Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-07
TAFT IMDORStS TARIFF
 AND COMMISSION PLAN
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cording to the treasury estimates.
 Treasury.

eording to the treasury estimates.
 Treasury.
 The treasury department is one | of the original departments of the | government. With the changes in ! the monetary system made from | time to time and with the creation of national banks 1t was thought nee essary to organize new bureaus and divisions which were added in a | somewhat haphazard. way and re- suited in duplication of duties which might well now be added.
 This lack of system and economic coordination has attracted the at tention of the head of that depart mont who has been giving his time for the last two years with the aid of experts and by consulting his bu- reau chiefs, to its deformation; he has abolished 400 places in the civil service without injuring its eff ciency.
 Payne Tariff Act
 The scheIuies of the rates of duty in the Payne tariff act have been subjected to a great deal of criti- cism, some Of it just, more of it unfounded, and to much misrepresen- I tation. The act was adopted ill pur- I suance of a declaration by the party which is responsible for it that customs bill should be a tariff for | the protection of home industries. the measure of the protection to be hn- kA nf producing tie imported article abroad and the cost of producing it at home together with such addition to that dicerence as might give ] reasonable profit to the home pro- ducer. The basis for the criticism ! If this 'ar;G :s that in respect to a number of the schedules, a higher difference was retained or inserted ty way of undue iiscI iTiiiiiisss ;;;:: favor of certain industries and man ufacturers. Little, if any, of the criticism of the tariff has been di- rected against the protection prin- | cip.es above stated: but the main body of the criticism has been based on the charge that the attempt to | conform to the measure of protection was not honestly and sincerely ad hered to.
 Tariff Board.
 1 The time in which the tariI was prepared undoubtedly was so short as to make it impossible for the icongress and it's experts to acquire the information necessary strictly to conform to the declared measure. In order to avoid criticism of this
 kind in the future and for the pur- lpose of more nearly conforming to the party promise, congress at it's last session made a provision at tmy request for the continuance Of | a board created under the authority of the maximum and minimum clause
 of the tariff bill and authorized this board to expend the money ap- propriated under my direction for the entertainment of the cost of production at home and abroad Q: the various articles included in the schedules of the tariff. The tariff board thus appointed and authorized has been diligent in preparing itself for the necessary investigations. The hope of these who have advocated the use of this beard for tarih pu.- poses is that the question of the rate of a duty imposed shall be- come more of a business question and less of a political question, tC be ascertained by experts of long training and accurate knowledge. The halt in business and the shock to business, due to the announcement that new tariff bill is to be pre- pared and put in operation, will be avoided by creating the schedules one by one as occasion shall arise from a change in the rates of duty and only after a report upon the schedule by the tariff board compe- tent to make such report. It is not likely that the board will be able to make a report during the
 present session of congress on any Of the schedules. because a proper examination involves an enormous
 amount of detail and a great deal oi care: but l hope to be able at the
 opening of the new congress, or at
 least, during the session of that
 congress. to bring to its attention
 the facts in regard to those sched-
 ules in the present tariff that may
 prove to need amendment The car rying out of this plan, of course, |, involves the full cooperation of
 congress in limiting the colsidera-
 tion in tariff matters to one schedule
 at a time. because if proposed amendment to a tariff bill is to
 involve a complete consideration of all the schedules and another re ? vision. then we shall only repeat the
 evil from which the business of this country has in times past suffered ? most grievously by stagnation and . Inn, .,ordfr.x caff lariaanf 0f