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The principle of a protective tariff for the benefit of labor, industry, and the farmer is established in the bill by the requirement that the Commission shall adjust the rates so as to cover the differences in cost of production at home…
The new flexible provision established the responsibility for revisions upon a reorganized Tariff Commission, composed of members equal of both parties as a definite rate making body.
I accordingly recommended an increase in agricultural protection.
Nothing would contribute to retard business recovery more than this continued agitation.
A large portion of the items are always adjusted with good judgment, but it is bound to contain some inequalities and inequitable compromises.
It is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 4921 dated June 29, 1928, withdrawing among other lands the public lands in T. 25 N., R. 7 E., Michigan meridian, Michigan, pending a resurvey, be, and the same is hereby, revoked as to said…
This tariff law is like all other tariff legislation, whether framed primarily upon a protective or a revenue basis.
All of said lands are within the limits of Huron National Forest, having been reserved for forest purposes by proclamations of February 11, 1909, and July 30, 1928, which remain in full force and effect as to said lands.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by law the tract of land hereinafter described, to be known as the Cerro Tigre Ordnance Depot, situated in the Canal Zone, is hereby set apart and assigned to the uses and purposes of a military…
Thereby the means are established for objective and judicial review of these rates upon principles laid down by the Congress, free from pressures inherent in legislative action.
I believe that the flexible provisions can within reasonable time remedy inequalities.
Without a workable flexible provision we would require even more frequent congressional tariff revision than during the past.
Certainly no President, with his other duties, can pretend to make that exhaustive determination of the complex facts which surround each of those 3,300 items.
If, however, by any chance the flexible provisions now made should prove insufficient for effective action, I shall ask for further authority for the Commission.
It is urgent that the uncertainties in the business world which have been added to by the long-extended debate of the measure should be ended.
I do not assume the rate structure in this or any other tariff bill is perfect, but I am convinced that the disposal of the whole question is urgent.
No tariff bill has ever been enacted or ever will be enacted under the present system that will be perfect.