The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-03-20
PRESIDENT WILL coNFtNE SPE-
clAL MESSAGE TO REcl.
pRoclTY AND TRIBUNAL.
REVISION IS PLANNED.
Executive Is convinc I'd That People
OF Country Desire Change in Several
Schedule. OF Payne. Aldrich Act and
viii Ask Congress to Establish
Body to Acquire Information.

Columbia, $. G., March lo.--ton
Board TAFT Train) )--President Taft,
according To present plans viii con-
fine his message to the extra session
Of congress to Canadian reciprocity
and the establishment Of n permanent
tariff board. lie IL convinced that
the country desires and ought to de-
stire. n further revision Of several
schedules OF the Payne Aldrich act.
lie feels that the wooden schedule Is
iudefcnsible. IL IL said. and Is anxious
II shall be revised COON.
The president Is equally convinced
that the country desires that revi-
sions of the tariff be made in the light
Of scientific information which ii Is
the duty of the tariff board to collect.
II is said that he rather inclines to
the idea that no schedule should he
revised upon which the tariff board
IL not ready with it's information.
He has directed the temporary tar
ne board to make q report on the
woolen schedule by December /. Per-
sonally, he would like for congress 70
wait until that time and not attempt
10 revise any schedules at the extra
session. lie viii give the matter fur
ther consideration, however, after he
reaches Washington.
IL Mr.. Taft's wishes are met, the
extra session will devote itself 10 reel
procity first. the government tariff
board second. postponing the revision
of tile textile schedules until the tariff
board completes It's work December Il
In addition to the presidents IN.
atrnciions thai the woolen schedules
viii b. ready. the appropriation bill.
carrying fund for the tariff board
contains u provision to that effect.
This does away with the possibility
of delay, he believes
President TAFT frankly expects the
democratic house and the nearly demo-
cratic senate of the Sixty second con-
gress to help him carry out "A program
Of scientific revision Of the tariff.
lie hopes that another year will
mark great progress in that direction.
He Is particularly anxious that the
revision shall be in accordance with
his policy of lifting the tariff as far
as possible out OF the realm of poll
ties and place II upon scientific
basis
Just how the democratic leaders will
receive il proposition to postpone ac-
ton on tariff revision until next De-
cember remains to be seen. Several
leaders have already indicated that at
least two or three schedules OF the
Payne Aldrch law will be acted upon
during the extra session.
Taft's Idea.
President Taft has said that he be-
lieves ii would be Illogical, nnwise and
injurious TO the business interests II
Il general tariff revision should be un-
dcrtakcn.
How important the president regards
n permanent tariff board WAS made
evident after congress adjourned, wher
he placed on the present board the
very men, Mr.. Howard and Profcsso.
Page. whom he intended to place on
the permanent tariff commission with
Mcssrs Emery, Sanders and Reynolds
All that Is now required Is to secur.
for the board a permanent status.
Under the direction of Mr.. Emer.
the board is already engaged In {
careful analysis of the textile sched
nle. The president Is said TO be great
~ encouraged by the steady progress
and development Of his tariff program
which he laid down four years agt
in his speech at Bath, Maine. Tht
Payne Aldrich law, the tariff board
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