The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-08
VOTE ON TARIFF
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the big steel interests or the Steel Trust,
Performances Ia manufactured by the
Steel Trust BY that trust 1t Is sold In
large quantities to independent steel con-
Germs unless these concerns elect to i'm
port It. The Is per cent duty is clear
measure of protection to the Stel Trust.
The steel schedule offers one Of the
clearest demonstrations Of the fine
work done by certain members Of the
Ways and Means Committee in behalf OF
industries in their own districts. Repre-
sentative A. Mitchell Palmer of Penn
sylvania, is one of the most influential
members of the committee. Also he
was the highest protectionist on the
committee when the bill was being
framed. Mr.. Palmer's district included
the big mills of the Bethlehem Steel
Company, part of the United States
Steel Corporation-the Steel Trust.
Mr.. Palmer soon found other gentle
men on the committee who would stand
with him and do a bit Of high-class
logrolling Those gentlemen were Rep
resentatives Shackleford, Of Missouri
Garner, of Texas, and Claude Kitchen
last to be won over.
AS a result Of this combination, Pal
mer got special consideration for thu
Steel Trust; Kitchen took care of cottor
and peanuts; Shackleford of zinc ant
lead, and Garner was able to keep ;
protective duty on mohair, a goat prod
uct, the principle commodity OF his dis
trict in Texas. Then all four of then
fought against free wool and beat 1t
until President Wilson stepped In ant
threw his influence to. Representative
Harrison of New York and Rainey o
Illinois.
Committee Is Undecided.
Just how far the Finance Committee
will see fit to change the seven item
enumerated above, along with othe
changes which undoubtedly will b.
made, II is impossible even to guess a
this time. The Finance COMMITTEE
doesn't know what it will do. Their
probably will be some logrolling in tn
committee, as there was in the Way
and Means Committee. and then whei
the bill goes to conference the tina
stage will be curtained. as far as tn
legislative branch Is concerned.
1t is realized that not one of the in
constituencies, with the possible eXcep
ton of the ship bottoms section. in
sures serious injury to American in
dustries any more than the entire
economic policy laid down in the bill
That remains for time.
Democratic lawmakers and tariff
trainers never before have been sc
supremely confident of the good eff
fects of a low tariff bill as they are IL
regard to the Underwood measure
President Wilson. an economist OF
note, has not, apparently, the slightes'
fear that the bill will result in ever
a temporary Generalization of the
country's industries.
The best hoped for the measure II
that it will be so ''averagedly" salts
factory that the country will have pa
thence enough to permit a Democratic
administration to go through 1t lit
tie at a time after 1t becomes law
and weed out these bad features with
out overturning the entire fabric
House Refuses Warming.
The House refused to consider the
warnings Of Republican Leader Mann oil
to heed the arguments presented by
Representative Humphrey OF Nasnlng'
ton against the inclusion in the tarin
bill of the provisio for the remission
of per centum Of the duties upon I'm
ports brought into the United states IN
vessels of American registry.
The paragraph of the bill known AZ
subsection il reads as follows: That
a discount of per centum on al
duties imposed by this act shall be
allowed on such goods, wares. and mer'
chandise as shall be imported in vessel:
admitted to registration under the laws
Of the United States"
Mr. Mann called the attention of the
House to the remarks he himself had
made at the time general debate on the
whole bill was closed to the effect thai
the law as framed provided by the
combination of the first section of thi:
particular subsection that a discrimi
mating duty of 0.per centum ad valoren
in addition to the duties proposed shall
be levied on all goods imported in YES
sells other than those of the United
States except where there existed com
mercial treaties or provisions of genera
treaties. making the definite agreements
of contrary character.
Mann Makes Suggestion.
Mr. Mann suggested to the HOUSE
that as there existed in the list OF the
foreign relations of the United State:
only four nations not so protected by
treaty that in so far as these four ma
lions were concerned the 10 per cen
additional tariff would be applicable IL
addition to the advantage of the ma
lions having such treaties, in which re
lation even the 5 per cent discount
could not be made applicable. He as
serted that the tariff bill as framed
was inapplicable altogether at its fac'
value 100 per cent of tax in any in
stance. The nations not having treaties
would have to pay 40 per cent of the
tariff and the nations having treatie:
would not have to pay but % per cen
OF the tariff rates and that was al
there was to ii.
Further. Mr. Mann, in order to try
to get a rise of Mr.. Underwood, made
the fiat assertion that the chairman o.
the Ways and Means Committee was as
swell acquainted as he was with the &C.
tual state of affairs. but that he was
too proud to acknowledge that the bill
was faulty at this point.
Representative Humphrey Introduces
an amendment striking out all OF sub
section il. He charged that in this tn
Democrats were guilty of back-trackin;
from their every previous contention
against a ship subsidy law. and that a
the same time they were drawing
subsidy measure they were doing s,
without the slightest regard for the up
building of the American merchant ma
rine by any means except this insig
nificant bounty. He pointed out that
vessel coming from Argentina with
million dollars worth IF free hideS 4,