| Show PRESIDENT TAfT WITH THE TARiff BILL BILLBe JUST COMPLETED L Will Be Equally to Sign the Measure jid Defend If i r ll tUn Wo elto nf f I Washington Va July S President Taft expressed himself him today as pleased with the Ute tariff bill as ag It was geed agreed to t by the th conferees last evening ev It is hi I known he heIs heIs heIs Is not entirely satisfied ati fled with all of tho the bill and he told several of his callers that it would be a 8 a tariff bill Mil could be bede designed that would I please everybody The president pre said there were a IL great many things about the bill bilk iliac that tha thae he e was wa delighted to have hada hoda part partin in inand and nd that he would be delighted to o sign and defend the measure in its finished state The Presidents Bill President Taft made it plain that he was invited into the conference before he ie attempted to give advice which finally brought about a settlement of the he points In addition to inviting the views of the president the conferees went so far as to take votes on certain schedules the decision thus reached to stand only olly in the event of Its ts meeting the presidents approval Without attempting to go into the details of the schedules recently in con controversy controversy controversy the president today declared that in a great many ways the new tariff law would be a marked Improve Improvement improvement ment mont over the Dingley law The president pre ident pointed out as great forward steps tep the enactment of the Philippine tariff bill the corporation tax the establishment of a customs cua oms court the adoption of the new maxi maximum maximum mum and minimum provisions previsions lOns the es e 8 of a commission l fo to advise the president Pre td nt ID i the operation of the maximum and minimum ml m law and on the matters generally connected with the tariff tariK The Corporation Tax As to the corporation tax it is said the president let it plainly be known that while he was much in favor of such a tax he was not so 80 wrapped up in it that he was willing to sacrifice real downward revision revl ion just to have U It 1 adopted as a part of the tariff bill bm While the corporation tax was adopted as in the nature of a substitute for the income tax the president declared to today today today day that the end attained in submitting to the states the proposition for an amendment to the constitution permit permitting permitting permitting ting the enactment of an income tax law was one of the triumphs of the present tariff fight No constitutional amendment has been submitted to the states sine the days of the civil war |
