Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-21
Opposition to the
 Fordney Tariff Bal
Will Be Contested Both in the House and Senate-Emerg. ency Measure.

ency MeaSure.
 / Washington, Dec. 2O.-Presentation of the Fordney emergency tariff bill in the call it up for consideration Wednesday was followed today by expressions of open antagonism both in the house and senate. The opposition, hitherto mani- fest only to slight extent, was inten- sifed by the filing of minority views by Representative Rainey, democrat, Illi- nois, scathingly denouncing the measure from beginning to end and by decision of the senate democratic steering com such legislation.
 Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee, in reporting the measure urged ac ion not because it was perfect but because it was the best ob- tainable under the circumstances. The report declared the remedial legislation was urgently necessary to correct sit uation which was described as rapidly becoming worse and likely to bring ruin to the agricul -ural industry. | The filing of the committees report disclosed that the measure - had been made applicable for period of ten months from passage instead of the one year period previously fixed. Chairman Fordney submitted with the report es- tina es of the treasury department hsowing that, on the basis of available import figures, approximately S130,000,. 900 in revenue would be derived from the duties to be imposed under the meas ure. The commodities enumerated in the | bil lnow produce less than S5,000,000 an- nually.
 As finally approved and reported to the house, the bill carries import du:ies 1i,ol, rates agreed to in committee follow: | Wheat, 30 cents bushel. Wheat flour, 20 per cent Corn, 15 cents bushel. | Beans, cents pound. | Peanuts, unshelled, 3 cents pound. Peanuts, sheued, 3 cents pound Potatoes, 25 cents bushel... Onions, 40 cents bushel.
 Rice, cleaned, 2 cents pound. 1 Rice uncleaned, 1 1-4 cents pound
 Flour, meal and broken rice, 1-2 cent pound
 Rice, unhulled, 3-4 cent pound.
 Lemons, l If cent pound Oils, peanut, 26 cents gallon
 Oils, cottonseed, 20 cents gallon | Oils, soyabean, 20 cents gallon. Cattle, 30 per cent.
 Sheep s2 head
 | Lambs, S1 a head
 Mutton and lamb, 1-2 cents pound. Wool, unwashed, 15 cents pound. | Wool. washed, 30 cents pound. I Wool, manufactures of, 45 cents pound I Wool secured, 45 cents pound.
 On the voting in the ways and mean
 committee on reporting the bill, two re publicans and four democrats vo. ed ii
 the negative. Representatives Tread way, Massachusetts, and Tilson. Connec
 ticut, were understood to have been tn
 republicans who stood against the meas , ure, while Representatives Rainey, Hui Tennessee; Oldfeld, Arkansas, and Col
 Tier, Mississippi wereNthe democrats wh , opposed the legislation.
 The republican committee member
 were said to have opposed the bill ol the ground that ify tariff legislation Wa
 to be enacted it should include protec , ton for manufactured commodities. fey of which were allowed to remain in tin
 final draft. This contention appeared |
 have gained some strength among rep-e
 sentatives from textile and other maau : featuring districts and is expected , lprecipitate heated debate. all Representative Knu son, republican
 Minnesota, chairman of the recently or
 ganized conference of representative 7 from farming districts. said he was sur l there would be bitter opposition from tn f urban representatives, but added: t We members who see the need of tn
 farmers for help are prepared for a ba'
 tie royal We think we can muster 20 : votes for the bill and l personally serv ,, notice on those people who seek to de ,. feat this bill that they will sweat bloc e before they get anything for their ir
 dustries when it comes to a permaner
 tariff unlecs they do the fair thin Il now"
 Against this came the statement r the senate democratic steering commi : tee that they did hot regard the mea!
 ure as an emergency proposal and woui
 demand that it be considered by the ], nance committee in regular order when l. reaches the senate. Senator Harriso = of Mississippi, a democrat, served not, d from the floor of the senate that |
 would oppose the bill.
 "The democratic party he declare n | cannot afford to stultify itself at tn Il time upon so important a question h principle as that which the tariff prop, s saIs involve
 ). Representative Rainey, in presentir
 the minority views, warned of dange
 which he said would beset the business tt the country should the emergency mea r. ure pass.
 ie He declared that the measure amour l. ed to an embargo and that it would ''il = SNledDly ledu lO TeldlldlOIy ldIllS
 "All commercial treaties between n
 tions were practically annulled by u . war" Mir. Rainey's report said, ''aI : today new commercial units are in pr ti cess of formation. Every commerci + nation is today prepared with the meaI 1t of quick retaliation and there is gra'
 danger that they will quickly respond
 the challenge we give them in this bll E. The Rainey report also chE.rged tn e- the bill had been framed without hea r ings and that no experts had been a l. amined. It asserted that the mAjori of in congress proposed protection as Il
 medicine for every economic evil, adiii
 that this bill is protection mad" IT n- republican plan of protection in this i In stance, the report declared, offered l. remedy worse than the i'll it sought T. correct.
 DE VALERA WAS NOT ON