Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-27
Findings of the Special Agents Being Received by Board
 for Compilation
A SACK OF FUNDS
 NO MORE IN SIGHT
In Consequence the Work May Be Confined Entirely to the Wool and Cotton
 Schedules
(Ry Vlctor Enlott.I

WASHINGTON Oct. 26:-lnterest in the geIprt Of fhe trin Board. which caused all tariff revision 10 wait. was intensified here when it be came known recently that the boards final report would be made 10 the president in less than a month
 President Taft during the last ses sion of Congress refused to sanction any tariff revision until after the tariff board had made it's report. Ike whole country is anxiously a. waiting the report 10 see if the president was justified in the stand he took. If the report Of the board shows that conditions will permit material tarin reduction, President Taft will be placed in an embaras- sing position.
 The tariff board was appointed by President Taft in September 1909. under authority Of a paragraph in the maximum and minimum section of the Payne-AldTich Tarin Act which gave the president authority to em- ploy experts to detect any discrimin- arion in tarif against the United States, and 10 assist the officers Of the government in the administration of the custom laws. The act did not authorize the president to appoint a permanent tarif board nor to use it's members for the purpose Of securing information as to tariff matters in the United States or abroad, either for his own use or for that Of congress. but the president has amplified the powers Of the board to cover this cost. which he insists is the basis of proper tariff legislation. and congress aequieseed in his action by appropri- ating funds with which 10 carry on the work
 Work of Agent
 The board has been working through special agents in foreign lands on the task of finding out the exact cost Of production Of various manufactures in this country and in other countries. This has taken long time. and friends of the tariff revision have made it an object of their wrath. The president has been ridicuied for refusing to approve tar iff revision until after the board had made it's formal report to congress. Much Of the abuse of the board has been unfair for it would be impos- sible to collect the information in any shorter time than they have taken.
 The tariff board today has nearly one hundred and fifty employees at work in the compilation of the report on wool. The president at the close Of the last session of Congress. prom ised 10 submit to congress at the be- ginning Of the next session the re port of the tariff board on wool. In ha faruH h to congress, renewed energy has been shown by the board vo finish its field work by November |.
 Reports Coming in
 The final report Of the field agents are now arriving daily, and the work Of these agents is praeti- cally completed. so that the report of the board win be in the hands of the president by the middle of November. and can be taken up by congress i'm mediately after it convenes in De cember. The work of the field agents has been exhaustive, and the wool report is expected 10 settle once and for all, all differences Of opinion as to the relative cost oG production in this country and the other countries of the world.
 The presidents yetoes of the tar if revision bills passed at the extre session of congress, on the ground that no scientific revision can be made without a report Of the tariff board, have been acclaimed as true staJesmanship by conservatives. but were not received in the same spirit by the democrats and progressive re- pubiicans. it Is contended by them that the presidents yetoes were an enort on his part to prevent any tarif n revision before the next president ial election.
 Need of Hurry
 lt may be that the taria board will be forced to hurry through the re- mainder Of it's work. for it became known recently that it is pressed for funds lt Is estimated that there will be but S50.0OO to $75.0O0 of the ap- propriatiOn left on January This appropriation must last until July next, it being doubtful if a democratic house would approve of an emergency appropriation During the last month Of it's investigation of the wool and cotton schedules the board has been forced to spend in the neighborhood Of s30.000 per month
 Statistics on the cotton schedule will not be available until the mid de Of next December as the buIk of the work done by the board has been in connection with schedule K Field agents working on the wool schedule have completed their investigation of the raw wool districts. and are now rounding up figures in the man ufsc;uring districts. and the ready made goods markets.
 Unfinished Report
 It had been the purpose of the pres ident and the board to complete the reports on wool and cotton by the be-