The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-31
TARIFF BOARD BILL
IS PASSED BY HOUSE
Champ Clark Quickly Silences
Payne by Threat to Kill
the Measure.
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your side" he retorted hotly. "and your
| bill is dead.
XIII It! XII IT," shouted dozen
| II was finally agreed that Mr.. Payne OF
| New York and Mr.. Harrison OF New
York should control the time. the latter
After MIR Payne had earnestly urged
| the passage Of the bill. Mr. Clark took
"For some time" he said. ''there has
been proposition pending in the United
States in n sort Of nebulous way. for
a tariff commission; that is. an
| institution intended TO undertake 10 fix
rates. ] was opposed TO that last year
and l am opposed 10 that this year. be-
cause II Is tdio'IS 1t Is id,9tis s,oee because oS
solutefy precludes such n performance.
So much for that.
Favors This Bill.
There is pending here now PROPOSE
ton to establish a tariff board that is TO
have specified functions, These func
late C. Last year the proposition con-
cern!ny q sirnllar board was that ii should
report to the president of the United
States.
~ said then, and l voiced the senti-
ments OF a good many persons. that the
Democrats did not object 10 information
from any source on the tariff question,
and that II you were going TO have
tariff board, It ought TO report to the
house. do not know that it would do
very much good do not believe 1t
would do very much harm, II any.
"'rhe proposition for tariff board has
been so amended In this pending bill
or report to the president. or report to
the house. On the motion OF the Demo
Gratis In the committee, II was fixed SO
that the house shall be competent or
shall investigate. That makes an entirely,
different situation. | voted for that bill
In the committee; / am going to vote
for II here
"Of course. there is no use To 7oncea!
what the condition is. We have got the
house after the fourth of March. and we
promise to revise the tariff. and we are
going to do It just as soon as we can.
Particularly I would Ike very well 10
see an extra session of congress, but
there Is only one man on the face Of the
earth who can call an extra session OF
congress. and that is the president IL
the evening papers su are to be Inss Dgl.cVgn be
gets his reciprocity scheme through this
congress.
Taft's Democratic Principles.
"IIe has one more Democratic ,princl,,
pie. Give him time enough and he will
adopt them all. While ne mansda is nrganS anS fl
am heartily in favor of that. | wish ne
would extend Its operations so as 10
take in our sister republics on the souiI'
''The new board is TO be bipartisan
one. ! use the word bipartisan aecu-
rately, Such thing as non partisan
board is an mpossibility in nature.
wish we could fix 1t so there would be
three Democrats and two Republicans on
not have; but on the fourth of March.
1919 we can get three Democrats TO
your two Republicans. and that is the
way this board will then stand.
,l,n will int a
the best men he can find. ] think 1t will
be able to collate much information But
j want this understanding, that II he ap-
points two Democrats, l want them TO
name"
"How are YOU going to get him to do
IT. interrupted Representative Rucker,
81 think he is fair minded man and |
he will do it." replied Mr. Clark. ~
think he will need us frequently to pass
bills in n very short time. and he is liable
10 give us good Democrats this time
Does the gentleman think we are
going to sit idly by while this commits
sion appointed by the president collects
'nf9Tmssion form asked M M Mr. r. EecKen reRendsd ,s
far as / am concerned, / am willing TO
take the ways and means committee as
at present selected and go into room
and frame a new schedule before Satur-
day night / think we could frame two
with good deal of intelli-
gence. But even we would be better off
II we had more information"
Calls Board Illegal.
Representative Fitzgerald OF New York
was the first to voice Democratic oppo-
siiion TO the bill.
There is.'' he said. "a so-called tariff
board today existing in express violation
II the law, The president said he con-
strued the Payne -Aldrich tariff act to
give him authority TO appoint tariff
board. but one of the parents or putative
authors OF that bill, Mr. Payne in his
'eport upon this very bill TO this house
says this so-called tariff board is exist
ng by virtue OF a provision in the last
;undry civil appropriations act,
There are some of us of sufficiently
leen memory to recall that although It
vas especially directed and vigorous ef-
orts were made to create a tariff board
when the sundry ciyll bill was under con-
liberation. no more authority was given
han was given in the Payne act-au- |
hority to employ persons to assist the
PRESIDENT in obtaining information to en-
orce the maximum and minimum pro-
'isions of the law"
Representative Longworth OF Ohio led |
he long list OF speakers on the Republi- n
AN side. He said he did not favor dele
eating rate making or rate-recommend- !
ng powers to any tariff board or COM |
mission. and that no such action was con- |
emplated. The house must always re- |
ain the right, he said, to initiative rev.
nue. legislation.
Representative Brantley of Georgia /
Underwood OF Alabama |
Randall OF Texas. Repre-