Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-02-10
Wilson'S Purpose 10 Advocate
Scientific Board Manage
ment Not Announced to
Secretary Of Commerce,
RESIGNATION FROM
CABINET is POSSIBLE
Chief Executive Believes Coun-
try Needs Capitalization in.
Rearrangement of CuStoms'
Duties.

tsrseiAL oossssroRpsScs TO HoHsss JousrAu
Washington. Feb. 9.-ls Secretary Of
Commerce William G.. ledflcld on the
brink
This is what inside politicians are
asking since the president proclaimed
himself for q tariff commission.
Redficld was not notified. The an
nOuncement hit him between the eyes
or amid the whiskcrs, aud the qucs-
tion is whether the blow ls mortal or
may be parried. Secretary Redfield is
aggrlovcd, there Is no doubt OF that
No one can look at his ornamental
lambrcquins without sensing woe.
The president all along has led Red
field to believe that the tariff prob
lem was in good hands when II was
in the bosom Of the commerce depart
ment, whore there Is bureau of for
oign and domestic commerce fun of sta
tistics, back talk and mysterious cnl-
eulations as to how far an American
and make a reasonable profit provided
he can sell them and the buyer finds
them as represented
The president did not afford Red
field q chance to originate the now
knk in the tariff commission business
but went off to New York and told
tho people he had changed his mind
as conditions after the war would be
SO complicated that no man could un-
dcrstand them
sccrctary's Confidence shaken
lie apears to have overlooked the
fact that Mr. Redfield understands the
whole business This IS Secretary Red
fields second line of grief Whether
he viii retire from the cabinet or not
is not known, but undoubtedly he has
had his confidence IN his position
shaken.
Democrats pretend to be up against
il To guess why the president now
wants n tariff commission when many
different kinds of tariff commissions
already exist
There is first the bureau Of GUS
toms in the treasury department It,
is the oldest Of our existing tariff COM
missions 1t has power to inquire into
the conditions in which imports come
into the country and it Is clothed with
power In all tariff bills to change the
rates, This discretion appears in at
least 120 places in the present bill
Makes Rates tn Fit Revenue Needs.
Here is the Germ of a real tariff
commission such as they have is some
European countries The English chan
cellor makes rates that will iii his
scheme Of revenues The German com-
mission changes rates to suit the ext
gencies Of manufacture at home.
France makes rates in about the
same way
The next in Importance, or nonim-
portance MS you look at it. Is the old
bureau Of labor taken over by the new
labor department. II has power to
ook into the matter of wngcs as they
inter into the imports Of the country
ana to look out for the American
working man It's powers are SINH
ar to those proposed by President
raft when he invented the idea OF
ariff based on the difference in pro-
luction costs here and abroad.
But there are other elements besides .
wages entering into prices, and hence
ye have other tariff commissions. The
bureau Of foreign and domestic COM
ncrce is one Of the best little com
MISSIONS in the business. II has power
o take testimony at home and abroad
rot only regarding wages, but the cost
# capital. the conditions Of credit. and
% forth.
Export Combination Urged.
Lastly the federal trade commission
s clothed with power to look into the
natter Of pooling abroad a lot Of
,merican manufacturers want the
herman act 10 subside ut the water
inc Al home, they admit, the gov
rnment has the right to compel com
But abroad they see no rca-
on why they should not combine to
spasc Of their surplus without un-
ecessnry or grieVous selling expense 5
his, they claim, is in the interest of j
he workngman because II keeps the j
lctorics going and the rivulot of q
ages running the year round S
The president once told tho manu- 1
lcmrers that he was from Missouri 4
II this proposition. that they might S
how him how they could form a com J.
nation into which any Amcri- e
an could come. The manufacturers &
lought he was either Joking or that e
e was politically turning them down 7
u recently they have been thinking q
ard Of the possibility of an all-Amor- a
an team 70 do business abroad and &
nus avoid the sherman act This 81
robably the basis Of tho many organ O
atons that are apringing up to or &
snizc trade and transportation. 81
Would Focus Attention. I'll
But what ask the democrats, would i
new tariff commission do? The b