Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-06
CONGRESS WILL NOT APPOINT "A
COMMISSION FOR PURPOSE OF
CONSIDERING MATTER DURING
PRESENT SESSION
BEVERIDGE TALKS
ON COMMISSION
INDIANA SENATOR EXPLAINS yN
DETAIL HIS MEASURE PRovID-
ING FOR PERMANENT TRiRU.s
NAL TO WORK ON TARIFF

Washington. d. c.. Feb. 5. - TIE
present congress will not appoint. a
tariff commission. The revision Of the
tariff Will be undertaken next winter
in the short term. ~
These announcements in substance
were made yesterday by Chairman
Payne OF the house committee on ways
and means. In the presence and with
the tacit approval of Speaker Can
non, the occasion being the call upon
those leaders by the tariff revision
delegation from various parts of the
country. comprising representatives Of =
many of the biggest manufacturing
and industrial concerns in the United
States, and headed by James w. Van
Cleave of st. Louis, president of the
National Association of Manufactnr.
ers.
Van cleaves Ideas.
In introducing the subject OF the
appointment of a tariff commission in
Line with the Beveridge bill recently
offered in the senate. Van Cleave said
the delegation was unanimous in the
belief that the matter of the tariff
can be best handled by the applica.
ton OF hard-headed business bill,n
which would so amend the tariff sched-
'ules as to encourage the development
OF foreign commerce by producers OF +
the United States without at the same
time exposing their goods to the reac-
tionary effects of free trade He said
it was the firm belief of the vast In
terests represented by the members
OF the delegation that wholesome
revision of the tariff could be best got
at by commission appointed to as
certain the costs of domestic produc-
ton, the relative profits derivable
from home and foreign sales and all
the multitudinous facts appertaining
to so complex and important a sub.
ject.
Cannon Gives Views.
Speaker Cannon, interrupting ona
Of the speakers, asked:
DO l understand that you favor on
the part of the United States an even
tariff with other countries in the
world except that we shall enforce
our maximum tariff against such
countries as discriminate against our
exports, and that you favor mini.
mum tariff. with that application
The answer was strong afflrma
tive.
Then" said the speaker, 'T am
glad to have heard your medicine for
that is precisely the kind of tariff l
believe In myself"
Cannon further said
I'VE once. remember, had tariff
commission. And am told that It's re-
port was So voluminous that it was
never even read fear greatly that
fa,g
itself into debating school, Just as
we do with ourselves here in the
house and that there would likely be
majority and minority report"
What Troubles Uncle Joe.
The speaker here remarked that
what troubled him far more than the
problem of tariff revision was the
presence of the "period of liquida-
tion,' following twelve years "of such
prosperity as the world had not seen
in all it's history" and he ventured
that If the country could have an op-
portunity to return to it's status of six
months ago, that the chance would
be hailed and embraced by every man
within his hearing as of inestimabIy
more worth than any tariff revision
that the skill of man could frame.
"But let me ask you frankly in this
present time of financial depression
and liquidation. how far, in the hands
of a partison commission would tariff
investigation progress toward accom-
plishment?'
Beveridge Explains His Bill.
Washington, D. c., Feb. 5.-Senator
Beveridge OF Indiana today addressed
the senate in advocacy of his bill to
create a permanent tariff commission.
The senator was accorded careful
hearing by both the members and
spectators.
Senator Beverigde, in speaking OF
the tariff commission bill, said in part:
"The tariff is fixed by facts; how to
get at these facts is the first question
in the whole tariff problem. Com
mon sense and experience answer that
| question; We should create body of
experts to find out these facts for us.
These men should be the fittest men
that can be found for this work; they,
should give their whole time to this,