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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-06
A Difficult Task.

The senator who had charge OF the
cotton business went down 10 the
treasury department. take bis own
statement OF II. He asked the treas
ury siatisticl5D. Just take the chem
ical schedule and reduce il % per
cent Thai is easy enough. 20 per
cent Is Just one fourth of the pres
cnt duty. You take that OFF and you
get whJ, he wished 10 know
But the trouble is that the chemical
schedule consists OF eighty five items
which affect millions OF dollars Of
impcrtations. affects great deal
more than bleaching powder and col
oring material. OF those eighty
tlve items, SiXty.slN are what are
called specific duties. You know the
difference between specific and ad
vaIorem duties. The al valorcm
du:y is a duty in proportion 10 the
value Of the thing. a specific duty
is duty in proportion Ia the size
Of the thing-tlc weight, What the
senator said to this statistician was:
II want 10 change this all 10 ad va
lorcm and when you have H. all
changed 10 ad valorem then take of
% per cent,
That requires a great deal oI oN-
pert knowledge. because you have
got io know HE exact value of ev-
CRY item I'm those siXtr-six different
items before YOU can change from
what Is specific duty 10 an ad va
lorcm duty. The Staiistcian saidi
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lAFT, AT THE FAIR GROUNDS
DEFENDS HIS THREE VETOE.S
Continued From Page 81

derstand il. I'D you ever take ND a
tariff bill? II YOU did II n,,Il hc
Just az plain to You as the Graak
testament, BECAUSE IL contains y lot
or technical terms and n Iot of sn,
enc duties. all OF which, In order 10
unoetsiahd the meaning Of, you have
got TO go to an expert 10 find ont
U.aughter.) "''
This tariff board is engaged In
making a glossary-an encvclonedia
of the whole fifteen schedules Of
the tariff. so that hereafter when a
public know about it. but members
OF congress may know something
about II. and II shall not he, confined
10 members Of the ways and means
committee. nor members of the
finance committee In the senate
That movement, carried on by all the
commercial bodies OF this country
resulted in the formation Of a Tariff
commission association that came on
10 Washington and asked us tc nave
commission appointed by law
created by law-wllich should look
into the facts
That bill passed one house and
then passed the other. with few
amendments. and then 1t went back
20 the first house on the last day OF
the session. and a very few members
OF the first house who opposed the
bill! We're able 10 defeat IT by what
they called fiibuster. But an ap-
preparation bill had gotten through
both houses which gave me. as I say.
half million dollars 10 continue
my board II the other commission
bill did not go through. AS this tariff
commission bill provided for a nom
partisan board. I proposed to make
my board non partisan. and now
there are three Republicans. so called.
and TWO Democrats. so called, on that
hOa ri
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-06
Gets $4,000 Job,

CHICAGO. Oct 5.-Mason 2. Starring.
president OF the Chicago and Oak Park
elevated railroad was elected head OF
The Railways Investment company with
headquarters in New York. according 10
an announcement made here yesterday,
The position is said 10 bc one of the most
important in the public utilities field, and
10 pay more than $50 Q00 a year.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-06
Pleased With Livestock.

On the conclusion Of the president s
speech, which was heartily applauded,
the party was escorted to the upper
balcony of the fair headquarters
building and reviewed 4 livestock pa
geant which epcircled tbe race track.
President Taft gave close attention
to tue parade of fine stock and had
frequent words of praise when some
especially fine animal passed the re-
viewing stand. Several horses iu the
livestock pageant were driven by
women and the president never failed
TO raise his hat in compliment to the
fair drivers, A girl Of six years. driv.
ing pony cart, waited a kiss toward
he president and he promptly returned
the salutation, accompanied by his in
fectious and Joyous laugh.
Every visitor TO the fair was given
chance TO sec tho president, On the
conclusion of the pageant he was taken
TO his auto and, escorted BY another
car and file of troopers, was driven
slowly through the grounds. The pres
idcut was kept busy raising his hat
In response to cheers of the crowd, The
autos were driven on the race track
and went slowly past the grand stand
with the president standing and bow
ing his Acknowledgements to the
cheering thousands.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-06
Presented With Apples.

