The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-17
READY FOR SUBMISSION 70 CON
GREss IN TWO WEEKS, SAYS
CHAIRMAN EMERY.
COTTON AND WOOL NEXT
Didn't Expect Congress to Take Up
Tariff Till December-Long-
worth Favors Reciprocity
Agreement.

Cincinnati April 1G.--That the fin2i
report of the federal tariff board on
pulp and news print'pa will be laid
before the president for transmission
TO congress in two weeks, and that
the board will be ready to report com
prehensively to the next congress on
the cotton and wool schedules of the
tariff law, was the announcement
made here tonight by Henry )
Emery, chairman of the board.
Mr.. Emery spoke before the Com
mercial Club of Cincinnati at its an
nual dinner, the affair being given
over to tariff and reciprocity sub
jects. The other speakers were VIII
liam NJ Howard, OF Georgia, mem.
Der of the boad, and Nicholas Long
wor,h, representative of the First
Ohio district in congress.
Mr.. Howard discussed extempo
raneously "The Business Uses IF o
Tariff Board" and Mr.. Longworth de.
Tended the proposed reciprocity treaty
with Canada
Mr. Emery outlined al length the
scope of the tariff boards investiga'
tons and reviewed the work 1t has
accomplished thus far He said n
parts: ~ EfYEKiTsI El sSSSG5'a
I'VE 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
necessity of an extra session was
not then an icipated The board be-
gan its work nine months ago and
what it has accomplished to date is.
briefly. as follows:
Schedules Complete.
I'VE have had prepared by expe Is
here and in Europe reports on sepa-
rate schedules, analyzing the differ.
ent items in each schedule, the rela-
tion of the various tariffs 10 each
other, the system of classification,
with critical comments on the opera
ton of the different clauses. Thesa
cover chemicals, earthenware and
pottery, iron and steel, cottons, wool
and wooden, silk, leather and other
commodities. Such reports cannot be
properly published. however, untl!
their conclusions have been~thorough
ly checked both here and abroad.
Working on Cotton
"On cotton and woolen goods We
are collecting samples of foreign and
domestic produc with relative prices
here and abroad and with estimates
Of foreign experts as to the cost OF
making the American fabrics there
The collection of domestic costs is
feing pushed by agents already IN
the mills, while the data on various
samples will be extended and care
fully checked
NAt the same time two separate
lines of inquiry will be prosecuted
abroad, one into shrinkage Of foreign
wools as a basis for the compen.
satory duty and one into wages and
labor efficiency in the textile indus
tries"
Mr.. Emery reviewed the history of
the tariff board and discussed the ar.
guments which have been advanced
as TO the desrabili y of the investiga-
tions which it has been created TO
undertake. In conclusion he said:
"a tariff board should confine T.
self within the field of the practical
and realize that with due diligence
promptness may be combined with
accuracy. Furthermore, as such work
progresses it may be pushed with in.
creasing rapidly, as the machinery of
investigation, which had to be ere
ated for the first inquiries, gains in
efficiency for each new task"
Longworth on Reciprocity.
In beginning his speech Represen-
tative Nicholas Longworth said:
"The best and simplest way 20
comprehend the wisdom of recj
procity with Canada is to examine the
map of the North American CONT
nent."
Mr.. Longworth declared that in the
absence Of natural barriers, 1t is un-
wise to erect trade barriers between
nations
Il want 1t to be we'll understood
that am speaking as a protection
ist." said Mr.. Longworth. Il do not
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