Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-29
CANN0N'S IN THE WAY!
He's Holding Up the Tariff,
Taft's Friends Say.
Remember HOT SPRINGS?
President Won't Stand for Glove
and Lumber Rates.
HE'S FIRMER EVERY MINUTE
Country Is Right With Him, Visit
ors Say, and House Members
Against Uncle Joe.

Il have always said that President Taft
is at his best when thoroughly deter
mined. Senator Borah
That was the way the Idaho senator
sized up the President and the White
House situation on the tariff today after
conference with the chief executive.
Every other visitor during the day had
the same story-that President Taft will
not accept the action of the conferees In
agreeing to $1.4O per thousand on lum-
Der and in failing to reduce the duty on
gloves to the Senate rate.
Without exception they represented the
President as firm as rock and growing
pretty tired of certain things. Almost
without exception, too. the visitors will
not foresee final agreement of the con-
ferees today upon rates that will be ac-
cepted by the President. The outlook is
not SO good as they see 1t.
There is very sharp difference of opin-
ion between the President and Speaker
Cannon. The Speaker has been repre-
scented to the President as saying that If
the bill did not take the proper care of
gloves no rule for the adoption of the
conference report could be favorably
acted upon by the House. The President
antagonizing the Speaker when he wrote
his letter to the cOnferees
It's getting to be noised around that
the clash is not so much between the
President and the majority of the con-
ferees but that it is really between the
President on one side and the same old
forces on the other-Speaker Cannon
and Senator Aldrich. The talk is that
the Speaker is the man who is putting
obstacles in the way of the Taft train
and preventing it from making the time
that was expected. And with it all is
the fiat-footed pronouncement of House
members that they are unswervingly with
the President and opposed to the Speaker.
The Speaker is charged by everybody
with holding up the conferees for higher
rates on gloves than the President will
stand for. He is also charged with block
ing the Presidents desire for tariff
commission or bureau. although Senator
Aldrich joins the Speaker in this PROPOSE
ton. The Presidents visitors who dis
cuss this little split admire the political
skill the chief executive is developing
and the accuracy with which he sizes up
the influences operating for or against
particular schedules.
Don't You Remembers
as to the President fearing the infiu-
ence of Speaker Cannon is now recalled
What then appeared to be an admins
tration fight against Mr.. Cannon re-
naming as Speaker was squelched by
the Speaker apparently satisfying the
President that there would be no diff
Guilty in their cooperating in turning
out /; tariff bill satisfactory to the peo-
pie
President Taft is represented as say
ing little to encourage the split that
seems TO be growing. although ANNOUNCE
ing his purpose to stand firm.
At the same time it Is easy to read be-
tween the lines of what the President
says to his visitors that he is well posted
and that his memory is likely to retain
some Of the i'm. ressions of the present
conflict. Speaker Cannon, on the other
hand, Is represented as having said some
can do If he doesn't like the way things
are going.
Speaker Cannon has not been busy
around the White House lately. He had
however, held many conferences with the
President uo to the time when the crisis
was reached as to certain schedules.
Callers Like His Methods.
Congressional callers are tickled with
the way President Taft has caught
public sentiment and is following close
ly upon popular demands.
The best politician is the man who
finds out what the people want and
then gives it to them or tries to do
So" was another comment Of Senator
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