The Topeka state journal., 1913-10-04
Secretary of the Treasury Get'
Busy on Plans
For the Enforcement OF the
New Tariff Law.
MARKS AN EPOCH, SAYS BRYAN
Is Best Measure Passed since
the Civil War.
He Compares 1t With the VIII
sOn-Gorman Bill.

Washington. Oct. 4.-With the Demo
cratic tariff law consummateo
today was transferred to the
department. where Secretary McEAU00
began development of plan ol
forcement.
rrrea s,,r1, officials declare the new act
will he the lowest tariff law III 'he
countrv's history, with the posslple eA
.,+io,, of the Walker tariff of 1S4S ana
i4s amendatory tariff of 1857. Presl-
dent Wilson and the consressloii.ten "a
trainers of the law declared 1t was
competitive tariff" and 1reey en-
nressed the conviction that business
would be invigorated anu t,e, 80
through its operations OillcIalo
eouaIiv confident it would anoru lIe
government ample revenue .oooo
II is roughly estimated that $lOo,ouo'-
nn0 worth of merchandise held in pono
soon will be withdrawn and payment VI
duty made under the new law. Coii-
rared with the Payne-Aldrich act, TINS
tIliII mean a loss of s10,O0O,000 to the
government Treasury ofhc1alS mann
tanned these Withdrawals would nave
no perceptible effect upon the business
of the country.
The most difficult admlnlstrdtiNe
feature is the income tax provision
the work of experts to draft "orhdpie
nlan that will insure the government
receiving its lawful dues from every
taxable citizen. William H. Ospolh'
commissioner of internal revenue, To-
dav began the task of Formulating dS
simple a plan as possible L. r SPEC
of Bangor, Pa, at present chief OF the
CORPORATION tax division of the treas
ury department, it is believed will be
appointed deputy commissioner OF IN
ternal revenue in immediate charge OF
the income tax.
Bryan Is Pleased.
Secretary Bryan today endorsed the
new tariff law as the best tariff meas
l1re since the Civil war and predicted
the early passage of the currency bill
'.AII who have taken part in prepar-
ing and passing it are entitled to great
credit said Mr. Bryan in statement
1T is a better bill than we We're able
to pass 20 years ago and 1 rejoice that
political conditions are such as TO
make the present law possible.
The Wilson bill was compelled to
carry a burden that will not fall upon
the present law and ought not TO nave
fallen on that law The wilson law
was held unconstitutional by divided
vote, the one majority having been
obtained by a change of opinion on
the part of one judge between the
fication of the income tax portion of
the Wilson law reduced the govern
ment income until it would not meet
the expenses of the government and
this compelled an increase of indebt-
edness that threw upon the bill an un |
deserved odium which together with !
the fact that the senate deprived the /
bill of some of its best features, rob- !
bed the party of the benefit which !
would ordinarily have come to it from !
in INN nrt
too. the bill went into operation at a I
time when financial conditions were /
bad and many attributed to the law !
the defects for which it was not at all |
responsible.
Il mention the law of 19 years |
ago. because it is the only thing since |
the war with which we can compare !
the present law. Both economic as
well as political condition make it pos
sible to do now what could not be |
done then.
October marks an important !
epoch in the economic history of the
generation and I am confident that it |
will not he long before the country /
umph for the president, congress, the /
party and the country when the new
currency bill passes and receives the |
presidents signature
Busy Day at Custom House
New York. oct. 4.-The first af-
IeCI OI tIle new tarl11 to which Mr..
Wilson s signature was written last
night was seen early today when the
clerical force at the customs house
was increased by Is men in anticiDa-
tion of one of the busiest days in the
of this port. The customs of
ficials began business an hour earlier
than usual to take care of the flood of
applications for release of the great
store of imports which has accumulat-
ed in bonded warehouses awaiting the
tariff cuts.
In no customs district in the conn !
try Will there be greater activity dur
ing the first few days of the new tar
iff than at the port of New York for
in the As bonded warehouses there is
over S7O.OOO,0 600 worth of goods await
ing Withdrawals. Importers have
been impatient to get out their goods
4 the market and il is expected thev
Will wish to withdraw half of this
great store at once
There is almost every conceivab1a
thing in the warehouses but the cI,jaf
things are cottons. linens wooIenS !
furs, silks, nuts. leather goods. dried
fruits, picked fish and leaf tobacco
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