The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-07-22
MAILED FIST OF
THE PRESIDENT
AFTER LONG SILENCE Mr.. TAFT
PREPARES TO TAKE A HAND
IN LE0ISLATIoN.
LOSES PATIENCE WITH CONGRESS
Giving conferees Plenty Of Rope
With Which to Hang Themselves.
When Measure Comes Forth
Then Watch for Big Battts.

-"non measure comes Form
Then Watch for Blo Battis.
Washington, July 49, President
Taft is ready to veto the tariff bill II
1t appears to him to be treachery to
the pledges os the Republican party.
Further than this. he is preparing
now for the one sort Of action that
will wrest victory out Of defeat for
the Republican downward revisionists.
He is shaping up fight in which he
will call to his aid every man in the
house of representatives who believes
In the keeping OF party promises, and
to this call there will respond enough
Republicans to completely control tho
situation for downward revision.
The facts are indisputable. They
come as climax to his interview
with newspaper men last Monday, his
plain speech to the delegation of con-
gressmen Friday and his public state
ment issued Friday afternoon. They
put into the tariff situation new ele-
ment, the one element which the
champions of downward revision have
declared is necessary to carry the sit
uation.
From the beginning of the presi-
dents activity in the tariff situation,
the progressive" senators have ex-
pressed doubt of his ability to do any
thing. They have declared that he
had entered the fight too late and that
his declarations for downward revi-
sion could have but little effect upon
the conference committee. !,
"The one chance the president has
to force general reduction is to be-
gin active work With members OF the
house and unite them against any bill.
which fails to keep party pledges" is
statement that has been repeatedly
made by Senator Clapp of Minnesota
and other western senators.
To Give Conferees Chance.
This is the exact program which IL
now being unfolded. The real work
has not yet started. So far as can
be learned. the president has made no
efforts to bring house members
around to oppose the bill. The ef-
forts that have been made to unite
the opposition in the house have
come freely from the Western revi-
sionists of the house and senate.
The entire plan Is mapped out. how
ever. The conference committee is to
have the first opportunity. As he kept
| hands off the house and senate in
preparation Of the bill. SO the presi-
dent will keep hands off the confer
ence committee, so far as the actual
work is concerned. Every member Of
that committee has been told time
and again how the president stands
and what sort of a bill he wants, but
the work will be left entirely to the
committee.
When the report of that committee
comes to the two houses, the real
battle will begin. Everyone in Wash
lngton realizes thoroughly that the
conference Is dominated by the high
protection interests, from beginning
to end. Even the repeated state
ments from the White House as to
the presidents position cannot force
out of the conference committee bill
anything in keeping with the party
promises.
Presidents Stand Approved.
The presidents statement of Friday
night has been hailed with approval
from end to end Of the continent.
Minneapolis, st. Paul. cities Of North
and South Dakota. Iowa. Wisconsin
and the west, south and east were
represented by the hundreds of tele-
i grams which poured in to the presi-
dent yesterday.
A steady stream of callers at the
executive offices brought words of
commentator to the chief executive,
but to none Of them did he more than
indicate his acknowledgment of their
promised support. The president ia
still refraining from fighting the tar
III conferees through the press, or
through senate or house members
His dealings with the conference com
mittee are direct, and until that com
mittee furnishes its report to the two
houses his support will apparently be
with 1t.