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Show PRESENT TARRIFF 15 SATISFACTORY ATTEMPT TO TINKER WITH THE PRESENT SCHEDULE WILL BE CAUSE FOR FIGHT I President Will Stand Pat In Message To Congress AS Far As Tarrlff Is Concerned, And Has No Changes Washington. In the molding of hia program for presentation to congress, President Coolidge bus decided to stand pat on the tariff. Business and labor can go on their way safely In the assumption that the tariff laws will stand as far as is without vital change for a year at least. President Coolidge will propose no tariff change to congress His spokes' man there will combat any attempt at tariff tinkering. The tariff law provides a method by which he and the tariff commission can effect single sin-gle changes when necessary and that is construed by the president as providing pro-viding ample machinery to meet any emergency which may arise. I The tariff commissioners are speak- I ing to each other again. They no longer turn their backs to each other at the conference table. The president presi-dent has made enough changes in its personnel to get a commission of his own liking, in sympathy with his views. The tariff of the next three years will be distinctly a Coolidge tariff. The president's viewpoint is this: Tariff tinkering makes for uncertain-, uncertain-, ty among the industrial and business. Uncertainty slows up business. Poor business hits the worker. Secretary Hoover and the president's presi-dent's other business advisers have assured him that business as a whole Is in splendid shape. There are some Isolated bad spots, such as the New England textiles, but those cases are so remote that they have only a minor effect upon the business structure, and New England is evidently satisfied satis-fied with the tariff. The only other place suggestive of tariff change is the great agricultural belt of the west, in which the bankruptcy bank-ruptcy courts for a time commended more of the farmers' time than their wheat fields. But Secretary of Agriculture Jar-dine Jar-dine and a host of senators, representatives represen-tatives and business men who visited the president at Swampscott and since his return to Washington have caused him to believe that the farmers farm-ers are again poking their heads above the surface and that fair crops and good prices have relieved their former demand for tariff alteration. . The tariff this year is the least of presidential worries. |