The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-07
PRESIDENT WANTS REVISION DOWN" Secretary MacVeagh Probably
 Voices Sentiment AVOID DOWN AND 0UT' MT. Taft Keeps Out of the Quarrel But May Take Hand When Meas ure Goes to Conference of
 the Whole.
AVOID DOWN AND oUT'

Washington, June 6.-(Special. )-Secre- tary Macveagh's revision down, but not a revision down and out speech in Chi cago last night is said here to correctly represent the attitude of the President. The President is said to feel very hope ful that he will be able to obtain this revision down" in the conference com mittee It may be that it will be but fraction of 1 per cent, but even with that a bill could be readily approved on the ground that a further revision down would really be a revision down and out"
 Secretary MacVeagh's phrase is expect ed to cover a multitude of sins of omis- sion and furnish an executive excuse.
 Many who think they know the Presi- dent believe he will veto any bill which is not an improvement upon the present law. They say that the expectation that the actual struggle between the proposi- tion for revision in good faith and re- vision controlled by mercenery motives in which the President will stand on one side and the Aldrich command on the other, will be in the conference of com- mittees of the two houses of Congress, in which the final framing of the bill will be accomplished
 The President has no part in the con- sideration of the uncompleted work of either house, and MT. Taft has kept out of the fight between factions. He has no place in the chaos of legislative wrang ling. But when the bill gets into con- ference the problem will be to adjust diff ferences in such way as to present a measure which shall meet with the ap- prcval of the President.
 A majority of the House members of the ways and means committee, headed by MT. Payne, are said to be resentful of the manner in which MT. Aldrich has cut up their pill and intend to retaliate by opposing most of the increases he has caused to be made. They are fully counting upon the support of the Presi- dent in this attitude, and are by no means willing to admit that the bill is going to become law in the shape MT. Aldrich now has it.
 There is no hope that Senator Aldrich will not at all times preserve his mastery of the Senate, but one or the best in formed of the House republican leaders was bold enough to predict. today that the Rhode Island senator, Having fully demonstrated his control of the Senate, will be in d position to make conces- sions to the House without loss of pres tige. Even in the important schedules, however, such as cotton, 1t should be re- membered that great majority of the classes passed by the Senate are identi- cal with those in the House. These made practically little change in the Dingley rates.
 Of course, the conference committee has nothing to do with a schedule or classes thereof that have passed both the House and the Senate It can deal only with differences between the two bodies.
 The upshot of the matter is that when the bill is considered in it's detail it will be found that the conference committee is powerless to work sweeping changes. and If MT. Aldrich should concede nearly everything to the lower body the bill would still come very far from meeting the views the President announced be- fore the election.
 It Is fully expected here that MT. Aldrich will make concessions in confer ence. They will be hailed, it Is easy to see, as a victory for the President, but MT A1drich and the tariff robbers will be on top just the same.