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make returns or statements to- the
government and who make returns }oI
statements Of fraudulent nature are
subject to, q fine of $1,000 and I'M
> prisonn1ent for one year, -,.r. n,
| & During the closing days OF the tar
III controversy, before the bill was
voted on for final passage. over forty
; Republicans who had grievances Of
! one sort or another against certain of
the provisions Of the bill stated that
they would vote against It They. had
it in their power to defeat the meas.
, ure and force the president to call
another special session In September
or October. They had the party lead
ers plainly worried for a.; time, but
. the able peacemakers at the capital,
including President Taft himself, sue
ceeded ID calming the rufi1ed waters at
last. ;}E>st'E' - ~ J.'E"
!. 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 E. Payne Of New York.
who also had a part In framing the
/ Mckinley and ,Dingiey acts. Actually
It should perhaps be called the Payne
Aldrich 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 3all the moves that
have shaped it from the days of the
+: Republican national convention that
! nominated him and adopted a plank
/ for 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. - w. a..
! It is the first time there has been
!, change Of the tariff laws In twelve
years the ningIey act having gone
into effect in 1897. The inception of
-; that law was strikingly like. that of
| the present, In each case it was en-
i acted by an extra session Of congress.
! called as the first act of an incoming
administration. More noteworthy still;
; each Of these extra sessions was called
/; to meet on March Is. the first one
y having been issued by William McKin-
! ley Of Ohio. the last by William How
:, ard Taft OF, Ohio. n :.sa> sssas
x. u. E. s3$ The Tariff Plank. ..5 ,s 81
'f@ The agitation within the Republican
party for a revision of the. Dingley:
act has gone On from the days Of the
"Iowa idea" until at last it eliminated
in the plank in! the last Republican
platform beginning: T.. .f9&* s< iy, sf
:. The. Republican party declares I'M.
equivocally for a revision Of the tars5
If by a special session of congress I'm.
mediately following the Inauguration
Of the next president I n f.. 81
n In his campaign on that platform
Mr.. Taft construed this plank as mean
4 ing revision downward, point that he
insisted on In his speeches and finally
l clinched In his inaugural address when
q he said that conditions had so changed
s relative to the Dingley act that they
VIII permit the reduction OF rates In
certain schedules and viii require the
dYancement Of few. II nj. Il q That
& meant revision downward, which was
{ recognized substan tally BY the house
hbill but was changed to actual re-
vision upward by the senate bfll. II
was at this point that the president
Z 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 bin III Its present
form Is the result 3.5S
First Tariff 1ilt.
I The first tariff bill enacted iii the
United States was hat os tfe First
Il congress- The opening section of that
bill stated that, III I'D tion to securing
4 money Tor the support off the govern
llssssIneht the tariff was adopted for the
enc uragement and protection 81 man
lures rom that time political
4 parties of mai ional scop have FLASHED
on the issue of the tariff jas til whether
III /. $5or not It should be more than ..for
revenue only
The expenses De the war of 1912
necessitated q matarial increaset 81 the
4 bsff an 40 etnaent occurred two
years after the close off tia war
through an oct prepared by Henry
Clay.
ia 1925 the tari6 was jumped up y
4 If Few ana d year later II went
higher from 81 sfto5 III per ceat.
When, iii 1882; d Bill establishing 4
rctectfve tariff policy was passed.
oath Caro- tnaS led to recognize
HE VALIDITY De the Increased duties
land threatened VI secede President
jackson had ID dispatch ID Rarstsip TO
South Caro- fnafan wat ags