The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-22


operation 1t will appear that they, a,
well as everybody else. have bees
improved in condition by our large.
trade with Canada. But the bill
was framed and came to me in q
form calculated To mislead as to rs
effect. In the first clause all a2ri-
cultural implements were declarec
70 be tree, and a great many wei,
named These same implements
We're named in the Payne bill, and
We're made free in that bill from any
country which permitted our agri-
cultural Implements to enter ii With
out duty. This opened to England
the market OF Tire United States for
agricultural implements As a mat
ter of fact, the price OF agricultural
implements in America is cheaper,
as shown T.. report Of the Bureau
Of Trade Relations of the State De-
pa1tment. to the American farmers
than to any farmers in the world,
Finally. the free list has two
clauses Affecting meat and -four. AS
they went through the House they
put meat on the free list and fiouN
on the free dist In the Senate, how
ever. an amendment was put on linz
iting the operation OF these two
clauses to imports from those coun-
tries with which we have a recipro-
cal relation and which admit certain
agricultural products of ours free
This limitation made Canada the
only country which would be affected
by the provisions of the clause
Now, in our negotiations with Can
ada for reciprocity we attempted to
secure free meat and free -four,
Canada would not consent to this.
because she feared the effect of our
competition with her meat and -four
This showed that importations of
meat and -four from Canada without
duty would not have any effect to
lower the price in this country of
either in normal times. But this
eree-list bill was giving to Canada
netting fer nothing. This Con-
yress at the close OF the act APPROX
ng the Canadian reciprocity agree
nent directed me 10 continue nego-
iations and expand its terms. and
et in these provisions it proposed to
leprive me of using the concessions
f free meat and free -four to secure
oncessions from Canada. Thus the
ill was so loosely drawn, it was
irawn on such a wrong principle
nd with so little information, and
purported to do so many things
which it did not do, that ! had no
1esitation in vetoing il.
Calls Cotton Bill Impossible.
Finally. the cotton bill came to
ne. This bill differed from the
theirs in being bill for which the
Democrats alone, and not the insur-
ent Republicans. were responsible
t had passed the House on the re-
lort of the Ways and Means Com
lttee made without the taking OF
my evidence of persons interested in
he manufacture or anyone else; II
rad completely changed the method
# classifying cottons, classifying
hem according to the threads in thu
arm instead of by the threads OF the
iece and the specific duty upon the
iquare yard, as in the present bill
This was a most important change
md it had been adopted after an in
ormal communication in writini
With the Bureau of Standards ant
fter an adverse report by the treas
.ry experts The bill was adopted
vewedly as a free-trade bill by tn
'ouse. 1t came to the Senate ant
vas passed in the form in which !
assed the House, except that certain
mendments were added. One wa
IN amendment cutting down tn
METAL schedule by sweeping redu,
ion Of 80 percent, and the other wa
n amendment OF the Chemlca
chedule with a purported reductio
I'd valorem of % percent. So hast
| was the bill thrown together, $
| little attention was paid to the cor
| ;ideration of II in the Senate, esp'
| tally in chemical schedule, that IN
most ludicrous results were reache'
n the first place. although III
amendments radically changed III
METAL and chemical schedules, u
,hange was made in the title, WINE
| still read AN act TO reduce duti
IN cotton manufactures. Inc pI
vas impossible and OF course iveto'
IT, There was in the passage OF u
Jill, in the amendments, and In u
. general treatment an indication IN
he support of the bill was pas
II rather on desire to make politic
record In favor OF lower duties IN;
lpon serious proposal to chan
:. the law. Al least this Is the on
explanation that can be offered
the careless, inartificiai, and ali