Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-03-18
WASHINGIONLETTER filling TIDELANDSI
The TARIFF HOWL IS ALREADY
BEGUN.
An Army of lobbyists Cause Unhap.
py Tariff Thinkers Lots Of Woe.
Protected Infants to be Repre-.
senfed at Washington by LuSty
pleaderS.

VUC0OCUSs
WASHINGTON, d. G. March 13.-The
last 81" was dotted, the last st"
crossed in the new tariff bill Thursday
evening and the members of the ways
and means committee sat fearfully
back to brace themselves for the ex-
pected cries of rage and protest from
the manufacturers when the dOcu-
ment was made public Monday.
To some of the members Of ways
and means, the thick-and-thin stand
patters like John Dalzell fol instance,
the cuts that have been made in lead
ing schedules OF the Dingley bill
through the preponderance of reform
influence in the committee and as a
result of the instance of President
Taft, are nothing less than sacrilige-
GUS and they are filed with inexpress-
ible fears that the whole industrial
fabric of the country will be wrecked
as q result of the reform downward
movement.
But they are pledged to stand by
and take their medicine with the
men who insisted on the heavy cuts
in duties, uttering no justification of
themselves based on the plea that
these cuts were made over their pro-
tests. The republican members OF
ot Nf a
framing of the bill agreed to make
the best fight they could in committee
to save the industries of their dis
tricts and states from serious re-
ductions, but when it was all over
and the bill formulated they were to
Join hands and make common cause
to get it through. Undoubtedly some
of the members whose pet Industries
have been hardest hit4ass now filed
with remorse for having made this
pledge, but there is no honorable
course open to them but to stand by
it and tase their medicine with their
colleagues.
The ways and means members con-
tinue to keep their mouths firmly shut
when asked for accurate information
about the cuts made in the leading
schedules of the bill. They refuse
either to affirm or deny the reports
printed on the subject. But there
appears little doubt the reports oi
heavy cuts in iron and steel, lumber,
wood pulp, low grade cotton goods
and manufactures of leather are we'll
founded, as well as the report that
hides and iron ore and some other
prime articles of manufacture have
been placed on the free list. That a
tax has been placed on coffee and the
war stamp taxes on checks and drafts
have been reimposed and tax laid
on inheritances and legacies also ap-
pear we'll authenticated.
The city is rapidly filling up with
manufacturers and their representa-
tives as we'll as with the professional
protectors of the protective system,
ready for business with members and
senators on Monday when the special
session meets and the tariff bill is in
troduced. The fight over the bill
promises to be the hottest one in the
whole history of tariff legislation.
The thick-and-thin advocates of high
protection feel that crucial point
has been reached in tariff history,
and if they are defeated now and a
heavy revision of the schedules down.
ward allowed, the future will be dark
for high protection and special privi-
lege.
Hardening to the advice of the
American Protective Tariff League,
which recently urged business inter-
saLs W leave Ulelr oeU..DA,,-i.AonVo III
charge of the Office boy, go to WASH
ington and stay until the tariff war
was over, the lobbyists are coming to
town on every train. This small army
has sought out headquarters and is
going to camp here until it finds out
Just what will happen to the tariff.
Congress is not going to be allowed
to fix up the tariff bill without endless
pulling and hauling from the protected
Industries. One member of the House
who has lived through two or three
tariff revisions said today: sit will be
pandemonium here from next week
on"