The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-17
TARIFF SCHEDULE
REDUCTION, IAF7S
INs|STENT DEMAND
President Issues an Ultimatum
for a General Downward
Revision.
HIDES ON FREE LIST
is ONE PROVISION
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Says People OF Nation and Re-
publican Party Want
- Such Action.
Especial to the Newark star.l

lSpeclal 10 the Newark Stur.J
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE Presi-
dent, has made perfectly clear his de-
termination to obtain tariff revision
downward, and his conviction that to
fulfill the pledges of the Republican
platform the pending measure must
: provide for free iron ore, free coal, free
hides, free petroleum and one-half the
Dingiey rate on lumber. He announced
publicly yesterday his belief that his
position as the titular head Of the Re-
publican party and as President, with
the whole people as his constituency,
gave him somewhat broader point of
view than that of a single member OF
Congress in respect to articles pro
duced in his district He said "he felt
strongly the call OF the country for
downward revision within the hmita-
tions OF the protective principle. and he
hoped to be able to respond to that call
as he heard it. as we'll in the interests
Of party as of country
Talks TO House Delegates.
The situation which gave the Presi-
dent an opportunity to declare his
views officially resulted from the call
of twenty-five members of the House,
headed by Representative Young, of
Michigan, who came to protest against
the influence which the President is. ex-
e-ting ON the eonferees to have the
raw materials named transferred to the
free list and the rate on lumber fixed
by the House retained.
Many read into the statement
barely concealed threat on the part of
the President that If the bill reached
him in form which he regarded as un
faithful to the promises of his party
and disobcdient to the sentiment of the
mass of the people, he would veto it, :.
Few of the prominent members of
either house of Congress would discuss
the statement for publication, and most
the utteranees intended for quota
tion were of perfunctory character;
but in confidence many talked freely.
and some of the conservatives very
bitterly. some went SO far as to say
that the Presidents stand meant moth
Ing less tnan the defeat of the bill alto
gether. One man said:
ForeteII Defeat of Whole Bill.
Now the standpatters will become
the insurgents; the lines will all have
to be reformed, and nobody can fore
cast the outcome"
Those less excitable inclined to the
view that the President had simply
made long foresen move essential to
the "logic of the game" and that it
would mean the speedy dissolution of
the opposition to downward revision.
and the termination of the long fight
with the bill at last in the Presidents
hands substantially as he has all along
desired and intended it should be.
To many observers the situation
takes this shape: That the delegation
which called upon the President yes
tcrdav brought to him first what they
more or less frankly stated as an ap-
peal for their political lives, and, sec
opd, as the demand for their localities
respectively; that the President met
these local and individual appeals with
what he felt to pe the broader de-
mand of the natioh as whole He de-
cIared that1fvery one of the schedules
involved Vas to be considered in the
light os&the evidence relating to each
ana OF for himself he intended to
SO xnadjustment.
6gene f. Kinkead, Of the Ninth
hgressional District made a most
Eorable impression when he delivered
yssinltial speech in Washington On the
tariff question.