After circling the race track. the
presidential party was driven to the
horticultural building and, aligbting,
began the rounds of the exhibits. The
president and others of his party were
really surprised at the exhibition of
Utah S resources and capabilities and
were liberal in their praise and CON.
pliments. President Taft was invited
at the booth of +. Spencer, ,Ir,, TO try
a Jonathan apple. and accepted, EX
pressing delight with the flavor of the
fruit, Senator Smoot. who was with the
party, at once placed an order with
Mr.. Spencer for two boxes of apples
to be sent at once to the president S
car a box Of Jouathans and one
Of Rhode Island greenlings were Sc
lected This is prize fruit and MIR.
Spencer received s25 for the two boxes,
While the party did not tarry long at
any one exhibit, ehc president saw
practically all of the fair He WAS gra
cious and pleasant to all of the Utahns
he met and his unfailing good nature
was always apparent.
Following the close Of his inspection
trip through the various departments
of the fair, President Taft and his
party Were driven TO the Hotel Utah
over the same route used in making
the trip tn the ground. The president
at once retired to his apartments and
spent the next several hours in rest.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-06
Are Not Partisan.

1t is very difficult TO say what party
tney do belong TO. but they arc men
VINO are competent to make investi-
cations. They are not experts on
tariff matters in the sense shat they
know all about the technical manu-
iacture of anything. but they are cx-
perts in making Investigations. 1aIc
professor OF political economy at
Yale. and the professor OF political
economy at the University of Virginia
are two of them. The editor of tho
Breeders Gazette, who is an expert
on all agricultural matters is thru.
one OF the ablest Democratic mem
bers Of congress. Mr. Howard OF
Georgia. is fourth and Mr.. Reyn-
oids. who was four years In charge
Of the collection of customs in the
treasury department. is NTH.
Those gentlemen, although NOM
inally they belong to one party or
the other, are non bipartisan, and they
arc under obligations TO 20 ahead
and find out the facts, no matter
whom those facts hurt; and as the
appropriation bill directed the tariff
commission, il established. 10 report
on schedule * OH the first Of Decem-
bcr. directed that tariff board TO
make that report on the first OF De-
cember, and they are going TO do II.
They Will also make a full report on
schedule ]. or the cotton schedule.
Now under that arrangement. with a
board authorized by congress 10 give
lis the facts, II seemed to mo clear,
and ] may say that those provisions
In congress were supported by both
parties. that Vt was only easonablc,
destroy the industries. for us 10 walt
10 find ont what the facts We're be-
fore ] signed the bill; and I did
wait. CApplausc.)
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-06
Thinks Course Justified.

7 submit 10 my friends that that
history of these bills that / have ve-
iocd IS conclusive justification for
my saying TO congress, you must
wait until you get the facts before
YOU interfere with a tariff upon
which rests. the prosperity Of this en-
tire country. You have no right TO
alter these items until YOU know what
you are doing. and hope that you
may know what you are doing by a
report OF the tariff board in Dccem-
Der, when recommendations can be
made on the basis of that tariff
board ! don't sec that there is any
particular injury 10 anybody in
Yctoing those bills and delaying ac-
tion until after We know what we arc
doing
thank you, my friends. for listen
ing This is not a poetical and IL
is not an interesting speech. but to
ladies who arc charged with the re-
sponsibility Of voting I do not hesi-
tate 10 make this speech. because I
know that in exercising that RESPONSE
blllty they want to have the infor-
nation upon which TO act. which I
am sorry to say in this case con-
gress did not have.
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me word Of promise TO the ear and
nroNe NJ 10 the hope. II was n hill
10 enable farmers to get everything
cheap That is what they said Now
sne hrst clause put all aericulturaj
nnpl"ncnds on the free list That
""uid nave been great concession
10 the farmers II agricultural ir,,nIo.
nen1s had been anywhere else bnt
on me Tree list when that bin vas
introduced. AS a matter of fant
agricultural Implements arc now on
lhe Tree list list, in this sense: AerI-
cultural implements are entitled 10
come IN free into this country from
any country that allows our agrIcu-
Infal implements TO 60 into n free
Inc only country that manufactures
AGRICULTURAL implements for export OF
any KIND is Great Britain, and Great
Britain lets our agricultural imple-
ments In free. therefore. hers -au
come In free here. but they do not
come In in ANY great amount-about
81 1I,ooo. think, last ycar-and the
reason is that they don't know now
TO make As good agricultural imple-
ments abroad as VIC do here, and our
agricultural implements are consid-
erao'y cheaper than they arc any
"here else in the world. so that did
not seem 10 be tremendous conceS-
SION when you went into what It
amounted to
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Failed to Work.

