PROHIBITION IN AMERICA
INDUSTRY NOT BENEFITED CHARGE AGAINST COOLIDGE TARIFF OFFICER RESIGNS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 15, 8.30 p.m. A. and N.Z. Washington; March 14. Charging President Coolidge with having wrecked the usefulness of th© Tariff Commission by subjecting it to political influence, Commissioner Edward Costigan, of Colorado, submitted his resignation to White House, which immediately announced its acceptance without comment.
Mr. Costigan, in a letter to Senator Robinson, explained his dislike to the Harding and Coolidge appointees’ attempt to make the commission a vehicle for putting the protective tariff principle into mor© effective practice. Mr. Costigan stated: "With all his applied political power, President Coolidge 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. Costigan 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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Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1928, Page 9
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