Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-12-22
CANT GIVE ADVICE
Tariff Board win Tell Only Facts
and Conditions.
REPORT is, EAGERLY AWAITED
Presidential Candidates In Congress
Display Modesty In Their elos-
raphies Secretary Fisher
Hopes to End Alaska
Middle.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.


message suggesting changes in the
Payne-Aldrich bill the report OF the
tariff board will loom large. The
members of the tariff board have
been working with less trumpeting
than has sounded above the delibera-
tons of any other government COM
mission in history. At the outset the
members either impressed themselves
or had 1t impressed on them that the
tariff was q ticklish thing and that
anything they might say concerning
their work would be construed oy
Democrats or by Republicans as being
partisan or as showing leaning TO-
ward high rates or toward low rates
The business of the tariff board has
been to find out conditions, the diner
ence in cost of production at home
and abroad and the cost of manu-
features. 1t seems to have been the
general impression that the report
which soon will be sent to congress
will contain recommendation con-
corning the lowering or the raising Of
some Of the duties. 1t will contain
nothing OF the sort, for specifically
the board is inhibited from recon-
mending anything to congress. All II
can do and all 1t has done is to put
forth facts as 1t has found them. leav-
Ing congress and the country to draw
their own conclusions as to whether
duties on the articles are too high
or too low.
Chairman Emery's Views.
In few days Henry Crosby EN-
cry, Alvin H. Sanders. James B. Rey-
nolds, William H. Howard and
Thomas W. Page will be centers OF
public attention. They constitute the
tariff board. OF which Thomas W.
Brahany is the executive secretary.
1t is generally agreed in Washing
young men leaving college free trad
ers and becoming protectionists aft
erward goes astray in any intended
reference to Henry G. Emery. Some
of the high protectionists in congress,
men like Boise Penrose and Reed
Cannon and John Dalzell of the house,
look on Mr.. Emery. who is the tariff
boards chairman. as being very much
Of free trader. The chairman's in
Inmates say that his views on tho tar
liz are neither low nor In the middle
Ing schedules make him look up, down
or straight ahead. In other words. he
may be a free trader on some things,
high protectionist on others and q
medium rate man on others.
Reynolds Held a ProtectIonist.
James B. Reynolds. the second
member of the tariff board. is held
generally to be high protectionist
Formerly he was assistant secretary
Of the treasury under the Roosevelt
ministration
Alvan H. Sanders. the third mem.
Der of the tariff board. is another
newspaper man. having been for
years publisher and editor OF the
Breeders Gazette. He is intensely in
terested in the relation Of agriculture
to the tariff. and generally he is CON
sidered a sort of middle of the way
protectionist
William H. Howard a Democratic
member of the board. was former
member of congress from the Eighth
Georgia district At one time be was
solicitor general In the northern circuit
Of Georgia
Thomas w Page is another Demo
cratic member of the board He has
been a teacher of economics in a vir
ginia university.
Great Men Arc Modest.
In congress this year there are
four real presidential possibilities
and several who are possibilities
but who as yet cannot have the
adjective real" attached In the
house are Speaker Champ Clark and
Chairman Oscar w. Underwood OF
the ways and means committee. who
also is the Democratic house leader
In the senate are Robert NJ La Fol
'ette OF Wisconsin and Albert 3. Cum
Minis of Iowa
This mention of the well known fac
that four members of cone.ess either
have presidential nomination ambi
tons or are in a receptive mood II
made only for use In what maj
be possibly curious conn, zion. The
four men now In public prominence
and considered by many people a,
sound presidential timber SEEN tt
have modesty we'll developed and tn.
question is, does modesty always Il
with greatness? In the Cor gressiona
Directory there appear the Geographic,
Of all the members of cong e.s Read
Ing II through, il seems to be a fac