The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-28

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but we will do something. This is a
very complicated subject. There are
many interests involved. We viii do
the very best we can.
s'That will be Ok, said the Pres
ident in substance in reply. s'Let me
have whatever reductions from the
House rates and whatever reductions
from the Senate rates you find it FEAST
BILE to make. I am going out through
the West this autumn in wirlwind tour.
1t will be necessary for me to deliver
some speeches and I intend to dwell
much upon this tariff bill. I want to
convince the country that it is not as
bad as its critics have told us it is.
When there are some items, Id which
the popular interest is pretty acute,
shave 'em down some, of you can. -
And with that spirit of amity yelling
within them the conferees have sprung
to their task of adjusting differences and
framing compromises. They are neither
saying nor thinking spiteful things
about the White House and the White
House is not saying or thinking spite
full things about them. The Repub-
icans, who believe in protection and
enough of it to keep out the commercial
invader, dominate the committee and
they propose to keep the bill on high
protection lines, as far as, in their
Judgment, it is just and fair to keep
it SO.
The cutlery that this is unjust to the
consumer and that the Dingley law is
being enacted or even raised goes on,
but it is not affecting the program in
the conference. The Republican con-
ferees. in the main, say this cry is
prejudiced and unjust, that the major
.ity must take the responsibility and if
there be criticism the Republican party
will meet it when the time comes to
appeal to the people. They expect that
when the bill is completed and fully
analysed it will not appear as ubiquitous
as many now claim it to be. Once the
President starts to analyze it and makes
speeches from the western platforms in
its behalf, the leaders think the country
will begin to see the wisdom of the
work they have done.
And while there is much conjecture
about what the conferees will do with
the contentious in the bill it is not
difficult to understand that there will
be a halving Of differences between
Senate and House and most of these
can be pretty well forecasted. The
President has already agreed that the
corporation tax, over which there is a
great hue and cry, should be reduced
to / per cent. and that there shall be
no tax upon holding companies. He
takes personal interest in that provi-
sion above all others because he laws
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appearance in the tariff law. He viii
be satisfied with compromises on the
big contentious in the schedules and
the conferees are already saying that
such compromises are in prospect
The worst rift in the tariff Lutte is
with Chairman Payne, of Ways and
Means. He is not in accord with the
program entirely, not because it is to
be high protection bill but because
it is not to be the Payne high protec-
ton bill. This is due to personal
vanity which every chairman of Ways
and Means has had for hundred years.
The Senate has had SO many tariff
victories over the House, that a Ways
and Means Chairman almost trembles
at the thought of going into conference
with a tariff bill. The Senators are
older and more experienced in legisla-
ton. They are accustomed TO having
their way, are generally ADLER men than
get upon the House Ways and Means
Committee and, as happens the world
over, the smartest brains win out when
there is grim test To be sure the
Dlngley law is known largely from the
name of its Trainer, as the people sun.
pose, the late Representative Dingley.
of Maine, but many folks around the
Capitol know that Senator Aldrich. as
chairman of a subcommittee of Fl
nance wrote over much of the Dineley
Dill and virtually made it his own and
then went into conference and fought
down Chairman Dingley and his WAYS
and Means colleagues. The Senate
forced the House to yield abiectIv on
the Wilson tariff bill, framed bv a.
Democratic House and so the list might
be prolonged.
The new tariff law is to be Chairman
! Payne's piece of pet legislation. He
1 has been in Congress 25 years, has been
chairman of Ways and Means about ten
years and has been long time waiting
fr his turn to identify himself with
some important law. That is usually
the case with Ways and Means chair.
man for all they have an opportunity
to do in the way of legislation is on
tariff bills and Congress does not pass
a tariff bill, as a rule, except about once
IN every ten years. In the natural
course of events Mr. Payne will not
have another such opportunity, as he
IS now 66 years old. He is undoubtedly
a well informed man on the tariff. has
given the closest possible study to the
subject, and has pride in the conelu-
sions he has reached. He reasoned that
he drew very generous bill for the
! consumer, even though he is a stand
patter himself. But he superintendent
the work and Mr.. Payne has great
pride of authorship as very many other
men have in this world. He would be
pleased, indeed, if the bill could become
: law about as it passed the House. Then
ne would have distinction which
neither Representative Nelson Dinglev.
of Maine, nor Representative William
l.. Wilson, of West Virginia, gained.
Washington applauds Mr. Payne for