Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1882 — TARIFF COMMISSION. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF COMMISSION.

*h* of the Act Ptwit fcy Cwcrcw. Be U enacted, etc., That a commission is hereby created to bs etlled the “Tariff Commisson,” to consist of nine members. Bm. 1 Hat the President of the United States shall, by and with the advioe and consent of tiu» flonsto. appoint njn» Ootnmissioners from crril life, one of whom, the first named, «h»h |k president of the eonmiaaion. The Commiarionere shall weeire at compensation for their aarrioea each at the rate es *lO a day when engaged in aettre doty, and actual traveling and other necessary expenses. The commission shall have power to employ a stenographer and a messenger, and the foregoing compensation and expenses shall be audited and paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Bxo. a. That it shall be the duty of said commission to take into eonstderatton and to thoroughly investigate all the various questions relating to the agricultural, commercial, mercantile, manufacturing, mining and industrial interests of the United States, so far as the same may be necessary to the establishment of a judicious tariff or a revision of the existing tariff upon a scale of Justice to all interests ; and, for the purpose of fully examinlug the matters which may come before it, said commission, in the prosecution of its inquiries, is empowered to visit such different portions and sections of the country as it may deem advisable. Sec. 4. That the commission shall make Congress a final report of the resalts of its investigations and the testimony taken in the course of the same not later than the first Monday of Dooember, 1882, and it shall cause the testi mouv taken to be printed from time to time and distributed to members of Congress by the Public Printer, and shall also cause to be printed for the use of Congress a, OOO copies of itß final report, together with the testimony.