The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-31
CHAMP CLARK IN
 FAVOR OF BOARD
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 got the House after March 4, and we propose to carry out in good faith the promise to revise the tariff and we are going to do 1t just as soon as we can.
 Personally I would like very we'll to 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. If the evening papers are to be believed, he is going to call an extra session unless he gets his reciprocity scheme through Congress He has adopted one more democratic principle. Give him time enough and he will adopt them all While he Is urging a reciprocity treaty with Canada, and I am heartily in favor of that. wish he would extend its oper- atons so as to take in our sister repub- lies on the south. every one of them in the western hemisphere.
 A Partisan Board
 "The new board Is to be bipartisan board. I use the word bipartisan ae- curately. Such a thing as non-partisan board is an impossibility. I wish we could fix it so there would be three dem ocrats and two republicans on that board at once, but that we cannot have; but, on the 4th of March, 1913, we can get three democrats to your three republi- cans, and that is the way this board will then stand.
 If the President will appoint five of the best men he can find I think it will be able to colate a great deal of infor- nation. But I want this understanding, that If he appoints two democrats, that I want them to be democrats in fact as well as in name"
 How are you going to get him to do it?" interrupted Representative Fucker of Missouri.
 q think he is fair-minded man, and he will do it," replied MT. Clark. T think he will need us frequently to pass bills in a very short time, and he is liable to give us good democrats any time"
 "Does the gentleman think we are go- ing to sit idly by while this commission appointed by the President collects in formation?" queried MT. Fucker Information Would Help
 Not at all,'' MT. Clark responded. AS far as I am concerned, I am willing to have the ways and means committee as at present selected, frame new schedule before Saturday night I think we could frame two schedules with a good deal of intelligence. But even we would be bet ter off if we had more information, no doubt about that"
 Representative Fitzgerald of New ' York was first to voice democratic opposition to the bill.
 .sThere is," he said, "a so-called tariff board today existing in tfo express viola ton of law. The President said he con- strued the Payne-Aldrich tariff act to give him authority to appoint a tariff board, but one of the parents or one of the puta- tive authors of that bill, MT. Payne. in his report on this very bill to this House says this so-called tariff board is ex- isting by virtue of a provision in the last sundry civil appropriation act. There are some of us of sufficiently keen memory to recall that although it was expressly desired, and vigorous efforts were made to create tariff board when the sundry | civil bill was under consideration, no more authority was given than was in the Payne act-authority to employ per- sons to assist the President in obtaining information to enforce the maximum and minimum provisions of the law.
 Not Tariff Expert | q do not profess to be an expert on l the tariff, but l do know the country is convinced any man of ordinary intelli- sary to make radical changes in practical | ly all of the schedules of the present in- l famous law. 1 q have a great deal of confidence in Presidents of the United States, but where 1 one of. them has gone so far out of his way as to put the most preposterous con- struction on the language of the Payne. Aldrich tariff act to justify his appoint ment of a board in violation of law. l an not willing either to permit him to- ere ate a tariff board or by vote to iegalizt and justify his already illegal action" l Representative Longworth of Ohio. wht introduced bill for commission upor which the bill presented today was passed led the long list of speakers on the re | publican side He said he did not favol 1 delegating rate making or rate recon mending powers to any tariff board ol commission and that no such action wal contemplated The House must alwayl retain the right he said, to initiate reve