The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-04
TELLS TARIFF
BOARD 'S WORK
Accredited Representative of
President Gives First Ink
ling About Labors.
WOOL, PULP AND METAL
SCHEDULES CONSIDERED
Members Start With These Arti-
cles, and Have Big Force
of Aides.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO Dec. $.-Henry c. Emery Of
the tariff commission tonight gave the
first official utterapce regarding the
definite aims of that body in an address
made before members OF the Chicago
Association OF Commerce. following
banquet at the Congress hotel.
He made a strong plea for perma-
nent tarin' board or commission. free
from partisan influence. TO conduct an
extended investigation into the indus
trial effect OF the tariff and then to re
wise the various schedules without par
tisan interference.
Chairman Emery's address was the
first official utterance OF the definite
It intends TO employ. II can be as
sumed that he spoke for and with the
approval of President Taft.
"The main work OF Investigating ahe
industrial effects oil our tariff had been
divided into three main parts" he said.
requiring three sets OF investigators of
different types The first part Is the
collection of facts regarding each duu-
able article. showing the character and
and abroad, statistics Of output, imports
and exports. rates OF duty reduced 10 al
valorcm terms. and the like.
Investigating Wool and Pulp.
"The second part Of the work is tl1e
collection OF data regarding costs OF pro.
duction at the mill. The third consists OF
obtaining information from the best eN-
perts available regarding home and for
cien prices. local variations in each In
dustry. and the general conditions OF
competition at home and abroad
you can appreciate the necessity we
are under of concentrating our chief ef-
forts At first on few main lines" said
Mr., Emery. Naturally. every one who
has some personal grievance thinks his
particular schedule Is the one that needs
Immediate revision,
whether wisely or unwisely, we de-
cided to concentrate for the moment on
schedule NJ (pulp and paper). schedule
X (wool and woolens). and schedule u
(ferm products). Preliminary work is
being done on schedule A (chemlcaIsJ,
schedule 6 (metals and manufactures of.
and schedule J (cottons). And the more
detailed work on these Will begin as soon
as possible.
of the board. the statfstician and the
strictly administrative force, we have
four chiefs OF Investigation, eight trained
investigators employed on the FIRST mart
OF the work. and about an equal number
OF clerks to assist them: about a dozen
consulting or technical experts devoting
part of their time TO the third part
Of the work or to reports on special
topics. and twelve men In the field get
ting actual cost nEurcs from the books
OF individual producers
Easier in Europe.
Mr.. Emery showed tho difference be-
tween European and American methods
of tariff making. and pointed out that
the reason why such elaborate inyestl-
gatioEs had not been necessary abroad
was because IN those countries there
were bodies OF government officials OF
Il permanent non partisan character who
have devoted themselves solely TO the
study OF these questions for a quarter
OF u century.
Discussing the existing powers OF the
tariff board 10 secGre Information Mr.
Emery stated IL To be the opinion o!
the board that for an Investigation OF
this character. cogrcivo powers To call
for books ana examine witnesses under
path were by no means essential
Testimony given under coercion" hc
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