The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-04-13
REGULARS FAVOR
TARIFF COMMISSION
Sundry Civil Bill Will Create
New Body.
DIFFICULTIES IN THE SENATE
Proposed Action I'm Line with the
Presidents Recommendation and
Intended to AppeHse the Insur-
gents and Quiet the COuntry-PreH-
ent Tariff Board to Expire.

a genuine tariff commission will be
created by Congress, or there will be no
sundry civil appropriation bill This
statement is made on authority. There
is a subcommittee on appropriations now
az work on the sundry civil appropri-
alton bill This subcommittee viii at
tach 10 the bill the tariff commission
proposition. so phrased as not 20 make
IT subject 10 point Of order when the
bin comes up for debate in the House.
II will provide an item Of $4,000 for the
purposes OF the commission as requested
by the President in his recent message
10 Congress. and the bill will pass the
House carrying both the commission idea
and the appropriation.
In the Senate there will be several
difficulties 10 be overcome. In all
probability, Senator Beverage will seek
to have his tariff commission bill at
tached to the sundry civil bin as IL VIII
come from the House. by way Of a sub
stitute for the House provision.
Opposed TO Commission.
Then. too. Senator Hale. chairman Of
the Senate Appropriations Committee,
which will have jurisdiction over the
sundry civil bin, is hostile 70 the tariff
commission. He IS on record IN this
respect in speeches made 10 the Senate
when the special tariff session Of last
year was drawing 10 a close
But these difficulties IN the Senate
will almost certainly be overcome IN
some way. and the sundry civil bill. as
passed through that body. Will contain
some sort Of tariff commission propo-
sition. however, not precisely the on'
that will be put IN by the House. This
will mean that the question as 10 what
the session will do about a tariff com
mission will be worked out in the com
mlttee Of conference between the two
Houses.
I Mr.. Tawney will be the chairman NJ
/ the House conference and HIS Republican
! associate viii be Representative Walte
/ T. smith. Of Iowa. The Democratic com
mltteemau Of the House will be- Repre-
sentative Fitzgerald. Of Brooklyn.
Good Political Eject Expected.
The political effects Of this Legislation
will be great. In the first place, II 4
/ expected that the country Will accept IN
tariff commission proposition az pleoe
ON the part Of the Republican party tina
the present tariff law IS merely 20 b
temporary. and that as soon as the com
mission can ascertain the differences re
ferred 20. the law Will be taken up 20
amendment That IS what the commits
sion idea means, and what Congress wi
intend the country 20 take IL as mean
ing. This will be expected 20 secur
peace in numerous Republican state
which are now in turmoil because Of dis
satisfaction with various schedules Of IN
new law.
Instead az the Payne law remaining
operation for ten years or longer. whic
is the usual thing with a tariff law.
. will come up for amendment just as 500
as the tariff commission can ascertai
what is the difference between the GO!
; Of production at home and abroad Of q
o. articles enumerated In the unsatisfactor
. schedules This viii be couple Of year
, az the outside.
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