The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-22

piements wero named in the Payne
bill. and were made free in that bin
from any country which permitted our
agricultural Implements to enter 4.
without duty. This opened to Eng
land the market OF the United States
Tor agricultural implements. AS
matter OF fact the price of agricul-
taral implements dn America Is cheap
er. as shown by a report Of the Bureau
of Trade Relations OF the State De-
partment' to the American farmers
than to any farmers In the world.
England is the one country that
exports agricultural implements to
any great extent, and SO succession
country OF American agricultural
implements that practically very few
have come In from England Tho
hrst clause. by interpretation, might
De made to include $50 different arti-
cies used on the farm, but used in
other vacations also And these ar
ticies-the hammers, the tools, and
E ,,a ana the machinery of various
klnds-are now dutiable under the
metal schedule. To admit them under
this clause would be to destroy en-
trely the symmetry OF the metal
scheanie and produce such a confu-
sion as seriously to interfere with me
administration of the tariff act
The Wire Clauses.
another clause provides for the adj
mission of barbed wire fencing free
ana then all wire and other material
"hich could be used for fencing, and
ihcluaes wire rods and wire rope. To
let In barbed wire Fencing alone
would be unlmportant to producers
out the framing of the amending
clause Is such that II It were to 20
INTO law 1t would have a serious ef
iect upon the metal schedule and
/ would utterly destroy the principle
winch was followed In Its framing
ana would make free of duty some OF
mo most mighty wrought articles un-
Ger the metal schedule not used by
farmers at ALL ~
Then there is clause adm,tttnv
Jute and cotton bagging free, and-ma.
teriais from which made. which would
eho" common cotton cloth to come
| IN free Tor any purpose, although nm
| oer the cotton schedule, even as nro-
posed to be amended by this Con
sress' cotton cloth is to pay a certain
amount OF duty. The bill also puts
LUIS ana SHOES on the free list and
| continues the tax on raw materials
| Finally. the free list bill has w..
causes affecting meat and flour. Az
ehey went through the House thew mn,
meat on the free-list and -four m tho
Tree list. In the Senate, however nm
amendment was put on limiting tho
operation of these two clauses to inn
ports from those countries with which
we nave reciprocal relation and
! when ADMIT certain agricultural pro-
ducts OF ours free This Limitation
made Canada tho only country which
would be affected by the provisions OF
lne clause. Now. in our negotiations
| with Canada for reciprocity we MT .
tempted to secure free meat and fire,
nour. Canada would not consent to
this because she feared the effect Sof
our competition with her meat ana
nour. This showed that mportations
OF meat and -four from Canada with
out duty would not have any effect 70
lower the price in this country Of
either In normal times. But this free
/ list bill was giving to Canada some
| thing for nothing.
This Congress, at the close of the
! act approving the Canadian reciproc-
ity agreement, directed me to continue
negotiations and expand It's terms. and
yet In these provisions il proposed TO
deprive me of using the concessions
OF free meat and free -four to secure
concessions from Canada. had no
hesitation in vetoing It.
The Cotton Bill.
The cotton bill differed from tho
others in being a bill for which the
| Democrats alone. and not the Insur-
| gent Republicans were responsible. 1t
had passed the House on the report of
the Ways and Means Committee. 1t
| had completely changed the method of
classifying cottons. classifying them
according to the threads In the yarn
| instead of by the threads of the piece
| md M 6tft
yard. as In the present bill. This was
a most important change. It came to
the Senate and was passed in the
| form In which 1t passed the House,
| except that certain amendments were
| added.
The bill went through, and 1t went
back to the House and was submitted
to two days examination by the Ways
and Means Committee of that body,
| Then II passed the House under rule
that permitted no amendments what
ever. had the bin examined by ex-
perts. especially with reSpect 80 the
chemical schedule, and even in the
very short time I had found the
| greatest confusion produced by the
| amendment. Upon number of thu
articles the reduction was greatly more
than the proposed 25 per cent. reach
| ing In some cases as and 100 per cent,
and on other articles, instead OF being
q decrease. there was an increase all
the way from to 100 per cent. The
bill was Impossible. and of course /
vetoed 1t.
II have gone into this matter at
considerable detail in order that my
| position with respect to these bills
and the general treatment of the tar.
iff may be understood am In fa
vor of the reduction OF the tariff
wherever 1T can be done and still give
a living measure OF protection to those
Industries of the country that need It.
"Bus I insist that we have reached