The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-03-25
HOLDS CONFERENCE WITH UN-
DERWooD AND CANVASsEs
DETAILS OF BILL.
METHOD OF REVISION UNDECIDED
Whether Measure Will Be Voted on
as One Bill or Schedule by Schedule
Is Receiving Attention of Party
Leaders-Expect Progressive Aid.

Washington, March 25.-Presdent .
Wilson started work in earnest last
night on what he considers the fore .
most task of his administrations
vision Of the tariff. He had a long .
conference at the White House with .
Representative Oscar Underwood, the .
Democratic majority leader and can .
vassed not only the details of the +
tariff bill drawn by the ways and .
means committee of the house, but .
gave consideration also to the STRAIT /
egg necessary to steer the tariff ques-
ton speedily and effectively through |
both houses of Congress.
The question Immediately upper
most in the minds of members of Con-
gress now is whether the tariff should |
be revised, schedule by schedule, or (
in single tariff bill. The party eau
Gus will decide the ISSUE but the
wishes of the President are being |
consulted by Democratic leaders.
The idea of coming to an agreement
on single measure, carrying with it,
the weight of the administrations ap-
proval, has appealed strongly to the
President, because it suggested more
expeditions action and the possibility
of legislation on currency and other
questions before the adjournment Of
the extra session. Close friends and
supporters of Mr.. Wilson, in both the
House and the Senate, however, open
ly have been questioning the advisable
ity of a single tariff bill, renewing
the objection hitherto raised that sec
| tional interests might bring about
enough defections among the Demo
Gratis in the Senate to defeat the meas
ure there. They have urged that by
| the schedule by schedule plan, enough
Republican votes can be enlisted on
those schedules wherein there are
Democratic losses to pass them with
out difficulty, though not as quickly.
While Representative Underwood
has been understood Of late to favor
the single tariff bill idea, it is known
that other Democratic leaders in the
House and members of the ways and
means committee hold the opposite
view and have hoped to convert Mr..
Underwood to their way of thinking.
! H. d31a,,eeaA he toriff
Monday with Senators Gore of Okla
homa and Hughes of New Jersey both
of whom favor the schedule by sched-
ule process.
Senator Gore also talked with the
! President about his failure to secure
men of ability with sufficient means
to enable them to accept diplomatic
positions. The senator suggested that
Congress might be able to appropriate
money to build embassies and lega-
tions and take away the chief expense
with which this country's representa-
tives abroad heretofore have been bur
dened. The President displayed much
interest in a possible solution of the
| question.
Besides the official announcement
that Charles w. Eliot, president emeri-
tus of Harvard, had declined the am
bassadorship to Great Britain, there
was no definite word at the White
House as to probable diplomatic ap-
pointments. Secretary Tumulty de
clared that, while the President had
number of men under consideration
only few had been tentatively fixed
upon for specific posts.
The only recess appointment thus
far made was that John H. Rogers
Monday to become United States mar
shall for the Western district of Tex.
as.
Former Senator Gardner of Maine
was White House caller. He said
that week ago he had been offered
a collectorship of the port of Portland,
Me-, and that he would accept the ap-
pointment White House officials,
however, refused to confirm or deny
this.
The President shook hands with the
members of the Princeton baseball
team expressing regret that he could
not attend their game with George