The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-26
Republicans Plan
 Prompt Revision Attempt to Get Majority Senators Together on a Scheme to Lower Un-
 popular Duties
HOPE TO BALK DEMOCRATS
Threat of Taft Veto and At titude of Some Extrem- ists, However, Are Mil tating Against the Idea.

s" " June Z6-ReDuDIicdIl Senators are coming nearer and nearer to thd belief that the only way for them to meet the volley of tariff legis- lation directed against them by the Democrats is to get together on their
 own account and pass a general tar if bill Senator Penrose, chairman of the Finance committee, on Friday ad-
 vocated such plan. pointing out that
 the time had come for the standpat- ters to make a serious change of front on tariff matters. He spoke, then, of
 the tariff board would have supplied
 the necessary data, but things have moved rapidly since and the feeling
 among his partisanS is that now is
 the time for the bills to be drawn if they are to do any good political ly.
 The Presidents suggestion of a re- vision schedule by schedule has been so generally accepted both in Congress and by the country that even the term general revision" partakes now some what of theI nature of schedule revis- ion, and the' plan proposed means sim ply a revision of the schedules most in controversy-woolen, cotton, iron, and possibly sugar and leather.
 The SCnerno IS TOT measure passed by the Republican votes in the Senate, to be appended as a substitute amendment to any one of the bills coming up from the House. In that form it would be sent back to the lower chamber, and the issue would be put squarely up to the Dem ocratic majority to accept or reject a revision bearing the sign manual of Republicanism, but which would prr- nrt of tn n- ward on several important chapters of the Payne-Aldrich act
 If the Democrats, either in the House or Senate, should reject the Republican measure, of course, the fight would have to be carried to the country in 1912 on the merits of the bill. If the House should accept 1t, the Republicans would at least be able to claim the measure as chiefly their own, provided the President should sign it. Just there comes the rub, for without the assurance that the President would sign the resultant bill it would be unlikely that much pro- gress could be made toward harmoniz ing the widely divergent Republican factions on the tariff.
 Special dispatches have told of the Presidents continued determination to veto even his pet Canadian measure if it came to him bearing, in the form of riders, bills revising tariff schedules without the expert data the tariff board was created to secure. The deduction was drawn from that deter imitation that the same measures, un- attached to the Reciprocity bill, would also meet the Executive veto.
 Republican politicians, however, find it difficult to believe that the Presi- dent would take so radical step. They would themselves infinitely pre- fer to wait until next session under the guise of waiting for expert assist ance from the tariff board, but in their present plight they do not think too much weight should be given the argument in favor of scientific data. They realize that the country wants tariff revision, and they know now, if they ever doubted it, that the country means revision downward. Whether that revision comes before or after the board makes its detailed report they believe will be a matter of little inn portance to the country. That is the argument they wish to present to the President, but they admit that, so far, the result is gravely in doubt.
 The insurgents have all along in- certain schedules as amendment to the Reciprocity bill, and in view of the re- peated assurance of the Presidents in tention to veto all tariff bills at this session, other than reciprocity, they are pressing the view that if there is any chance at all of his withholding the veto it will be on the amended Canadian bill, for which he has fought so strenuously. But here arises an interesting point of difference between the insurgents and the regulars. While the progressiveS realize that they have nothing to fear from a veto that would again put them in the popular attitude of fighting for revision down ward against Presidential influence, the regulars feel that the Republican party can get no advantage from any bill drafting the Senate Republicans may do if the Republican President will in the end refuse to sign the measures. From their point of view the only hope is to get together on bill that the President will sign-and sign at this session.
 So far the insurgent who has most conspicuously opposed the general re- Foliette FisL1 Wiseonsin Vi con as himself If ft a can- m didate for the Presidency, though, of course, such irrcconcilable standpat- ters as MT. Hepburn of Idaho also op- poses the plan. MT. La Follette's op- position is the more interesting from the fact that he is himself drafting a bill making sweeping reductions in the tariff, which he intends to offer first as an amendment to the Reciprocity bill, and, if voted down there, to of fer again on the Woolen bill. The point of his position seems to be that he dslikes the prospect of merging his individuality with the program of his party and would prefer to make his figh. alone or with such Democratic support as he can muster
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