Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-31

Washington. Jan. Gothic House
passed the tariff board bill unamend-
ed at l1.40 o'clock tonight by a vote
Of 1S6 to 90
Washington, Jan. 30.-Rcpresentative
DalZ1ll OF Pennsylvania from the COM
mittce on rules presented in the House
late today a special rule for the inn
me diate consideration of the bill. pro.
VidinS for permanent board OF
tariff Of five members.
General debate on the rule and sub
scqucntly on the bill itself. soon show
Cd Il decided difference Of opinion on
the Democratic side. Some question
arose as to who should be in charge
af the Democratic time during the
general debatc-wtethor it should be
a Democratic in favor Of the bill or
one opposed to it.
Il hope" said Payne, that the gen
ilcmcn on the other side. who yer
they are. can get together on some
gentleman, in whom they have con-
fidence."
Champ Clark. WHO already had in
dicated that he favored the bill Was
on his feet in 4 flash.
y little more Of that Kind OF Cab
on your side he. rttotted hotly, and
your bill is dead
KIN it, kill it," shouted a dozen
Democrats.
1t was finally agreed that PAYNE.
y. y, and Harrison. y. y, should
control the time, TIE latter in orPesi-
ton. After Payne had earnestly urged
the passage of .he bill. Clark took
the floor.
For some time" he said, there has
been a proposition pending in the United
States in sort of nebulous way, for a
tariff commission; that is. an institution
intended to undertake TO fix rates. l am
opposed TO that. because it is idiocy. The
Constitution of the United States abso-
lutely precludes such a performance. So
much for that
There is pending here now n PROPOSE
ton to establish a tariff board that is
to have certain specified functions. Those
functions are TO gather information and
collatc il.
The proposition has been so amended
in this pending bill that the board shall
report to the Senate, OF report to the
President, or report to the House. 1t was
fixed so that the House shall be COM
petent or able to direct the subject that
this board shall investigate. That makes
an entirely different situation. l voted
for that bill in the committee; l am going
to vote for it mere,
OF course there is no use to conceal
what the condition is. We have got the
House after the 4th of March. and we
propose to carry out in good faith the
promise to revise the tariff, and we are
going to do il just as soon as we can"
Fitzgerald, y. Y, was first TO voice
Democratic opposition to the bill
There is" he said. "a so-named tariff
board today existing at the express vio-
| lation of law The President said that he
construed the Payne Adrich tariff act &c
give him authority to appoint a tariff
board. but Payne, in his report upon this
very bill to this House. says that this
| so-ealled tariff board is existing by virtue
! of q provision in the last sundry civil APP
| preparation act.
! Il have q great deal of confidence in
Presidents of the United States bat
where one IF them has gone so far OUT
! Of his way as to put the most pfePoS-
! ferrous construction upon the language
| of the Payne Aldrich tariff act to JUS
| tify his appointment of board IN Vlo-
| 10 ton of law | am not willing elther
| to permit him To create tarlit poaro
or by vote to leagliZc and justify his
already illegal action
| Rer. LongWorth of ohio, VINO miro
duced a bill for a commission upon
which the bill presented today was
based. said he did not favor delegatinS
1ate-making or rate RECOMMENDING
powers to any tariff board or commits
sion and that no such action was con-
templated. The House must always
retain the right, he said. to initiate
revenue legislation.
Harrison said. in opposing the meas
ure, that the board would simply in
! volve q useless expenditure of public
i money.
J and q half. Campbell of Kansas caused
loud applause by tine Democratic OPP
ponents of the measure when he said
he as n Republican protectionist IA
Nored the tariff board.
Are you going To vote for reciproc-
itv?" asked Democrat.
II am not" replied Campbell Il am
hot going to divide with any one the