| Show NEW MD BOARD sketches of members appointed to important body will investigate application of maximum and minimum rates of new law to foreign countries washington the new foreign tan iff board recently appointed by tb the a president la Is composed of the following three members prof henry C emery professor of 0 economics at yale university mr james D B reynolds assistant secretary of the treasury sad mr alvin 11 sanders of chicago editor and owner of tho the breeders bleeders Bre eders gazette the appointments were made under a paragraph of the now new tariff act which authorizes the president to expend in an investigation of the application of at the maximum and minimum rates of the new tariff law to foreign countries it la is tho the purpose of the president to use the board for a much broader investigation vesti gation in affixing hla his signature to the bill he made public a statement in which he took the ground that the authorization theorization was such as to enable ri him to employ the commiss commission foll upon a much wider field than that offered 0 by the application of the ma maximum had manikum rates it Is IB expected that he will make the work of the commission almost as comprehensive as would have been possible had th tho a movement for a tariff commission not failed because of the opposition of congress to the proposal that any other governa governmental body have a part in the making of the tariff laws the paragraph as finally incorporated in the law was an amendment ot of the senate which was still further james B reynolds restricted when the bill was before the joint conference committee As q lav ej i provision was B bior compromise to the tariff commission adherents As readjusted by the confer conference enco under the opposition of the house confer conferrers rees it was believed to have been brought to a point pointy which was satisfactory to those opposed to a tariff commission president tafts construction st of the authorization does not agree with that of the men in the house and senate opposed to the tariff commission idea in prof emery the li president resident has found a scientific student of the tariff in assistant secretary reynolds an official facial of the government who has spent several years in tho the intimate direction and interpretation of the tariff laws lawa aud and in mr sanders a man of 0 practical experience in the working of the tariff in the field of the business man and the agriculturist assistant secretary reynolds undoubtedly brings to the work of the commission the most knowledge entering the treasury department in march larch he has haa been intimately ti associated with the enforce jentof the customs laws lawa by that department part ment ile he was appointed by president roosevelt as a member of a special commission which visited france in 1908 and met a similar commission from that country in the adjustment of tariff rates in controversy under the commercial agreement between the two countries again appointed in a similar capacity he aided in tho the formation of the german agreement I 1 mr reynolds renolds Is 39 years old a bachelor bachel or entered politics a from newspaper work which he began in boston la Is a native of massachusetts abass achu and a republican I 1 prof emery was appointed to the c hair chair of political economy at yale in august 1900 lie ile Is a writer on economics and has baa published speculation on stock and aad produce exchanges of the united states after being graduated at bowdoin col lego lege he studied at 11 harvard arvard und and for three years was professor of economics at bowdoin Bow doln from which institution no lie went to harvard lie he has haa never been active in politics alvin 11 sanders has long been an active advocate of tho the tariff commission idea and in his appointment the tha president reco acs the ui strength ot that m movement ov ement mr sanders has made frequent trips to europe for the investigation of the discrimination practiced against american manufactures fac tures on one ona of the more recent visits ho he held a special commission from president roosevelt to in r report por upon those conditions ke was very active in bringing about the reciprocity convention held in chicago a feir aw yegia ago to baake organized e effort for a better foreign field for american AmerIc av products j |
