The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-10
TAFT TO THE RESCUE.

President Taft it appears. WAS sud
denly chokcd of in his joyous partrl-
ration in the celebration on aud about
Lake ChampIain, by the news OF the
passage of The tariff bin in the Senate
And 80 he hurried Of to Washington
TO take his part in the final shaping
nf This bill,
# has bccu intimatcd all along that
| President Taft intends iu take Il very
| prominent part in the inal shaping Of
this bill. The House framed il very
much on the lines Of thc expectation Of
the public md on the declarations of
! President Taft during last years cam
! raign, that Il revision OF ihc tariff
schedules would he made. and that this
revision would he downward. As stated
10y the great Republican organ of The
rountry, the bill rs passed Icy the
| House, was satisfactory 80 the public
( and i'm keeping with tho President 5
promises 10 the people and the party
| pledges. But the Senate has utterly
disrcgardcd all these pledges and been
Contcmptuous OF the party expectations
in this respect. Members Of the domi-
nant faction in the Senate, (Which by
no means includes all the Republican
Scnators.) openly expressed contempt
for the idea that there was any obliga.
ton TO revise the tsritf schedules down.
ward. On The contrary, Senator Hey
burn of Idaho, speaking thc minds Of
the AIdrich faction, referring TO the
claim of expectation Of revision down
ward. stated that there had been no
such pledges, and that the idea came
from some miasmatic source. indetcr-
rect slap in the face for President
Taft.
The bill will come up in the House,
and If the usual order is pursued. the
Senate amendments will he read para
graph by paragraph, and where the
House agrees with tho Senate, that will
bc the end Of it so far as that para
graph is concerned. Where it dis
agrees, the disagrecmcnts will be massed
and the whole of them will be referred
to a conference committee. But indica
tions arc that the regular course will
not be pursued, and that the bill
will he sent direct to conference, as
whole. 1t is here where the
friction viii occur, and where
President Taft will get in his expected
work. it is not supposed that he has
forgotten his campaign pledges, nor
that he viii see them ignored in the
final form Of this bill The indication
is that he will be a sort of referee be
tween the House and the Senate when
the conference committee between the
two houses gets into active consIdcra
tion Of the diSagrccmcnts in its charge
The House confcrces Will naturally in.
siSt upon the prevalence of the House
view in all matters at issue between
the House and Senate. On the other
hand, the Senate confcrces viii, with
hike tcnaclty, insist upon carrying out
the Senate ideas. 1t is here that Prcsi-
dent Taft if, indeed he is disposed
to take any active part in the final
Of the schedules, as the con
slant Indications imply that he is, will
get in his work; and that his decision
Will favor The House schedules and
that he will carry out his campaign
pledges for revision downward. there
can hardly be the least doubt In such
a case, of course. nc will place himself
in opposition 10 the cabal in the Senate
which has pursued its vicious policy Of
framing the tariff bill according TO the
interests Of the New England manufac,
turers without regard for the country
at large, and without regard for party
pledges, in way that has been a
political scandal.
Aside from the fixing of the sched
ules, there is another thing of import
ancc at issue between the two houses.
The bill as the House sent it to the
Senate, contained a provision for an
inheritance tax This the Senate struck
out and substituted in place Of it the
corporation tax proposition. So much
opposition has developed against the
corporation tax that it is very likely
that the two houses may come prac-
tically TO deadlock ON this substitu,
tlon. And it is possible that some form
of income tax, which will cover also
the corporation tax with some of its
inQuisitorial regulation features elm
mated, may be compromise result.
The framing of the tariff BILL SO far
from having been completed, or any
thing like it, is liable to prove to have
been just begun. This on the supposi-
tion that President Taft is really 60
ing TO take hand in the final shaping
of the measure, in which case the coun-
try will now take "A more decided and
lively interest in the reports from
Washington on this matter than it has
been doing for a good while past.
SHERIFF STILL NEGLECTS.