Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-06
CONGRESS IS
WORRIED BY
TARIFF BILL
REVISION DISCUSSED, TUT TO
NO END
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE is AGAIN
CONSIDERED
Payne of New York Devotes Atten-
ton to Bryan, Saying He Is
Trying 10 Accuse
Roosevelt
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tariff and to make a classification of
articles to which congress can plainly
and accurately FIX customs duties. BY
this bill the commission itself is not
allowed TO fix duties or. even to sug-
gest any rate.
The fixing of duties is left to con-
gress. The commission is kept strictly
TO the task of ascertaining facts and
making clear classifications; the first
is expert investiG lting work, the Sec
Ond expert clerical work. Neither is leg
.siative work. We must have more for
cign trade. We must open foreign mar
kets TO our 1.-Two cattle, which are now
kept out of these markets. Our manu-
facturers ask the same advantages IN
foreign trade that the German govern
ment gets for German manufacturers.
American producers demand that the
doors Of other nations which are open
to their rivals shall no longer be
closed to them.
Must Have Came Weapons
I'VE cannot open these doors by a
purely revenue tariff. because such a
tariff merely gives other nations the
advantages without us getting from
these other nations any advantages in
return. We must have system that
gives us the same weapons that our
rivals have by which we can get for
our producers the same favors that
rivals get for their producers.
I'VE must have a maximum and
minimum tariff. the first to apply TO all
nations that will not give our pro-
ducers special favors in their markets
and the last to apply to those nations
that will give our producers favor IN
their markets.
'sBy this plan, German producers are
selling more German goods abroad than
any other nation. II we consider area,
wealth, history and all other elements
of the problem, German producers are
selling more German goods abroad than
any other Ave nations In the world put
together
Germany, Japan and the world fol-
lowed our plan of single protective
tariff and then logically developed that
plan into double protective plan.
Double Protective Plan
eve must be as wise now as they
were then, and just as they took single
protective plans from us, so now we
must take the double protective plan
from them. Our manufacturers, our
cattlemen, our agriculturists. our
miners, our whole producing classes,
ask only the same advantages that
their rivals have in the markets OF the
world They demand no more than
this, but they will accept no less than
this Tariff for trade; trade for pros
perity; common sense methods Tor
hoth-these must henceforth be the
American watchwords in the world
wide contest for commerce
When Mr. Beveridge concluded, Sen
ator Culberson of Texas remarked the
senator from Indiana was to be con-
graduated, because in some degre at
least he had Joined the army OF tariH
reyisionists He said it had been an
nounced in the newspapers that de-
cree had been issued on the Republican
side that tariff could not be even IN
quired into at this time.
Mr.. Culberson called attention TO
what he said was the fact that the
average ad valorem tariff is now 45
per cent; that it is greater than the
difference between the cost of labor
here and abroad; that many articles
manufactured in the United States are
sold abroad cheaper than in this coun-
try, and that the protective tariff en-
courages trusts.
he then asked to have inserted in the
record an article from a book he ex-
hibited.
Mr.. Beveridge asked to DO given the
name of the book.
Il will give it," replied Mr.. Culber-
son, "as I am sure it will appeal to the
senator as an authority. 1t is the
Democratic campaign book
II thought sn," replied MI Bever-
Idge, and he proceeded to express his
regret that partisanship should be in
iected into the debate.
Makes Sharp Reply
"Tactics," Mr.. Beveridge said, may
tbe worthy of the senator as leader OF
his party. but 1t is not worthy of any
man appearing in the capacity of
statesman in this country. That is
precisely the difficulty we must get
over. We must get away from inject
ing politics into every great question
here"
So far as he is concerned, he had al
ways been a tariff reformer. but he
rad never belonged to the class that
would reduce such reform to partisan
basis England he said, was about to
abandon her tariff for revenue policy
tor protection and all the great
nations had first adopted a tariff sys-
Gem, and then double tariff system in
voIving a maximum and minimum
tariff.
''The. senator from Texas" he said,
will have to learn a new tariff speech
for the next campaign"
Mr. Newland5 then discussed the gem
eral subject of the tariff, declaring that
the law should provide for gradual
reduction of the tariff, so that no duty
should be over As per cent.
Senator Scott pronounced himself to
be a stand patter." He believed the
present Dingley tariff had done more
for this country in the past ten years
than any law ever enacted.
II don't believe I'm revising the tariff
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