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Show OUTLINE OF THE MESSAGE T0JPEC1 Taft Will Confine Recommendations Recom-mendations to Reciprocity Reciproc-ity and Tariff Board. WASHINOTON, March IS. President Tsft. sccerdlng to preeent plana, will conflne hie msssag to th extra session of congress to Canadian reciprocity and the establishment of a permanent tar IS 'Tie" Is convinced the country desires, and ought 10 desir, a further rvlswn of several schedules of ths fsyns-Aldrlch act. lis feels ths woolen schedule In-defenslhls, In-defenslhls, II Is said, nnd Is anxloua It shsll b revised soon. Th president la equally convinced that the country dealras that revision of th tariff be made In th light of eolentlflc Information which It to .the duty of. th Isrlff board to collect. It la Id he rather Incline th Idea that no schedule sched-ule should b revised upon which the tariff board I not reedy with It Information. Infor-mation. . lie has directed the temporary tariff board to make report on th woolen schedule by Iiecmher t. r'ronlly. he would Ilk for congress to welt until thst tlms snd not attempt to rsvls ny schedules t th xlra selnn. H will glv th mailer further consldsrellon. however, nfier be raaolsss Washington. EsKlproolt Flrrt. If Mr. Tafl's wtohs were met th extra session will dove! Itaelf to reooproclty first, th government tariff board second, postponing Ins revision of th textile schedules until ths tariff board oosasiets II work Peoember 1. .... tn sddltlon to th preeldent'e Inst rue. lions that Ihs woolen schedule shall bs ready, the appropriation bill, carrying a fund for the isrlff board, contains a provision pro-vision to that effect. Thle doe sway With th possibility of delay, he helHlve President Taft frankly expects ths Democratic house and tha nearly Democratic Demo-cratic eenate of th txty-econd eongr to help him carry out a programm of scientific revision of tb tariff. It hopes soother year wlU mark great rrogrees In that direction. He la per-Icularly per-Icularly snxlous that tha revision shall be In aocordaac with hi policy of liftr Ing th tariff aa far as possible out of Ihs realm of politics and placing It uaon a eofontlAo baels. Probable Action, of Democrats, Just how th Democratic leaders will reoel ve a proposition to postpons sstlon on tariff revision until east Iiscwmber remeln to he seen. Heveral leader hav already Indicated that at least two or three arhedule of the Payne -A Id rich law win ba acted upon during th extra session. ses-sion. President Taft baa said he believed It would be lllostcal. unwlea and Injurious to th buelneee Interests If gensrai tariff revision should b undertaken. How Important Ih president regards a permanent tariff board was made evident evi-dent after congress sdjourned when he pieced on th. present board ths very men. Mr. Howard aad Profeasor Pegs, whom he Intended to place oa th permanent tariff commission with ' Messrs. Emerv. ganders and Reynolds All thst Is now required Is to secure for tb board a permanent per-manent statue. I'nder th direction of Mr. Emery, th hoard already la engaged In a careful care-ful apalvels of th twain chedtil. Th president I said to he greatly encouraged en-couraged by th steady progress snd ds-veHomerit ds-veHomerit of bis trlff programm. which n laid down four years ao In his speech at Hath. Ms. Th Payne-Aldrtch law. th tariff board, the Canadian reciprocity agreement he reasrds as mlleetonea of eroerea. President nnd Mrs. Teft left August at let p. at over th Southern railway snd passed through her. it IN o'clock. Th traia Is due la Waehlagton at 1 11 tomorrow morning. ' Accompanied by Mnv Taft. the president presi-dent attended morning serrlcea at th Firt He pi let church In Auguet. and later called at the poet of flee lo see Poet-master Poet-master Thomas D- Murphy and I shsk hand with ail th employee. |