Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-25
SENATOR SMITH
DENIES SPLIT
ON TARIFF
Downward Revision Certain,
Declares Georgia LaWmaker.
Sees Harmony in Congress.
Continued From Page One.

gress was getting ready for a real night
over the proposed tariff measure.
He was vigorous in his assertions
that the recent meeting between the
senate committee and Chairman I'm
derwood's house committee, pending the
party caucus, had been eminently salts
factory. No hint of a protection grab
developed, he said, nor was there any
evidence of future trouble.
I'VE had a meeting with the house
committee" said Senator Smith, who
occupies an important place on the
finance committee of the upper house,
"and everything went smoothly. There
is no indication of lack of harmony
among the party men in Washington,
and 1 expect to see no real disagree
ment develop at the. party caucus on
April 5.
Newspaper stories are responsible
largely for the rumor that had gone
abroad that the party leaders can not
get together on the tariff, and that the
president is displeased.
Forces Compromise Program.
"Of course all legislation at its best
is a series of compromises, and it is
reasonable to suppose that senators
and congressman representing such di-
verse interests will have to accede MANY
of their demands for the general good.
But l do not anticipate any real trou-
BILE"
On the subject of Senator A. o. Ba-
cons defeat for president pro tenn of
the senate, Senator Smith declined to
talk. He said that the matter had been
settled to the satisfaction of every one
concerned and he considered 1t a dead
issue.
Georgia's junior senator grew enthu
siastic when he talked of the new mar
ket bureau plan designed to fight the
high cost of living.
do you know" he said the plan
was first preached to me by Charles
Barrett, president of the Farmers
Union. l believe that the plan will do
more than the tariff to cut down the
high cost of living
Market Bureau as SIeuth.
The plan, which resulted from the
passage of a bill sponsored by Senator
Smith. contemplates the establishment
or market bureau or DIVISION or the
department OF agriculture. This bureau
Is to scrutinize carefully the distribu-
ton of foodstuffs, endeavoring to find
where sthe waste occurs between the
producer and the consumer.
In outlining the plan, Senator Smith
said:
"A market division will be at work IN
the agricultural department on July l.
1t will begin on a.modest scale with an
expenditure of only $4,000 yearly.
believe in a few years 100000 can be
spent with great profit in this division
1T is estimated by several of the
best students of the problem in the
United States the farmer receives
Sc, 900, 000 900 yearly for his produce,
while the cost to the consumer is said
to be $13,0O0,000,000. B. F. Yoakum
who is considered an authority on the
subject, says that $500, 900, 900 will COW
er the cost of transportation, and that
what the farmer sells for $4,000 900 600
plus the $500 900 900 expended in trans
portation, costs the consumer $4,000
900, 900. There is then a loss of &c. 800
100000 between the farmer and the
consumer.
MIR. Yoakum estimates that If the &C
tual waste occurring between the farmer
and the consumer were divided every
family in the United States would re-
eeive $500 annually"