Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-19
VETO MESSAGE
SSENT TO THE
HOUSE TODAY
TAFT HITS HYBRID
MEASURE ADOF TED
Says Party is Pledged to
Await Report Of Tariff
Board and That Duty De
manded the Veto.

IO1AOW444S 0NOAAASo A1ASSSAAAS
it is Announced That Cot.
ton and Free List Vetoes
Would Follow Wool.
i Washington, d. c., Aug. 17.-Presi
dent Taft today carried out his threat
to veto the wool tariff bill. In spec
ial message to the house of representa-
tiyes he characterized the measure 8
blend of an avowed tariff for revenue
and multiplication measure with q
protested protection bill.
j In explanation Of his course Presi
dent Taft said the bill was not in har
mony with the platform on which he
was elected. Furthermore, he declar
ed that the American people are deep
1 ly impressed with the conviction that
the interest of the consuming public
can be properly guarded only by revis.
| ing the tariff one schedule at a time
and then upon accurate and scien-
tifically acquired information"
! That there Is a widespread belief
that many OF the rates in the wool
! schedule are too high and In excess OF
| any needed protection of the wool
growers and manufacturers is admit
ted by President Taft and he says he
shares this belief.
Asserting that December was the
time fixed by both the republican and
democratic partles In the last con-
gress for the submission Of whatever
information was secured upon sched-
ule tx" with view to its amend
ment, the president says there is no
public emergency requiring revision
in August without adequate informa-
ton" After promising that the tariff
board will be ready to report in De-
cember, the president argues that fail
ure of the present bill should not be
regarded, therefore, as taking away the
only chance of reduction by the con-
gress.
The message will be accepted as an
indication that no tariff bill prepared
in advance of report of the tariff
board upon schedules affected, will be
signed by the president.
President Taft's Message.
In his message President Taft said
in part:
81 return without my approval house
bill No. 11,019 with a statement of my
reasons for 50 doing.
The bill is an amendment of the
existing tariff law and readjusts the
customs duties in what is known as
schedule K. embracing wool and the
manufacturers Of wool.
II was elected to the presidency as
the candidate of party which in its
platform expressed its aim and pur-
pose to be to maintain protective
tariff by the imposition of such du-
ties as will be equal to the difference
between the cost of production at
home and abroad, together with a
reasonable profit to American indus
tries. have always regarded this
language as fixing the proper mea-
sure of protection as the ascertained
difference between the cost of pro-
duction at home and that abroad and
have construed the reference to the
profit OF American industries as inten-
ded, not to add new element to the
measure stated or to exclude from the
cost of production abroad the element
of manufacturers or producers pro-
tance of including in the American
cost manufacturers or producers
profit reasonable according to the
American standard.
I'm accordance with promise
made in the same platform called
an extra session Of the sixty-first con-
gress at which general revision Of
the tariff was made and adopted in
the Payne bill. 1t was contended by
those who opposed the Payne bill that
the existing rates of the Dingley bill
were excessive and that the rates
adopted in the revising statute were
not sufficiently reduced to conform to
the promised measure.
Brought to End Log Rolling.
THE great difficulty, however, in
discussing the rates adopted, was that
there we're no means available by
which an impartial person could deter
mine what in fact was the difference
in cost of production between the
products Of this country and the same
products abroad. The American public
became deeply impressed with the con-
viction that in order to secure prop
er revision of the tariff in the future
exact informations to the effect of the
new rates must be had and that the
evil Of log rolling or compromise be.
tween advocates of different protected
Industries in fixing duties could be
avoided and the interest of the con
suming public could be properly
guarded only by revising the tariff
one schedule at time.
ITO help these reforms for the fu-
ture took advantage of clause in
the Payne tariff bill enabling me to
create tariff board of three members
and directed them to make glossary
and encyclopedia of the terms used in
the tariff and to secure informations
to the com imperative cost of the produc-
ton of dutiable articles under the tar
iff at home and abroad"
Here the president quoted from his
message of December Z, 1909, requir-
ing money to continue the work of the
tariff boar and stating the good re-