The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-12
NOW Do YOU THINK
We SHOULD WAIT?

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respondent for the Los Angeles
Record, sends an interesting story
about the personel of the tariff
board for whose report Mr. Taft says
we should wait.
Mr.. Gilson's story follows:
Washington, Sept. 6.-Wait for
the tariff report. That was the ex-
cuse for Taft's veto of the wool bill,
the cotton, iron, steel and chemical
bill, and the farmers free list bill.
What is this tariff board whose
word is big enough to stop reduc-
lions of duties universally recog-
niZed outrageous?
who are it's members, and where
did it come from? Here is the
answer:
Henry Crosby Emery, chairman
Professor of political economy at
Yale; rock-ribbed republican from
Maine; ultra protectionist; bache-
lor; home, New Haven; age, thirty
rine.
James Burton Reynolds Editor
! olitician; born, Saratoga, n. w.;
graduate of Dartmouth college;
state house reporter at Albany in
days of Plat; Washington cores
pondent for Boston Advertiser and
Record (Troy); editorial writer on
New York Press, leading high tariff
papers of the country secretary
Massachusetts republican state COM
mittee under Lodge bossism; as
sistant secretary treasury under
Shaw; home, Boston; politics, stand
pat republican; bachelor; age, forty
one.
alvin Howard Sanders-Lawycr-
editor from Iowa; educated at Cor
nell; practiccd law in Chicago; re-
porter on Breeders Gazette, Chi
oago, organ of livestock interests
demanding high tariff proprietor
Breeders Gazette; former secretary
National Cattle Growers associa-
ton: former chairman American
reciprocal tariff league; former
president international Livestock
association: politics, standpat re-
publican; home. Chicago age, fifty
one
William Marcellus Howard
{ congressman from Georgia, 1897
1911; born, Berwick City, La; one
of twenty-three democrats who
saved Uncle Joe in 1909: beaten by
constituents for betrayal Of party
and given tariff board berth as
lame-duck by appreciative admin
stratiOn; politics, standpat demo-
orat; home. Lexington, Ga; age,
ffty-fOur.
Thomas Walker Page-Member
aristocratic old Page family OF
Virginia; born, Gotham, Va; former
dean of college of commerce, Uni
versity of California;; former pro-
fessor of economies, University OF
Texas former professor of history
and economies, University of Cali
fornia: professor of economics,
University of Virginia; writer on
economies: member council Ameri-
can Economic society member his
torical society: politics. democrat;
home. Charlottesville, Va; age,
forty-four.
There they are-the men for
whose facts the whole country
must wait.
They have their being by virtue
of the will of congress. Insurgent
republicans and few progressive
democrats proposed a permanent
commission in the special tariff ses-
sion of 1909. They wanted nom
partisan board. with unlimited au-
thority and facilities to make a real
exhaustive tariff investigation.
"Standpat republican and stand
Pat democrats prevented the crea-
ton of such a commission. Instead
they inserted in the tariff bill
paragraph authorizing the president
to name board with curtailed
powers and facilities. Taft named
Emery, Sanders and Reynolds. Con-
gross gave them $4,000 to spend.
In the next two sessions insur-
gents of both parties sought to
strengthen the power of the board
and broaden its scope The stand
pattcrs were forced to yield little
more The boards power was in
creased end a total appropriation of
$4,000 was made. This was
where Page and Howard got their
Jobs. THE Commoner.