Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-05-05
Congress Likely to Vote the Ap-
preparation For the Com
mission.
FORMER OPPOSITION DYING
President Does Not Want to Postpone
Action on His Measures---Future
Leadership Of Senate Is Topic
of Lively Speculation
Root a Puzzle.

that money enough will be provided
10 e7Iable them to broaden the scope
OF II eir work they will at once begin
an Il Investigation which is likely, it is
said to bring to the surface some real
facIs concerning the relation or lack
OF 4elation of high prices to the tariff
kfr. Taft asked for $250,000 to en-.
ab Pc the tariff inquiry work to go on,
anSd 1t is possible that in addition to
gri anting the money congress, possibly
iofr political reasons, will also enact
Legislation which will give specific au.
I fnority to the experts to collect mate.
ftial which may be Of advantage for
Fuse in future tariff legislation.
Money Likely to BE Granted.
In the earlier days of the present
session several of the standpat Repub-
licans said openly that they would op.
pose any measure which would give
the tariff experts any greater author
ity than was conferred on them un.
der the Payne-Aldrich law. Since
these words Of intended antagonism
to additional powers for the experts,
the Republicans who spoke them have
had change of heart which Demo
Gratis say is due almost entirely to the
recent congressional elections in which
are therefore that S250,000 will be
granted for further investigation into
business conditions with a view to the
relation that they bear to the tariff.
The Democrats declare that the Re
publicans are insincere and they say
their change of position is due wholly
to the fact that they are frightened
The work which the tariff board will
do when the money is forthcoming
to enable them to do it, will be to col.
lect information after a manner di.
rectly suggested by the president of
the United States when he said that
1t should be collected without regard
ito the effect which the facts may
have in calling for readjustment of
the rates of duty"
Position of High Tariff Men.
The high tariff men in congress be-
lieve that Ravens (Dem.) was elected
in the Rochester district over Aid.
ridge (Rep) because of the tariff is.
sue. They do not say this openly, but
they believe it, nevertheless, and now
they realize that with q tariff board
working along lines mapped out BY
the president in his annual message
the country may come to the conclu-
sion that the Republican administra-
ton and the Republican congress
finally may get into mood to revise
THE tariff downward.
These politicians of the dominant
party say that if the people knew
they were actually to get it they would
! prefer to have downward revision CIV
en- to them by the Republicans rather
than by the Democrats, who, as these
high tariff men say, when once start.
ed on the downward scale of the sched-
ules would not know where to stop"
President Against Delay.
Suggestion has been made to Presi-
dent Taft by some of the leading Re
publicans that 1t might be just as well
to postpone full consideration Of one
or two of his chief measures until the
next session. These Republicans, the
president apparently thinks, do not
realize that If the legislation is post.
poned how great an effect the putting
off may have on the elections.
II is understood that at some of the
White House conferences the presi-
dent has said plainly to those who
urge postponement that the party will
have a hard enough fight at the best
to carry the next house and that If
the Administrations recommendations
are not acted on the effect will be TO
add to the handicap. II is shrewdly
suspected by observers in Washington
that the Republicans who are suggest
ing postponement are afraid that the
debate on one or two measures will
be so long continued that they will not
be able to get back in their districts
in season to make full preparation for
the coming fight
Some of the men who are credited
With being wise politicians are telling
the Republicans who have the post
ponement fever that If they stay in
Washington and enact the presidents
recommendations into law they win
gain more than they would by having
them put over and putting the add
uonal time gained into the campaign.
Democrats See Advantages.
It Is perfectly clear that the Demo
Gratis from a political standpoint, will
be very willing to have the Republic
ans postpone action on some OF the
presidents measures, for the minority
party believes that If only a part OF
the administrations program Is car.
ried out the Republicans win lose just
SO much ammunition for use in the
campaign during the months pre-
ceding the election. The Democrats,
however. are not giving this advice
70 the Republicans. for they are will
ing chat the enemy should make the
mistake which they seem to think
wonie be vital and It must be said