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Show the senate committee on finance or the house committee? mi ways and nil. ant!, the Iwn committees which have fo do with tariff legislation. To Gather Confidential Data. The commission Is authorized to require- confidential data from corpora-I corpora-I lmis a: lo any sn I. j-c-t . ln.t imml never dpelo.-'e the source and mu.it especially es-pecially saiognurd it from competitive interests. An important provision of the Iinuworth hill authorizes the comnils-sion comnils-sion to investigate? the cos-1 of production produc-tion rif all articles covered ly the tariff, tar-iff, with special reference id the-prices the-prices pal 1 dmix-siic and foreign labor, la-bor, the prici's paid for raw materials, whi-lher domestic m imported, tho condition of dorm-nth- and foreign marke-f affe-eting American products. Including ele'nllod Information of the r is i and of .-verv eh'iiK'iit, which. In , the conunl-slon's Judgment, will b ' helpful t.i congress In providing euit-alde euit-alde rales of duty. Re-enacts Minimum Clause. One section re-enacts the maximum aiul minimum clause of the Aldrlch-Paxnc- tariff law. rnder the lxm?-worth lxm?-worth Mil, the five commissioners are lo be appointed by the President at first for two, three, four, five and ?ix-year ?ix-year terms, respectively, but the.-io tenures adjn t themselves to regular six year I' rms for all. The ways and nu-ans committeo will take up the commission question snort after conjrress reconvenes. Some of its members -oppose the ronimls-s-lrm idea, boiling that it puts Into being be-ing another br dy with high salailes and big exiJeuso accounts on wnrk which should be done by the department depart-ment of commerce and labor, or by Feme other regular department. PERMANENT BOARD 10 CONSIDER TARIFF WASHINGTON. Dee. 2?? Impetus to the movement for a pe rmanent tariff tar-iff commission was given today by conferences at the White Hon e and the caplled, the return of Representative Represent-ative Longweirth of Ohio to Washington, Washing-ton, with a full dial! of a bill creating creat-ing a ceitnmission. and by announcement announce-ment of Chulrmaii Payne of the house committee on ways and means, that he expected such le. Islatlon le fore March 4. Will Pass During Present Session. Following a discussion with tho President over v a:lonx features of the legislative piotrram for this ses Ion, Mr. Payne annon.cd he was sine a bill for such a commission aeceptjbb? to tho President would he put through the senate and house- before this session ses-sion ends loiter at Mr. Payne's instance, he had a conference w'th Chairman Emery, Em-ery, of the tariff board, regarding tin personnel and salarle s of the- propos-e-d com mission Mr. Emery ceuitendod that the- nature na-ture of the work and tho character of the men the coniml-slon would need made It lmpos-lb'e te ope-nt.- advantageously advan-tageously If positions an I s ilarlos were rigidly fixed by ions:ress, hi Idea being that tbe-M- f hould I fixed by the comml-'ieii itself. lie sug- gesled that Indu-lrl tl experts ti l- hl have to be engaged for varvlng terms at various comrensatlon.s. Check oo Expenditures. Mr. Tavne lv llcvc-i th"'e should bo a legislative check to the exp.nd't:.res but Is paid to a '4 roe as lo the n cos Hy of freedom of pot Ion by the commission commis-sion as to Individual terms. Emhe'dyli'-'. f. -itif. ? of the tariff commission tills of S nate.r nevrUgo of Indiana and Senator Lafe 11 It.- of Wisconsin, Introduo. d :it flic l?ct session ses-sion of concre-ss. and ef Cencres-smni Coode, of I vva, and L'iirent. of Wisconsin, Wis-consin, Inlre dueoej t session. Mr. Ijrngworth. who Is a member of the was and means e-cnirnit'ee, ha- elrawn a bill which he expects t ' Introduce In-troduce nox' weed;, it creates a commission com-mission of five tneinbirs at J'.'" each, and not more tli-jn three of the same political pa-tv. with of'.Pen nt Wa-hlncton. but rn:ow.re 1 to mee.t anywhere. Ir is given wfd p--wer of collection and cedlatlm of fn-ts. -Alinout authority author-ity to make reonmmend-tlr n-J. and Instead In-stead tif making f ix d reports. It can onlv report ell -e-el. f;, of con-creKS con-creKS or of the Pre-nMi--nt (S members mem-bers are to appear with dn'a tie-fore |