The Sentinel=record., 1911-09-22
TAFT TALKS
 ON VETOES
tlsts TELLS WHY HE REJECTED THE al WOOL, COTTON AND FREE
 LIST BILLS
Bases Veto Upon Fact That Tariff Board Had Not Yet Submitted a Report for His
 Guidance.

Kalamazoo. Mich. Sept 21--Pres- ident Taft brought to close his four days swing through Michigan here tonight and headed for the west. His last day in Michigan found the president spealSing and visiting in Grand Rapids, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo.
 The Grand Rapids address was one of the presidents set speeches on the tariff and his veto of the wooden and farmers free list bills; in Battle Creek he talked of Cana dian reciprocity and the annexation bogie and he wound up the day here with a speech on peace and arbi- tration.
 At the conclusion of his speech the president was taken about Battle Creek in an automobile. Before he went to the banquet in Kalamazoo tonight he reviewed the school chil- dren of the city, visited Kalamazoo college and Nazareth academy and participated in the cornerstone lay ing of the big new Y. NJ. c. A. building. He left after the banquet for Peoria, Il :, where he will spend tomorrow.
 At Grand Rapids.
 ''What I say here will be in large part resume of those messages, with some additional suggestions that the. less formal character of this address permits. I am not going 70 discuss the Payne bill, except to say that the controversy over its merits and demerits developed a very srrong sentiment among republicans and. indeed among many democrats, that bureau or commission or board of competent persons should be con- stituted to make investigation into the facts conce ming tne dutiable arti- cles in the tariff, and to report them in such way that congress and the public might be reliably advised Of the probable effe of any proposed revision of the tariff in the future.
 "The Payne bfl offered anl op- portunhy to me to appoint board of competent persons to assist me ! in the administration of the revenue laws and especially of the maximum land minimum clause of that act; and | The revenue laws were of sufficient latitude to enable me to direct this board to make a glossary" of the tariff terms and a kind of encyco- lpedia which would furnish a guide to the understanding of the tariff and also to proceed to determine the comparative difference between the cost of production of dutiable arti- Icles under the various tariff sched jules in this country and abroad.
 "Ag the extra session of 1909, con- lgress had given me $75,OOO which could spend for this purpose; at the regular session of the same con gress. the sixty-first, the. appropria ton was enlarged to $25O,00O, to lcover expenses. Meantime, the movement for a permanent tariff commission or board to effect these general purposes acquired great mo- mentum. Business associations the lcountry over united to form a spe- cial society for the promotion of such Ilegislation and the campaign for it was carried on with both houses of congress. l gave the project as strong support as possible, and made a number of public addresses in sup bort of it, and sent a specific recom- Imendation of the pan in con- Igressional message. The republican Iconyentions of 2S states adopted lresoluuicns strongly advocating a statutory tariff commission. and de- Iprecating any future revision until needed evidence had been gathered and impartial conclusions drawn as to the facts upon which such re- vision could be properly made.
 "Of course with republicans, in or lder to secure a proper revision on lthe basis 10 which they were con- mitted, r. was essential fo know from an unbiased source the difference be tween the costs of foreign and home production, for this was the limit of protection which the moderate pro tectionists among them and the last lparty platform had set. They did not wish to iniure the important in ldusGries of the cbuntry by taking