Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-29
TAFT LINES UP OLD GUARD IN
BOTH HOUSES IN FAVOR OF
PLAN.
LAW TO be ENACTED
At PRESENT SESSION
siII on Lines Of severidse Plan Prob
ably Will BE Accepted - Aldrieh
Pledges Aid and Board Will Be Ss-
lected With Idea Of Removing Tariff
From Politics.

Washington, Dec. 29.-The leaders OF
sentatives as we'll as in the senate have
surrendered to President Tafts demand
for the creation of permanent tariff
commission at this session of congress.
They have gwen a formal promise that
the senate finance committee and the
house committee on ways and means
will report bills without delay.
The permanent commission and the
steps to be taken to obtain the early
passage Of the legislation were The sub
ject OF discussion at q dinner at the
White House this evening at which the
president had as his guests a number
of the republican leaders in congress.
Longworth Has Bill.
Representative LonSWorth will intro
duce a bill as soon as congress reas-
sembles embodying the ideas of the
president and some of the features OF
the tariff commission bills drawn by
Representatives Good of Iowa and Len
root Of Wisconsin, which are pending
in the ways and means committee.
Congressman Serene Payne of New
York, chairman of the ways and means
committee, is convert tho a reluctant
one, to the kind of tariff commission
favored by the president and he has
promised to have his committee work
for the passage Of such q bill.
Mr.. Payne was at the White House
earlier In the day and discussed with
the president at length the details of
the prospective legislation. 1t was the
second call occasioned by this matter
which the congressman had made upon
the president within a week. At first
he was opposed to the creation Of
permanent commission, as he was op-
posed to the present tariff hoard. but
he found that the president was dead
set on getting his concession out of
congress. and moreover that the leaders
band wagon. So Mr.. Payne surrender
ed and promised to deliver all, or al
most all, Of what Mr.. Taft is fighting
FOR,
AIdrieh Pledges Aid.
In the senate. Chairman Aldrich Of
the finance committee has promised
an early and favorable report of
permanent tariff commission bill. He
made his promise in response to an in
terpellation by Senator Beveridge Of
Indiana, author of the first tarifr COM
mission bill introduced in congress-. 1t
Is the Beveridge bill which is buried
In the finance committee and which
will be made the basis of the measure
the committee will report
There Is a good deal Of difference OF
opinion upon the details of the perma-
nent commission scheme, but the pres
ident is more concerned with the broad
general lines upon which the founda-
ton institution is to be built. Theirs
is general conviction among the re-
publican leaders in congress that the
commission should be composed of
five instead Of Of three members, as is
the case with the present tariff board.
This is satisfactory to the president.
Board Free From Politics.
The proposed legislation will make
the tariff commission a body advisory
to congress-. but the members of 1t will
be appointed by the president. This
will give the commission an independ-
ence something akin to the status Of
the interstate commerce commission.
1t will be a status essentially different
from that of the present tariff board,
which is an executive body entirely.
appointed by the president and work.
ing solely under his direction.
1t Is proposed that the permanent
commission shall be given the broad
powers to obtain all the information
necessary for tariff revision. and that
this informatin shall be supplied to the
ways and means committee Of the
house as the basis for changes in the
rates of duty.
The sentiment in favor Of the
permanent commission will be further
at the convention of the
National Tariff Commission Associa-
ton, to be held here on Jan. II and IL.
The Chicago Association Of Commerce
is taking a prominent part in the ar
for this meeting. and or
Kanizing excursions OF commercial
bodies from various parts OF the coun-
try