Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-03-29
REPUBLICANS FRAME
MINORITY WOOL BILL
Claiming 1t Would Mean Inn
mediate Reduction They
Ask Democrat Help
fBv Associatsd Prsss.l

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WASHINGTON, March 27.-Inviting
the Democrats of the house to join
them in passing the Republican wool
bill and make a radical reduction now
instead Of preventing a reduction" the
Republican members of the ways and
means committee today submitted re-
port on the minority bill, introduced
last week, which would reduce the wool
duties about 40 per cent from, the
rates under the Payne-Aldrich bill.
The report, submitted by Representa-
tive Payne, was signed by all the Re
publican members of the committee,
Representatives Payne, Dalzell, Mccall,
Hill, Needham, LongwoI IN and Ford
ney.
The very able and complete report
of the tariff board on wool was pre-
scented to the house on the 21st of De-
cember last" says the minority report.
The majority members of the commit
tee have had it now for three months.
Upon the facts in the report, it seems
they are not able to make any changes
in their wool bill heretofore Introduced.
They have apparently settled down upon
conviction that no amount of Informal
ton is of any avail in the formation of
Democratic tariff bill for revenr e
only"
The minority members declare that
they have framed and introduced wool
bill based upon the tariff boards re-
port, and have endeavored to adjust the
rates in accordance with the doctrine
of protection by prescribing a duty
equivalent to the difference in the cost
of production at homo and abroad as
found blythe board.
In fixing the rate of duty upon WOOL"
says the report, I'VE have adopted the
cxrc Of H,.kxr H. ,ro
content of the woods. The tariff boards
report shows in the most conclusive way
why an ad valorem rate on wool should
not be adopted. The argument in brief is,
if the basic idea of the duty on woods
is to give the domestic grower perma-
nent protection, it should remain as uni
formlY effective as possible under all
chang es of foreign conditions"
The Republicans assert that the tariff
boards, report explodes the fiction in
reference to the greater efficiency of the
American lahorer in the textile indus
tries" and proves that the labor cost
per yard in the United States is double
that of the labor cost abroad"
That the tariff board in it's report to
congress on the wool schedule pro-
ceeded upon an entirely erroneous the
DRY and that its report was ''untenable"
is the conclusion of the Democratic
members of the ways and means COM
mittee of the house as set forth in a
report prepared by Representative I'm
derwood, chairman of the committee, in
connection with the re-introduction, Of
the wool bill placing a 20 per cent ad
valorem duty on raw WOOL
This bill. which after slight revision in
conferences last summer, was vetoed by
President Taft, who gave then as his
principal reason for exercise Of the veto
power that the tariff board had made
no report on the subject. Last Deem
Der the board reported and the Demo-
cratic members of the ways and means
committee, after an analysis of this re-
port, reintroduced the old bill claiming
that there was nothing in that report
to justify any change.