U.S. TARIFF COMMISSION
SUBJECTED' TO POLITICA L INFLUENCES.
A MEMBER'S ALLEGATIONS. •V CABLE PRESS ASSOfI ATTON —COPYRIGHT WASHINGTON, March 14. Charging President Ooolidge with having wrecked the usefulness of the Tariff Commission by subjecting it to political influence, Commissioner Edward Oostigan, of Colorado, submitted his resignation to White House, which immediately announced its acceptance without comment. / Mr. Ooistigan, in a. letter'to Senator Robinson, explained his dislike to the Maiding and Ooolidge appointees’ attempt to make the commission a. vehicle for putting the protective tariff principle into more effective practice. Mr. Oostigan stated: “With all his applied political aow«r, President Ooolidge had failed to annihilate all the commission’s former impartiality though his course of action had effectively helped to wreck the commission’s usefulness.”. Mr. Oostigan further insisted that a high tariff will not help industry, and pointed to the higher wages paid in industries not protected.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 March 1928, Page 5
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