The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-26
EORTY.ETVE YEARS OF SCHED-
ULE K-A STORY OF DODGE
AND DELAY.

April, 1S66-The wool-gro"ers
and wool-manufacturers meet in
Washington, D. c., and agree upon
tariff on wool and wool goods.
April, 1S66-The wool-growers
recommend a tariff on wool to the
Tinted States revenue commission.
March 2, 1S67-A republican con-
gress passes a wooden tariff law sub
stantially the same as that recon-
mended by the wool growers ana
manufacturers.
January. 1SSO-Agitation for
revision of the tariff The national
association of wool growers opposes
any change in Schedule n, put la\ols
a tariff commission.
February, 1SS0-The president
and secretary of the national asso-
ciaton of wool manufacturers inter-
view the president OF the united
States and obtain assurances as TO
the personnel of the new commission
March, 1SSO-The national assocl7
alton of wool manufacturers recon-
mends the passage of the tariff COM
mission bill without amendment.
July. 1SSO-The national associa-
ton of wool manufacturers circulates
among manufacturers petition
which says:
"That the manufacturer should
have a protective duty sufficient to
offset the high cost of labor, interest
and taxes; that the present tariff
(Schedule K) should continue until
special and minute information from
experts shall indicate the changes
that can safely be made; that the
best method of obtaining the requ1r-
ed information is through the Eaton
tariff commission"
May Is, 1854 tariff commission
authorized by act of congress.
May, 1SS2-John l.. Hayes, Sec
rotary of the national association OF
wool manufacturers, appointed pres
ident of the tariff commission. Later
he is made chairman of the sub-com-
mittee to prepare the WOODEN and
worsted schedules.
December, 18S2-Report of tariff
commission sent to congress.
March 3, 1SS3-Tariff bill passed
increasing some rates in Schedule K
and making reductions that did not
help the consumer.
October /, 1S9O-The Mckinley
bill is passed by republican con-
gress, increasing duties on wool
goods. The duty on Worsted tops.
manufactured by William Whitman,
president of the national association
of wool manufacturers, is made equal
to the duty on finished cloths.
August 27, 1894-The Wilson bill,
passed by a democratic congress, be-
comes a law, revising Schedule K,
with free wool and ad valorem
duties on goods.
March, 1875. N. D. North, Sec
rotary of the national association of
wool manufacturers, is admitted to
the secret sessions of the senate
finance committee during the franz
ing of the Dingley bill. April 4, 1897.
Fl am the only person whom the
committee allows in it's meetings.
June 2, 1S97-William Whitman
writes to Secretary North, who is at
tending tariff sessions of finance
committee:
eve all depend upon you to watch
closely our interests
July 10, 1897-William Whitman
writes to Secretary North, who is at
tending tariff sessions of finance
COMMITTEES:
81 depend upon you, dress goods,
yarns and tops
July 25, 1S97-The Dingley bill
with Schedule K practically I'M
changed, becomes law.
189S-The national association of
wool manufacturers presents $4,000
to S. D. North, it's secretary, for SER
vices in connection with the revision
of the tariff
June, 19OS-Agitation for re-
vision of the tariff. The republican
national convention at Chicago
pledges the party to revise the tariff
to equal the difference between the
foreign and domestic cost of produce
ton plus a profit. This is practi-
cally the same as the proposition
laid down by the national association
of wool manufacturers in July, 1881
for the revision of the tariff.
September 26, l9OS-Wlliam H.
Taft, republican candidate for presi-
de-, .c':cs the following pledge in
a speech at St. Paul:
Il al. here to plight the faith Of
the republican party, in accordance
with it's platform, that the revision
will be honest and exact, according
to the measure stated in the plat
form
August ), 1904 republican con-
gress passes and President Taft signs
the Payne-Aldrich bill, which leaves
Schedule X practically unchanged.
September 16, 19O9-President
Taft confesses at Winona, Mimi,
that it was impossible to revise
Schedule K because of the combine
of wool-growers and wool-manufac-
turers.
April 8, 191O-William Whitman,
president of the national association
of wool manufacturers, before the
Massachusetts, cOst-Of-living commlS-
sion, states that he
Does not know of any reason why
President Taft should know any more
about the wool tariff than does the
gentleman who recently refused to
receive Mr.. Roosevelt"
August 20, 1910-President Taft,
in a letter to Congressman William
B. Mckinley, states that