Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16
TO GET 1T IN TWO WEEKS
Chairman Emery of Tariff Board So
Tells Cincinnati Business Men.
COMPLETE TO NEXT CONGRESS
Comprehensive Data on Cotton and
Wool Schedules Will Be in
Shape by That Time.


final report of the federal tariff board
on pulp and newspaper print paper Will
be laid before the President for trans
mission to Congress in two weeks and
that the board will he ready to report
comprehensvely to the next Congress
on the cotton and wool schedules Of tho
tariff law announcements were made
here tonight by Henry c. Emery, chair
man of the board.
Mr.. Emery spoke before the CONNER
cial Club of Cincinnati at its annual
dinner. the affair being given over 10
tariff and reciprocity subjects. The
other speakers were William NJ. Howard
of Georgia, a member of the board and
Nicholas Longworth. representative of
the first Ohio district in Congress. Mr..
Howard discussed eXtemporaneously
The Business Uses of Tariff Board
and Mr.. Longworth defended the pro-
posed reciprocity treaty with Canada.
Mr.. Emery outlined at length the scope
Of the tariff boards Investigations and
reviewed the work it has accomplished
thus far. He said:
Finished Foreign Investigation.
I'VE laid out our work for this year
With the expectation that the subject OF
tariff legislation would not be taken up
by Congress until the regular session in
December. The necessity of an extra
session was not then anticipated. II is
impossible at moments notice to bring
TO satisfactory termination inVeStiga-
tionS. of farreaching nature. Ii was lust
Year ago that the tariff board completed
Its work on foreign tariffs and its labor5
or negotiations in connection with the
State Department in the adjustment of
our relations under the maximum and
minimum clause. 1t may well be asked,
then, whether the experience OF a year
shows that Investigations of this kind are
desirable and practicable. Fairly, It
should be recognized that the inquiry OH
any large scale has been limited to nine
months, as the appropriation making 1t
possible was not passed until the end OF
June last year. What has been accom-
plisned to date is, briefly, as follows:
I'VE have had prepared by experts here
and In Europe reports on separate sched-
ules giving careful analysis Of the DIFF
ferent items in the schedule, the relation
of the different duties to each other, the
system of classification, with critical
comments on the past and present opera
tion of the different clauses. These have
been prepared in each case by a man
who has made his life work the particu-
lar industry involved. They cover chem
icals. earthenware and pottery. iron and
steel, cottonS, wool and woolenS, silk,
leather and others. Such reports. how
ever valuable to the board. cannot be
properly published until the facts and
conclusions have been thoroughly checked
both here and abroad.
IA glossary Of the tariff act has been
undertaken, and is now practically COM
peted for many schedules, giving de-
scription of each article enumerated, the
nature of the processes by which il is
produced, the sources Of supply and its
chief markets. with figures OF production.
imports and exports, in this and leading
competing countries. and with "A calcula-
ton of duties collected in ad valorem
tarrr