New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Action Tax en- After Eight
Hou.s' Debate; Minor
ssy Offers Amendments
10 Everv Section
Party Lines Broken
la Approving Act
Measure Imposes Duties
on Score of Products;
Action by Senate This
Session Is in Doubt

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The
House tonight, by vote of 1876 to
So, passed the Fordney emergency
tariff bill, imposing temporary duties
upon d score Of agricultural prod
ucts, to protec1 the farmers. The
vote came after eight hours con-
tinuous debate, marked by persistent
but futile efforts by the minority to
amend the schedule.
Party lines were disregarded in
the vote, forty one Democrats voting
favorably and fourteen Republicans
opposing it.
Not a single crange was made, al
though practically every section was
attacked and more than score of
amendments proposed, most of them
by Representative Henry T. Rainey.
Democrat, of Illinois, leader of the
opposition.
Despite their victory. Republican
leaders in the House were dubious as
to whether the bill would be given
Senate approval. The belief was prov
alent that action in the Senate might
be delayed, or that the bill might be
so altered that its present schedules.
would be completely changed.
Substitute Legislation Predicted
IN this connection a statement made
by Representative Fordney, chairman
Of the Ways and Means Committee,
who led the fight for the bill. was
considered significant. He said he
hoped that at the next session of
Congress relief measure will be sub
stituted for this bill until scientific
schedule could be worked OUT. Mr..
Fordney said he favored either the
Dingley or the Payne -Aldrich schedule.
Minority leaders also predicted that
the Senate would frown on the meas
ure.
The vote showed decided break in
party lines. A number of Democrats,
including Representatives John N.
Garner and Thomas L. Blanton, of
Texas, and Frank Clark, of Florida,
ycted for the protective tariff, while
several Republicans, notably Martin B.
Madden, Of Illinois, opposed it.
4 motion to recommit the measure,
made by Representative Hamilton Fish
lr., OF New York, nearly succeeded q
lew minutes before the final vote
Aimed to Halt Imports
IL. Fish declared the bill should be
returned TO the committee that tempo
rary duties could be placed on dairy
products, but mis- motion was lost on
point OF order made by Representative
Nicholas Longworth, Of Ohio, and sus-
tained By Representative Joseph
Walsh, OF Massachusetts, in the chair.
The tariff measure is designed to halt
Expectations Of farm products into
this country until permanent tariff
schedule can be worked out by the new
Congress 70 convene March 4. 1t is in
tended to bring relief to the stockman
and farmer, whose products are being
t0rced out Of home markets by cheaper
-orelgn products.
About $130, 900 in revenue will
be raised by the bin during the ten
months II would be effective. accord
.ng 10 Treasury Department experts.
Rates Of duty provided in the measure
are - foliows:
Rates Provided by Measure
Wheat, 20 cents 4 bushel; wheat
-Four 20 per cest ad valorem; corn or
maze, - cents a bushel; beans, cents
pound; peanuts, 3 cents pound; po-
tatoes, 20 cents bushel; onions, Is
tsrts bushel; rice, uncleaned, ~
cent? pound; rice, cleaned, cents a
pound; lemons, / l. cents d pound; pea.
aot Oh, 26 cents gallon; cottonseed
coeoanut and soya bean oil, 20 cents a
z3Aon; cattle, 70 per cent ad valorcn
seep. one year old, s2 a head; sheep
less than one year old, 81 head; fresh
.4riton and lamb, zi2 cents pound {;
org staple cotton, 7 cents pound
T1tn coropers&tory duty of cents n
ppono IN addition 70 existing rates upon
tHe inanpfacturcs thereof; unwashcd
Hocl, IS cents pound; washed wool
~ cents a pound secured wool, AZ
ssnts pound, with compensatory
a1'y u 45 cents a pound in addition to
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