Show HOUSE MAY TAKE U P CANADA PACT not unlikely to insist that it shall take form of legislative action HAS PRECEDENT FOR STAND of tariff commission bill F fear car it t wilt will de be weakened story of philadelphia woman womans costly venture ventura in smuggling by GEORGE CLINTON washington prior to thia this time in these dispatches it has been aid said that president taft bad had high hope that before the present session ended he would be able to let the country know that the ultimate consumer was to benefit by the opportunity to purchase boino some of the necessities of life at a lower price heretofore bere hereto fora because of the removal from front them of the incubus of a tariff the i 1 resident had in mind a reciprocity treat with ith cana canala ia under the terms of which he believed he waa as to get free natural products there was a good deal of scepticism in washington concerning the dents ability to secure ratification by tho senate of the treav treaty which would lower the tariffs the canadian corn com to negotiate cr tho the treaty have done their errand in N ashington nh logton now it ie Is knan that president tatt taft for come gome time ha has abtin harl hard at work lining up high tar iff senators va lielia lf of his treaty en davor and the word Is that be has succeeded ili u his task there seems to ho be some chance hoever ho fever that the hou v of re presen will insist upon having a band in the negotiations with the country s northern neighbor treaties cf ef course under the constitution are for the senate alono alone to ratify but the bouse house of representatives represent atles always has main tattled thai that anthina an thing affecting tho the revenue must take legislative and not afy forin form and mutt originate in the representative chamber if it this view of tho the case Is held to bo be proper it Is possible ras that legislation rather than a treaty roust must bo be depended upon to put cana Co nallan ilan reciprocity into effect if it it Is to be authorized at all parallel case in 1904 there ie Is a virtually parallel case I 1 which I 1 Is being referred to freely by member of the house in the spring of 1901 the krnato was called together by president roosevelt after the ad ail of fon gresa march 4 the senators simply ned in washing ten and bat mat in an extra session of their own wn body mr bir roosevelt sub bitted a reciprocity treaty with cuba to the senators Bena tors it affected the revenues accord according ling to the views of the house le idar and so the treaty form wf ani given over oer and mr was obliged to call an extra session sessio i of congress tor for No november when the reciprocity matter as malo the subject cf of legislation originating in tle we house of representatives tho the bill which was as ped at that urae time WM na virtually flent leal with the treaty which the senate li hid id been asked to ratify but it was legislation nd not a treaty and the form which it took the argument of the that revenue tion must havo have origin in the popular chambe oil ou 0 oh k for tariff commission ale members abers of congress are won dering lust just what effect the meet ing of the national nal tariff com coul ml mission ton association which has just been bought b ought to tc a close in washing ton will 1111 have on the form of tace garip commission initiation as sia it Is cren dually enacted meted at the present halon h ua alon president taft senators cummin cummins and Ile cridge and representative I 1 dongworth ong ung worth hole hose name Is carried tz 2 o 0 on the commission bill 11 which the administration has approve ed made aree breeches ches to the delegates to the convention and expressed warm approval of its till endeavors there Is however among republicans in con 4 groso gro so an undercurrent of to tariff legislation it 4 d not to be supposed suppo ted that tho the republican lenders leaders will earr cart their antagonism to the measure to iro lito extent of tit sec se curin tirIng if its dufel but the progressive cleans and 4 a good many of the demo brets believe belleve that the element may eau buu b burn such chan change go s t to 0 b be a made in the tho longworth bill ax as to waven its Us purpose and its foitl the ritu atlon Is being watched most closely by the ml friend friends of tt tl commis ion slon rapin and by those who bo SH oaf betly are ol 01 izod to it but who will give it the thel Rup sup port rort in parl part et at as a Tle publIcAn cic rae asure a mea which they hope will help the party in n the th next election leet lon origin c ef coarr plan arje tariff Wies ens an had a is sien nir history it was at ra fit of bt ton in in lanil lt mi yar years ago that the tariff riff drin plan wre suggested members et of both creel great political par ties tie smiled at tte lite tt e idu that con grest sr evier vr could bo b o brought ta consider cus cu tome regulation regulations were becom mended 1 by any auy otili official cial body except the majority maJori trIn in 4 congro itself at about the urae ume that the ho indian apolla spoils metting wa held bold there was a convention fit chicago bl eago of of tho aboe bus business Inest interests which held avat reciprocity was a good thing u aidi that in tome instances the tariff OW be mt est te to the ad advantage vantage of araan kt U euon tbt the tarie jp ital a 1 eVide rim bat but that waa AS 2 indianapolis smiled at jilia all the t uld idea had J been smiled at by me abers of t both dol houses of 0 t congress