The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-18
Underwood Answers Taft's Veto With Call to Vote
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LOUD CHEERS GREET
 DEMOCRATIC LEADER
All Members of Both Parties Sum- moned to Washington For To- days Battle--Taft's Message
 Vetoing the Wool Bill

Washington. August l7.-Republican ap- ,lause which greeted President Taftss feto of the wool tariff bill as it was read n the House late today was followed by m outburst of democratic cheers when Ma ajority Leader Underwood announced that he would call up the bill tomorrow and move it's passage over the veto.
 The Presidents veto message reached the House while the roll was being called on MT. Underwoods motion to concur in the Seante amendments to the free i'sr bill When the conference report on that bill in its final legislative stage was ap- the reading of the Presidents message was begun, each member fol- lowing the Presidents words from prins- ed copies of the vote, which had been dis tributed.
 When the reading was concluded. Mr. Underwood arose:
 Mir Speaker he said, T do not desire to ask that this message. from the Presi- dent be referred to the committee on ways and means. l ask that it lie on ths speakers table and give notice that I will call up the bill tomorrow immediately after the reading of the journal and move to pass it over the Presidents veto"
 Cheers and shouts from the democratic members greeted the announcement.
 Mir. Garrett of Tennessee, when quiet was restored, asked unanimous consent to incorporate in the Record a portion of President Tafts speech at Winona. Minn. in the last campaign. in which he de- scribed the wool schedule of the Payne Aldrich tariff bill as 'indefensible."
 Republican Leader Mann asked unanl- nous consent to incorporate the entire Winona speech in the Record, which car ried
 The democratic majority tomorrow will make determined effort to pass the pill over the Presidents veto. They have hoped that they will be able to do this. Representative Mann and other republican eaders expressed confidence tonight that his will be impossible. Representative Dwight, the republican whip, has told the President that the majority will not be ble' to muster enough votes to carry the oil by two-thirds vote. On the recent passage Of the e. npromise htli in. the House the vote was 2O6 to aB.
 Rally for Supreme Test
 Many members of both parties reached Washington today, and all absentees are ordered to be hand tomorrow. The democrats expect, with their full quota of members present, together with 30 repub- licans. who voted for the oill they can develop a two-thirds majority. Repub- lican leaders assert that many of the in- surgents who voted for the bill will not do so over the Presidents veto.
 The House and Senate disposed of the free list bill as agreed upon in confer ence, and 1t was signed tonight by Vice President sherman and Speaker Clark. 1t will be sent to the President tomorrow.
 Mir. Taft. in special message to the House of Representatives. said the bill was not in harmony with the platform on which he was elected, and the American people are deeply impressed with the con- viction that the interest of the consuming public can properly be guarded only by revising the tariff. one schedule at a time, and then upon accurate and scien- tiically acquired information"
 After promising that the tariff board will be ready to report in December, the President argues that failure of the pres ent bill should be regarded. therefore, as taking away the only chance for reduc- ton by this Congress. The message was as an indication that no tariff in advance of a report ofs the tariff board upon schedules affected will be signed by tile President.
 In his message on the wool tariff bill, President Taft said:
 q return without approval House bill No. 11.019. with a statement of my reasons for so doing.
 The bill is an amendment of the existing tariff law and readjusts the customs duties in what is known as K, embracing wool and tho of wool.
 q was elected to the presidency as the candidate of a party which in it's platform declared it's aim and purpose to maintain a protective tarin by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of pro duction at home and abroad, together with reasonable profit to American industries.' 1 have regarded this Ian. guage as fixing the proper measure of protection at the ascertained differ ence between the cost of production at home and that abroad and have con- strued the reference to the profit of American industries as intended. not to add new element to the measure stat ed or to exclude from the cost of pro- ductlon abroad the element of man ufacturers' or producers profit, but only to emphasize the importance of in- in the American cost a man ufacturers' or producers cost profit. according to the American standard.
 "In accordanee with a promise made in the same platform. called an ex- tra session of the Sixty-frst Congress-. at which a general revision of the tarifR was made and enacted in the Payne bill. 1t was contended by those who op- posed the Payne bill that the exist ing rates of the Dingley bill were ex- cessive and that the rates adopted in the revising statute were not suffi- ciently reduced to conform to the prom- ised measure.
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 "The great difficulty. however, in dis. there was no means available by which in fact was the difference in cost of production between the products of this and the same products abroad
 ITO help these reforms for the future, I took advantage of a clause in the Payne tariff bill enabling me to create a tariff board of three members to secure infor- nation as to the comparative cost of pro- duction of dutiable articles under the tariff at home and abroad.
 "The deep interest in the matter of m impartial ascertainment of facts before any new revision was evidenced by an effort to pass a permanent tariff commis.. sion bill in the short session of the Sixty first Congress- Because of light duration of the session comparatively small nority were able to prevent it's becoming law.
 "On the failure of this bill took such steps as I could to make the tariff board ------------------------