Show J RESIDENT 0 SIGNS TARIFF BILL MEW SCHEDULE WENT INTO EF F AT MIDNIGHT ON SEPTEMBER 21 hope that measure will be success ful expressed by pres dent hard ing Cono witness the signing washington president harding on thursday signed the tariff bill of the bill was inas sf signed ned shortly after 11 clod in the president presidents s office in the 1 presence ire sence of chaliman mccumber ol 01 the senate finance committee chair inn win fordney of the house ways and means committee a number of house bembers and others I 1 emarl lag ing that the measure had been long in the making president harding after he had affixed his si sl matuie with a pen presented to him by mr fordney who said I 1 e intended to keep it as i i r said that it if we succeed as I 1 hope we will succeed n making effective the elastic provi of this bill will aill piove giove the aieaz teat contribution toward progress in tariff mal ng in a century one of those who witnessed the signing was harry parker negro messenger for tl ti e house ways in and d eans cans committee foi fol the past ui 3 ye yens it s I 1 larler arl er v as introduced to the pres dent with the lemarl from chair i an roddney that he had witnessed the sin ng of the D agey payne al delch and underwood tariff b Hs in addrion add tion to sen aitor mccumber and I 1 fordney those vho aho witnessed the a gning of the mil bill included represent representative atile haw y ore gon timberlake colorado 11 hardley ardley A ash agton watson Pen pennsylvania sylvania loung creen lobland republican members of the ways and means committee treasury officials in discussing the new act said that although no beor of the customs service would be required dired the staffs of the customs offices in a number of the larger ports of entry would ha have hae e to be expanded to handle the increased volume of work nork |