The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-06-11
TAFT MAY ATTEMPT
TO CURB THE POWER
OF SENATOR ALDUICH
ALLEGED THAT THE PRESIDENT
WANTS TARIFF REVISED AND
WILL FIGHT.
M'VEAGH'S SINISTER THREATS
Talks Of The Necessity For Creating
a New Majority-supposed 10 Have
Been lnspired-ReaI Bill Made in
Conference.

NEW YORK, June S.-A Washing.
ton dispatch says:
Have President TAFT and Senator
Aldrich reached an impasse?
;! Political Washington read with
wonder the speech Of Secretary of the
Treasury MacVeagh at Chicago. That
speech was more than inspired. II
was vised and o. KID by the presi-
dent himself before the secretary left
Washington, and that Mr.. MacVeagh
in this address reiterated the presi.
dents belief, declared in his campaign
speeches, that the platform promised
! a downward revision of the tariff, is
accepted here as a formal notice to
senate leaders that the president ex-
poets a bill which will embody such
downward revision.
It was only week ago that Senator
Lodge made set speech denying that
the Chicago platform laid an obliga-
ton on the party to revise downward
A week or so before Senator Aldrich
made the same declaration. He re-
peated it Friday night in his explana-
ton Of the cotton schedule. What
ever else is to be said about the pend
ing tariff bill here is a direct issue
between the man who is smashing the
bill through the senate and the man
whose signature will make 1t a law.
1t looks as though the president and
Aldrich were about TO lock horns and
with this implied threat OF combat
consider that Secretary MacVeagn
linked with his expressions on the
tariff an assertion that the president |
is the leader of his party, and con-
cluded that part Of his speech with |
these words:
And you and must agree-for we
cannot escape the conclusion-that it
might become at any time the duty Of
any great party leader to create for
his party a new majority and con.
troll"
The speech has undoubtedly explod-
ed a bombshell in the ranks Of the old
guard of the senate. An important
of senators was held at the
residence of Senator Aldrich Monday
night The senator declined to see
any reporters, and sent out word that {
be would have nothing to say about
the tariff, and particularly about the {
speech of Secretary MacVeagh. What
developed at the conference, therefore, !
IS not known, but that crisis has
been reached by the tariff debate is
apparent on all sides.
Wild talk is heard. There are pre-
lotions that Aldrich Will throw up his
lands and concede an honest down !
ward revision, along the lines indi-
ated by Secretary MacVeagh-down,
tut not down and out.
The assertion is made that the bill
viii finally pass the senate this week. L
1t is just as well to view the situa- y
ion in a reasonable manner, and pro- L
eeding thus it can be said that the \
resident is not yet ready to exert the Y
over that is his as leader of his /
arty, because they are not yet con- q
inced that Senator Aldrich wishes TO r
lick him by an insincere revision of b,
lie Dingley law There are many al
bout the president who are convinced u
lat Aldrich is not "toting fair and Ie
ave not hesitated to so inform the al
But TO one and all the
resident has refrained from express sa
g an opinion on the subject until al
; has proof of treachery which will WI
,nvict the Rhode Island Senator. l'
II has been said before INT can be pa
peated once more, that the president IN
,lieves the real tariff bill will be WI
ade in conference. He had assur-
ices that there would be substantial on
auctions made in the bill there Gu
it'll considerable vehemence, there. DC
re. he has refuted all supposedly in al
ired stories that he is dissatisfied no
tn the senate bill and has taken me
2 ground that he cannot pass any TO
inion on a bill until II reaches him sp
completed form. li'
For this reason be has resisted all
orts to induce him to send a mes th'
&c TO the senate. Under the circum- he
noes Mr.. Roosevelt would have sent
message long ago. But there is a CT
ference between Taft and Roose-
L, which Secretary Macveagh elab-
tied in this same speech. With
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