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TO HAVE
A PROFOUND EFFECT
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the Dinyley rates on the wool schedules,
with the execution of wool tops, and it is
the understanding that this item is to be
taken care of" which means that duty
to suit the American producers Will be
provided. The rates on silks, wines, cham
n.enes and liquors are boosted. The
rates on Autographs are made prac-
tically prohibitiye. Some steel rates are
fixed on the Senate's high scale of protec-
ton.
Senate Winning Right Along.
In point of fact, the Senate is winning
right along in its demands for stiff pro-
lection on articles of general manufacture,
and while doing SO is putting up to the
President the difficult task of placating
the producers of raw materials. 1t must
be borne in mind that the advocates of
protective rates on iron ore, coal and Oil
are in isolated groups Furthermore, that
the President does not embarrass the sit
uation by classing wool as raw mate
rial, to suffer lower rates.
Senator Aldrich's terse comment that 1T
is up to the President TO supply the votes
for the program of reductions on raw ma
terials is full of significance. Senator AL
drich knows that the adherence of certain
far western senator's to the Senate's gen.
eral scheme of protection was obtained
because those senators hoped to receive
protection for their hides, wool and ores.
| Otherwise, they would have joined the
progressives and the tariff bill would have
been written by La Toilette, Cummins,
Dolliver Bristow and that group.
1t is now incumbent upon the President
| to secure the votes of those senators for d
! lower rate of duty on ores and hides, If
possible, while still keeping up the duties
| on leather manufactures, harness and
shoes. 1t is thought the undertaking will
| be difficult.
| Senate Conferees Unmoved.
There is no indication that the Senate
conferees are in the slightest degree
moved by the Presidents somewhat gem
eral demand for revision downward They
are going right along with their insistence
upon stiff protective rates, and, as stated,
are keeping up the rates in great many
important schedules. The conservatives
in the Senate are not deeply interested, as
a body, in the rates on iron ore, coal or
| oil, and they feel they can easily leave
those subjects for the President to wrestie
over with the individual senators con
cerned.
| All these considerations lead to a good
deal of speculation to what will hap
pen when the conference report comes
up for adoption In the House and Senate.
If the President insists upon lower du-
ties on raw materials he can probably
get them, after a struggle If he is con-
tent with that as a sufficient need of
revision downward and accepts the
conferees' stiff rates on general manu-
features it will probably be acceptable
| to the rank and file of the protection
lists in both bodies.
To many observers the situation takes
| this shape: That the delegation which
| called upon the President yesterday
brought to him first what they more or
less frankly stated as an appeal for their
political lives, and, second, as the de-
mand Of their localities respectively; that
the President met these local and indi-
vidual appeals with what he felt to be
| the broader demand of the nation as a
whole. He declared that every one of the
schedules involved was to be considered
in the light of the evidence relating to
each, and that for himself he intended
to seek and to be guided by that evidence.
Regarded as a Message.
| Increasingly the White House statement
| is regarded as in some sort an informal
message to Congress at a critical juno
ture such as MIR. Roosevelt often chose
| for many of his directly addressed mas
sages 1t is conceded even by the most
bitter of the opposition that by his at
/ titude thus far of hands off, Mr.. Taft
has attained position of enviable in
/ dependence. and that he has chosen an
| advantageous moment. when each house
of Congress has fully discussed the ques-
ton and placed itself Enthusiastically on
record, and their joint product is in the
hands of conference committee, to pre-
/ sent his views, not only generally to the
people at large but specifically to those
who are in position to act -decfslvely
upon the subject-matter-
i The general feeling today was that the
Presidents pronouncement would fnevi-
tably have a profound effect, not only
Immediately upon the conference COM
mittee. but in the time intervening be-
fore the final vote in the two houses OF
Congress, upon those representing both
wings, especially, of the republican ma
jority. whose official action now, and
whose political future after they go home
/ is so deeply involved in the outcome.
i Senate Conferees Discouraged.
i DO you happen to know" asked one
/ of the senatorial representatives on the
tariff conference on his way to the