The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
Democrats Refuse to Support
Emergency Tariff Measure.
Only Partly to Help Farmers,
Declares Party Chief.
FORDHEY ACT REPORTED OUT
House Ways and Means Com
mittee Hurries Bill to Vote.
Expect Vote To Be Taken Be-
fore Christmas Recess.

Washington, Dec. 20.-The senate
late today passed the resolution reviv-
ing the war finance corporation.
without a record vote, it con-
Cured in a house amendment elimi-
mating the section which directed the
federal reserve board to arrange for
broader credit for farmers. The reso-
luton now goes to President Wilson.
Washington, Dec. 20.-The house
ways and means committee today
voted out the Fordney emergency
tariff bill designed to protect the
farmers and instructed Chairman
Fordney to make all efforts possible
to obtain action on it before the
Christmas recess.
In finally approving the bill. the
committee made two changes. Lem
ons were added to the list and an i'm
port duty of X cents per pound es-
Established. The rate on peanut oil was
increased from 20 to &c cents a gallon.
Democrats Will Oppose.
Senate Democrats will oppose ef-
forts to jam thru as an emergency
measure the tariff bill drawn up by
/ the house ways and means committee
which virtually places embargoes on
many commodities.
Decision to refuse assent to hdsty
action was reported today by the
Democratic steering committee of the
senate. The emergency tariff bill is
still in the house, having been re-
ported by the ways and means COM
mittee as a means to cut off imports
| of farming products in hope of stop
! ping price declines.
| Senator Simmons, North Carolina
| ranking Democrat on the finance
committee, obtained approval of the
CT t1a hk
considered regularly by the commit
tee. Simmons told the other Demo
/ Gratis that the bill as drawn by the
! house committee is not an emergency
measure except perhaps as to WOO
and wheat. He said the effort to in
clude many other products, some Of
which are imported in the United
States in negligible quantities, should
not be permitted to succeed.
sit is a tariff bill and should bt
given full consideration as such" sait
Simmons.
"I have been unable to find tha
emergency tariff legislation is re
quired to protect the producers o.
! dyestuffs, beans, long staple cottor
and many other commodities now in
I cluded in the bill"
| AS first presented to the steering
| committee, the resolution which wa:
adopted stated that mo action wa:
practicable before the holiday recess
This was stricken out, but member:
| of the committee said that expressed
their view.
Simmons will oppose an effort tC
hurry the bill thru the committee, ht
said. If it is rushed thru there, hi
and the other Democrats on the steer
! ing committee will insist on holding i
a long time in the senate.
Before House Wednesday
| The emergency tariff bill will b.
called up in the house Wednesday anC
efforts made to pass it at once, mem
bers of the house ways and mean
committee said today.
. These new schedules We're added Il
those already announced:
Combed wool, 80 cents a pound
secured wool, As cents pound; wooleI
goods, IS cents a pound; lemons, l u
cents a pound; peanuts. 3 cents
pound; peanut oil. 46 cents a gallon.
Frozen meats were not added, altht
efforts were made to do SO.