The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-01-26
TARIFF BOARD BILL
IS AGREED upon
House Committee Favors Perma-
nent Body Of Five Members.
TAFT GREATLY GRATIFIED
Senator Smoot Declares Policy OF
Schedule Tariff Revision Would
Make End Of Protective
System.

Washington, Jan. 25.-A permanent
tariff board of five members to inves-
tigate all questions for the benefit of
congress is provided for in bill
unanimously agreed upon by the
house committee on ways and means.
The bill, effective July 1, contains sub
stantially the provisions of the Long
worth and Dalzell bills.
When the White House learned that
the committee had agreed unanimous
ly to report favorably on the bill Pres
ident Taft expressed great gratifica-
ton. He was informed by telephone
from the capitol that with slight modi-
fications the bill he approved had been
accepted by both Republican and
Democratic members of the commit
tee.
Senator Smoot Sees Peril.
Contending that the policy of
schedule by schedule revision of the
tariff would mark the beginning Of
the end of the protective system, Sen
ator Smoot of Utah in the senate
spoke in opposition to the joint reso-
luton introduced by Senator Cum
Minis of Iowa providing that no amend
ment shall be in order or allowed
which proposes to amend or change
any paragraph or item in the tariff
act not embraced in the schsdule con-
tanning the paragraph or item sought
to be amended.
1.-THE tariff act" said Mr. Smoot, sis
complete whole. 1t is not made up
of Independent integral parts, but all
the parts are so interviewer that any
change in any of them might disas-
trously disarrange other parts in en-
tirely different schedules. The pur-
pose Of the Republican protective tar
lift system Is to afford sufficient pro-
lection to American manufacturers
ard producers to place them on terms
of equality with their foreign competi-
tors. 70 determine the amount of
duty each article might be taxed in or,
der to accomplish that end, the cost
of the materials entering into the fab,
rication of such articles is an essen
tial element. AS the cost of mate.
rials to the manufacturer is increased
or decreased by changing the duty
thereon, it follows that a commensu,
rate change in other schedules of the
act must be made to maintain the
proper equilibrium between the mate
rails used and the articles fabricated
In this country from such materials.
Sees an Endless Chain.
Answering the contention that in re
vising the tariff schedule by schedule
consideration would be given to need
full changes In other schedules, Mr.
Smoot said that such a course would
prove an endless chain, as every
change would necessitate still further
changes until complete revision Of
the tariff would have taken place.
Schedule by schedule revision
would enable sections of this country
not interested directly in a particular
industry to combine and destroy the
industry" argued the speaker, with
no chance left to consider the justice
of the reduction of duties on articles
necessary for use in the process Of
manufacture in that industry
The New England protection
list will never have free raw
material, as produced in the west, ant
projected manufactured articles made
by similar material. The protection
lists of the west believe in protection
as principle and apply it to every
section of this country and t.
every article upon which a pro
tective duty is required regardless o.
locality.
Schedule by schedule revision is E
plan to separate industries which are
so correlated that the tariff on one
affects the other. Such system viii
result in the destruction of our indus
tries, and the great principle of pro
lection, the keystone to the arch o
the temple of republicanism, will b.
nibbled to death by supposed friends
of the protective policy and kicked t.
death by adherents to the principle o
a tariff for revenue only"