Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-10
LIVES UP TO PLEDGE
THE PROPOSED BILL VIOLATED
EVERY TRADITION OF AMER
ICAN PROTECTION.
FAVORS some REDUCTIONS
Tells Congress Reduction of 20 10 %
Per Cent Would BE Ac-
ceptablc 10 Him.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., Aug. O.
For the second time within a year
President Taft today vetoed a bill
to revise the wool tariff schedule *
of the Payne-Aldrlch law.
With a message OF dsapproNal
the president returned 10 congress
the bill evolved AS compromise be-
tween the house and senate, holding
that its low rates would bring as
aster To home industries. lie APP
pealed to congress, however, not 10
adjourn until II had enacted meas
ure to substantially reduce unnee-
essary existing duties" without des-
troying protection for the wool IN
dustry In the United States.
The pTesidtnt's disapproNal OF the
wool bill is to be followed with SIM
liar vetoes OF the steel bill and the
cotton bill. The sugar bill Is hkely
TO be vetoed as is the excise TAX plii,
the latter probably on the srouhu
that the president believes II uncoh-
stitutional.
81 shall stand by my pledges 10
maintain a degree OF protection nee
essary to offset the differences III
cost of production here and abroad,
and will heartily approve OF any pii'
reducing duties TO this level -wro'o
Mr.. Taft.
While the bill vetoed today ana the
one disapproved last year were ideh-
N nraaidpn1S Tea-
sons differed. He vetoed the FORMER
bill because 1t had been framed pc
fore the tariff boards report-the
latter because he said 1t had p'Sh
framed with disregard for the
boards findings.
Most of the rates in the submit
ted bill" wrote the president, arc
On low IN themselves that II enacted
into law the inevitable result woulu
be irretrievable in regard TO the "ool
industry, the forced idleness OF inuen
of our wool combing and splhhihs
machinery and Of thousands of loomS
and the consequent throwing out oi
employment Of thousands OF work-
men," ,,,o
Tho bill sent to the White House
,r,nosed an ad valorem duty OF ~
per cent on raw wool ana on ~, ..
of 40 per cent. Both rates MI La
held were insufficient to protect INC
wool growers and the manufactures,
II was said today that the wooi
h,ll might be passed by the mousse
over Mr. Taft's veto, hut there ""S
some doubt as to It's fate In the SEN
ota Republican leaders were Ia
c,ined to believe 1t would fail OF pas
sage there as it did tweVe iho'''"1
ago. .-
The president declared In his mes
saqe that he was anxious 10 see
acbedule X revised downward ahu
that he would be glad TO see cohsreaS
remain in Washington until pii
the White House. He fouhu 1t M
nossihle he said, in view OF the pat
form on which he was elected l,
annrove the submitted measure, Du'
declared one agreeable to MS Ni"'
had been drafted by mihorlt' iiieiii
hers of the house ways ana means
committee. a,,+
"U strongly desire to reduce uut.
los" read the message, proN'ue'
onlv the protestive system be man
tained and - industries now es
tohlisbed be not destroyed. 1t now
onnears from the tariff boards re-
mort and from bills introduced ih''
the house and senate that Dill ma
bo drawn so as to be within tne re-
ouirements of protection and sui OIL
for reduction of 20 per cent OF
ost wool and of from 20 to 5O PEI
cent on cloths
"r cannot act on the assumpuoi
,hot majority of either house WI
,af,,so IN mass a bill of this KIND.
therefore, urge upon congress VIZ,
# don't adjourn without TAKING "u
vantage of the plain opportunity 'lu
,uh.taptially to reduce unnecessH
ovistipe duties. / appeal to congress
10 reconsider the measure whioh
NOW return without my approval am
n adopt a substitute THEREFOR man
,ro suhstantial reductions peloW ,h
rotos Of the present act when IN
.o,tff hoard shows possible withou
DESTROYING an established INDUSTRY y
throwing any wage earners OUT
employment, and which WI
promptly approve. -
Despite the efforts that nave oeS
made TO discredit the WORK Oh "
tariff board their report On ", VI.
schedule has been accepted wy
scarcely a dissenting voice by "a a
those familiar with the problems uis
cussed. including active represen'd