New-York tribune., 1909-07-21
MR.. TAFT NOT YIELDING
STANDS SQU1RELY BY HIS
DEM4NDS.
Warns Senators Of What May Hap
pen to Schedules If the Pending
Tariff Bill Fails.
from The Tribune Bureau

free iron ore. free petroleum and free coal and
for the House rate of 81 a thousand feet on
lumber
The Senate leaders authority for the
statement that If the President would accept
free hides. free iron ore, free petroleum. duty
of 45 cents on coal and 81 % on lumber, the
oonferrees could reach an agreement on all other
points in dispute within twentyfour hours. and
make their reports to their respective houses
They also express willingness to threw in the
Senate rates, which the Dingley rates, on
gloves and hosiery, and a rate Of SO ton on
print paper for good measure.
The President is laboring with certain recaci-
trant Senators to bring them to a reasonable
view of his demands. He entertained Senator
Warren of Wyoming, at luncheon to-day Tor
this purpose. Later in the day he, had a con-
ference with Speaker Cannon, who remained
only few minutes. and with Senator Aldrich
who remained about hour. But thus far he
has given no indication of yielding his demands
his conferences with Senators taking rather the
form of warnings Of what will happen to sched-
ules In which they especially interested II
they kill the pending measure and compel an
other attempt TO revise the tariff two years
hence And when the President discusses this
possibility he lays especial emphasis on what
will he done TO the cotton and woollen schedules.
Senator Warren is, of course particularly in
terested in the maintenance Of the present rates
on wool and wooen goods. Is his colleague.
The duties in the wool schedule have, in fact
made Wyoming what IT Is and Senator Warren
is himself reputed 10 he the greatest shepherd
the world has ever known.
PAYNE FIGHTING FOR REDUCTIONS.
Representative Serene f. Fayne is making
valiant fight for the reductions demanded bv the
President He has won not only the respect but
the confidence and generous admiration ~ tho
President by the forcefuI fight he has put Up,
The President is standing sausrelv behind him,
and the House is with the President. so that the
combination is hard to heat In the opin-
ion Of the President. E1r. Payne is the one CON
ferTee who is genuine and sincere revisionist,
the one man on the committee who is thoroughly
in sympathy with tho progressive spirit which
the President believes permeates the entire Re-
publican party with the exception Of certain
protected interests and their representatives I'm
Congress.
Every day brings the President renewed
sursnce that he is correctly representing tho
views Of his party whole in his demand for
downward revision and for the transfer to the
free list of those raw materials on which there
Is no occasion for protection. From every state
in the Union letters pouring into the White
House commencing the Presidents stand. and
the editorials received would indicate that the
Republican press Is a unit In its approval So,
too. with members of the House. They are re-
ceiving all manner OF communications telling
them that the course OF safety lies in standing
by the President in his demand for reductions
OF the tariff that the Senate bill is extremely
unpopular, etc
REPUBLICAN DEFEAT NOT FEARED.
Some of the Presidents opponents are trying
10 scare MIN with the prediction that n the
tariff bill fails this session the next House
will he Democratic and that thus another re-
vision of the tariff in his term will be rendered
impossible The President regards the argu-
ment as unworthy Of serious attention He IL
convinced that were the Senate 70 kill the pend
ing measure and were he to explain the facts
10 the public practically every Republican can
didate for the House who soemnly pledged him
self 10 stand by the President in n effort 10
wrest genuine tariff revision from the Senate
would be elected.
He does not believe the people would be any
slower to perceive that TO elect a Democratic
House would render revision OF the tariff i'm
Dossible than are the politicians. He has no
doubt as to the widespread demand for genuine
revision and az TO its continuance so that he
believes with an interval Of two years and the
added impetus which that demand would gain
he would be able with another Republican
House TO enter on revision beside which this
one would pale into insignifcance-a revision
which would not CT tenths of a cent from the
steel schedule, but cents and even dollars; which
would open up, the wool schedule 10 the knoVl-
edge of the public and make its re-enactment
an impossbity; which would reduce practi-
callv every paragraph In the cotton schedule.
and would as a whole, constitute far reaching
and effective revision OF the tariff
RELUCTANT TO HAVE BILL FAIL.
There are two features OF the present bill
,,bic, the President regards important,
however that he is reluctant to have IL fail
One is the provision for tariff commission.
without which he fears no complete revision
will ever be possible The other Is the corpora
tion tax, which he believes will also give In
formation of a most important character for the
further revision OF the schedules He fears that
without the machinery which these afford the
actual results of the tariff must remain forever
sbrouded in mystery and that conviction makes
him a little more conciliatory, little more
patient. little more anxious to save the pend
ing measure than he otherwise would be-
In answer to the argument that all egisa-
tion is the result OF compromise and that he,
too must expect to make concessions, the Pres-
dent submits that he is making great conces-
sons in refraining from demanding serious cuts
all through the wool and cotton schedules and
in various other portions of the BILL He has re-
Trained from demanding these reductions not
because he does not believe that they are de-
manded by justice and equity, but because he
has been trying to be conciiatory. and to bear
in mind that progress is always made slowly,
because he feels that If ne gets some reductions
now and the machinery which will make others
inevitable later he VIII have gained as much
as he can expect.
incidentally, 1t may be remarked the Pres-