Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-02
Has Visions of Compromise.

They'll only have to come to a COM
promise. The Constitution of the United
States says revenue bills shall originate
in the House, and that the President
should make treaties with the consent of
the Senate. We've lately had sent to Con-
gress a commercial agreement in name.
but a treaty in reality, yet one that goes
primarily to the House. 1t NAV be wise
and it may not be. In months time
we will be called upon to enact it into
law. l don't know what we are going
to do with it.
ASK the fruit growers of California
what they are going to do when Ca
do under the favored nation clause?
Where's your protection if the hogs
and cattle come in free? And what an
swer are we to give to one-third of the
population of the country-the far
mersp
They'll only come to a compromise
after all j do not believe that by
legislation originating in the House
and amended in the Senate we can do
so great a work in the double somer
sault and hop. skip and jump fashion
expected of us
Lodge Favors Tariff Commission.
Senator Lodge, who followed Mr.
Cannon, condoled with the $50 wooden
manufacturers before him. Also he
| reiterated his recent remarks in sup
| port of the tariff commission proposed
| by President Taft.
Il can readily understand why you
| folks are damned by the people who
| buy clothes" said Senator Lodge.
| They have been led to believe that you
! in the wooden trade are robbing them,
reaping all the benefit for yourselves.
| They have been educated along these
| lines You must educate them other
wise. -,
Il am strongly in favor of a tariff
| board You may call it board. commls-
| sion or whatever else you want to, out
LET ne have a body outside Of politics to
give to Congress and the country what
| the people in each industry know OF its
products. In this way the tariff question
| will be- amicably settled more quickly
than in any other.
Il have learned in the making of the
last tariff law that commission is the
only means of lending stability to tariff
legislation.
Could Bride Newspapers, He Says.
Charles II. Harding of Philadelphia,
vice president of the association, told
the wooden men before him that the
2lamor in the public press against high
prices, and schedule Il could he stopped
for $1,000 Mr.. Harding said that on
two occasions advertising agencies had
sent representatives TO him offering to
engineer a complete change of sentiment
in the news and editorial columns OF the
newspapers and induce the latter TO
chameleon high tariff duties. In both i'll
stances. Mr.. Harding said. S2tJOu0 was
the console ration demanded.
At the speakers table were: Senators
penrose of Pennsylvania, Gamble OF
south Dakota. Hepburn OF Idaho. Curtis
of Kansas. and Representatives. Wagner
N y lf M
calderhsad of Kansas. Mondell of WSom-
ing. Fordney Of Michigan. Needham of
California Bates of Pennsylvania. Howell
of Utah. Cole of Ohio, Moore of Pennsyl-
,ania PRAY of Montana, Hamer of Idaho.
lanes E. Reynolds of the tariff board.
and l.. White Rusby, secretary to Speak
er Cannon. Numerous letters of regret
from other members of both the Senate
and House who could not attend were
read.
Wood Asks Only Fairness.
In his Introductory remarks President
John p Wood, who acted as POSTMASTER.
rose to stirring defense of the wool
growing. importing and working industry,
saying that the industry was on the same
plane as any other in this country, and
asked for neither more or less than its
due from the government. Mr.. Wood
said. in part:
"ThoSe engaged IN the WOODEN industry
ask no special privilege, seek no advan-
tage but that of equal opportunity, neither
possess nor desire any benefcence of gov
eminent that is not freely availablesto all
citizens They are in no sense bere-
ficiaries of the tariff except as they share
the benefits for the common advantage of
all.
I'm no branch OF the wooden business
from the production of the wool to the
distribution of the finished clothing is
there any trust or combination In re-
strsint of trade. No individual nor cor
po-ation nor group of either exercises