT TARIFF
PLANS WIN
Cannon to Put Them Through
House
WAR ON CANNON is OFF
Peace Declared, II Is Reported, on Lat
ter's Promise of Real Tariff Revision
and Support of the New Adj
ministration.

Hot Springs, Va, Dec. 2.--The threat
ened fight by Mr.. Taft against the re-
election OF Joseph G. Cannon as speaker
/ is OIL.
II was learned yesterday from reli'
able source that the president.eleet has
received assurances that Cannon and the
present regime in the House are ready
not only to make the revision of the tar
in thorough and honest in accordance
with the Taft pledges on the stump,
but to put through the rest of the Taft
program OF progressive legislation.
In other words, Mr. Taft has accom-
plished in little over two weeks just
what he started out to accomplish, and
he is now ready to aecede to the re-elee-
ton of the speaker.
In what form these assurances came
to Hot Springs 10 uncertain at this time,
but there Is no doubt that they were
conclusive. There would not be much
surprise here il it turned out later that
National Chairman Frank II. Hitchcock
brought the olive branch from the Can
non crowd. Hitchcock was commissioned
by the president elect to look into the
speakership situation. He came to Hot
springs shortly afterward from Wash
ington and proceeded to discourage the
idea that there was to be any fight
between Mr.. Cannon and the president
elect.
Mr.. Taft will undoubtedly meet the
speaker when he, Taft. goes to Wash.
ngton next week and at that time the
details Of the understanding will be
worked out.
The Taft progressive program includes,
besides tariff revision, legislation looking
toward the prevention OF the over-is-
suing of railroad stock and bonds, also
legislation providing for an enlargement
Of the machinery to carry out the Roose-
welt policies already enacted into law
and for an increase in the staff of the
departemnt of justice with a view to
the more effective prosecution of viola.
tions OF interstate commerce acts.
Mr. Taft's friends have declared ever
since the intimations Of fight against
Speaker Cannon began to come out that
the president-elect had nothing against
Mr. Cannon personally. All he wanted
was definite assurance that the speaker
and his supporters in the House would
play fair on the tariff and that the pro-
gressive policies which Mr.. Taft had out
lined in his speech of acceptance and on
the stump would not be obstrueted.
Vice president elect Sherman came to
Hot Springs first to assure Mr.. Taft that
ten speaker was ready to cooperate with
him TO the fullest extent, but Mr. Taft
was not satisfied with the way things
were going in the tariff hearings before
the ways and emans committee. An
intimation or two from Hot Springs that
the weight of the new administration
might be thrown against Cannon for
speaker improved conditions in that mat
ter.
A friend of Mr.. Taft put it this way
yesterday: THE president elect has got
the situation now just where he wants
it. Speaker Cannon and his friends
know that the country Is behind Mr..
Taft in his determination to make good
his pledges, and they are ready to fall
in behind the new Administration. That
is all MFR Taft has ever asked and be
would be foolish to think Of beginning
his administration with fight under
those circumstances
The falling in of Cannon and his
friends behind the Taft program may,
however, be reflected In changes In the
rules Of the House. The movement that
has already been started by several Re-
publican congressman to refuse to caucus |
on the rules is sure to gain an impetus
from any concessions which Cannon and |
the other leaders of the House may make
to Mr.. Taft's demands.