The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
TAFT's PLAN FOR NATIONAL
 GOVERNMENT BY COMMISSION

Congress- after much consideration study and debate adopted bill reducing the tariff wool and wool factures It the second wool bill which the present Congress has adopted also has been vetoed by Pres ident Taft.
 President Tafts reason for vetong the bill is that as he says it's terms not in agreement with the views of commission appointed by himself which reported it's conclusions regarding wool and wool manufactures.
 This commission not responsible to Congress butt to the president It is admitted by everybody who1 knows that the commission didts work in very slovenly way and that it's investigation much less thorough it's facts less we'll represented and it's conclusions less than those obtained by the effort of Congressional committees
 It must also be remembered that the wool tariff has under fire for years Every conceivable fact about it has been noted, frequently many times
 There was nothing to be learned about wool and sI manufactures that could be any legislator who willing to take the trouble, regardless of the perfect activities of the tariff commission.
 Moreover the wool bill which the Congress last passed was drawn by Senator LaFollette Republican, and al staunch adherent of the protective principle in tariff ak ing.
 LaFolette has more tariff facts more detailed know edge of American business manufacturing methods at his finger tips than dozen commissions like the one named by the president.
 LaFollette's wool bill drawn, and Democrats and Republicans united in voting for it. upon the theory that it makes large reduction in tariffs such as will tend to
 
 yet maintains protection at point where wool growers and wool manufacturers take fair profit without in terference by foreigners.
 President Taft takes the presmptuous position that Congress and Senator LaFoette with the progressive Republicans and the Democrats wish to ruin the wool business America deprive wool workers in America of their jobs. and otherwise create industrial havoc
 And all the proof he offers of this malevolent purpose the part of Congress is that the Congressional nves gations and conclusions do not in his opinion harmonze with the hasty investigation and half considered concl sons of two three gentlemen comprising the hasty and nbaked tariff commission commission that speed fly raised apology to the country for the PayneA rich bin which the president defended long he could
 Having made the Payne-A1drich bill the legislators who made it. and the executive who signed it. in the position of having explain Their explanation was that said, lis dark complex thing No mere Congressman know anything about it We'll have tariff making by commssion.''
 So the commission-poor creature of expedency-l created and the weakest the presidential chair held leans upon shaking executive supported by 3 reed.
 Witherward does the presidential weakness take it's totterng way2
 Taft tells the country that when laws are to be made ne will appoint commission to suggest the law. Then, he says if Congress doesn't accept the views of the com mission, he will veto the law Congress does pass
 If there is to be national government by presiden ta commission would be better to change the consti tuition, and have it at first hand instead of indirectly
 In the meantime, not many people will relish theI presidential suggestion that the national parliament aban don it's powers to commission of expediency and pres dential face saving -l