Show LOOK TO ACTIONS OF gatherings of state bodies are espee especially lally interesting at this time TARIFF QUESTION UPPERMOST president anxious that republican meetings shall In indorse clorse the measure income tax chances i roots letter to roosevelt third term ise issue u 0 washington within a short time I 1 abood a good many states elates that are normally republican or in most of which at least the republicans have hare more thin than I 1 a I 1 fighting chance of victory will hold I 1 conventions tor for the adoption of plat torme toma and the nomination of state of an AB president tatt taft showed in ids his letter to the republican editors in illinois he to la anxious that his bin administration as a whole shall be in idorsey by the conventions contentions and that petillo Peti flo mention shall be made in words of 0 commendation of the va y no aldrich tariff bill this desire of the president preal dent to have the republicans of the different states officially indorse the measure to which be gave his own ova sanction when ho hei signed it and later in hla his speech at winona minnesota Is likely to be provocative of trouble in perhaps a I 1 of the conventions the indiana diana state convention will be held floon and there perhaps the question of whether or not to indorse the tariff act Is the most crucial 1 not all pleased pleaded with bill 1 it la in not at at nil all a L partisan view for the 00 facts are arc too plain to be denied ahat b at h herc ete to iii inthe republican ranks I 1 ti to tome 0 o in e decided ji 0 ww 1 0 1 1 P a yn I 1 IT dri I 1 t yu arr u u kno knows this and all the tha mini members of the administrations party know it there are several high tariff republicans who vilio formerly were members or of congress and whose terras terms of office expired last march who have been in washington to tell tall the president that white while it Is possible that they were defeated because they were high tariff men it Is nevertheless true that the element of the party even in the states where downward revision principles are popular Is ili still strong and that this element would resent at the polls any attempt to sidetrack resolutions In dorsing all of the acts of the administration including of course that which led to the signing of the tariff bill the revision down downward ward republicans especially esp those from states where the situation Is such as it Is in indiana bay that if the payne pay no aldrich aid rich tariff bill Is indorsed endorsed Indor sed in the state conventions vent ions thousands ards upon thousands of republicans either will stay away from the polls or will go there to vote the democratic ticket so it Is that the president has had both sides of the matter put up to him and be has been forced to determine what to do ile he apparently thinks that because the tariff bill was a republican measure the members of the party even though they do not like the tart tariff ff law should smother their dislikes and be willing to have the tha measure indorsed endorsed Indor sed as one to which the party has given its adherence the situation in indiana in indiana when some of the lican district conventions were held for the purpose of choosing state committeemen mitte emen the administration was given support in resolutions but as tar far as the tariff was concerned the delegates contented themselves with commending president taft for hla his earnest efforts to secure a real tariff commission the democrats and some of the high tariff republicans say any that this was simply beating the devil around the stump and that the singling out of the tariff commission of et forts of the president for approbation simply resulted in calling sharp attention to the fact that words of for the main tariff act lad had been withheld it Is impossible yet to tell what the indiana state republican convention w will ill do in the matter of the tariff the dew democrats oc rats nay may they do not care much whether the fl ooster republicans indorse the tariff act or not for if it Is Indor endorsed sed the low tariff republicans will be and if it la Is not in the disgruntlement will be that of the high tariff republicans the democrats seem to see victory for themselves either way on the other hand band the republicans declare that their party always has had the ability to get together when the danger of being split asunder seemed most imminent in and they express the belief that history will repeat itself in tho the near future chances for income tax south carolina recently ratified the tb proposed amendment to the tion of the united states which will allow the lie I 1 imposition pi 91 tax on lat comes virginia another southern state declined to ratify the provision representatives in congress congles 8 are keeping close watch on tho the action of oc the various stata legislatures legislature there are both friends and foes of oc tho the income income tax proposition in congress congre aa but even among its friends hare to li sharp difference of opinion ai as to whether such a tax law ever properly could bo be enforced forced li because of the proneness of men to hide the facts conc concerning eming the amount of their income the proposed amendment to the constitution which will make legal beyond all question the laying of the tax on incomes has ban been ratified already by the following states south carolina kentucky oklahoma illinois and alabama it has been reject ed by virginia the legislatures ot of the following states are either now in session or have just adjourned and as yet no action has been taken by them on the constitutional amendment rhode island ohio massachusetts new jersey new york and maryland why it was submitted to states it will be remembered that during tho the tariff debate early last spring the administration and the republican leaders suggested that the inc gincomo omo tax amendment to the constitution should be submitted to the state legislatures for action this unquestionably was done la in order to discourage income tax debate and the introduction of amendments to the tariff bill of course it Is not intended to say may that the administration was not sincere in III its ita desires dealores to 0 o have income tax leg legislation iala it if it ever should reach a legislative form put on safe constitutional grounds it Is believed that president taft to Is in favor of the income tax pro bided vided it can be shown that it Is dec in order to raise revenue but his his judicial r nind mind Is such I 1 that ilia ho does doea not want any legislation 1 tion to go beathe on the statute books un tin less leaa it is absolutely certain that it has baa the constitution buck ot of it alt aa lias beon been bald abere era aro viany many friends and nd many ta of the iho income tax ax amendment in if con gress epst lot 0 iho fri frieada eiris ot of the ho www wout find 0 from ro tho eart mal G a a throe fourt fourths bof ho I 1 1 itura a must ratify tb jhb proposed ro ei iii 4 n V b before i 6 r 0 tt it can be b put t into form and nd bo be given a place in the con constitution s tit utiOn of the united states wit within bin t the next year 21 states through throng h their legislatures legislature will have a chance to ratify the amendment the states that have rat idled it and those whose legislatures are now in session but have taken no action already have been named the legislatures of the following states will meet and either sanction reject or ignore the amendment within the next year indiana iowa missouri minnesota arkansas louisiana Loul glana kansas nebraska nevada north caroline michigan georgia colorado ore gon North dakota south dakota wyoming washington wisconsin texas and tennessee roosevelt well informed it Is a pretty thoroughly established fact that theodore roosevelt hrs in his possession an exhaustive letter written to him by senator ellhu root hoot of now york find and giving in ID outline nn an account of the tatt taft administration from the fourth day of last marchuk Mar chup to the time that the letter was penned parly early in february ot of this year there cannot be the slightest doubt that the now new york senator who was mr Roosevel ts secretary of state wrote the letter in the hope that it 11 would offset the statements of a number of people who had bad gone out to meet mr roosevelt to tell him that from their point of view that of progression egression gres sion the tatt taft administration has been a dire failure in several speeches made recently by Demoe democrats fats of prominence and in one or two letters by men of that party of at almost equal prominence it has haa been held that mr roosevelt himself la fit likely to be a big figure in the next election in these democratic epistles there has been lacking something of specific detail and opinion Is pretty evenly divided as an to whether the present minority party hopes that the former president will again be a candidate or that the hope Is he will sanction the taft administration and continue to support it through its present term including the time ime when the present breaf nt president may be a candidate tor for re reelection election rely on third term issue there aro are many leading democrats in washington champ dark clark among them who seem to believe that it if mr roosevelt should be nominated again tor for the presidency the tha feeling aga against dinst a third term on an the part of tho the american people would be sure to defeat him for office the democrats also are maintaining that it if mr air roosevelt indorses endorses Indor ses the tha tatt taft administration and continues to give it sanction and by the force of his support brings about the of 0 the president for another term the so called progressives Progress ives among the republicans who to some soma extent already seem to have deserted mr taft at times finally will desert mr roosevelt and will pay no heed beed it to life his volts or his bis writings GEORGE CLINTON |