New-York tribune., 1909-09-18
PAYNE TARIFF BEST,
MR.. TAFT DECLARES
SAYS INSURGENTS HAZE
ABANDONED PARTY.
President in Ta1CHey's District Shoes
Reduction IN Commodities U1bich
Are Construed to Large ErteHt.


tariff measure ever passed by a Republican
Congress, and hence the best tariff bill the pso-
pie have ever known.
The President asserted that the insurgents
who voted against the bin had abandoned tho
Republican party
"Wss IL the duty Of tho nlsr1bsr Of Congress
who believed that the bill did rot accomplish
everything that Il ought TO accomplish to vots
against it2" asked the President
~ am here to justify those who answer this
question in the negative. . am not hers 20 de-
fend those who voted for the Payne bill, but 60
support them"
To this statement the crowd IN the winons
Opera House responded with a cheer which
could be heard far down the street. II was
given by the adherents Of Representative
James A Tawnsy. of this district. the chairman
Of the House Committee on Appropriations. who
has been the defensive ever since tho ad-
5ouTnment OF Congress because he did not vots
with the other members Of the delegation from
Minnesota. both IN the House and Senate.
against the bill
Mr.. Tawney met the President at La Crosse.
Wis., this afternoon. and accompanied him n
this city. his home town 1t had been reported
for some time that the President intended de-
Tending Mr. Tawney for his party regularity, but
there was one 70 predict that the President
would go far as he did tonight in Character
/ izing the position taken by the insUrssnt Ssns-
tors and Representatives. The President had
met Senator La Toilette OF Wisconsin Of the
/ leaders Of the insurgent movement. at Milwau-
/ kee in the forenoon and had greeted him quits
/ cordially.
/ ITO make party government effective said
/ the President tonight. "the members OF that
| party should surrender their personal predilec-
| tiOns of comparative less Importance am not
here to criticise those who felt so strongly and
believed so intensely that it was their duty to
/ vote against the tariff bill because it did not
contain all they thought it should
1T was a question for each man to settle for
| himself In matters OF this kind it is a question
/ with the party representative whether he shall
| help maintain the party solidarity for accom-
plishing it's chief purposes whether the DEPART
ure from principle in the bill. he regards IT, y
50 extreme that he must in conscience abandon
the party"
Further along the President gave hnaI word
to the Insurgents
L am glad TO see that those who voted against
the bill still insist that they are Republicans
and that they intend TO keep up the fight for
still lower tariff rates within the party That
is their right and in their view Of things it ia
their duty.
Il have to say in respect to Mr.. Tawneys ac-
ton in voting for the bin. and my action IN
/ signing il. that / believed the interests oS
the country, the interests OF the party. required
me to sacrifice the accomplishment OF certain
things in the revision Of the tariff which had
hoped for IN order to maintain party solidarity
which believe 70 be much more important than
the reduction Of rates in one or two schedules ot
the tariff"
President Taft's speech was defence OF the
Payne bill He has met many queries since the
beginning OF his trip as TO when he intended
/ taking up the subject Of the tariff. and there
/ was marked disappointment in Chicago yestsr-
day among those who had the reception Of the
President in charge that he did not elect To
speak there on this important subject
Mr. Taft waited until this afternoon. when.
I with a mass Of facts and figures before him.
with a new statement Just prepared by Chair
man Payne Of the House COMMITTEES ON WAYS
and Means and with his own personal Enowledse
/ of all the little details OF the tariff fight in
I Washington still fresh in his mind he sat down
/ in staterOOm an his private car, the MayfioSer.
I and dictated to two stenOgraphers the speech
which he delivered tonight and which repre-
sents a statement on the accomplishments and
/ demerits of the Payne bill from an adHlinistra-
tive point of view more thorough in its appeal
I for an understanding by the people than any
| document that has heretofore been Issued rom
any source.
Tbe statement contained only enough dgurss
10 make clear a point which the President had
dvveIt on for some time in his confidential talks.
/ that the measure Of the new bill should be
taken by the amount OF reductions mads on ar
ticIes OF general consumption compared 20 the
increases on articles little used.
The President by means of a table prepared
| at his request by Mr.. Payne. showed that the
tariff had been increased on articles whose con-
sumption in this country amounts yearly TO
Of o.
go is represented by such luxuries as silks,
Wines liquors perfumes and pOmades. leaving a
balance of S272OOO.OOO representing increases
on articles not luxuTies-
Against this the President set. with great en-
phasis in his delivery. the fact that the tarir
has been reduced on articles. mostly necessities.
whose consumption in this country amounts an
nuaHy to fve billions OF dollars
The President went into the details Of every
schedule OF the tariff bill. dwelling especially on
the schedules which were the subject Of the
greatest fight and which developed more strons-
IL the insurgent movement
As TO the wOOIlen schedule, Mr.. Taft declared
without hesitation OF equivOeation that the rates
Of the Payne bill were too high. 1t was found
early in the tight. however. he asserted, that the
wool and woOllen manufacturing interests in the
Republican party were so strong that any at
tempt 10 change the Dinsley rates would result
in defeat of the BILL
Il am sorry that this is So said the Presi-
dent and wish il could have been other vi Sc
1T is the one important defect in the bill and
in the performance Of the promises Of the party
platform That it viii increase the price OF
wOolIen cloths or clothes. however, I very much
doubt"
As to cotton goods. the President asserted thai
it was found by the taking OF evidence that on
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