Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-03-13
SPECIAL TARIFF SESSION
Senate and House of sixty-First Con.
gress Will Meet at Noon Mon
day-The Outlook.

Washington, D. c., March 13-Pur-
suant to the presidents call for an ex-
traordinary session of the Sixty-first
congress, the senate and house will
meet at noon Monday. The presi-
dents message relating to tariff revi-
sion probably will not be sent in until
Tuesday. The message, as already
announced, will recommend that tire
session confine its work exclusively
to tariff revision that there may he
no delay in enacting this most i'm
portant law. The president will not
discuss lin his message any scheme of
tariff revision, leaving such matters
entirely to the judgment of congress.
In the senate the routine program
will be followed Monday. Vice Presi-
dent Sherman will call the senate to
order, and the presidents proclama-
ton calling the session will be read.
A committee will be appointed to call
upon the president and inform him
that the senate is in session, and an
other committee will similarly adj
wise the house. Unless some senator
desires to talk upon a privileged mat
ter, the only business. of the senate
will be the opening formalities.
Busy times will be witnessed in
f--ar fhn ffI,an hot
clerk calls that body to order at noon,
reads the proclamation, and calls the
roll of those entitled to seats in the
Sixty-first congress. After the cleo
ton of house officers, committees will
be appointed to wait upon the presi-
dent and the senate to advise both
that the house is in session. Speaker
Cannon is expected to lose no time in
announcing the members of the new
ways and means committee. The
fact that there are to be few changes
in the personnel of the committee
makes it certain that little time will
be lost. The new committee will
consist of the old membership, filled
out with such new appointments by
the speaker as are necessary to fill
the places of Representatives Bonynge
of Colorado, Cochran of New York,
both retired at the end of the Sixtieth
congress, and Granger of Rhode
Island, who died recently
The republican leaders are nearly
all of the opinion that the tariff bill
can be disposed of by June 1. The
fact that President Taft and the mem
bers of the senate and house who
have most to do with turning the.
7wheeis 81 Isgislati0n afs m til0f6ugn
accord will aid greatly in hurrying
the bill through. Four weeks for de-
bate and four weeks for thrashing
out the differences between the two
houses appears to be the program
now in mind. The democrats have it
in their power to prolong their de-
bates as much as they wish But it
is not believed now that they have
any intention to embarrass the. re-
publicans in such a manner OF
course, the democratic leaders have
their own ideas in regard to tariff re-
vision and will not be backward in Of
fering suggestions. There are in fact
two bills drafted, one of the majority
and one of the minority, though it is
doubtful if the democrats introduce
their recommendation in such form.
On the first day of the session
Chairman Payne of the ways and
means committee will introduce the
majority bill and it will at once be
referred to the committee. After two
or three days it probably will be re-
ported to the house, and the fight
thereafter will be more or less in the |
open
The republicans continue to main |
tain secrecy as regards the majority |
bill agreed upon, though naturally |
some of the main features have leak
ed out That there will be numerical |
reductions in many important rates is
acknowledged, but whether these re-
auctions will be of a kind to encour-
age Importation, thereby increasing
the governments revenue and local
competition, is matter that will
come out certainly only with the pub
LEGATION of the exact schedule.
The iron and steel schedules are
among those that will suffer the
heaviest reductions. Hides will either
be reduced materially or put on the
free list, and corresponding reduc-
ton may be made in finished shoes.
In print paper and wood pulp sched
ules it is thought that the recommen-
dations of the Mann committee prob
ably will be embodied in the new bill.
Mr.. Mann recommended the reduction
Of the duty on news print paper from
Sc to So a ton and advocated the
placing of ground wood on the free
list If Canada can be induced to re-
move her export duty. No great
ora Jonlyad for in tha silk and