New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-11
VOTES TO ABOLISH COURT
House Passes Bill to Destroy
Commerce Tribunal.
CREATES A TARIFF BOARD"
Rider in Appropriation Measure
Indicates Abolition OF
Present Body.
lrrom The Tribune Bureau

Washington. Nav I0-The legislative
executive and judicial appropriation Dill,
disposing Of approximately S4WVW ana
making several radical changes In existing
law which were put through By the Demo
Gratis under special rule WIS hh"''S
passed by the House to-day.
Among the important legislative proV'-
sions in the bin Is a section abollshing the
Commerce Court on June 80 next, "niic
stil another rider" consolidates the bu-
reau OF Manufactures and the Bureau oi
Statistics in the Department OF Commerce
and Labor and clothes the merged bureau
with virtually the powers Of tarin BOARD
The adoption of this latter amendment
presages the abolition Of the existing tarlii
board at the end OF the present fiscal year
II f. now generally understood that inc
Democrats will attempt TO legtslato the
tariff board out OF existence In the sundry
civil appropriation bill, soon TO be reported.
Republican members demanded separate
votes on several legislative provisions OF
the bill, which had been approved while
the biz was ho lg read section by section
for debate No roll call, however, was de-
manded on the clause abolishing the Com
merce Court as the fight made for the re-
teution Of the court last night had demon
strated the futility Of further opposition IN
tho so-called economy scheme Of the
Democrats.
The merger Of the Bureau Of Manufact-
IIros and the Bureau OF Statistics, which
carries with 1t the abolition OF the Bureau
~ Trade Relations OF the state Depart
ment. was approved ny a vote OF 176 20 10,
y, nt,-
4 "ioker" in TINS section reads that the
new bureau. to bc known as the Bureau oil
Foreign and Domestic Commerce. shall
collect in addition to other duties. tariit
statistics. and shall make reports at the
direction of the President or either branch
of Congress
II was not denied during the debate that
the Democrats intended 10 make tarlfr
board al this bureau, thus seeking 10
thwart efforts TO create a permanent, non
partisan board and TO excuse their pros
pcctive action in aLolishing the present EN-
Ci"nt board.
Those in charge Of the legislative Dill
made a final effort to-day 10 retain the
section abolshng minis az San Francisco
New Orleans and Carson city and also SIX
assay Offices. The section was eliminated
during the debate Yesterday but the Appro-
priations Committee economists sought 70
restore II to-day. They were defeated py
vote 4 l7G to ll3, and this economy plan
went awry. The Humphrey substitute
which appropriatcs money for the main
tenance Il the minis and the assay Offices
was adopted
The Appropriations Committee was also
defeated In its efforts to retire CLASSIFIED
service employees at the age OF slNN-iiNe
wears. and the House likewise rejected q
provision which would have prohlnlted
soverumsDt emUloyc from s'"klns III
agreements for reinstatement. The oil car
res a provision automatically terminating
Inc tenure OF office Of all government en-
iai7 mn the prohibition affecting re-
Quests lor reinstatement was ceieated'