Excerpt from Story of a Tariff (the Tariff Act of 1909): Extracts From Debate in the Extra Session of the Sixty-First Congress

There is a complaint now by the woolen clothiers and by the carded woolen people of this woolen schedule. They have honored me by asking in circulars sent out by them that certain questions be put to me in respect to it, and asking why I did not veto the bill in view of the fact that the woolen schedule was not made in accord with the platform. I ought to say in re spect to this point that all of them in previous Tariff bills were strictly in favor of maintaining the woolen schedule as it was. The carded woolen people are finding that carded wools are losing their sales because they are going out of style. People prefer wor steds. The clothing people who are doing so much circularizing were con tented to let the _woolen schedule re main as it was until very late in the Tariff discussion, long after the bill had passed the House, and, indeed, they did not grow very urgent until the bill had passed the Senate. This was because they found that the price of woolen cloth was going up, and so they desired to secure reduction in the Tariff which would enable them to get cheaper material. They themselves are Protected by a large duty, and I can not with deference to them ascribe their intense interest only to a deep sympathy with the ultimate consumers, so-called. But, as I have already said, I am quite willing to admit that allow ing the woolen schedule to remain where it is, is not a compliance with the terms of the platform as I inter pret it and as it is generally under stood.

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