The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-06-07
SHARP IS THE
CRITICISM OF
PRES'T. TAFT
DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF THE
HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COM
MITTEE SUBMIT REPORT ON
THE UNDERWOOD WOOL BILL,
AND DECLARE ANY FURTHER
DELAY IN REVISION WILL BE
OBJECTIONABLE TO PUBLIC.
BY Associated Rrnnn-

WaShhs tun, June A-Sharply cT1tt-
cizing Preslosnt Taft, the Republicans
and the tarin board, the report on the
Underwood wool bill was submitted to
the house today by the Democratic
members OF the ways and means com-
mittee- Quoting President Taft's ad-
dress arter the Passage of the Payne
Aldrich bill. in which he declared that
the woolen schedule is indefensible
and propose to say So" the report
says:
Had the president made these pub
lie admissions earlier, while the tariff
of 1909 was under consideration bv
congress, his declaranons would have
been Of real service to the people and
would have enabled item to protest
against the betrayal of he public wei
fare to private greed"
The report continues:
THE presidents silence M that +5raA
and his approval of the act Of 1908
makes it impossible for hho to evade
his fun share of responsibility for the
failure of the revision which he now
admits"
The report deals at soma length
with the attitude of the adminAstration
in not communicating to conglsss data
on the steel trust and Other indus
tries now being investigated aad the
failure of the tariff board to com
municate data on the woolen idus-
try.
THE position of the tariff hoart an
pears to be-" says the report MAT
they, in conference with and under ne
sole control of the president. shall BE
the sole judges as to what part of d.
data they collect may be likely to E
Of service for purposes of IegisalHon.I
and this situation must be considered
with reference to the viewpoint of the
president concerning tariff legislation
1t Is therefore not impossible that
there may be some such delay in the
communication to the congress Of sta
tistical information collected by the
tariff board concerning wool and
woolen goods, as there has been in
communicating to congress and MAX
Ing public the data by the bureau OF
corporations concerning investigations
of the steel and other Industries"
The report maintains hat any fur
ther delay in the revi on of the wool
and woolen schedule would be obiec-
tionable to the public In explaining
the determination of the COMMITTEES not
to put raw wool on the free list, but
to reduce the present duty to 20 Der
cent ad valorem, the committee insists.
as the Democratic caucus did, that
the duty rs not to be construed as an
of any Democratic
policy"
THE present situation Of the treas
ury," the report states," requires that
the revenue from customs duties in
the Immediate future be maintained
as approximately the total of the fls-
cal year 1910"
All the Democratic members of the
ways and means committee with the
exception of Francis Burton Harrison.
of New York, signed the report.
The minority report is signed by
Representatives Payne, Dalzell, Need
ham and Longworth.
For purely political reasons" II
says, this cold blooded measure is
brought forward. If it could become a
law, it would slaughter sheep as in
1894 and close the mills much more
The bill is not drawn on lines for
the production of revenue Of raw wool
the minority reports contends, and
adds that with a duty of 20 per cent
on wool, the duty on manufactured
cloth is too low to enable our manu-
facturers to pay the wool duty and
still compete with imported cloths"
The wool schedule is difficult and
intricate and directly involves the well
fare and living of more than soc. 600
people" the report continues. with
out any hearing Of new data, with no
information later than that of two
years ago, this bill is forced upon the
house at the mandate of a political
caucus. There can be no expectation
that it will pass the other house or
be even considered there before De-
cember next, at least"
The minority report charges that the
Democrats gave the need for revenue
as the real reason for the introduc-
ton OF the measure. 1t characterizes
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