The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-23
NATIONAL TARIFF
 COMMISSION PLANS Plans Are Formed to Make the
 Board Permanent COMMITTEE WILL MEET Association Will Cooperate With Man. ufacturers to Secure Legislation
 By Congress to Perpetuate
 the Tariff Board
COMMITTEE WILL MEET

Washington, September 22.-Plans were announced here of a campaign to be con- ducted by the National Tariff Commits sion association to have Congress enact legislation which will make of the tariff board a permanent body. to be affiliated as bureau with the treasury depart ment.
 Henry R. Towne of New York, treas urer, and director of the National Tar if Commission association, after a con- ference with Chairman Emery and mem- bers of the tariff board, issued a state ment indorsing the work of the board in it's effort to secure reliable information upon which to base tariff schedules, and emphasizing the desire of manufactur- CTS to cooperate with the board in it's work or to procure legislation which will assure It's continuance. The first of series of conferences which will start the tariff board actually on Its work of mak- Ing scientific examination of the tariff, schedule by schedule, will take place tomorrow, when a meeting with the ex- ecutive committee of the Chemical Man ufacturing association will be held. That
  panies and practically represents the in- dustry in this country.
 Henry Howard of Boston, a member of the executive committee of the chem ists organization, came to Washington today. Mir Howard had short confer ence with Chairman Emery of the tariff board and then called an informal meet ing of his committee It is understood Professor Emery gave to MT. Howard an idea of what the board expects from the chemists in the way of assistance in getting statistics of the cost of manufac- turo, and that MT. Howard called meeting of the committee to decide whether the industry Is prepared to give 1t.
 The attitude of the manufacturers toward the board will develop more fully at the meeting tomorrow. Both sides expressed themselves today as friendly. The conference will be followed by meetings with representatives of manufacturers of wool pulp. wool tex tiles, iron and steel and probably metal men. From the results of those con ference the board expects to know just where 1t stands in beginning its work. The members of the board view the situation which confronts them this way
 One set of industries may consider tn hemselves insufffciently protected by the tariff and be anxious to cooper ate with the board to get what they think is due them.
 Another set may feel they are sui fciently protected and may furnish such information as would tend to pre- serve their present conditions.
 Still another set however, which may be over protected by the present law may either oppose the board openly or appear to be friendly and really hamper the experts in their work.
 Individually the members of the board are not alarmed at the various announcements that it will be hard job to get information on the cost of manufacture from the corporations They think the board has facilities one way or another for getting what it wants.
 When the board has finished with the oh hemists 1t will have some talks with interests of the woolen industry, the iron and steel men. the wood pulp manufacturers and probably the metal men. These schedules have been marked for first attention.
 The National Tariff Commission asso- citation, which advocates the permanency of the board, IS an organization Wnlcn grew out of the tariff conference at In- dianapolis in 1909. It Is composed of delegates from all parts of the United States MT. Towne stated that 1t had undertaken to obtain from all congress- men and candidates for Congress pledges to support the permanent tariff commits sion. Conventions are also being urged to include in their platforms blanks in- dorsing such proposition.
 The present tariff board" said MT. Towne, ''has the indorsement of manu- lecturers throughout the country. It's methods of obtaining information upon which to base tariff legislation are re- liable and accurate, and it's work should become a fixture in the government
 Congress appropriated for the work of this board this year s2500O0, but has made no provision for the permanency of the board. That Is the result to be accomplished and 1t Is our purpose to procure through the ageocy of our af filiated bodies throughout the country pledges from congressman of all par ties and candidates for Congress in sup port of the tariff commission idea"