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Show SURE OF PRESIDENT'S VETO. The dispatches announce that ibe debate de-bate on both the steel aii.i non tariff is intmediately to begin in the House of Representatives. An elaborate gab-fest gab-fest has been arranged, aud there bj a factious determination apparent in the House to proceed w u L the steel sched-ule, sched-ule, even in the face of what amount -to the practical certainty ol a veto. it will be remembered that the rie.i dent, vetoed a number of will o' the-wisp the-wisp tariff bills that v.eie passed for a veto at the epe ial Besalon. The rea-soii rea-soii urged bv the Previdetit' against those bills was that thev bad not been const r;ictcd en scientific lines, were sol considerate of the treSSUrj needs, and had not passed the BCtUtinj of the Tariff Tar-iff Board. The sanie ressona proeisely will operate BO OSl the steel schedule revision in case the bill making it m passed. The Tariff Board has made 1 no repoit upon the metnl schedules; there is nothing from that board to guide tbe Ilou--e m t v araj of revision. Therefore, it mat i,e taken se certain mar President Taft would veto any legislation leg-islation of this kind, even though on-zic on-zic - sbonld IMS'! it. whi. h is not in the least likely. The House, to be sure, under the lash oi the party whip, may nans the bill revising the steel and iron ttbedttjeej bat i i hard to believe tbat the Senate would agree to the passage n the hill an ji Im, been reported to the Houve. lor that bill, while pre tending to deal onl. with the steel and iron schedules, deals with S vast number num-ber if other matters, a. lead and its rnrioei Bsahnfpctures, without Inquiry into Say facts relating to the bearing of the tariff on the production of lead in this country. And. since there is no leal information brought forward on thu schedule, President Tafi would be perfect i justified in vetoing it ss he j rptoed other tariff bills last summer The idea thai the blouse, i" revenge for the insistence pf the President in liavmg the opinion ol the Tsriff Board on i be revision of anv schedule before he will ign anv bill revising it. will refuse moncv to the Tsriff Board. i omcthing that would bring on a dead loci; if percvered in; for if the Pres. dent declares that be will c!o an pro-pose.I pro-pose.I revision thai Ls not SppTOVSd by tbe Tariff Board. Hn. f t!,r House de stru. the Tariff Board, th.-n pe Wvi "'n at all i to be c.vpected. And so the Democratic House will he quite as blsaxewortfay an the Bepubllcan Senate and the Repijldican President for the failure of say tariff revision, if the ; Houe ads in this nieaulv partisan -pir lit. The people of the United laic i will not approve the haphazard revision of the tariff. Thev want to see anv . move in this direction made ou practi leal and s.ientitic lines, con form, ng tu I the markets. ., Iho cost of produ. tion, and to the necessities, of th- case ss n latef to American jetOfOstS and tbe supply and demand. Tin- Tariff Boa id has made a report I on the woolen and cotton schedules. It was supposed all the tune that the wool eu schedule would be first taken up, then tbe cotton schedules, then the chenxica schednle. But, Chainaai l. u denrbod oi the House Wgys and Mean ommitlee. smarting under the ie proaches of Mr. Bryan that he was not in earnest in wanting a revision of the metal MbeduIaS becan-e he had mter els iu the productios of iron, reversed the programme, went outride the tc oort of the Tar, ft Board, and for per soual reasons of his own, upset the un der-tanding and baStSted that the ateel and iron schedules should be put first, aj.areutlv for his owu personal m0,i cation, and not for the real woi k in hand. It the Houe had proceeded ac cording tn ihc t;ndc -landing, take,, uj. the wool hediile. thee the cottou schedule, then tlie , h inu-als, and then the steel and ,ron. aa tbe ptngramui dbil tciiUtiveB constructed, there won. I be no difficultv in the Tariff Board keeping up with the procedure of Congress. As it is, tbe understand mg is broken, the report of the Tariff Beard i t aside, and s vbedule s teken np upon which that board has made up report It ,. to imaginrt t Mam in view of the facts in the case, tbat President Taft WOtrld -ign a bill framed merely at g venture without any sc.en-tific sc.en-tific knowledge, without due inquiry ithcr a; to it effects upon the revenues reve-nues or upon the markets, and chiefly tor the vindication o; an iudn.duol rather th.tii for the furthering of the public interests. The reasons which be urged for the ctoes of these immature bills at the extra session will be equally equal-ly potent in compelling him to veto any Mich I rcidou as is now proposed of the -tc. I and iron schedule, even though it might get through both House and Senate, which WS should deem improb able in tbe extreme. But if the House has determined to take up this i:ou aud steel reviiou merely to make! a deadlock in tariff legislation, then its program nunc to this purport will be elxnost certain t.i succeed. |