The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-18
WOOL BILL VETO
President Taft Returns the
Measure to the House
With a Message Giving His
Reasons for So Doing.
STANDS BY PLATFORM
Which He Declares Justifies
His Present Course.
Wants to Wait Until the Tariff
Board Reports.
STANDS BY PLATFORM

Washington, Aug. 1S.-Republican
applause which greeted President
Tafts veto of the wool tariff bill as it
was read in the house was followed
by an outburst of Democratic cheers
when Majority Leader Underwood an
nounced that he would call UP the bin
today and move its passage over the
veto.
The presidents veto message
reached the house while the roll was
being called on Mr.. Underwood's mo-
ton to concur in the senate amend
ments to the free list bill When the
conference report on that bill in it's
final legislative stage was announced,
the reading of the presidents message
was begun, each member following the
presidents words from printed copies
OF the veto which had been distributed
When the reading was concluded. Mr.
Underwood rose.
Mr. Speaker he said. ST do not de-
sire to ask that this message from the
president be referred to the committee
on ways and means. I ask that it lie
on the speakers table, and give no.
tice that [ will call up tne bill to1nor-
row, Immediately after :he reading of
the journal, and move t. pass it over
the presidents Veto
Cheers and shouts from the Demo-
cratic members greeted the announce
ment. Representative Garrett (Tenn.),
when quiet was restored. asked una1i-
nous consent to incorporate in the
record a portion Of President Taft's
speech at Winona. MINI. in the last
campaign, in which he described the
wool schedule of the Payne-AIdrich
tariff bill as 'indefensibIe." Republi-
can Leader Mann asked uuanjrnol
consent to incorporate the entire
Wlnona speech in the record, and
Mann's motion carried
Representative Dwight. the RepubIf-
can whip. has told the president that
the majority viii not be able to muster
enough to carry the hill by two
thirds vote. On the recent passage of
the compromise bill in the house. the
vote was 206 to go
Many members of botn parties have
rrssss1aszda Ssza sazlFss5ton AMI All abSenteeA
are ordered to be on hand today. The
Democrats expect with their full quota
of members present, together with
thirty Republicans who voted for the
| bill, that they can develao a two-thirds
majority Republican leaders assert
that many of tho insurgents who voted
Tor the bill Will not dc SO over the
presidents head.
The house and senate disposed of
the free list bill as agreed on in con-
ference, and it was Sigued last night
by Vice President Sherman and
Speaker Clark. 1t will be sent to the
v
The Message
In his message President Taft said:
4 return without my approval house
bill No 11.019 with a statement of my
reasons for so doing
1.-THE bill is an amendment of the ex-
isting tariff law and readjusts the GUS |
toms duties in what is known as sched- |
ule K, embracing wool and the manu-
factures of wool.
81 was elected to the presidency as
the candidate of a party which in its |
platform declared its aim and pleasure
to be to maintain a protective tariff |
by The imposition of such duties as
will equal the difference between ibe
cost of production at home and abroad.
together with a reasonable profit to |
American Industries I have always |
regarded this law as fixing the proper |
measure of protection at the ascer- |
tanned difference between the cost of |
production at home and that abroad /
and have construed the reference to /
the profit of American industries as /
intended, not to add a new element to |
the measure stated or to exclude from
the most of production abroad the eIe-
ment of a manufacturer or produc-
er's profit but only to emphasize the
Importance of including in the Amer
lean cost a manufacturers or produc-
er's profit, reasonable according to the
American standard
In accordance with promise made
in the same platform called d session
of the Sixty-first congress, at which /
a general revision of the tariff vas
made and adopted in the Payne bill.
1t was contended by those who op-
posed the Payne bill that the existing
rates of the Dingley bill were excess
sive and that the rates adopted in the
revision statute were not sufficiently
reduced to conform to the promised |
measure.
The great difficulty, however. in
discussing the new rates adopted was
there was no means available by which
impartial persons could determine what
in fact was the difference in cost of
production between the products of I
this country and the same products
abroad The American public became
deeply interested with the conviction |
that in order to secure a proper revi-
sion of the tariff in the future exacr /
information as to the effect of the new
rates must be had, and that the evil of /
log rolling or a compromise between /
advocates of different protected indus /
tries in fixing duties could be avoided I
and the interest of the consuming pub
lie could be properly guarded only bv
revising the tariff one schedule at \ |
time.
ITO help these reforms for the fu-
ture I took advantage of a clause II,
the Payne tariff bill enabling me ~ /
create a tariff board of three mem
bers, and directed them to make 4 /
glossary and enclypodra to be used in
tariff making and to secure inforna- I
ton as to the comparative cost of pro
duction of dutiable articles under the
tariff at home and abroad
Quotes from Previous Message.
Here the president quoted from his
message of December Z, 1909 requesting
money to continue the work of the tar /