Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-08-09
HISTORY OF THE BILL.

The new tariff law will be known in
history as the Payne bill. taking Its
name from the chairman of the house
committee Of ways and means. the
Hon. Serene +. Payne of New York.
who also had a part in framing the
Mckinley and Dingley acts. Actually
1t should perhaps be called the Payne
Adrich bill. as the chairman Of the
senate finance committee has had quite
as much to do with debating it's final
provisions as Mr. Payne. On this line
Of reasoning. however. there are those
who insist that it should be called the
| Taft bill. as the hand of the president
| has been seen in all the moves that
have shaped it from the days OF the
| Republican national convention that
nominated him and adopted n plank
| tor tariff revision up until the hour OF
| the final fight IN conference committee.
when the big man in the White House
made his historic fight for free raw
materials and for carrying out the
promises Of the party.
| IT is the first time there has been a
| change OF the tariff laws In twelve
years. the Dingley act having gone
| into effect n 1897, The inception OF
that law was strlkingly like that Of
the present IN each case it was en-
acted by an extra session OF congress.
called as the first act of en- incoming
administration. More noteworthy still.
each Of these extra sessions was called
to meet on March 70, the first one
! having been issued by William McKin.
ley Of Ohio. the last by William How
ard Taft OF Ohio.
The Tariff Plank
| The agitation within the Republican
party for revision Of th" Dinglcy
act has gone OF from the days of the
| Iowa idea" until at last it cn'.,.!aated
| in the plank in the last Republican
platform beginning
The Republican partr declares un-
! euuivocal!y for = revision # the ta--
If by a special session II congress i'll
.nediately following the !:au-uration
| o: the next president"
| In his campaign or that platform
NJ Taft construed this plank as mean.
| ing revision downward. a point that he
| insisted On IN his speeches and finally
| clinchrd II his inaugural address when
| he said that conditions had so changed
| relative to the Dinglcy act that they
| will permit the reduction Of rates In
certain schedules and will require the
| advancement Of few. If any" That
| meant revision downward. which was
recognized substantially by the house
bill. but was changed to actual re-
vision upward by the senate bill. 1t
was at this point that the president
quietly but firmly injected himself
into the fight in the conference be-
tween the two houses. the house stand
ing behind him and forcing the senate
to yield. The Payne bill in its present
! form is the result.
First Tariff Bill.
! The first tariff bill enacted in the
| United States was that OF the First
congress. The opening section OF that
bill stated that. in addition to securing
money for the support of the govern
ment, the tariff was adopted for "the
encoura cement and protection OF man
ufactures" From that time political
parties of national scope have clashed
on the issue of the tariff as to whether
or not it should be more than "for
! revenue only"
The expenses of the war Of 1872