Show rAND J AND CONGRESS ARE OPENLY OPPOSED I Decision to Stand by Party I Prom Prom- Iss and ills His Int of These TIIS as s d last Night Pr to l ad rn Special to The Telegram TON July 17 Senator Senator Warren is to lead 1 organized opposition in the senate to the presidents president's fern m for free hides free iron ore free wool reciprocal elade ade in coal with Canada and for reduced duties on nd zinc The senator from W Wyoming is organizing 1 opponents of the free raw material propaganda feeling is being manifested among erstwhile ends of the president in the states because tariff pronouncement yesterday It is hinted that h lias S been led away from Republican economic ideals by trade members o of his his cabinet from Chicago SecAR Sec- Sec AR 7 and Dickinson v OJ BY Associated Press prees I N July 17 President President r-President declaration yesterday i regarded the Republican plats plat plat- s 2 M meaning and the sentiment of wh le people as demanding revia 1 a iward ard eclipsed in interest all alland and a specific details of ot the tariff I There here today toda Statement at ment issued lato late yesterday a delegation of congressmen had the president for of raw ra materials ally iron llon ore wool hides oi oil ou abet pur purported purported to be an outline ref the discussion which took during the visit of the delegation p of what the president the visitors tot tho very fact that such a 5 neat ement was issued at all and I. particular the conon conson con- con 1 son on of the remarks of the dent ent thus reiterated made it a r to it all who studied the pro- pro i ement that the president fr t ended eded dad it virtually as an ulti- ulti I nm I f wad rad into the statement statement- a bareI bare- bare I threat on the part of the if the bill reached him rm which he re regarded as unfaith- unfaith Ith the Ithe promises of his party and to the sentiment of the thee if he e people he would veto it Members Bitter prominent members of either of off congress would discuss the tho for int-for publication and mos most of intended for quotation fia- fia perfunctory a character but ut in inI I enee nee many talked freely and some t conservatives very bitterly Some as to say that the t stand meant t nothing less than feat of the bill One man said will become the lines will all have and nobody can forecast excitable inclined to the that hat the president had simply lo jong lIt foreseen move essential to toogie logic ogie of the game and that it m 1 the speedy dissolution of of to the downward termination of the lon long frith th the tho bill biB at last in ill the hands ands substantially as he has bas all 1111 J it should betA be tA Special Message I the white house honse senti- senti I J as in some sort an ane e e to con congress ess at a iti ci-iti- I seen as Mr MT Roosevelt often for many ninny of his directly adIt adt ad- ad t messages It is conceded even most bitter of the opposition Q his Us attitude thus far of hands I has attained a position of 1 and that he has A f an advantageous moment when Jj ouse of congress con has fully dis- dis i the question and placed its itself lf un- un un-I un Ably bly on record and their joint I J is in the hands of a conference II tee to present his bis views not only I Y to o the tho people but specifically 1 e who are in a position to act sIT on the matter ive VII YO Wide Effect It general n itral ral feeling today was that r pronouncement would il bly ly have a profound effect not 4 mediately on the conference tee tee but in the time intervening I final anal nal vote in the two houses on j presenting both win wings s. s especial- especial j the Republican majority whose action now and whoso political after they go home is so deeply d dim dim the outcome presidents president's s 's 11 h has as caused all aU this commotion i sued after a n visit to the white A. A three congressmen n the day the following of- of tat ment was made at the white l. l V Youn oung of 01 1 Michigan an opposed l eMr Mondell opposed free l. l r. r with Canada and des each on the ground that the would injure the tho interests in his n 1 nd a discussion was participated i I- I other r representatives who urged doctrine of free raw nw materials t 1 Republican doctrine 3 I replied that ho he was ted to the principle of free freet erial nal b but t that he ho was commit- commit 1 t the principle of a downward reO re- re J O t the Vi he tariff tanH which he ho had prom prom- J at he was obliged to look u V not from the stand standpoint district t but bt from the of the whole ho e country and f rom the st standPoint of p Lr the e entire Republican eP party lih e questIon in n each caso case wits was Ion 0 of oft fact to be det determined mined by to 0 whether tho the rate w was s fc that Mig t tj the a Downward revision ff c e on th the tec jlii would not injure the industry He repeated repeated repeated re re- re- re the platform of the Republican party and said that he had understood it t meant a downward revision in many though perhaps in sonic some few eases cases an increase might be needed needed- that ho reached- reached this construction of ot of the platform on what ho he understood to be bethe bethe the principle of protection and its justification justi justi- namely that after an industry was protected by a duty equal to the difference between the tIme cost of