The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-27
SURE OF PRESIDENTS VETO.

SURE OF PRESIDENT S VETO.
The dispatches announce that the de-
bate on both the steel and iron tariff
is immediately TO begin in the House
Of Representatives. An els sborate Cab
fest has been arranged. and there is 4
factious determination apparent iD the
House to proceed with the steel sched-
ule, even In the face of what amounts
to the practical certainty OF veto.
1t viii be remembered that the Prcsi.
dent vetoed a number Of wil.o the
wisp tariff bills that were passed for q
veto at the special session. The rca.
those bills was that they hal not been
constructed on scientific lines, were not
consiicrate Of the tressuryis needs, and
had not passed the scrutiny of the Tar
iff Board. The same reasons precisely
will operate against the steel schedule
revision in case the bin making it is
passed. The Tariff Board has made
no report upon the metal schedules;
there is nothing from that board to
guide the House in the way of revision.
Therefore. it may be taken as certain
that President Taft would veto any leg
Islatlon of this kind, even though Con
gress should pass it. which is not in the
least likely. The House, TO he sure,
under the lash of the party whip may
Dsss the bill revising tho steel AMI iron
schedules, but IL is hard TO believe that
the Senate would agree TO the passsc &c
of the bill as it has been reported to
the House. For that bill. while pre-
tending to deal only with the steel and
iron schedules, deals with a vast mum
ber Of other matters. As lead and its |
various manufactures, without inquiry
into auy facts relating TO the bearing
OF the tariff on tho production of lead |
IN this country. And. since there is no |
real information brought forward on
this schedule. President Taft would be
justified in vetoinc it as he
vetoed other tariff bills last summer
The idea that the House, in revenge
for the iusistencc Of the President in
having the opinion of the Tariff Board
on the revision Of any schedule before
he will sign any bill revising it. will
refuse money 10 the Tariff Board. is
that would bring on Il dead.
lock if perscvered in; for if the Pres.
dent declares that he will veto anv pro-
posed revision that is not approved by
the Tariff Board. AMI if the House de.
stroys the Tariff BoarI. then no rcvi-
sion at all is to bc expected. And so
the Democratic House will be quito As
biamerorthy as the Republican Senate
and the Republican President for the
failure of any tariff revision. if the
House acts in this meauly partisan spir-
t. The people OF the United States
will not approve tho haphszard revision
,f the tariff. They want to sec anvil
move in this direction made on practi.
al and scientific lines. conforming to
he markets. 10 the cost of production
and TO the necessities OF the case as re.
ates to American interests and tho
'upply and demand
The Tariff Board has made a rcporl
IN the wooden and cotton schedules. IL
vas supposed all the time that the wool.
N schedule would be first taken up,
hen the cotton schedules, then the
.hem,cal schedule. But. Chairman I'm.
lerwcod of the House WAYS and Means
committee. smarting under the re.
'Tosehcs of Mr.. Bryan tha, he was not
II earnest IN wanting "A revision of the
metal schedules because he had inter
sis IN the production of iron, reversed .
he programme, went outside the re- II
,ort of the Tariff Board, and for pcr.
ional reasons OF ms own, upset the un.
icrstanding and insisted that the steel {
md iron schedules should be put 6rst 5
apparently for his own personal vindi.
alton. aui not for the real work in
land. ii the House had proceeded ac.
oFdiue TO the understanding, taken up
he wool schedule. then the cotton
chedule. then the chemicals. and then
he steel and ron. as the programme
vas teutatiyelt constructed. there
would be no difficulty in the Tariff !.
'oard keeping up with the procedure 4,
u Congress. AS it is. the understand.
ne ~ broken, the report OF the Tariff :
'oard - set aside and schedule !.
AIKEN mp mon which that board has :
made no renort. Il is idle to imagine, .