The spectator., 1921-07-22

I tUIIlI blll VIII lucct IuCST l or not will depend entirely upon the
 developments of the future, but l bill with the intent noted in view is the kind of bill that probably will | be enacted.
 The dye, metal wool and lumber schedules are the ones which have caused the greater controversies and which are responsible mainly for the delay in getting the legislation under way.
 | Lumber Producers Don't Agree.
 Seemingly the lumber producing sec tlons of the country are divided on the question of the duty on the finished products of lumber. The ways and means committee by q majority vote decided to put a duty of 25 per cent : l ad valorum on finished lumber. The vote was taken fin the committee and this duty carried. Instantly there was trouble
 The northwestern sections of the country seem to be opposed to this 20 per cent duty, while in some of the other sections of the country it is claimed the duty is favored by lumber men. At this writing it is not known definitely just what the outcome will be- but attempts are being made to get the committee to reconsider its action and to remove the duty. There will be fight in the house over this schedule of the bill, no matter what the committee may report. i The wool schedule continues to create dissension. As somebody has put il, wool is always breeder of the tick of trouble" The particular anti dote for tick which the Agricultural department recommends to all shep- herds seemingly cannot be of service in the present case. So far as con gress is concerned, wool always has contained an itching irritant.
 The original draft of the schedule as prepared by the subcommittee this year has been abandoned. Opposi- ton developed to it among some of the majority members of the con- mijtec. So it is today that the com mittce has been compelled to ask tho tariff commission for information on which it can rcdraft. If it wants to, the provisions of the wool schedule.
 Dye Industry to Be Fostered. | The metal and dye industries are deeply interested in the present tariff measure. IL is said that the determi- nation of the majority in congress IS to see to it that n dye industry shall l be built up which will make the United States independent of other countries in dye products in the fu- ture.
 The war produced an argument in favor of shutting out dyes by means 1 of a high tariff The dye industry of I Germany was responsible scientifically | for the Germans great advance in some of the material of warfare ex- plosives. gas and other things. Tho argument Is being advanced that here after the United States must be able 2 l to produce its own from well-estah- l llshed industries and not be compelled | 10 wait on experiment and on the building of factories In case war | should come.
 | There Is opposition, of course, to l the dye proposition as if is likely to 1 be set forth in the tarn bill. the argu- mcnt being that q monopoly will he | created.
 l War Grafters to Be Hunted Down. The attorney generals office has i announced that there will be an fn- vestigation of war protileering on the government, that it intends to make the inquiry thorough and to bring punishment down on the guilty.
 The attorney general, in connection with this matter. has said: "The gov
 ernment is not going after the little l fellows. We can afford to throw the
 minnows back and let them start over again. II Is the big fellows that We
 are after and expect to get" | No one, of course, can tell whether l the investigation will result in disclos- | ing proofs of guilt and in the convic- | ton of the guilty. It Is said that
 about only one government investlga- l ton In five ever produces real results. ] but this in general way may be put ! down to the fact that the government. | especially the congressional part of it. | has the Investigating habit fixed and
 Is given to ordering inquiries into this
 matter and the other matter without 1 much regard to the strength of the
 initial facts In the case.
 Others Who Are More Despicabe.
 The grafters on the government dur ing the war were high scale robbers.
 but, as the expression goes, they were
 not in 1t In meanness with the prof.
 teers who preyed directly on the peo-
 pie, md particularly on men who were
 going to give np good paying places
 to enter one ar the other of the armed
 services of the country.
 There are some thousands of ex-
 soldiers who would hold jubilation
 as hearty as the one which followed
 the armistice If some of the cheap l ,,.t,.