Show PROPOSED TARIFF commission bill introduced in the senate by la follette it if a bill for the creation of a tariff commission which was introduced on thursday by senator la follette should become it a law it would be competent for the commission and the president acting together to suspend any tariff schedule and put on the free list any article upon which there was such a combination as would control production or prices of wages either in the united stat states es or in any foreign market the bill provides for the appointment of a commission of nine members one from each judicial circuit of the union and no one of which shall be a member of congress not more than five are to be members of any one political party one is to be skilled in manufacturing another in agriculture another in imports another a representative of labor the next a lawyer skilled in the tariff laws the next an expert in tariff and reciprocity one in the knowledge of production and accounting another who has made a study of foreign markets and the last an emimet economist the members are to receive a salary of each and after the first eleven years of the existence of the commission commin lon each of the members are to be appointed for ten years the first appointments are arranged to terminate so that a new member should be appointed every year |