The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-15
INCREASE OF
ENTIRE BILL
SOS PER CENT
Bureau of Statistics Analyses
the Payne-AldTiCh Tariff
Measure.
WORK OF CONFEREES
PROGRESSING SLOWLY
HOUSE MEMBERS OBJECT TO
PROVISION FOR EMPLOY.
MENT OF EXPERTS.

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y Washington. July 14.-Through $
= Senator LaFOllette, the bureau OF =
3 statistics of the department Of =
= commerce and labor has presented =
= to congress an analysis Of the in =
= creases and decreases Of the =
= Payne-Aldrich tariff bill.
: Summarizing this analysis, Mr., =
:: LaFollette says: =
:. According to the figures sup =
= piled by the bureau, the bill as =
= passed by the senate on the basis =
:. of the impOrtations of 1907 leaves :
= unchanged the duties on imports Of =
- the value Of $3.50, JOG 035, or 64.65 per =
= cent. Duties are increased on i'm =
:. ports Of the value Of S149, 1853. or y
= 21.51 per cent while the decreases :"
= affect imports Of the value Of $685. =
:. 369, 619, or 1884 per cent The aver .
y age increase Of the entire bill is $50 =
= per cent"
:. Senator LaFoIlette declared that 3
= unless the rates Of the bill are =
= greatly reduced in conference the .
= bill should be vetoed" =
= :, = - = = = :" = = = . = s 3 . =
Washington, July 14-Objecuons were
raised by the house members Of the
tariff conference today to the senate
provisions in the maximum and mini
mum features of the tariff bill which
gives TO the president authority TO en-
ploy such persons as he may desire to
aid him in enforcing the tariff laws.
and which will be useful to congress in
tariff legislation in the future. The op-
position was all that prevented the
adoption Of practically ali the sections
dealing with administration. =
The provisions which provide for the
establishment of a court of customs
appeals was adopted. The salaries Of
the I'VE judges were fixed at $4,000. in
stead Of $1,000.
No Experts" Wanted.
When an adjournment was taken at
$3.50 o'clock the maximum and minimum
/ provision had been agreed upon tenta-
lively as a substitute for the house fea-
ture with the exception of the provision
for the employment of tariff experts.
The house conferees took the position
that the ways and means committee
and the senate finance committee have
the investigation of tariff matters as
their special province.
Several of the senate conferees made
the assertion that President Taft de
sired to have the right to employ such
experts for the purpose of assisting him
in the discharge Of duties imposed upon
him by the maximum and minimum
feature. They declared also that the
/ president favOTs the appointment Of a
tariff commission These arguments
were not sufficient to induce the house
! conferees to abandon their objections
The senate administrative act which
was drawn TO prevent differentiation Of
imported articles not in common use in
the country of manufacture. also was
adopted. This feature provides ma
chinery for the ascertainment Of values
where there is no foreign market to be
used as a basis.
Drawback Provision.
The senate conferees insisted that the
removal of the Identifying clause in the
drawback provision, which is still I'm
dispute, opened the door to fraud, and
that the three-year provision narrowed
the drawback I'm such a manner that if
would work a hardship TO manufactur-
ers who availed themselves of the draw
back privileges. The cOnferees repre-
senting the two branches Of congress
split upon this question, and it was laid
aside. The house provision allowing a
drawback to the amount Of the inter-
nal revenue tax paid on domestic alco-
hOl used in articles such as perfumes
and cosmetics manufactured for the for
! eign trade was agreed To tentatively.