The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-15

nolds became newspaper reporter.
Washington correspondent and edi-
torial writer on a New York daily. Az
ter he had served nine years ae secre-
tary of THE Republican State Commit
tee OF Massachusetts,, President Roose-
welt appointed him Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury. in charge of the Gus
tom houses, which collect the tariff.
He was also sent abroad by Mr. Roose-
welt as chairman OF commission to
consider trade relations with France,
Germany, Austria and Great Brita II.
President Taft retained him in charge
of the customs service, and selected
him for the tariff board because o:
his practical knowledge Of customs. ad-
ministrauon and foreign trade rela-
tons.
A Smithsonian Regent.
His Democratic colleague. Mr.. How
ard. is a Phi. B. of the University of
Georgia, a former solicitor-general OF
the Northern judicial circuit of that
State, and a regent of the Smithsonian
Institution. When appointed to the
tariff board he had just completed his
fourteenth year in the House. where
he had been ranking Democratic mem
Der OF the Committee on Foreign AZ
fairs. He is fifty three years old.
Such are tho five men who. when
Congress meets-now in few weeks
Will lay before 1t the data upon which
President Taft Ill ask the senate and
House to base new bills revising the
wooden and cotton schedules.
The administrative detail OF the
board is in charge of an executive sec
rotary, Thomas W. Brahany, a native
of Madison. Wis. and graduate OF the
university OF that State, who, after
doing political reporting in his State
Legislature, served at the national
Capitol as secretary to his home SEN
ators. Quarles and Spooner. and also
as a press gallery correspondent, COW
| ering the tariff issue.
To be abreast OF the times, in these
days when this tariff board is right in
the centre OF the spotlight, you should
know how IT is gathering these data
which are sure to cause a furror Ia
Congress soon after that body meets.
Seeing the Wheels Go Round.
1 visited the boards headquarters
yesterday and was shown the various
| details of the modus operandi-the
| cogs of the complicated machinery
which is grinding out the long herald
| ed statistics on the difference of
cost of production at home and
abroad"
The investigation of the wool and
wooden industry commenced year ago.
when there were sent out to visit the
raw wool growers of the East and
West( a corps OF fifteen special agents
directed by a sheep expert OF the De-
partment of Agriculture. Among these
agents were professor of sheep hus-
/ bandry in the agricultural colleges and
| government bureaus. also expert cost
accountants capable OF taking the
growers books and readily working
out the cost of growing wool. The in
! formation thus obtained from the
growers records was recorded In the
uniform spaces Of printed blanks each
| OF which later went to the boards
statistician bearing an identification
number instead OF the name of the
grower who thus was relieved of any
dread of having the details of his bust.
ness made public. From Ave to six
thousand growers in the principal wool
producing States were thus covered.
each furnishing data under twenty
five different headings.
Followed the ShenrinE Season.
1 Through the great wool growing
beltof the West these agents. starting
in Texas. went North with the shearing
season until they reached the Canad-
ian border. Such factors as the effect
on cost of grazing sheep in the nat.
] ionai forests and losses due to wolvei