The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-18
WIRE FROM PRESIDENT TAFT.
Yakima Senator Home After Long
Session of Congrcss-Says Tariff
Bill was Best That Could BE Sc
cured-Thinbs 1t Conforms To Re
publican Pledges for Revision
Downward-Favors Income Tax.


President Taft is to be i'm North
Yakima from $50 a. m. until 2 o'clock
p. m. September 20. Information to
this effect has been conveyed to Sen
ator Wesley l.. Jones by Fred w. Car
penter, the presidents secretary, and
by Mr.. Jones will be communicated
to the mayor and city officials of
| North Yakima and probably to the
officers and members of the Fifty
Thousand and Commercial club. In
his letter to Mr.. Jones Secretary Car
penter says:
please have local committee who
are to arrange for the presidents en-
tertainment submit to me as soon as
possible by wire a detailed program
for his visit to North Yakima"
Will BE Here Eight Hours.
AS President Taft is arranging to
remain eight hours in North Yakima
| it is assumed that he is DESTROYS of
seeing as much as is convenient Of the
| irrigation work which the govern
ment is carrying on in this section.
| He already knows something of this
country, as he stopped here a few
minutes on his trip west before he
became president and took sufficient
time to interview one or two local
| people about the city and surround
ing country. He took away with him
| at that time such samples of the
| fruit of this district as must have
made any person desire to hear more
about it.
Will Probably Speak.
1t is probable therefore that in the
preparation of the program covering
| the eight hours of the presidents visit
| in this city there will be provided a
| trip to some of the more important
| of the irrigated sections. 1t is alto
gether probable, also, that provision
will be made for a public address IN
order that citizens generally may
have an opportunity to hear. if not to
meet the chief executive of the ma
| ton.
Mr.. Jones will at once take the
matter up with Mayor Armbruster
and committees will be set to work
| to arrange and forward a program.
Jones Glad to Be Home.
II am certainly glad to get home.
| 1t has been swelteringly hot in the
east. Today is cool and pleasant
compared with what it has been there.
Our climate in my judgment will be
revelation to the thousands of people
from the east now visiting us and
should mean a great increase in the
immigration to this state" said Senator
Jones.
About the Tariff Law.
| ut is true, there has been much
criticism on the tariff law enacted.
| VI; fn no ic n
perfect law A perfect tariff law is
an impossibility. The Dingley law
was more viciously denounced when
| it was passed than the present law
and yet if we prosper under this law
as we have prospered under the
Dingley law there will be little room
for complaint. The criticisms on the
law come largely from democratic
sources This was to be expected.
Favors Tariff Commission.
| when we began the extra session
l was opposed to a tariff commission
but a consideration of this measure
| has convinced me that there should
be a permanent body, call it what you
please, of able men to get fair and
reliable data regarding the operation
of the tariff laws, their effect on
prices their relation to trusts and
corporations, and the cost of produc-
ton at home and abroad, so that we
can have some information aside
| from that contained in one sided and
partial statements upon which to
base future action. In this provision
| I voted for the Clapp amendment
providing for what L thought to be d
reasonable commission. l hope the
president can secure this information
under the provisions of the law that
was passed, but if he cannot 1 shall
support a measure of this kind.
| Record of Insurgents.
There is much praise, especially
from democratic sources, given the
So called insurgents on the repub-
lican side. This is really amusing to
me- for if the record is analysed it
will be found almost without excep-
ton that they voted for high duty
on the products of their states and
against a high duty on those of other
states, and then because they could
not get actually what they wanted
they. in effect voted to continue in
force the Dingley law and yet they
always proclaimed their devotion to
the doctrine of protection. There is
no question but that the American
people approve of the doctrine of pro =
lection and they believe in its ad-
vantages. Upon this theory l acted
and voted during the entire consid-
Grafton of this bill. I made no bar
gains with anyone and was not asked
to make any, but did not see how l
could ask for protection for our prod
lucts where | believed it was needed
and vote against the protection of
products of other states where a rea-
sonable showing of its necessity was
made.
President Approved Bill.
81 voted many times with the So
called insurgents. There are several
things l think should be in the bill
and there are many things in it that
should not be there, but it had the
approval of 95 per cent of the repub-
licans of both houses of congress. The
president examined it very carefully
and earnestly urged its passage