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Show oo WILSON AND THE TARIFF President Will Read His Message to Congress Con-gress Tomorrow Says the Single Bill Is More Effective Washington. April 7. President Wilson said today he was "on the fence " as to whether the tariff should be revised schedule by schedule or in a Mingle bllL Senators Simmons Sbheley. Hughes, James, Stone. Williams Wil-liams and Gore, Democratic members of the senate finance committee, argued ar-gued unanimously with the president fo7 a Bchedule-by-scbcdule rerisloru but at its conclusion the president said he would still further consider the matter before reaching a decision. The president had fairly made up his mind that the single bill idea was the more effective and believed that 6uch a measure could pass. He told the senators tint he did not think any senators, voting against the bill, would venture to bear the burden of responsibility for defeating the party par-ty program It was suggested that the Louisiana senators wonld oppose the bill, but the Utah senators, it is said, took account of that loss but it is figured lhe measure still would na.e enougn votes to pass Favors Single Tariff Bk.l. The senators went away with the Impression that while the president was still open to conviction, he was Inclined somewhat to the single tariff bill. The entire question must be decided, decid-ed, as far as the president's vxishes are concerned, before the Democratic caucus meets tomorrow Representative A Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania chairman of the caucus, cau-cus, sought lhe president s opinion as to whether th caucus tomorrow should be open. I have alwa6 been in favor of the ODen caucus." said the president President tlson was asked today rliaf motive impelled him to renew th custom of a century ago. The reasons are very simple." he said ' I think that it is the only dignified dig-nified way tor the president to ad-clrtss ad-clrtss the houses at the opening of th session Instead of sending the address up by messenger and letting the clerk road it perfunctorily in the f.n 'iliar clerk's tone of olce. 1 thought that the dlRnified and natural nat-ural Ihlng was to read it. It is a p-tcedent which it is true has been discontinued a long time but which s a very respectable precedent." The president was asked if he expected ex-pected there would be answers from congress as there had been In the old days, but he Brnttlngly replied that the only response he looked for was th legislative answer Will Read His Own Message. The president explained th3t he intended in-tended to make his visit as simple as po -iiil" H.: said that he had asked Senator Kern and Leader Underwood, ol the house, if it would be agreeable fot him to come and they both had Bald that it wo ild. and In this they represented the feeling of their colleagues. col-leagues. President Wilson's determination to lead his own meHSitge to congress tomorrow ba completely displaced the tariff and the income tax as sub-j. sub-j. (is of chief popular interest. o : picsldenl since John Adams has availed himself of the right Congress w;, amazed when it heard of the president's plan. Some of the old line leaders refused to believe it until Secretary Tumulty positively confirmed con-firmed the news I reparation tor the extraordinary , eent got under way today It was planned that the president should no to bis room on the senate side of the ' capitol. and later go to the house of representatives, where uoih branches I of congress w ill be assembled The legislative principles that bind the bouse and senate together were outlined today Under ordinary clr- , cun stances the bodies meet together lonlv every four years, and then only lor the perfunctor ceremonv of canvassing can-vassing for the electoral vote. |
