New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
TFrom The Tribune Bureau.

] Washington, December 19.
MR. LONGWORTH'S SUCCESS.-Repre-
| sentative Longworth has achieved the
seemingly impossible and has formulated
! a measure providing for permanent Tariff
Commission which meets with the approval
/ OF Representatives Lenroot and Good, both
| enthusiastic insurgents, and which, because
| of Mr.. Longworth's familiarity with the
| views Of the President and his loyalty to
the administration, is certain to meet with
approval at the White House That Mr..
Longworth had undertaken this difficult
task was announced in this column some
days ago, but then 1t was not supposed
that the diplomacy of the Ohio statesman
would be equal to the task of SO soon
reconciling the conflicting views regarding
the form which such an important meas
ure should take There still remains some
details of the measure to be perfected. and
then Mr.. Longworth will submit it to the
PRESIDENT. but the progress he has made
ALREADY assures his success in his effort
to align all Progressive Republicans In
support OF this measure, which the Presi
dent regards as the most important of all
that may be passed at this session. AS
has been told. there are many old line Re
publfcans who are hostile to any effective
form OF Tariff Commission, and the Presi-
dent is unaterably opposed to any other
kind The fact that Mr.. Longworth has
secured the approval of Messrs- Lenroot
and Good for the measure for which he is
working must be an ample assurance, how
ever. 10 all the friends of the Tariff Com
mission policy that it is a genuinely effec-
tive measure, while the popularity of Mr..
Longworth himself, not only with the Pro-
sressives, but with the Regulars will go
far toward paving the way for the success
nf hiC both
Committee and in the House. It is learned
too, that Mr. Longworth has given careful
consideration TO the La Toilette and Bev-
erldge bills, and has incorporated in his
measure all that is best in theirs, SO that
II Is believed no reasonable excuse can be
found In the Senate for rejecting the Long
worth bill if it is successful in the House
The President will lend the full weight of
his influence to secure the enactment of
this measure, and il now seems probable
that nothing short of g. Democratic fill
buster can prevent its becoming a law.
PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE ARMY
1t was perhaps inevitable that out of the
reply Of Secretary Dickinson to the Nc
Lachfan resolution, its subsequent suppress
sion by the order of the President, etc.
should grow the report that Secretary
Dickinson purposed to resign, that the ex-
eculVe was out of sympathy with the aims
and purposes of the Secretary and the !
Chief Of Staff and other representatives
along these lines. There is however, no |
basis for these Tumors. President Taft was |
too long Secretary of War not to appre- |
clate the pressure which Is exerted on |
every head of that department TO promote |
In every proper way the efficiency of the |
nlhtary establishment, and. moreover, he |
Is sufficiently broad-minded and far-see- |
enthusiasm for improvement of his subor-
dinates, even though he may regard it as
his duty, as head of the national govern
ment, 10 curb that enthusiasm The Fresf- |
dent made his own views regarding the ne
cessity of increased efficiency of the mill
tary establishment very plain in his speech
at the banquet of the American Society for
the Judicial Settlement of International
Disputes, last Saturday evening. The fact
is that Mr. Taft has little patience With
the aiarmlst type Of statesman. such for
instance, as Representatives Hobson and
Those men, in his estimation. |
have q responsibility quite distinct from
that OF the army officer, whose vocation is
the perfection of the military establish
nent- he is strongly of the opinion thar
the army officer who does not employ every
proper means to promote the weIfars OF the
army and to increase the Importance of his
vocation is not especially useful to the SER
vice. His approval of those who seek en-
ergettcally TO increase and perfect the mill
tary defenceS of the nation has inst bee,
demonstrated by his elevation of General
Arthur Murray, chief of the Coast Artil-