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Show WILL STAND BY PROMISES. President Taft Declares Party is Committed Com-mitted to Downward Revision, of Tariff. Washington. All doubt as to where President Taft stands with regard to the downward revision of the tariff was swept away on Friday, when a statement was given out at the Wbite House setting forth in detail what the president had to say to twenty-three Republican members of congress who called to protest against putting raw materials on the free list. The president, in his statement, declared de-clared that the Republican party is committed to downward revision; that he has never had any other idea of the Chicago platform, and that he personally per-sonally has promised a downward revision re-vision to the people. This statement is interpreted in some quarters here as a direct notification notifi-cation to the conferees on the tariff bill that if the measure they finally agree upon does not constitute a material ma-terial reduction in specific duties the president will exercise his power of veto. Clictat uVincveyETAO'IN !;ffij Dictated in the third person, the statement concludes with this final word of the president's attitude as outlined to his callers: "He felt strongly the call of the country for a downward revision within with-in the limits of the protective principle, prin-ciple, and he hoped to be able to respond re-spond to that call as he heard it, as well in the interests of the party as ot the country." |