Show NEW TARIFF LA W SIGNED BY WILSON LONG FIGHT AT AN END AND NEW LAW GOES INTO EFFECT AT ONCE happy group of legislators members of cabinet and friends encircle president as he affixes his signature to the bill washington president wilson signed the Underwood Simmons tarla tariff bill at p m october 3 simultaneously telegrams were sent to customs collectors throughout the country by the treasury department putting into actual operation the first democratic to tariff rift revision since 1894 A happy group of legislators members of the cabinet and friends encircled the president as he smilingly sat down slowly affixed his signature with two gold pens lie ho presented to representative underwood the pen piat at had written the word woodrow and the one which had completed his name to senator simmons both of whom bowed their appreciation in impressive silence the president delivered in easy natural tones an ad ex speech that brought prolonged applause ho he said thattie that abo journey ot of legislative accomplishment had been only partly comple completed ted that a great service had been done for the rank and file of the country but that the second step IW in the abman emancipation c ci of business was currency r reform e ile he earnestly called upon his colleagues to go the rest of the journey with fresh impulse it was an unusual spectacle which attended the completion of a legislative reform that had been seven months in congress and embraced a tariff revision of a most far reaching character I 1 happy and jubilant the invited guests came to the executive offices they chatted and jested with the president in an anteroom while waiting tor for the tae full group to appear when tho members of the senate finance committee and house ways and means committee finally arrived vice dent marshall was ushered into the presidents office followed by speaker dark clark representative underwood and members of the cabinet and congressional committees and their friends no photographers were admitted as the president presided dei it regarded the occasion as too solemn to be disturbed by flashlight apparatus 1 I choso chose 9 explained the president slowly on the advice of the attorney general in order that the bill might be signed big ned after business transactions everywhere including san francisco bad closed for the day |