cen v tres time time for some dormant things by jay ad and nd then tuen canue during the 1 roosevelt bill commission ministration a it tariff into the bentte by introduced was ae nete ridge of indiana the bill made no header headway slid nd in a fact a good goodmo man who y those members oven even republican were of the tariff pe ald said that the scheme was chimerical into in he after mr it taft came studied the com mission plan and finally C congress was 1111 induced to tariff board a create the present comparativo ely little board to witch power was given it Is said id however er tat that both democrat democrats and tha tariff board admitted in congress legislation the wedge le 9 watton was for a tariff comm ision is ion nd d that one day tbt kent goil of the eom commission mission advocate advocates va uld be reached it seem likely that it will be reache 1 at the present res deion lon peculiar customs cae case here Is a curious customs case A week or eo to ago a philadelphia woman of high social standing as the world views via As society the wife lie of a it kroml nent club man was as visiting in mon lion real treat canada alle there she was shown tome some laa la a gowns whick she onside rel lo 10 bo be of rire r ire tre beauty and w ach were offered to her for sale ono one 0 of there gowns she liked to so much that she sho ventured to ask the price and w was as told that it t was she p bild ild cash tor for it on the spot and then she smuggled it I 1 into the united states taking it to her home city of phila delphia somo some woman friend 0 of f the bua buer er of the lace gown tipped oft off the fact of tro tte purchase and the smuggling to the agents of 0 the treasury depart ment an agent called on the bus band of the woman and told him what he knew the husband of coure laid said it was impossible that his wife could have been teen guilty of a fraud in an hour or two however the husband was at the office of 0 the customs agents arents with hia his attorney and he raid said that his wito wife had bought the gown but that her failure to pay duty was merely nn tin inadvertence the customs authorities had the go gown n appraised by kiperts and it was found it could have been purchased in the united state states for 75 and that the woman who paid for it had been done out of the husband As compelled to pay the duty on the united states value of the gown and also to pay a penalty when the transaction waa vias over he fourd that ha ho and his wife together had paid for something aich could bare have been bought for 75 at any phia department store billion dollar session here congress this winter will appropriate prop about stout 1000 to enable the be government to pay ita its bills daring during the fiscal year ending june 30 1912 1911 years ago when a till lion dollar congress nis spoken of 0 the words were uttered in the irony of 0 exaggeration by members tit n the party which did not happen to be in power the intention was to intimate that it 11 the extravagance of tho majority in congress did not cease the first thing the country knows it will have a bil lion dollar congress on its hands not only has the billion dollar con gres come but the billion dollar ses elon slon baa has tor for each year about th tbt ot amount must be appropriated to carry the tho government along of 01 course the revenues li hive ive increased II 11 they bad not it would not take many man ballton dollar congress con gresse ei to bankett the there 1 Is solas fear that the appropriation tills this year will ill have to go through without as careful scrutiny as usual because both senate and house have matters on their hand hands which it could not je foreseen were to be the subjects of long debate I 1 if f the Illi pinchot chot report gete gelts in into t 0 the house it will consume muc rauch h I 1 tj time me and as ai for the senate the lorimer case ease seems to be bound to take up the bet ter part of many days father fathers and sons GOT COY glasscock Glas ecock of nest nt virginia did what hat many mary people considered to le s a graceful thing when he nominated no D ivis eldest eon bon of the late sen san alvn B elkins to succeed hi his talief f la in tho the senate the younger 11 kins in any could serve only a few days dairs because the leg legislature slature of aest w is about to elect two sellA tore tots to nil fill the bocan cles caused by the retirement of if sena tor for scott in alarm march and by the recent death of mr ecklas there are a good many mon in prominent public life in washington who ho fathers were men of national nature it I 1 Is possible that the roost noted case of father and son bon was that of john abbra and john Q quincy ad ams both loth presidents erts of the united state john quincy adam adams after retiring from the wa elect elt td ed U i tha houie house of r ev r es and seated there tor for many years finally nally dying at t big hi post of uty present ident taft batts father was at one lle amre secretary tary of war star alere are only two portrait portraits in one of the office of the president one a thai that of hie his father and bd the other Is that of theodore ali it PI 17 av be said id iba that he latter has not yet lawn to he the wall when 13 t a president was secretary of at WT war 41 fathers picture looked down bim tillin it it is BOI not the ai me rae portrait now bang tn in he the atle llou for thai that 1 the h property of the WAT war depart mt jag a oil portrait portraits of bwy binte in the time of thikton ton |