In his message vetoing the farmers' free list bill, President Taft declares that the same reasons which impelled him to decline to sign the wool bill, controlled him in this case, and in his summary objects to it because he thinks it should not be considered until the tariff board shall make report upon the schedules it affects; because the bill is so loosely drawn as to involve the government in endless litigation and to leave the commercial community in disastrous doubt ; because it places the finished product on the free list, but retains on the dutiable list the raw material and the machinery with which such finished product is made, and thus puts at a needless disadvantage our American manufacturers; that, while purporting, by putting agricultural implements, meat, and flour on the free list, to reduce their price to the consumers, it does not do so, but only gives to Canada valuable concessions which might be used by the executive to expand reciprocity with that country in accordance with the direction of Congress.
