The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-13
TARIFF EXPERTS
 NAMED BY TAFT Permanent Commission Will
 Study Tariff Rates THE WIDEST INVESTIGATION Tariff Board Is Authorized To Elm ploy Other Experts To Study Tar If Rates At Home and in For
 eign Countries.
THE WIDEST INVESTIGATION
BY WILLIAM ROSTER.

BY WILLIAM ROSTER.
 Beverly, Mass, September 12.-(speciaI) President Taft has named the follow ing board of experts in the execution of the new tariff law:
 Prof. Henry c. Emery of Yale uni versity, who will act as chairman of the board; James B. Reynolds of Mas sachusetts, at present assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of the GUS toms division, and Alvin H. Sanders of Chicago. at present editor and proprie tor of the Breeders Gazette.
 This is the board of tariff experts that was authorized by the Payne tariff bill. It will be known as the foreign tariH board. It is the outgrowth of the de- mand for a permanent tariff commis- sion and it was the provision under which these three experts are now named that the standpatters In Congress be- lieved they had so emasculated that it would be a useless body.
 The President believes that he has power under the provision to get from the board valuable information result ing from their Investigations to assist in any further revision Of the tariff that may be needed along reasonable lines and in a downward direction. That the President still holds to this view and had it in mind when he appointed the experts Is evidenced by the follow ing statement that was given out at the executive offices, coincident with the announcement of the appointments:
 Plan Agreed Upon.
 "The President and secretary (meaning Secretary MacVeagh) have agreed upon the plan that these three gentlemen are to constitute the board and are to be given authority to employ such special experts as may be needed in the i'm vestigation of the foreign and domestic tariff"
 This means that through it's experts the board will conduct investigations planned to show the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad. They will go into every phase of the tariff questions indicated by the official statement and report the results of their investigations to the President
 Congress believed that when it pro- vided that the tariff experts should not report to the legislative branch it had
 
 might have in view with regard to fu- ture revisions of the tariff But as in- dicated by this official statement the President is inclined to the belief that if such a body shall report to him facts that seem to warrant reductions in cer- tain schedules and these facts are made public as they will be- there will be no alternative for Congress but to make the reductions demanded by the situa- ton.
 In short, with the appointment of the tariff board longer step has been taken in the direction of real tariff revision than was made when the Pres- fdent made his fight at the close of the special session. The battle for tariff revision, in fact, Is just beginning. The President means to take every advantage that he can of this provision of the law authorizing him to name the tariff board and the purview of this board will be extended to the widest possible limit that the law will permit
 Result of Special Effort.
 Now that he has the board and that he made special effort to organize 1t be- fore he left for the west, he will in- form the people of the west of his plans with regard to 1t and these plans. as already outlined, do not by any means look to allowing tho tariff as it is pro- vided if there is still a demand after the new bill has been given a fair trial for further revision
 No decision as to the salary that shall be paid the experts has yet been reached by the President and Secretary Mac Veagh but 1t will probably be fixed some where in tho neighborhood of $75o0 per year. The total appropriation for the purpose of the committee is s75, 900 and It's duties are supposed to be to assist the President particularly in the admin istration of the maximum and minimum clauses of the Payne law.
 As to the composition of the new tar If board and it's fitness for the work that 1t will be called upon to do the President believes that it is an ideal group of men.
 With such a well balanced board the President believes that he will be able at all times to keep in touch with the tariff situation all over the world. The impression is growing that the tariff will never again be mtde a partisan issue and under the authorization of this com mission 1t is believed that long step forward is taken toward finally lifting the subject from politics.
 Secretary Reynolds and MT. Sanders arc republicans. Professor Emery is an independent.