The Washington times., 1911-05-01
Broad Gagged Policy Urged
on High Tariff
Advocates.
HOPES EXPRESSED
BY PROGRESSIVES
Believe Bailey Following Will
Line Up With Harmonious
Party Front.

Tremendous pressure is going to be
brought on Senate Democrats of high
tariff persuasion to line up for broad
gauged revision policy in the extra ses-
sion and in the next regular session.
In the last tariff session Senator
Bailey led considerable body Of Demo-
cratic Senators off in pursuit of the doc
trine of taxing the admission Of raw
materials. Senator Bailey declared he
never would assent to the free raw
materials doctrine. The result Of this
was that a number of the Senate Demo-
Gratis voted for duties on such materials
Some, too, voted for tariffs as earn
estly as their Republican brethren, on
the plea that they had to look out for
local interests.
The Result.
The result Of the disposition of many
Senate Democrats to vote for duties and
some of their stiff duties at that on one
plea and another has been to discredit
In a large measure the talk of House
Democratic leaders that they intended
to force through equitable readJust-
of importance to the consumer in this
Congress. They have been met with
the taunt that they were well aware
-fhey could go ahead with impunity cut
XQnR down OuJl6S IN lne I1OuSc' hllO wins
That whatever they did. or the large
share of it, would be blocked in the
Senate.
But now influences are working TO
seek to get the Senate Democrats 10 llne
up unitedly for the House program OF
revision or an approximation thereto.
Genuine Revision.
It is improbable these influences will
succeed completely. But Senate Demo-
Gratis who are earnestly in favor of the
enactment OF some genuine revision
LEGISLATION at this session are express
ing hope that the Senate Democrats
wifi present 4 much different attitude
toward tariff than they did in the 1903
extra session.
II is being urged on Democratic Sena-
tors of high tariff proclivitieS that tSe
,branch of Congress; that it stands an
.excellent show of winning the Senate
land the Presidency in 1912; that it is
/ in very different situation from that
occupied in 1903. and that IT now has
II large measure of responsibility upon
Ia; and that in view of these things it
'is Incumbent on Senate Democrats to
|consider the tariff. not from the stand
point of local interest or personal
prejudices. but to unite on states
,nanlfke policy of moderate tariff re-
Hope for Revision.
Some of the leading progressiveS
,among the Senate Democrats are talk
hng in this strain. and are expressing
themselves as hopeful of effecting i'm
portant results.
They believe that most of the Demo-
cratic Senators will set out to do what
seems best for the Democratic party
They think that most of the so-called
Bailey following can be won over to
unite with the progressive Democrats
with the object of presenting a har-
nonious front on tariff, and that the
result will be the avoidance of the polit-
icai blunders. which the Republican
leaders are hoping and predicting the
Democrats will make in the upper
house.
For one thing, the doctrine of a duty
on raw materials will probably find
less support than before among the
Senate Democrats.