and then It was put through tho
house. Then 1t was submitted TO me.
Failed to Work.
When it came to me. / submitted
the matter TO my tariff board and TO
what they found: They found that
this method OF transmitting the spe-
ci6c duties TO ad valorcm was very
faulty and having done that, and
then taking OF the % per cent. they
were In a very funny situation. be-
cause very considerable part of
those itcQ1s instead of being reduced
only 25 per cent were reduced. from
so per cent 10 100 per cent, and a
very considerable other part instead
of being reduced at all were IN
creased from 40 per cent to 100 per
cent
My friend from the state that was
looking after the cotton manufactur-
when he came to learn the facts. OF
knowing that instead OF reducing
bleaching powder % per cent he had
increased 1t "a per cent. an explana-
tion that he might have found diff
cult TO make TO his constituents had
I signed the bill. But that was not
the worst feature OF the bin. In that
chemical schedule there ara four or
five items that include alcohol.
Now. alcohol Is r. subject Tor In
ternal revenue taxation that requires
a tax OF S1.10 a gallon. Alcohol that
comes In from abroad pays tax OF
$3.50 per gallon, and in all these al
coholic items that I speak Of alco-
hoiic compounds, things that are i'm
mersed in alcohol and brought in that
way. there had been provided In the
existing law and in previous tarin
laws, with great deal OF care, spe-
cllc duties TO prevent their being
used for the introduction OF alcohol
at a cheaper rate, so that II might
come In TO interfere with our inter-
nal revenue taxation; and so they put
on n specific duty in each case OF
40 cents Il pound. that is, 10 cents a
pint, and eight pints Is $500 Il gal
Ion, so that 1t prevented anybody
alcohol just for the purpose of bring
ing II In.
By this method of transmitting
from specific 10 ad valorem duties
they made the duty on these alec.
lolic items about 40 per cent of 90
per cent ad valorem on TO the value
The yaluo OF the alcohol Is 20 cents
per gallon--I mean Its intrinsic value.
They can make it abroad for 20
cents a gallon Forty or so per cent
on that is 8 or . or 10 or IL cents
n gallon. as against sl.lo a gallon
that they have to pay In this mar
ket Under that arrangement they
might have brought in and sold Un-
der this law alcohol at about IS
cents gallon In this market. That
would have entirely broken ND our
system OF internal revenue taxation,
from which We derive on distilled
spirits from SII5, 900. 900 TO 5000, ,000.-
600. They did not know that, They
had not any purpose to interfere with
our Internal revenue tax. but the
method OF the legislation was such
that they did do II. When it came
TO me I found IL out and ! presented
that reason to them. among others.
Tor Netoing that bill.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-06
The Cotton Bill.

