Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-26
NO TIME FOR LEGISLATION
Argument Advanced for Non.
Partisan Commission,
TWO CONFERENCESHELD TODAY
Preparation of Message Occupies
Most of Presidents Time-Call-
ers Denied Audience.


his tariff utterances in the Forthcoming
message to Congress than on any other
subject. That will probably be the last
pat of the message to be written, and
the belief is growing that the executive
may have comparatively little to say be-
yond approval of the general idea of a
tariff commission to furnish material to
the President and Congress for ultimate
scientlnc REVISION of the tariff.
The reason for dwarnng the tariff an
that the tarin COMMISSION has been at
work too short time to be able to
present complete reports upon any par
tlcuiar schedule
AS the President cannot lay before Con-
gress facts on any OF these schedules, ne
will refrain from making recommended
tons for their revision. 1t would De use
less it is believed, to suggest to congress
| q revision OF any given NUMBER of scned-
ules without having 1acls TO back up The
necessity and TO secure a tar revision.
Will Not Play Politics.
The President has not the least idea of
playing politics. If he were inclined that
way 1t would be possible to hasten the
work Of the tariff commission so that an
excuse could be maue to ask for revision
of a given number of schedules in which
the majority of people are Interested.
the president TO-DAY mad two taiin con-
ferences. The first was with Prof. ii. e.
Emory. chairman of the tariff commas
sion, who reported that the COMMISSION
had not been at work long enough TO
gather fun Information upon any given
scneuuie of the existing larln law. IL Is
at work upon the pup and paper sched-
cannot have these schedules ready to re-
port upon for several mOntus, too late
for the short session of congress to do
anything. There will not, therefore, be
anything definite on that topic to lay be-
fore Congress.
Tne second conference was with a num-
Der OF omcers of what is known as the
National Tariff COMMISSION Association.
VINO are advocates of q permanent tariff
commission and the taxing of the tariff
out OF politics. Their views have been
presented I'm the past and are pretty we'll
known. They urged the President to
fOrcibly recommend in his coming mess
age, the idea OF non-partisan tariff re-
VISION. The President asked the visitors
to submit their views to him in writing
SO that he may consiuer them. The visit
ors were Jonn c. Copp, Boston; Charles
NJ. Jarvis, New Britain, Conn: Alba T..
Johnson Philadelphia, John Kirby. jr.,
Dayton II. E. Miles hachine, Wis; Henry
Cs l
Wills, New York.
Tariff Legislation Impracticable.
The impracticability Of tariff legislation
of even the most unimportant degree at
the coming session is fully manifest to
the leaders Of both democratic and re-
publican parties. There are Ia. ge and IN
tiuential elements of republicans in both
Senate and house who declare that they
will oppose to the last often revision OF
certain schedules. In the Senate a small
element wCuid be able to stop the pas
sage of any bill.
There is no doubt that the first day of
the beginning of Congress will see a
| number of tariff bills introduced, rang
ing all the way from thorough REVISION
to changes In a few scneuuies. Some OF
| vision of from 10 to % per cent in all
schedules. These bills, as things look
| now, will be worth no more than the
| paper they are written upon.
Speaker Cannon Pays Respects.
Speaker Cannon drifted into the White
House today with Representative Mann
Of Illinois. These two are old cronies
| The Speaker was as blithesome as ue-
| bird in the spring. He saw the President
| just long enough to pay his respects. AS
| to the tariff and everything else pertain.
| ing to PROBABLE legislation this winter the
| Speaker joyfuily refrained from common,
when he met newspaper men. Sufficient
| unto the day is the evil thereof one OF
| his favorite expressions, summed up his
feelings.
Working Hard on His Message.
The President began work on his mes
sage right after his breakfast this morn
ing. He remained in the private part OF
| the White House until a late hour in the
morning, so as not to be interrupted in his
offices. Many visitors were told by Sec
rotary Norton that it would be impos-
sible for the President to see callers until
he had completed his message. MIR. Taft
will continue to work upon the document
this afternoon and evening. He will put
in the whole time debating from a fund
of data he has gathered on various SUBJ
jects.