Evening star., 1909-07-13
DE NEDRY WINS OUT MAY BEAR NEW MARK
Re. elected Secretary of Gen. indications of w. H. T."
trail Labor Union. Stamp on Tariff Bill
FIRST is MADE MEMBER ACTIVITY OF PRESIDENf
Public Reception for Gomp SmaA Margin House Favor
Return From Europe. High Rates
CONSERVATIVES LOSE FIGHT MIGHT EASILY WIPED OUT
McCracken President Might, Appeal, Rally
Treasurer jory for Lower
ACTIVITY OF PRESIDEN'r
SmaA Margin in House in Favor Of
High Rates.
MIGHT BE EASILY WIPED OUT
Claimed That Chairman Payne
Might, on Appeal, Rally a Ma
jority for Lower Duties.

| Is it to be called the Taft bill"? Some
of the tariff sharps in Congress are in
clned to think that this may be the title
of the new tariff measure. as there are
increasing evidences that the President
will have a great deal to say about the
making of the bill.
! The bill started out as the Payne
bill" 1t was reported to the Senate as
the "Aldrich BILL and when it came
back to the House, unrecognizable from
it's first shape, Champ Clark dubbed 1t
| the "Aldrich-Smoot bill" Now that the
boss himself is on the job, all previous
hall marks may be erased and the bill
stamped Made by W. H. IT,.
| And there is consensus of opinion that
it would be mighty fetching trade mark
and would add immeasurably to the pop
ularity of the measure and the confidence
of the public in it's provisions. about
| the present writing.
View of Low-rate Member.
Look here! We will get f1imflammed,
| after all, If we don't watch out" said
one of the downward revisionists'' in
the House today. THE great anxiety for
| the moment seems to be whether the
House or the Senate is to win in confer
ence committee. that being the apparent
! test of whether the bill carries revision
/ downward or not.
bill was reported 1t was charged that
even that bill was not much revision
downward. but was in the main adher-
ence to practically the Dingley rates on
Senate added some unconscionable in
| creases. Now we are all running around.
| beating our breasts lest the House rates
may not prevail.
Suppose the House rates do prevail. in
| the main where is our revision down
| ward? What good will it do us to go
| to the country and boast that we forced
| the Senate to recede, when that recession
leaves us not much better off than we are
under the Dingley rates?'
AS no one yOuchsafed a reply to the
| inquiry, the proponent bit savagely at
/ his plug Of tobacco and went off grum-
bling.
Small Margin for High Rates.
| All jestng aside, the situation in the
| House is very serious. The high pro-
! tectionists know that they are on very
uncertain ground, and that their hold
| on the organization of the House is
acutely uncertain. There is margin OF
| just about twelve or fourteen votes In
| favor OF higher rates. and that margin
is in danger of being wiped out on short
| notice.
| News by underground from the confer
| ence committee is that Chairman Payne
1 is in very stubborn mood, standing out
/ for the lower House rates. He has been
! impervious to appeals from the high tar
| III men in the House, and will not give
| them any satisfaction.
| 1t is the opinion of some members OF
1 the House that IL Chairman Payne comes
| back into the House and makes an ap-
peal for support. basing it on the ground
| OF lnsisterce upon the lower rates, that
| margin of twelve or fourteen may be
dissipated in a breath and solid major
| ity rallied to. resist the Senate.
On the Edge Of Revolt.
| 1t is declared by those in position to
know the temper of the House that more
than score of republicans from the
middle and western states are hanging
just on the edge of a revolt against the
organization and a union with the in
surgents in favor Of lower rates. 1t is
| said that it will require the most delicate
| handling to hold these men in line
The outcome depends. of course. upon
| Chairman Payne and his colleagues OF
| the House committee. If they express
| themselves as satisfied with the work
| Of the conferees. and President Taft is
| in accord, the disposition of the House
will be to take their word. If they
| sound a call for help 1t will be a case
I of turn out the guard with a vengeance