Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-01-31

tariff question and that il you we're
going TO have tariff board 1t ought
to report to the house. l do not
know that it would do very much
good. l do not believe 1t would do
very much harm. If any.
"The proposition for tariff board
has been so amended in this pending
bill that the board shall report to the
senate, or report to the president, or
report to the house. On the motion of
the democrats in the committee 1t
was fixed that the house shall be
competent or able to direct the sub
ject that this board shall investigate.
That makes an entirely different sit
uation. I voted for that bill in the
committee. l am going to vote for 1t
here.
'Of course, there Is no use to con-
ceal what the condition is. We have
got the house after the fourth OF
March and we propose TO carry out In
good faith the promise to revise the
tariff. and we are going to do it just
as soon as we can.
PERSONALLY. l would like very well
TO see an extra session of congress,
but there is only one man ON the face
of the earth who can call an extra
session OF congress. and that is the
president If the evening papers are
to be believed, he is going to call an
extra session unless he gets his re-
ciprocity scheme through this con-
gress.
"He has adopted one more demo-
cratic principle. Give him time
enough and he will adopt them all.
While he Is urging reciprocity treaty
with Canada. and / am heartily In
favor of that, wish he would extend
its operations so as to take In our
sister republics on the south, every
one of them In the western hemis-
phere.
'YThe new board Is to be bi-parti-
san one. | use the word bipartisan
accurately. Such thing as nom par
tisan board Is an impossibility in ma
ture. I wish we could fix II so there
would be three democrats and two
republicans on that board at once, but
that we cannot have; but on the
fourth of March, 1913. We can get
three democrats to your two republi-
cans and that Is the way this board
will then stand
IF the president will appoint five
of the best men he can find | think II
will be able to collate much informa-
ton But want this understanding.
that IL he appoints two democrats. /
want them to be democrats in fact as
well as in neme.'
How are you going to get him to
do ?" interrupted Representative
Rucker of Missouri. II think he is
a fair minded man and he will do IT.,
replied Mr.. Clark. II think he will
need us frequently to pass bills in a
very short time and he Is liable to
give us good democrats this time"
Does the gentlemen think we are
going to sit idly by while this COM
mission appointed by the president
collects information inquired Mr..
Rucker.
mot at ALL Mr.. Clark responded.
'As far as | am concerned, | am will
ing to take the ways and means COM
mittee at present selected and go into
room and frame a new schedule be-
fore Saturday night. think we could
frame two schedules with good deal
of intelligence. But even we would
be better off If we had more informa-
ton
Representative Fitzgerald of New
York. was the first to voice democratic
opposition to the bill.
'There is" he said. "a so-called tar
iff board today existing in express
violation of law. The president said
he construed the Payne Aldrich tariff |
act to give him authority to appoint a |
tariff board but in his report upon this !
very bill, to this house, says this So
called tariff board is existing by vr- |
tue of provision in the last sundry !
civil appropriation act.
''There are some Of us of sufficient |
ly keen memory to recall that al
though 1t was especially directed and
vigorous efforts were made to |
create a tariff board when the sundry |
civil bill was under consideration, no |
more authority was given than was
given in the Payne act--authority to |
employ persons to assists the presi-
dent In obtaining information to en-
force the maximum and minimum |
provisions of the law
Representative Longworth OF Ohio,
led the long list Of speakers on the |
republican side. He said he did not |
favor delegating rate making or rate |
recommending powers to any tariff |
board or commission and that no |
such action was contemplated. The |
house must always retain the right. |
he said, to initiate revenue legislation.
Representative Brantley of Georgia; |
Underwood of Alabama; Randall OF |
Texas; Pou Of North Carolina and |
Borland of Missouri, spoke from the |
democratic side In favor of the board. |
Mr.. Brantley said accurate informa-
ton could not possibly embarrass the I
democrats.
Mr.. Underwood said he had COM
mission, reporting only to the presi.
dent but he favored q board upon
which congress could call for inform
alton.