Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-17
Regarded as Informal Message
To Congress at Critical
Juncture.
SOME sEEC0NCEALED THREAT
Others Hold That President In
tended it Virtually as an
UItimatunl.
Many OF the. Conservatives Very Bites
Ono Declared, Now the Stand
pattcrs Will Become Insurgents.

Washington. July 11.-President
Taft's emphatic declaration yesterday
that he regarded the Republican plst-
form as meaning and the sentiment Of
the whole people as demanding, re-
vision downward eclpsed in interest
all minor and specific details OF the
tariff struggle here today
The statement issued late yesterday n
after a delegation of congressman ha.l
appealed to the president for mamie
| nance of protection OH raw materials,
| particularly iron ore, wool, hides. OIL
| and lumber, purported to be an outline &
report of the discussion which took
| place during the visit of the delegation
and especially of what the president
| said to the visitors: but the very 1acs
| that such q statement was issued "
! all, and in particular the emphatic COLI
/ clusion or the remarks OF the presi-&
| DENT thus reiterated made it clear 10 s.
al who studied the pronouncementth mat
! the president intended it virtually as
! an ultimatum.
4 Many read into the statement bare
Nv concealed threat on the part OF the
president that IL the bill reached him
i in a form which he regarded as UNI
faithful to the promises OF his party
and disobedicnt to the sentiment Of the
+ mass of the people he would%N veto II
Few of the prominent members 81
either house of Congress would discuss
the statement fol: publication, and most
OF the utterances INTENDED 19I 1uoia-
ton we're of d pcrfunctory character,
| but in confidence many talked freeN
and some OF the conservatives very tblt-
!, terly; some went so far as to say ,tn .
! the PRESIDENTS stand meant nothlns
less than the defeat of the Dill, e 'Iiile
! man said: + RI Is
@sNow the standpatters will become
the insurgents; the lines will all have
!. to be re-forlned and nobody can fore s.
: cast the outcome 81 81 81 n
: Those less excitablc We're inclined 20
Q the view that the president had simply
: made a long foreseen move Eessentta 70
; the logic OF the game. and that y
would mean the speedy dissolution o.
2 the opposition to the downward re-
; vision and the termination of the long
! fight with the bill at last IN the prssii \.
!. dents hands substantially as ne ma
! All along intended 1t should be
increasingly, the White House state
u ment is regarded as In some sort an IN
e formal message to Congress at y
: critical juncture such as Mr.. Roose-
= Welt often chosc fOr many u iii9 - -
9 rectly addressed messages. 1t is con-
!, ceded even by the most bitter OF the
Il onnosition that by his attitude thus
!. far of "hands off, MI. Taft has at.
= tanned a position of enviable indepen-
S dence, and that he has chosen an ;id-
:. vantageous mcanent When eacn nous ''ai
III of Congress has fully discussed tn+
- question and placed itself unmistak,
y ably on record. and their joint produce
y is in the hands of a conference COM
's mittee to present his views not only
=. generally to the people but specifically
3. to those who are in a position 70 ac'
y decisively on the subject matter.
ie The general feeling today was tina
:. tho presidents pronouncement wouls
IN inevitably have a profound erect, no
- only Immediately on the conferene'
committee but In the time lnterYenlnl
hefnre final vote In the two houses OF
those representing both wings. espsci
ally OF the Republican majority. who's
& official action now and whose poiitlea
future after they &c nome are SO deepi.
involved in the outcome.
It. do you happen TO KNOW, aske
III one Of the senatorial tariff conferee'
y Ion his way to the meeting toda!
"whether the report as to the pres
Nv dents attitude on the tariff is correctl
or represented by the papers TINS morn'h
20 irhc question was addressed to
-. news,rlpcr man. who assured the sena
- tor that there could be no doubt tho
IL the press had properly represented th
% president. The senators fepis tliis,
- have been forccasted from his coun
ny enance, Evidently he was much &C
p pressed and most uncertain as TO u
outlook
Then" he said. carefully weishiil
his words, "the outlook is discouraf
,ng indeed. While it is not stated as, N
dc demand free raw material, such
the tendency and IL such should !
his demand, it looks TO me as II.
lr- would be impossible to get It. me az
III ficulty would be in getting bill WI
The free raw material through the senat
use For instance. do not believe that =
,I,v senate could be induced to pass a
!, "a putting hides on the free list
aeo No more information could be Q
tanned from the senator.
81 This senator's expressions are on
:, slightly more extreme thah tAose
se others.