The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-11

man or trencn cApOIl vvunl9I NAo flexible tax rate prove insufficient to check the invasion, then the com mission can invoke the sterner rene dies placed within its command. It will have access to all the guns in the armory and can use one which will serve the best, and will not have to use a 1s-inch rife to kin a sparrow
 The Doremus bin calls for tariff commission to be composed of five members, no more than three to be of the same political party. The term ot office is to be ten years and the salary S1O,0OO a year The duties of the commission are laid down in the second section Of the bin in the fol- lowing language:
 ITO investigate in connection and in cooperation with the Federal Trade Commission the possibilities of estab- States new industries in the United States and to recommend to the Con gress the encouragement of new in- dustries in all cases where natural conditions. in the judgment of the commission, justify the belief that such industries can be made perma- nent. (This refers to such enterprise es as the manufacture of dyestuffs)
 ITO investigate the advisability of the establishment by Congress of maximum and minimum impost du- ties. within which the Federal Trade Commission. under the authority of Congress. may readiust such rates from time to time; and to investI gate all facts which in the judgment of the commission may assist the Fed eral Trade Commission in preventing the dumping of foreign products upon the American market in unfair and de- structive competition.
 To Gauge Law Effects
 ITO investigate the administrative and fiscal effects of the customs laws now in force or hereafter enacted; the relation between the rates of du- ty on raw materials and those on fin- lshed or partly finished products; the effects of ad valorem and specific du- ties upon revenues and industries; the arrangement of schedules of du- ties and tho classifications of the ar- ticles in the several schedules, and the provisions of law and rules and regulations Of the treasury depart ment regarding entry. appraisement, Invoices and collections.
 ITO investigate the tariff relations between the United States and for eign countries. the rates of duty im- posed on American products in for eign countries; tho existence and eff fleets of discriminating duties, com mercial treaties and preferential pro- visions; the effects Of export boun- ties and discriminating duties that may be levied by the United States.
 To Investigate the industrial and revenue producing effects of existing or proposed duties on products which compete with the products of Ameri- can industry; the conditions of com petition between American and for eign producers. including the cost of labor, raw material, transportation, fixed charges and other clements which contribute to the unit cost of production of any given article or commodity in this and foreign coun- tries; the volume of importation com pared with domestic production; the nature and cause of the advantages and disadvantages as compared with foreign producers.
 To Investigate Prices
 ITO investigate the prices, both wholesale and retail. at which foreign products are sold in foreign markets and the prices at which American products are sold in foreign markets, as compared with the prices at which the same products are sold in the American markets.
 ITO investigate any particular sub- iect whenever directed by either house of Congress.
 "Td cooperate with all appropriate agencies Of the federal government in performing the duties and exercis- ing tho powers herein prescribed.