Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-21
NOT A LEADING MEMBER OF CON.
GREss WILLING TO PRE-.
DICT ACTION.
DEMOCRATIC HOUSE TO PASS
BILLS FOR POLITICAL EFFECT
Hope Prevails That They Will Go No
Farther and Thus Leave Tariff
Question a. Issue in Presidential
camnaien-Presidsnt Taft to Urge
Revision.


session of congress unless it wants to
be disappointed. The return Of the
president has brought to town most Of
the influential members Of congress.
Everybody is talking about the tariff.
but 1t is DIFF 1cuit to find mar VINO
is willing 20 yreo'.t that any revision
IL gislation would he enacted at the
coming session
The situati III In nutshell IS this:
The presiden. desires to obtain re-
vision Of the wo ,len and cotton scheo-
ules, and other schedules, II his tari.
board shall be able 20 report on them
in time.
The democrats Of the house Of repre-
sentatives will pass revision bt y. out
their secret nope is that the session
will end witho It any completed tariff
legislation.
The conservatives, or standpat re-
publican members Of the senate are
against touching the Aldri, h-Payne ID W
at this session. pitho some Of them viii
follow the president in his effort to
obtain legislation because they realize
how much such legislation means to
the president at this time.
Democrats Confer.
Several Of the democratic members
Of the ways and means committee were
here during the week. They conferred
with each other ard with democratic
members Of the house who are not
members Of this committee. They say
there is but one course for the demo-
Gratis Of the house to pursue. This Is
to pass democratic bills revising the
wool, cotton metal. machinery and
other schedules. These bills 1t IL as
serted, will be based on the democratic
doctrine Of tariff for revenue. 1t Is
settled in advance, say the members OF
the ways and means committee who
are in town, that the democratic house
will enter no compromises on the tarin.
Persons who are suggesting that the
democratic house and the republican
president may be able to get together
=. n tariff legislation forget that the
democrats favor a tariff for revenue.
while the president believes IN a pro-
tective tariff" said one member o, the
ways and means committee today.
'There will be no tariff legislation un-
less the senate and the president are
willing to accept the bills the house OF
Desire Tariff For Issue.
The democrats would like to have
the tariff reserved as an issue for the
presidential campaign next year Tney
realize, however. that the subject
would be Of small value to them as an
issue unless they were able to present
to the country q clean record on the
subject in congress. They say the oiils
they will put thru the house Will be
reasonable, but will not be based on the
protective tariff principle. They seem
to believe that the country Will sustain
them in a presidential campaign II they
are able to show that they passed In
good faith revision bills based on the
principle Of tariff for revenue.
Insurgents republican senators may
be counted on to make fight In the
senate for revision of a certain KIND.
but It will not be the kind proposed
by the democratic house Of representa-
tives 1t is plain that they are plan
ming to fight for revision based on
the protective system, and to stand Tor
1t as doggedly as the democrats OF the
house will stand for a tariff for reVe-
nue..
At no time since the Aldrich Payne
law was enacted have the standpat re-
publicans in the senate been In favor
Of revising any schedule Of 1t. They
took the ground when the bill was
signed by the president that 1t ought
to stand untouched for at least ten
years II some Of them are at the
present time pretending to be In favor
Of revision based on facts submitted by
the tariff board it is because they feel