The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-05-03
But They Have Many Able
BackerS
WEEK OF SET SPEECHES
1t Is Likely to Be Far into the Summer
Before the New Tariff
Bill Is Entered
Upon.

Washington, D. G., May s.--rhe maxi
mum and minimum, or the M and NJ"
al The tariff provision Is now popularity
called, has aroused great opposition
among congressman, and especially has
il excited the ire Of Speaker Cannon, who
is reported by congressman as saying
that he viii keep Congress sitting until
December before he will consent TO the
provision Mr.. Aldrich has devised. He,
and there are many with him, holds that
II Is unconstitutional for Congress TO
delegate such large legislative powers
70 the president as il permitted in the
Aldrich maximum and minimum SEIZED.
ule, That i declared to he alone con
trolling point but additionally, II is
said, the House win never consent to
delegate away lie high prersqative in
originating and legisIating on revenue
matters Apparently Senator Aldrich
has run up against a formidable snag.
The delegation Of such powers is Ger
tain 70 arouse besides the great consti.
tntional lawyers IN the Senate, and Bail.
ey and Rayner are sure to be heard
from. and Root viii have to reply toI
TENN. There can be no hesitancy con-
corning the view 81 the last named, as
be had some hand in drafting the provi-
sion as well as Secretary Knox and
President Taft. That three such men
should have participated N the drafting
alone saves the schedule from immediate
Widespread sweeping condemnation II
is held that Congress in such matter
as the maximum and minimum schedule
can only frame rule which becomes
operative on certain state Of facts
being found, and these facts the presi-
dent can be authorized TO ascertain, and
on their being announced the rule BE-,
comes automatically operative. This Is
what the House IN and NJ schedule
does. Senators are already saying that
the Aldrich schedule win probably BE-
revised.
The high retaliatory rates also appall
the House Il ever applied it is declared
that they would mean tremendous tar
iff war between the United States and
Canada. for Canada would b hit by
them Mr.. Payne il understood not Co
ike this prihibitive protection at ell, aud
Speaker Cannon also laughs in derisIon
at the tariff committee authorized By
Mr.. Aldrich No limit Il fixed 20 tho y
pense It may undergo. Mr. Aldrieh has
already enc 81 those expensive commits
sions, bis monetary commission. The
speaker Is declaring that the senator Is
a magnificent apostle Of economy in.
deed.
The date for the enactment az tho
Payne bin Is running still farther into
the summer Nearly all Of this week
viii he taken MP with set speeches.
Senator Borah Is down for long speech /
on the income tax to-day. and other
senators are preparing speeches, and on I
Tuesday Senator Dolliyer will begin his /
attaek Ga the cotton goods schedule. lie |
and Senator Aldrieh viii lock horns and
the contest will be worth going miles to |
see Il would not Be very surprising
if the Senate did not begin the real con-
siderati0n OF the tariff BIN before MAY (
Is. Speech + one thing Mr.. Aldriea /
cannot control. except that III furnishing
topics he has been fertile.
New Haven Road Cuts Rates.
A new freight tariff 81 the New Haven
railroad was filed with the interstate
commerce commission Saturday. II ap-
pears to be q cut IL rates, and seemingly /
the New Haven has decided into the rate
war started by the Chesapeake & Ohio I
railway. Thse rates are complicated af 1
fairs, and the new difIerential appears
to affect all the big ports and especially
Boston, and threatens Encouragement
OF the freight traffic to the large ports
Of the Atlantic coast.