am now coming 10 tho third bill,
TO which ! wish to invite Your atten-
uon. first showing the whole char
acter of this legislation. tina, is the
cotton bill. The cotton bill was in
troduced into the house as a free
trade measure 10 reduce the duties
on cotton manufactures. Well /
could not have approved that any
how II IT had gone through the SEN
ate without any amendment. because
IL was aNowedly an attempt to re-
move cotton manufactures from
those which were protected, and as
] say. I stand upon a platform and was
elected upon platform in favor of
reasonable protection and enough TO
give TO these manufa cturcrs a liv-
ing method Of competing with those
manufa cturcrS from abroad.
But they were not content TO leave
IL just that way. When 1t got into
the senate they moved. without any
any investigation by the senate or
by a committee. that the whole metal
schedule be reduced 30 per cent and
thcy put that right on as an amend
ment after | suppose an hours dis
cussion. Then some OF the senators
from cotton manufacturing states
said 10 the gentlemen who we're in
control: ''Woll, now, look here. this
is getting little dangerous for or
manufacturers and IL is getting TO be
a ltrIc difficult for us 10 explain
when VIC go back how We reduced
these duties on cotton. Can you do
something for us? II you do not. we
Will have TO Kick.
They said: I'VE will icll YOU what
We will 10 We will put down the
things with which you manufacture
cotton so that you can make it
cheaper and then YOU can go to your
constituents and say, Here we have
reduced the price of cotton machinery
or the duty ON cotton machinery
from i5 per cent TO % per cent,
Then the gentlemen who were In
control said: 1T takes a good deal OF
colorinS matter aud bleaching pow
der and that sort OF thing for you
10 make common cotton cloth with
and we viii allow YOU TO take the
chemical schedule and reduce that -
per cent The sena tors from the
cotton manufacturing states said
"All right.
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.s, bill which was saId to
Eicusn,ssrs ,ssrso,ection bill. They COM
~ ~ between the free trade bin
;fcips NJ nrotection bill. so-called. and
20 ue sn agreement for SO per cent
fsne fsn,,o,em on the raw wool and b5
y .ant on the woolens.
Ia os", ,oassad the senate. Then they
lsai; ;rto conference and they had
se:,ser se,,,s compromise by which they
'teonmrouised the duties downward
ppyy pyr making 20 per cent on raw
e y and ~ per cent on woolens
~ ~, the bill was presented 10 me
"a "a no information upon which L
"a pssI nroceed which enabled me to
,ssS Z What the effect OF the blu would
ssos, os,,er on the raising Of wool or
rsnufacture OF woolens.
i was elected on n platform that
..,'srsj me TO the securing to every
.sas,ry which needed protection a
ssrre OF the difference between
4. cost OF production AZ home and
3. rost OF production abroad and I
II. utterly without information as
-srt that difference was. either in
.'s,.ef 10 the production OF raw wool
E77in respect 20 the production OF
.,isns I thought that this tariff
!, -srnoI which had been in existence
-s,iically for twenty-five or thirty
- Was too high. and ] still think
4 4 700 high, because OF the mai.
III normal operation OF protection
:.srd he tariff wall the compe-
|c,,sn necessarily reduces the PRICE.
~ necessarily therefore reduces the
|rs,rsnce between the cost of pro-
r.fion abroad and the cost of pro-
;-,fion here. That Is the normal op-
|.,tIon OF protection as We protec-
'-,.f,,r tbink
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-06
Farmers Free List.

Then They passed what they called
'thc farmers free list" They said
that was necessary 10 make up to the
farmers what they were going TO lose
by Canadian reciprocity. Well they
have not lost much by Canadian
reciprocity up to this. and they would
not have lost anything II it had gone
through
The bill was one most Objectionable
in It's framework. wish 10 go
through it, II you will bear with me.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-06
Would Destroy Symmetry.

,u men they put barbed wire on tho
Tree list and all other kinds of wire
lor fencing. i ought To say before I
come oo,.ie TO that, that with reference to
,,yl uIy speak of those which were
named. Those are the agricultural
machinery that is well known. But
mere were general words In that
'"1sr fsr that Included everything that
farmer might by any possibility
Use Use II you gave ii proper construc-
llon That meant letting in $50 diff
tcrent articles that everybody used
OF me metal and other schcdules-
cutlery and everything else. II
meant destroying the Symmetry of
Inc metal schedule II meant OMEN
ing our revenues to II loss of about
fourteen 10 fifteen million dollars II
meant an utter destruction of tho
symmetrical character of the iarifr
winch is huilded up on the theory
mat those things that have the high
est Workmap's skill in them shall pay
INC hlGhest duty in order TO protect
tIey proposed under this to let I'm
wire rope, which is the highest skill
OF workmanship in that matter. and
Mire rods that arc the basis OF all
acter Of the legislation with reference
10 common cotton bHgging Common
cotton cloth was allowed to come in
Tree, u this bin had passed il would
HaNe urohcH down the whole cotton
schedule.
:, Then they put shoes on the free
lst and they retained on the dutiabIe
list everything that went into shoes
except leather. Here was another
place where they broke the word Of
promise 10 the hope, They said we
are going To help the farmers by
b giving them free meat and free flour
/ DO not know exactly how that
would have helped the farmers, as
thnt which goes into flour. but. at
amy rate, that is what they did in
the house.
When it went to the senate they
changed 1t so that II would not ap-
ply 10 any country bur Canada
that Is. IL would not apply 10 any
country except one with which we
had reciprocal arrangement and
that let in free our products. assum-
Ing that Canada was going 10 ap-
prove the reciprocity agreement
Canada did not approve the reel
procity agreement. so those things
If they had passed would not have
amounted TO anything. because no
other country answered the dcscrlp-
tion OF the law, AS matter of fact.
that would not have amounted to
anything, because meat is higher in
Canada and so is flour, and so It
would not have reduced the market
The bill was thrown together In such
a way that il Il had gone through
it would have introduced the utmost
confusion into our customs laws II
had signed the bill--so l vetoed it.
prolonged applause.)
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-06
lointed Tariff Board.