pro pro- abroad and the cost of production production tion tIon in In this country including a fair profit to the manufacturer the energy and enterprise of American business businessmen men Inca and capitalists the effectiveness of A American eric n labor and tho the ability of American inventors under the impulse of competition behind the tariff wall would reduce the cost of production and that with the reduction on and th the cost of production the tho tariff rate would become unnecessarily high and ought to be bo reduced This was the normal operation of f the tariff as claimed by the defenders of the protective o system system not not in every case but as a a. general rule that rule that of c course urse a v the tariff could no not be perfected must have defects and inconsistencies inconsistencies inconsistencies in in- consistencies but insofar as his influence influence ence enco went when called upon to act in connection with legislation it would be he thrown in the direction of performing perform perform- in lag ing the promises of the party as he Understood understood understood un un- them and that if iron ore and oil and coal and hides did not need protection and the conditions were such as all to enable the tho ore producers and the theil dil il producers and the coal producers and the producers of hides to compete successfully without reduction of wages with the producers from abroad then they did not need a duty and their articles should go on the free list Fill Pill Party Promises It was a question of ot fact which he hoped to make malte his mind up on such evidence evi i dence deuce as was available to him in order to carry out what he thought the tho promises promises prom prom- of the tho party to the whole people lie said he felt that hiG position as the titular head of the Republican party and as the president gave rave him a somewhat somewhat some some- what broader point of view than that of a sin single le member of con congress ress in respect respect respect re re- re- re to articles produced in lD his dis dis- He lIe felt strongly the call of the country for a downward revision within the limitations of the protective principle principle prin prin- ciple and he hoped to be bo able to 0 respond respond re reo re- re spond to that call can as he heard it as aswell aswell well wen in the interests of the tho party parity as of the country Speaker Cannon declared the statement statement state state- ment mont contained nothing to which any good Republican could object Senator Bristow of Kansas one ono of the senate Renate progressives said The statement vastly strengthens the hands of the progressives The president has been careful heretofore heretofore here here- to let no impression gain ground 1 that he was dictating to con congress ress He lie I always declared that he hopoi a a. satisfactory satisfactory satis satis- factory bill would be framed in accordance accord ance anco with the party pled pledges es The pr president si- si dent asserts for the Lime first time his authority au nu- nu- nu as the titular head of his party arty As such he announces his 1 that the party platform meant a re revision revision re- re e- e vision downward and that no other interpretation Interpretation in interpretation in- in In- In can be placed upon it In addition to the su suggestion of a aeto aveto aveto veto eto which ninny many political observers read into the presidents president's s 's statement it itis itis itis is taken also as to mean that if it congress con con- gress cress does docs not agree t to what he regards re- re e- e gards cards as a proper revision downward there will be he a 11 split between the president president dent and the legislative branch of tho the government K Do you happen to know asked one of the senatorial tariff conferees on on his way to the meeting today whether tho report as to the presidents president's attitude on the t tariff is corre correctly represented presented by bythe bythe bythe the papers this morning mornIng Cant Can't Get Free Tree Hides The question was addressed to a a. neWSpaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper man who assured the senator that there thero could be no doubt that the had bad properly represented tho the press president pr The senators senator's reply might have been forecasted from his coun coun- Evidently he was was much depressed depressed depressed de de- de- de pressed and most uncertain as to the outlook outlook- Then he said caro carefully f u I y weighing 1 his words lford tho the outlook is discouraging indeed While it is IS not stated m in so words that the president ent will demand demand domand de- de many mand free raW Taw material such is is the tendency and if such sho should lq be his demand demand demand de de- de- de mand it looks to me me as if Jf it w would uld be impossible impossible imposible to ge get it The he difficulty culty would be in getting a n bill bIB with free material through the senate For raw aw instance I do not believe behove that the senate senate senate sen sen- ate could be bo induced to pass Tass f a hill bill putting putting put put- ting hides on the free list The conferees of the two houses arc are their differences s with a a. reasonable reasonable rea rca degree of rapidity They have been in session for about a week T an and w. w 1 2 s 2 |