Show TARIFF BILL BILLi i READY SOON Within one Twenty one Days the Great Measure Will Be BeI I Ready to Present Ito to the New I Congress When It Convenes ALL DETAILS ARE RE BEING VERY CLOSELY GUARDED Over Eight Thousand Pages of Testimony Have Been Taken to Get at the Facts for the Basis of the Measure MUCH WORK IS NECESSARY o I I t 5 Washington Feb Feh 1 21 Within f if f days the tho business In hi- t 4 ts ls of the llio nation will vilI know to f ff f what hut extent tho they wilt will have lm to reshape re- re ref f ff f shape s 10 o meet the re- re ref f ff f 4 of the new nc tariff bill f t f 1 Ilic ways 38 and means committee 4 f of the Hie house base ha made such f 4 45 4 5 iM s with the new nc tariff that f ff f li E. I Pa ne of the f 4 4 cumin tee Hee day it c. d the f fr r belief that thai the tue bill blU f 4 which will hereafter hin hi his f 4 n name nante mc will b he ready for tor f fth tI th n ii on CU the that Sneaker 4 f Ci git JU Ra el el cl falls calling to 44 4 4 ord r tile the extraordinary session of oC 44 4 4 tho thu bit L fi t-f t st cun 4 r 4 4 44 4 n T T That will be March 15 1 How Row m many ny days weeks or 01 months after that it will be before the bill revising the tariff In accordance with the Republican Republican lican national platform Is placed inthe In Inthe the thc hands of President Taft is a problem loin lem that is Js puzzling puzzling- congressmen noties not le let ies than business men who v are arc cag eager r to haV the thc suspense at an nn end and md know the v worst or bet best The elect president Informed the writer the other day that he expected to e have te fie tor tariff disposed of by June 1 15 1 Recently Senator Lodge of Massa- Massa e expressed pressed the opinion that It would be late In the year before the bill was finally ahl passed that passed that members member would barely barch be able to go home fora for tor tora or ora a ehan change e of or clothing nn ami 1 get et bac ack to c f h tar e. e IZe slon Are the Republican v n members of ot th the theand wave WO and means consulting with tho the majority members of ot the Senate f nce committee In framing the tariff bill Wo We y ar are prEp preparing the bill ourselves our our- selves w was s Mr Paynes Payne's reply It was pointed out to Mr Pa Payne ne that tho idea was that by such uch operation co-operation between beacon n the R Republican leaders leaders' of ut t the e wo hou houses e es the ultimate passage of the bill might be facilitated Can Stud Study It The bill will be printed and become be be- be- be come a n document as soon as it U Is In Introduced In- In In the House said tie lie and an Senate the committee will hav ha ample opportunity to o study It before it repairs them There are p persistent per r reports report port the I Senate finance chairman chairman chair chair- man I Is Senator Aldrich of Ct if Rhode I lel- lel land l- l and will wm do much with th the bill bin when w It r reaches them As wl with wish h the l bill which bore boro th he the f 1 Maine representatives representative's tin tive's name but was ut to fit Senator Idea ila so ri-i the Payne bill hIJI the cl chairman of or the ways and means committee watches out will wm suffer a alike alike like fate J Si There Is a very verv complete record ofa of ofa ofa a sharp harp behind tho rene that 1 10 s s il H 0 c o hn hove hRC e d h between the president elect and Speaker Cann Cannon Canno o over oer er a lon of the The me he r ef of the tle fl fight ht It can be sale sal on 0 n auth authority n Wig a ilven bv by onnon on to n raft aft the torl would woul be he e r revised I In P with the tP 19 1 of f hp hi h nr sl ol nt-ol nt ft th I Ic to s say v Mr fr Taft Jf th's time ivo w ye W nl alec o ousted as It et n a confer rico wItt M Mr r roi J I th oi- oi tn n him that th of or t th t wore were In full a acord no- no cord wIh t the tp ip president elects Idea s u. u t I nl Today v n Co i a Mr i Pa Payne me w with H the r r mArk nn TI rl nn on that t o D h IJ i wm will pr lv to Mr Tnt n s- s Mr Tr 1 rAft Vis nf t l' l p Wh W t 10 lq r 1 r 1 Ia tar rl rr revision were f The 1 Mil paid the Continued on Five Fh-e. TARIFF BILL BL READY DY SOON Continued from On One chairman of ot the tho ways was and means will wJ speak f Jr or itself corn corn- com com- Necessarily all al details with wih regard to the new bill bi are being very closely guarded Much is being doBe ver town toward IN i balking the schemes of or the stock job job- Air bers ber and for tor reducing to a minimum the business agitation that tha will wm Sm come and the pulling and hauling and wl wire working that would follow if I the tho de details details de- de e- e tails tais as to the schedules schedule were permitted permit permit- ted to leak out piecemeal piecemeal perIt- perIt The Tho amount of preliminary work necessary before the committee began to frame the new bill bl was Waz wa enormous For Instance after atter th the te House in June June Instructed the tho ways and means com corn committee committee to collect Information upon the tariff the members member awaited the result of ot the presidential election which beInG being be be- ing irig InG favorable they got to work serious seriously seri sort ous at the task on November 10 io From that date until December 24 dally daily sessions of ot the tho committee were held heW at which every cyer man roan having a I grievance against tho present tariff tarl or who had any sU suggestions to make make was patiently heard Eight thousand pages es of ot printed testimony testimony tes tes- have been taken all 01 of or which have since been analyzed and their contents arranged on the tho particular schedule which they touch upon In addition additon to this Chairman Payne has had compiled a book on comparative Imports which shows for ten or n fifteen fr- fr teen years ears the annual Import of or every article artcle that Is scheduled In the present tariff taru law the tho rate of ot dut duty paid and total duties dutes ane Another formidable volume contains con con- the court decisions and the tho rulIngs rulings rul rul- ings upon overy every schedule that Is contained con con- tamed In the law arranged for tor ready reference under tho the schedules as n they appear In the bill And In addition to this there has been sent to ben even evy consular consular consular con con- sular representative of ot the United States throughout the world a n circular letter ietter leter asking for tor detailed Information as is to the products output cost of otma materm ma ma material term and cost of ot labor Jabor on all al articles produced In their districts that find their way to tho the United States Similar Information has been gathered from every section of ot this country These are re the tools with wih which the tariff tarl makers work |