Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-08-15 | Page 4 | Taft Had Them There

TAPT HAD THEM THERE; ' It appears that some 'of tho Democratic Demo-cratic -members of Congress have" been recent!' upbraiding President Taft, and protesting that he and his TarilT Board are Too slow in getting results in their investigation of the wool problem, prob-lem, so that tho wool tariff can .be, from their , ideas, adjusted, this without with-out delay. They hold that it is unreasonable' un-reasonable' to ask them to wait until un-til , 'next December for - the Tariff Board 's .report ou wool, since, as they claim, the leading facts in tho wool situation are open and evident to every inquirer'. The President listened Jo these gentlemen gen-tlemen attentively; -he interposed no obstacle or objection to their flow of language, nor did he combat their arguments. argu-ments. But after they got all through, ho quietly directed their attention to the fact that the Democratic Senators, on March 3rd of the present year, instructed in-structed the -Tariff Board to make its report on wool by December Jst, and the President proceeded to inform the-Dunoeralie the-Dunoeralie Congressmen that he and the Tariff Board had 'been doing their best to carry out the instructions of the Democratic Se'ntitdrs; then he went on to ask them if they did not think it n little unreasonable to come -to him demanding a speedier report after tho Democratic instructions to report on a specific date, lie pointed out that very naturally he and the Tariff Board lmd boen adjusting their work according to the instructions received, and he asked them if they did not think it. unfair to demand the finished work four months earlier than the time set for it to be finished, and to insist, since they do not have it that far ahead of the time set, that they will proceed to legislate . od wool without regard to thai report;"' Hc 'pdinted out that any such hasty action as they pro-posed pro-posed would ignore ' the important work w.hich hnd been imposed upon him and. the Tariff Board, and. -would-ncces-sarily -bc legislation on impulse 'rather than on' facts and conditions It must, be admitted that the President Presi-dent had one;p.n.,tne Democratic Congressmen Con-gressmen wh'o are demanding that - report re-port four months 'ahead of time, or that legislation shall "proceed witlfbut "it. We judge from the roport'of thin interviow .betwoen tho President and the Democratic Demo-cratic Congressmen that there can bo no doubt of his vetoing any bill revising revis-ing the" wool tariff prior to the report on that question by tho Tariff Board.