The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-03-04
TARIFF
FALLS BEFORE
WILSON'S VETO
PRESIDENT WILSON WITHHOLDS
APPROVAL FROM "EMER-
GENCY" MEASURE
SAYS MEASURE
OFFERS NO HELP
President Thinks Legislation Falls
Far Short of Proving Boon to
Distressed Farmers and
Strikes Blow at Foreign
Trade--Effort At Re-
passage Fails

StIlhct nlO" az ToEcl8n
Trade--Effort At Re-
passage Fails
Washington, March 4.-Etforts to
override President Wilson's veto OF
the Forney emergency tariff bill fail.
ed in the house early this morning
| and the measure, originally designed
to aid the farmers, thereby met its
death.
The vote on the motion to pass the
measure over the presidents veto was
2O1 for and 1872 against. This was
Fl votes less than the necessary two
thirds.
The veto was called up and voted
on without discussion. There, was
little expectation among Republi'
cans that they would round up the
two-t thirds vote necessary to over
ride the veto and it was for this rea,
SON that some leaders had urged
Chairman Fordney to let it lie on the
table without action.
Washington, March 3-The Ford
ney emergency tariff bill was vetoed
late today by President Wilson in a
message which declared that "this is
no time for the erection here of high
trade barriers" and that the measure
"would not furnish in any substantial
degree the relief sought by the pro-
ducers of most of the staple commod-
tiles which it covers"
"The situation in which many of
the farmers of the country find them
selves can not be remedied by a
measure of this sort" the president
said in his message. "There is no
short way out of existing condi-
tions" he stated, "and measures of
this sort can only have the effect of
deceiving the farmers and of raising
false hopes among them.",
The farmer needs a better system
If domestic marketing, and credit,
he said, but especially larger foreign
markets for his surplus products.
CLEARLY, measures of this sort" he
continued, twill not conduce to an
expansion of the foreign market"
"Actual relief" the president said,
"can come only from the adoption of
constructive measures of a broader
scope, from the restoration of peace
everywhere in the world, the resump-
ton of normal industrial pursuits,
the recovery particularly of Europe
and the discovery there of additional
credit foundations on the basis OF
which her people may arrange to
take from farmers and other pro-
ducers of this nation a greater part
of their surplus production.
Blow at Foreign Trade.
"It is not little singular that a
measure which strikes a blow at our
foreign trade should follow so close
ly upon the action of congress direct
ing the resumption of certain ac-
tivities of the war finance corpora
ton especially at the urgent in
stance of representatives. of the
farming interests who believed that
it's resumption would improve for
eign marketing. We have been
vigorously building up a great mer-
chant marine and providing for i'm
provement of marketing in foreign
countries by the passage OF an ex-
port trade law and of measures for
the promotion of banking agencies in
foreign countries. Now it appears
that we propose to render these meas
ures abortive in whole or in part.
81 think there is little doubt that
while this bill is temporary it is in
tended as foundation for action of a
similar nature of very general and
permanent character. II there