The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-02-09
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WASHINGTON, Feb 5.-Members
of the ways and means committee of
the house and the finance committee
of the senate as well as party leaders
in both houses Of congress are being
deluged these days with fhurry up'
messages. They all relate to the tariff
and the tenor of all is the same.
7" Hurry up" they read, "and get the
tariff bill passed and the agony over
Our business is at standstill until we
know how the schedules affecting us
are to be changed.
The messages do not come alone from
those interests which enjoy special
benefits under the tariff Many of
them are from men engaged in indus
tries which are not protected at all,
but which are affected because of the
uncertainty of tariff legislation. If
the history of the Dingley bill is to be
repeated it will be nearly six months
yet before the new tariff act is ready
for the signature of President Taft.
Inc 55th congress, called to an extra
session by President Mckinley for the
purpose of tariff legislation, convened
on March Is, and the bill which it
passed was approved by the president
on the following oath of July. The
ways and means committee had the
Dingley bill ready and it was reported
from that committee to the house on
the first day of the extra session.
The coming extra session will con
vene about March l5-probably on
that day, as the 18th falls on Monday.
The waysand means committee, now at
work on tariff bill, will have the
measure ready to report forthwith, and
it will depend on the two houses of
congress whether it is possible to put
was required to pass the Dingley bill.
There was no such pressure for
speed in enacting tariff legislation at
the beginning of the Mckinley admin
istration as there is today. The
country was then in slough of inan-
cial depression, and nad been for sew
era years. The wound to business was
much deeper then than il is today and
was expected to require longer time
to heal. Business experts tell us there
is nothing at present wrong with in
dustry except uncertainty as to tariff
legislation And Judging from the
tone of letters reaching the capital,
the interest of the business world is
not so much as to the character of the
legislation as it is in having it passed
as speedily as possible.
One possibility of delay lies in the
determination of the house "insur-
gents'' to amend the dulles of that
body when they come up for adoption
at the organization of the 6lst con
gress The rules will have to be adopt
ed. or course. DeIOre tue tdrhI ueDdtc
can be gotten under way, and those
who believe the speaker should be
shorn of some of his power regard the
opportunity as an exceptional one. By
holding up congress and preventing tar
iff legislation until the rules question
can be fought out, the attention OF the
entire country will be centered on that
issue. and that is exactly what the in
surgents want They believe the house
organization would have to give way
in the face of the puplie sentiment
which would be created.
There are three important changes
which the house insurgents de-
mand
First. that the power of naming com
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