The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-16
Tariff Board Will Soon Lay Important Matter Be-
 fore Congress
CHAIRMAN EMERY
 REVIEWS HIS WORK
Makes Speech at Cincinnati and Says Report on the Cotton and Wool Schedules Will Be Ready
 for Next Congress

Cincinnati, April 15.-That the final report of the federal tariff board on pulp and news print paper will be laid before the President for transmission to Congress in two weeks and that the board will be ready to. report compre- hensively to the next Congress in cot ton and wool schedules of the tariff law was the announcement made here tonight by Henry c. Emery, chairman of the board,
 Mr Emery spoke before the Com mercial club of Cincinnati at its an- nual dinner. the affair being given over to tariff and reciprocity subjects. l The other speakers were William N Howard of Georgia, member of ths | board, and Nicholas Longworth. repre- I sentative of the First Ohio district in 1 Congress. Mir. Howard discussed ex- temporaneously the business uses of a tariff board" and MT. Longworth de- tended the proposed reciprocity treaty | with Canada.
 MT. Emery outlined at length the scope of the tariff boards investiga- tions and reviewed the work it has accomplished thus far. He said in part:
 We laid out our work for this year with the expectation that tariff legis- lation would not be introduced in Con. gress until next December. The neces- sity of an extra session was not then anticipated. The board began it's work nine months ago and what 1t has ac- complished to date is briefly as fol- l lows:
 Have Experts Report
 We have had prepared by experts here and in Europe reports on separate schedules. analyzlng the different items in each schedule, the relations of the various tariffs to each other. the sys- tenn of classification. with critical com l ments on the operation of the different clauses, These cover chemicals, earth enware and pottery, iron and steel, cottons, wool and woo1ens, silks. leather and other commodities. Such reports cannot be properly published until their conclusions have been thoroughly checked both here and abroad.
 "A glossary of the tariff act has been practically completed for any schedule, giving a description of each article. it's method of production, sources of supply and chief markets in this and leading competing countries with a calculation of
 
 We have made further a searching ex- animation into the cost of producing pulp, news print and some other forms l of paper in this country and Canada 1 These figures have been taken directly | from the books of the companies and rep l resent all factors affecting the industry. | We feel sure that the final report will present as complete and accurate a sur l vey of this industry as is practicable. l "A similar investigation has been under l taken into the cost of wool growing and Is practically complete for the eastern section of the country, covering reports l from about 700 wool growers. The west ern investigation Is nearing end.
 An inquiry has been made in Aus 1 tralia, Asia, and another Is under way in l South America.
 1 "On cotton and woolen goods we are | collecting samples of foreign and domestic products with relative prices here and | abroad and with estimates of foreign ex- perts as to the cost of making the Amer ioan fabrics there. The collection of do-j | mestic costs is being pushed by agents already in the mills. while the data on various samples will be extended and | carefully checked.
 Get Foreign Data
 "At the same time two separate lines | of inquiry will be prosecuted abroad, one | into shrinkage of foreign wools as basis for the compensatory duty and one into wages and labor efficiency in the textile | industries.
 Mir Emery reviewed the history Of the | tariff board. and discussed the arguments i, which have been advanced as to the de- sirabiiity of the investigations which II has been created to undertake. In com 1 elusion he said:
 | "A tariff board should confine itself | within the field of the practical and real ize that with due diligence promptness | may be combined with accuracy. Further-' l more as such work progresses. 1t may l be pushed with increasing rapidity, as the machinery of investigation which had t5 be created for the first inquiries gains ] in efficiency for each new task. l In beginning his speech Representative Nicholas Longworth said. | 'The best and simplest way to com | prehend the wisdom of the policy of reciprocity with Canada is to examine the map of the North American conti- l nent"
 MT. Longworth declared that in the 1 absence of natural barriers 1t is unwis, | to erect trade barriers Between nations.
 q want 1t to be well understood that l am speaking as a protectionist sail | he. q do not at all liken the placing l of an article on the free list in recip rocal agreement with one country to the placing <of that article the free liss in the general tariff against every other l country The difference to me is the diff | ference between black and white; the one | |. reciprocity: the other is free trade I am heartily for reciprocity and wholly and absolutely opposed to free trade 7 Washington, April 15-Within the next month four agents of the tariff board will | be gin gathering cost statistics of manu- | faeturing wool and cotton textiles in ] Europe
 w. A. Graham Clark and W. J. Lauck will work in England and Ethelbert Stew art and C. w. Nedtz will conduct an in- vestigation on the continent
 The investigators will work in the | European mills several months and re. turn to the United States in time to ln- l clude in their reports the rains on ths