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Show PROPOSED TARIFF COMMISSION. Dill Introduced In tho Senate by La Pollette. Washington. It n hill for the creation crea-tion of n tariff commission, which waa Introduced on Thtimla) by Senator La Pollette, Vtliould become a law, It sould lie competent for tho rommla-lion rommla-lion nnd the prealdcnv, acting to-ether, to-ether, to suspend nny tariff schedulo and put on tho free list any nrtlclo upon which there was nrich u combination combi-nation ns would control production or lrlces of wages either III tire United States or In nny foreign mnrket. Tho III) provides for Iho appointment appoint-ment of a commission of nlno members mem-bers one from onch Judicial circuit of the Union, nnd no ono of which bal be a member of congress. Not laurr than flro nra to bo mcmboni of soy ne political party. One Is to bo sklllcs fa manufacturing, another In agriculture, nnothcr In Imports, another an-other a represcntatlvo of labor, tho next a tatyer, skilled In tho tariff laws, the next nn expert In tariff and reciprocity, uno In tho knowledge ot r induction bid accounting, nnothor who Iras matt a study of foreign markets, mar-kets, and tht latt "an emlnct economist" econ-omist" The ncmbers ore to recelvo n salary of ll'OOO each, and after tho first cloven yi r of tho existence of tho commlfWloi each of Iho members rre to bo apposed for ten yeara Tho first nppolnlmtts aru arrnnged to tcrmlnnto so Ut n new member should bo nppolied every jenr. |