The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-25

could furnish to congress the reve-
nue-producing capacity of all rates of
| duty, and give all the other facts
with reference to the effect of the
operation of the tariff which con-
gress ought to know in determining
whether changes were needed or not
and in determining how best taxes
might be reduced if there was sur
plus or how best they might be In
creased if there was deficit
Through provision in the Payne
bill, | was able to appoint a board
of three, and with appropriations
furnished by congress to direct
them to make a glossary of the tar
Tiff, or an encyclopedia. by which any
Iayman might inform himself as to
the meaning of the terms in the
tariff and as to the actual ad valor-
EN- rates imposed, although specific
rates were provided, and all the 9th,
er facts enabling one to take up
tariff and intelligently to study it's
meaning
The movement for the permanent
organization of tariff commission,
after the passage of a bill for that
purpose was put through both
houses, failed by reason Of fill
buster and the shortness of the last
session of the sixty-first congress.
Sufficient money was given me,
however, to continue the board which
had already appointed. increased
its membership by two, in order to
make it a non-partisan board, and /
it to do the work tina the !
bill which failed had prescribed for /
the permanent tariff board to be APP |
pointed Hereunder At the instance /
of a democratic senator, the perman-
ent tariff board, in an appropriation /
bill which is now law, was directed ,
if established to make a report on
Schedule K on the first of December
next issued an order to the tariff
board, newly constituted TO prepare
a report on Schedule X and Schedule
| the wooden and the cotton sched-
ules, by that date, which bring in the
reports at the opening of the regular
session of congress,
In order to secure an adoption of
the Canadian reciprocity treaty l
called d special session to discharge
the promise | had made to the Can
adam authorities. At this special ses-
sion the three tariff bills were pass
ed which | vetoed, and / vetoed them
chiefly on the ground that no time
had been taken to investigate the eff
feet of the changes which We're pro-
posed and that they ought to await
the coming in of the report in De-
cember, when we should have full
information at least on the question
of wool and woolens and cotton man
ufactures. There we're other grounds
for withholding my approval from
the bills, which are set forth in the
messages, but for the present | do
not wish to consider them. I am anX-
ious here to bring forward the issue
as to the necessity for tariff board
to advise congress OF the facts in re-
spect to dutiable articles and the OPP
Grafton of a tariff before it shall be
adopted into law
1t has been said that t1e Tariff
board is a mere preteXt chat it is
board of my hirelings and clerks,
and dat it is absurd for me to delay
congress in the enactment of that
which is its highest privilege-to-
wit. revenue measures--until ! can
secure, through an agency of mine,
Information as to the wisdom Of the
proposed bills
My exercise of the veto power at
all is severely criticized as remnant
of the royal prerogative and my atti-
tude is compared to that of George
III understand that these periods
of rhetoric are usual under such cir
cumstances. and ] do not find myself
greatly troubled by them when called
upon to exercise a clearly imposed
constitutional function.
The tariff board has been referred