The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-15
Expected to Change Mind
Radically on Former
Beliefs.
FIGHT TO BE MADE
AGAINST LEADERS
Portents for Coming Winter Are
That Many Storms Are
Brewing.
By IOHN SNURE-

By JOHN SNURE.
That President Taft is likely to de-
| part radically from the judicial atti-
tude he has generally preserved and
/ pick UP a large sized club for the pur-
! pose Of getting some of The legislation
/ he wants next winter IS the statement
/ made here on most excellent authority,
| close to the President.
/ Mr.. Taft came into the White House
/ determined TO adhere to the idea that
the President should enforce the laws
and Congress make them and that the
! Chief Executive should not try to in
! huence legislation save as he made rec
concentrations in his messages.
Changes His Opinion.
But there are signs that the President
! is not as fully imbued with this notion
as he was when he took over the re-
| sponsibilites OF the White House Office.
! He had some experience in the special
session, while the tariff bill was under
| consideration. He was anxious to have
real downward revision, but he found
no disposition on the part of the leaders
| 70 heed his wishes. The leaders at the
! Capitol went ahead regardless to the
| feeling Of Mr.. Taft and at the last end
terfere in pretty strenuous fashion in
/ order TO get lowered certain schedules
/ which he believed should be lowered. In
| the etfpSts he made TO get certain duties
\ reduced the President found the House
/ ana Senate organization heads trying
/ 10 block him at every turn. In the end,
| ne was able to get a few concessions
as 70 tariff duties. These We're literally
/ wrung from Mr.. Aldrich, Mr. Cannon
and hteir lieutenants.
! A close friend OF President Taft said
lately that it was not realized bv the
public what pressure was put on tho
! President by the leaders OF the Senate
/ and House organization. and the forces
at their command, to get the President
! TO Keep his fingers off the tariff He
said this pressure was enormous. .Spea k
er Cannon was insistent above ali things
| else that the glove schedule be left as
/ former Representative Iittauer Of New
! York wanted 70. The President womb
! not stand Tor IL. and Ii was I'm no Meas
! ant frame or mind that Speaker Cannon
gave way. II IS learned that Mr. Lit
! Iauer' When he found that the presI-
/ dents interference had resulted I'm pre-
! venting the increases In the glove sched-
| ule which he expected, not only was
emDutered at Mr.. Taft at the time. bur
! that he has been so ever since Gossip
! has il that Mr.. Littauer went so far = <
/ to write a letter to the President that.
II made public, would make interesting
/ reading
His First GTapple.
This grapple the President had with
| the leaders Of the House and Senate
was his first as Chief Executive. It is
not likely 70 be the last. The President
has a long list Of things he wants writ
ten into the statute books, and he is
| just as certain as anything can reason
ably be to encounter the strenuous op-
position Of the organization that IS I'm
| control in both ends Of the Capitol The
question is what he is going 10 DO
| about it.
For instance. the President wants 10
strengthen the interstate commerce
laws and make them more effective He
wants TO have the Government exercise
control over the capitalization of the
railroads and corporations. He IS deep
! ~ interested in reform in the judiciary.
He wants legislation TO overcome the
| effect Of the decision Of tire Supreme
Court knocking out the commodities
/ clause. lie wants q real inquiry into
| the workings OF the tariff by the tariff
/ commission he has appointed. and there
are signs that he Is bent on forcing the
/ reopening or certain schedules OF the
tariff measure il he finds the facts war
rant it.
Cannot Have Everything.
Good reason exists TO believe that the
President fully understands he cannot
get most Of these things with the SUP
port of the leaders in the House and
| Senate. Senator Aldrich, Senator Hale
and their forces at one end of the big
building on the hin Will be against most
Of this proposed legislation. Speaker
Cannon and his lieutenants win he
against II At the other end of the same
big building.
Knowing this fully. and remembering
the experience he had IN the special
session. the prediction is made here In
quarters fully informed that the Presi-
dent ls gong 70 use different tactics
| The President has no taste for dra-
| mates He does not like to do the
spectacular thing. and much prefers to
keep hands on i'm legislation But he is
| bent on having his Administration go
Down as having accomplished certain
l things, and ne will not take kindly fO
any efforts to circumvent them.
| II Is said that n he finds attempts
being made 20 block the legislation on
which he has set his heart. he win jump
into the light in earnest and win appeal
10 the public quite as freely as his pre-
decessor ever did. This, Of course.
would mean war with the leaders of
the organization in Congress, but those
who saw how close the President came
20 hight with some OF the leaders I'm
lllo Closing Gays or me special session
| are pretty well convinced that war is
not at all impossible.
/ Hale Is Aroused.
II Interesting gossip Is ahoat to the
effect that Senator Hale. as chairman
| Of the Appropriations Committee Of the
Senate and head Of he Senate orEani-
zatiou, though not tho real Senate lead
| er. IS determined to checkmate some
| OF the moves Mr.. Taft VIII make for
/ legislation. Mr. Hale has already de-
/ clared war on the use of the tariff COM
] | mission for any purposes but those Of
] a technical sort How he and the Pres
/ ldent can avoid a collision on this mat
! ter is not understood here. Bus Mr.
! Hale is also opposed. &c is understood,
] 10 the Presidents corporation and rail-
/ road program and he will use the power
/ ne has as head OF the Committee on
/ Appropriations TO try to force the Pres
/ ident 20 let these matters alone.
II Such course viii be sure, his closest
/ ! friends say 20 make the President put
] on his lighting raiment, grab the big
! stick and sail In with an energy that
/ some folks think he does not possess.
/ but which ne has been known to display
| in emergencies.
I ! in short. the uOrtenfe for fI,o cou,frt,