lnerc had been movement, after
Payne tariff bill was passed
ngllouV this country, in view of
Z Ritter discussion as To the facts
a which that bill was founded n
lT agitation in favor of some
.ahs of finding out the facts in re-
Fc lc the tariff. I took advantage
Provision IN the Payne tariff
snd appointed a tariff board for
purpose under an authority that
~ me SiS.00Q 10 do it, 7 told them
1nea1 and make a glossary OF
@nH so that somebody coSd un-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-06
THE SALT TRIBUNE FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER g. 1911

That is easy: we will just add up
values Of everything that has been
imported in the last year and then we
will add up duties on those things.
and then we Will divide duties into
the values and we will get the ad
valorem value of the duties, and
then getting that. We will reduce IL
rs per cent"
Well that theory does not work
out. because in many instances the
duties are prohibitory and unless
you get a long series OF articles Il is
a very unsafe method OF procedure.
However, they did go ahead with II
and they put IL through. 1t went TO
the house and the ways and means
committee sat on II for two days.
and then IT was put through tho
house Then It was submitted to me.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-14
WASHINGTON WOMAN
WOULD BE MAYOR

Spokane, Wash.-Mrs. Clara A.
Wright, 25 years of age, wife of H,
c. Wright, a rural mail carrier at
Davenport, Wash, has entered the
mayoralty race in that city. The
primaries will take place on Novem-
Der Z and the election on December
5. George f. Craig. county super
intendent of schools is the other cam
didate for mayor. His name will APP
pear on the Independent ticket in the
primaries. There is no contest on
either ticket. Mrs. Wright was the
first woman to file for office in Lin
coin county since the state law for
equal suffrage became effective. She
Is native of oregon, born at Eu-
gene in 1882. She is the mother of
three children. The oldest is five
years of age, the youngest being a
| babe In arms. Mrs. Wright is a
staunch advocate of woman's suf-
frage and is not dismayed in the least
by the troublesome experience of the
woman mayor of Hunnewell, Kans.,
saying: 81 am a candidate on the
citizens ticket and if elected I shall
give the city of Davenport clean ad-
ministration so far as it is possible
| for its mayor to direct
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-14
MARY MERELY WAS SLEEPY.
But she Kept Men Eoll>s Out All
Night Hunting Her Kidnapcr.

Somerville, n. J, Oct. 13.-Several
hundred citizens of Somerset county,
armed with revolvers, shotguns and
rifles. spent a cold night searching
the neighborhood of Frankfora for
pretty little Mary Gray the 2-year-
old daughter of John F. Gray,
wealthy farmer, who was supposed to
have been kidnapped by a mysterious
woman in an automobile.
Early the next morning the posse
gave up the search and when they
reported to Mrs. Gray that her
daughter could not be found. the
mother, who had been almost hyster-
ical most of the night, leaped to her
feet and said determinedly, "Tll find
her, Men never can do anything
right"
Accompanied by her mother, Mrs.
Cray started along the route taken
by the posse, and, half mile from
the Gray home. by the light of the
pink dawn. she spied a spot OF red
and white on a hillside. There in the
damp grass lay Mary, fast asleep
Mary's mother and her grandmother
seized her and took turns kissing her
grimy little face down which tars
had cut funny crooked lines.
Mary went into the yard to play
after supper and when bedtime came
she was nowhere to be found. Then
| some woman neighbor remembered
having seen an automobile containing
| a yelled woman stop near the Gray
| home She had not seen the yelled
woman pick up Mary but her story
was enough to keep nearly every able
! bodied man in the neighborhood out
! of his bed all night to hunt for Mary
! who had not been kidnapped at all
She merely had wandered away and
| becoming sleepy. had lain down II
/ the most comfortable grass she coulc
find.