Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-14

More than all this. the new tariff act
| has provided for the appointment of
tariff board TO secure impartial owl
dence. upon which. when revision of
the tariff shall seem wise. we shall
have at hand data from which can be
determined with some degree OF ac-
curacy the difference between the cost
| OF producing articles abroad and the
| cost OF producing them in this country
Tho great difTlculty in hearing and
| discussing the present tariff bill WAS the
| absence OF satisfactory and credible
| evidence on either side of the Issues
as to low or high tariffs. The importer
on the ono hand and the manufacturer
on the other were present to give their
| fallible judgments. affected by their
own pecuniary interests. as to the facts
| under investigation. Men who were
| struggling to find the truth were great
| ly perplcxed by the conflicting tcsti-
| mony.
TARIFF COMMISSION
The tarin bill authorizes the presi-
| dent to expend $76. 900 in employing
| persons to assist him In administering
| the maximum and minimum clause
| and to assist him and other officers
| OF the government in the administra-
ton OF the tariff law. l have constru-
| ed this to mean that 1 may use the
| board appointed under this power. not
Ohi9 " lcOh itto bhc hCAN'bh
! tariffs. but also to examine
| the question with respect to
each item In our tarin Dill
what the cost of production of the
| merchandise Is. and what its cost Is
| abroad. This is not an easy task for
| impartial experts. and 1t requires
| large force / expect to apply to Con-
| gress this year for $25O,oOO to organize
| n force through which the investiga-
| tlon may go on and the results be re-
| corded for the use of the executive
| and Congress when they desire to avail
| themselves of the record. In this way
| any subsequent revision may be car
ried on with tho aid of data secured
| officially and without regard to It's
| argumentative effect upon the qucs-
| tlon of raising or lowering duties.
| Taken as whole. therefore, l don't
hesitate to repeat that the Republi-
| can party has substantially complied
| with its promise I'm respect to the tariff
! and that il has set itself strongly in
the right direction toward lower tariffs
| and furnished the means by which
such lower tariffs can properly and
safely be fixed
An investigation by the tariff board
OF the sort proposed Will certainly
take a full two years or more. Mean
time the operation of the present
tariff promised to be consistent with
the prosperity of the country and
with the furnishing of sufficient funds
with which to meet the very heavy.
but necessary, expenditures of carry
ing on our great government.
BEST CUSTOMS LAW EVER.
I therefore venture to repeat tho re-
mark l have had occasion to make be-
fore, that the present customs law Is
the best customs law that has ever
been passed, and 1t is most significant
in this. that II indicates on the part
Of the Republican party the adoption
of a policy to change from an Increase
in duties to a reduction of them, and
to effect an increase of revenues at
the same time.
The act has furnished to the execu-
tive the power to apply the maximum
and minimum clauses In ordor to pre-
vent undue discrimination on tho part
of foreign countries, and this Is Sc
curing additional concessions in re-
spect to the lmpositions on our foreign
trade.
The act has done Justice to the
Philippine islands by giving them FREQ
trade with the United States.
More than all this. the new tariff
act has provided for the appointment
of a tariff board to secure impartial
evidence, upon which, when a revi-
srnr u - t,a,a da+a sro-,, y,,,ot
SUI ~. a. inns ~,,t,, snn,a daaroa
en- ga ou ~ -, aic,ornr,ao hatu,aa. ~
VI ~. a. 20 asoa,,nIr.l III a.,inIa. ohroaa and
80 ~ ~ raS,,aino tha,, In this
elv tos' u :" ''
THE RAILROADS.
or +ho euhiact of railroads tho re.
nnhitcan nIstTorn, said.
"yUo rnrove the anactment of tbe
rot,rood Ito law and tho vigorous on
foroon,apt hy the resent adninistre.
tion ~ the statute against rebates and
dIecrIminations 40 result of which
the advantaqes formerly Dossossed bv
tho large simmer over the smaller
Skinner have subsequently disappear-
ed. and ,n this connection we com
mend the appropriation by the rrres-
ent Congress- to enable the Interstate
commerce commission Thoroughly TO
inyestIgnte and give publicity to the
accounts OF Interstate railroads We
believe however. that the Interstate
commerce law should be further
amended so as TO give railroads the
right to make and publish traffic
agreements subject to the approval of
the commission, but maintaining al
ways the principle of competition be-
tween naturally competing lines and
avoiding the common control of such
lines by any means whatsoever. We
favor such national legislation and
supervision as will prevent the future
overissue of stocks and bonds by in
terstate carriers"
A bill to carry out these declarations
has been introduced In both house and