Tariff Commission: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, 61st Congress, 3D Session, on H. R. 26232 and H. R. 28433, December 13, 1910 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Tariff Commission: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, 61st Congress, 3d Session, on H. R. 26232 and H. R. 28433, December 13, 1910

Mr. Good. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen Of the committee, I have attempted in the bill which I have introduced, H. R. 26232, to work out in detail a tariff commission. I have fashioned the bill some what after the interstate-commerce law, but I may say at the outset that I have no ride of opinion or authorship or of opimon with re ard to the various steils of the bill. It has occurred to me, and I be love it has occurred to a number Of the members of your committee, that there ought to be such a commission. It ought to be permanent. It ought to have power to act. With a permanent commission, with power to act, there certainly would be no occasion for remarks from either the floor Of the House or from the Senate such as were made by members Of this committee on the floor of the House and b Senator Root on the floor of the Senate at the special session of t e Sixty second Congress. I have before me the speech that was delivered by Mr. Hill, of Connecticut, with regard to the manner in which the last tariff bill was made. He speaks with regard to the preliminary work of the committee, the compiling of the publication Imports and duties, and then he says: It did not and could not include the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad.

Then he speaks of that other most valuable publication that was compiled under the direction of your chairman entitled Tariff notes; and of it Mr. Hill says: But in this work, as in the others, there was no basis upon which the difference of cost of production at home and abroad could be ascertained.

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