The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-08-30

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alleged defective methods Of previous
tariff revision which they had de-
nounced ard to reject as entirely un-
worthy of consideration the suggestion
OF delay until investigation by an i'm
partial board should be had. No tariff
bill within anyone's recollection has
ever been passed with so little care.
They declined to wait ninety days to
hear report of full investigation
on Schedule K, which the previous
congress, by united vote of the dem
ocrats and republicans, including the
insurgents, had directed to be made on
the LIST of December. 1t is true that
this statutory direction was specifi-
cally made to tariff board, created
under a bill which ultimately failed
of passage, although supported by all
the gentlemen who were prominent in
the passage of this wooden bill.
Nonpartisan in Makeup.
Still that same congress gave me
money enough to create board to do
the same WORK . 1t is board of ex-
|actly the same personnel as that which
the tariff commission would have had.
for on it i have put three republicans
and three democrats and made it non
partisan in the sense that the bill re-
quired. 1t is board that in every
respect is the statutory commission,
except that it is not permanent and
has not the power to summon wit
nesses and this it finds unnecessary
because it can secure all the informa-
ton it needs without doing SO.
1T is the same board which Messrs.
Clark and Underwood and Senator La
Toilette and his assistants were de-
manding. + + + submit that the
congressional history of this legisla-
ton, taken with the previous incon-
sistent position of Mr.. Underwood and
Mr.. Clark, Mr.. La Toilette and his
associates, is enough to show why the
wool bill ought not to have been
signed, and is enough to convince the
people of this commonw ealth that the
party in power in the upper house
ought not to receive from them a vote
of confidence.
"'rhe other two revenue measures
were really impromptu, and were so
loosely drawn that to have them put
on the statute books would have been
a serious reflection on the congress
responsible for them. They would
have produced the utmost confusion
in the collection of the revenue; would
have made very different changes in
the rates from those which the auth
ors of the bill intended, and were GER
tainly not measures many congresses
would have been willing to be respons-
ible for, if they had been framed with
a bona fide purpose of expectation OF
making them into law.
''They were plainly measures made
to appeal to supposedly popular de-
sire and with the hope that by the
vote which they had every reason to
expect they might invite popular hos
tility toward the executive and the
party of which he was the head. These
are the simple facts in respect to the
tariff legislation attempted in the
house and in the senate.
Revision Necessary, He Says.
81 am here to speak the truth as
nearly as l can. recognize the gen.
eral demand throughout the country
for reduction of duties so far as
that reduction can be made consistent
with the maintenance OF measure of
protection that shall enable the in
dustries OF the country to live.
"The time OF the Chinese wall and
duties exceeding the difference be.
tween the cost of production here and
the cost of production abroad has
passed, and we OF the republican
party are under an obligation as soon
as opportunity comes to advocate and
carry through revision of the tariff
which shall meet the present popu-
lar demand and to which we are real
ly~pledged.
Therefore, when the tariff board
shall make it's report in December on
wool and cotton, expect to submit to
recommendations based on
their report for revision of both
schedules. l have already expressed
my opinion that the wooden schedule
is too high; that it has prevailed for
so many years that it ought to be re-
vised, and is the subject of complaint,
not only by consumers, but also by
those who are engaged in the indus
tries affected. So far as can help,
no such revision will take place unless
it is made with a full knowledge of
the facts as found by an impartial
My calling the extra
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