The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-16
|sPEAKS ON THE
| TARIFF BOARD
chairman Emery Explains
\ What Has Been Accom-
plished Up to Date.
NICHOLAS L0NGW0RTH
TALKS ON RECIPROCITY
Features of the Annual Dinner
of the Commercial Club
of Cincinnati.
By Associated Press

lBy Associated Press
Il CINCINNATI, April 15.-That the
6nal report Of the federal tariff board
bu pulp and news print paper Will be
laid before the president for transmits
lion TO congress in two weeks, and that
+be hoard will be ready to report com"
nrehensively to the next congress on
tbe cotton and wool schedule of the
tariff law was the announcement made
hero tonight by Henry c. Emery, chair
imam of the board.
Mr.. Emery spoke before the Com
mercial club of Cincinnati at its an
Inual dinner. The other speakers were
IWilliam NJ. Howard Of Georgia, mem
her of the board, and Nicholas Long
worth, representative Of the First Ohio
district in congress. Mr.. Howard dis
Icussed extemporaneously "The Busi-
ness Uses of Tariff Board,' and Mr..
|Longworth defended the proposed reci-
nrocity treaty with Canada,
IA Mr.. Emery outlined at length the
scope of the tariff boards investiga-
lions and reviewed the work it has ac
complished thus far, He said in part:
"We laid out our work for this year
with the expectation that tariff legis-
.lation would not be introduced in con-
'gress until next December. The ne
cessity of an extra session was not
then anticipated, The board began its
work nine months ago and what 1t has
accomplished to date is briefly as fol
lows:
Searching Examination.
"We have prepared, by experts here
and in Europe, reports on separate
schedules, analyzing the different items
in each schedule, the relation Of the
tenn of classification with critical COM
ments on the operation of the differ
ent clauses. These cover chemicals,
earthenware and pottery, iron and
Bteel, cottops, wool and wooleps, silk, |
leather and others.
"We have made further searching
Examination into the cost of produc- |
bon OF the pulp, news print and some
pther forms of paper in this country
ind Canada. These figures have been |
taken directly from the books Of the
,ompanies. A similar investigation has
peen undertaken into the cost of wool
"
ihe eastern section of the country, COW
ring reports from about 700 wool
.rOwers.
"On cotton and woolen goods we
Pc collecting samples Of foreign and
omestic products with relative prices
ere and abroad and with estimates of
Pc foreign experts as TO the cost of
BAKING the American fabrics there.
Fhe collection of domestic costs is be-
Pc. pushed by agents already in the
Pills, while the data on various samples
Ell be extended and carefully
ihecked -
+ Longworth's Address,
Mr. Longworth declared that in the
hhsence of natural barriers it was I'm.
Fise TO erect trade barriers between
Hallons' lie asserted that even if
xenada benefited more than the United
2tafes by the proposed treaty, the for
per s increased prosperity would re.
~ 10 the benefit of the United States.
He then continued:
Il want it TO be well understood
nat l am speaking as a protectionist.
araw sharp line between duties es-
Ieonshed IN AN agreement with one ma
*o9, where both sides give and take
~ "here labor and industrial condi
"ns are substantially the same, and /
IC; e0tu"iisueu IN rne general tariff
kalIst all the nations of the world /
don t at all liken the placing of ]
n article IN the free list in reci.
Hoeai agreement with one country to I
~ placing of that article on the free {
Sot N inc general tariff against every |
tner country. The difference to me e
IN allfgTence between black and |
. mite e The one is reciprocity, the 9th. 9TH
Is free trade.
All, II am heartily for reciprocity and
sn99ily and absolutely opposed 70 free
siI, ~ closing, Mr.. Longworth upheld the t
erlng OF the extra session as "a most t
saaage0us act, by President Taft and f
Ssa'ed That 1t showed that he "is G
ee sr;t oi sterner stuff than most OF q
Al Tics tho nave been willing to admit. 8
tho suo eng ne proposed the health {