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TARIFF BILL Up
FOR QUICK ACTION
House Plans Final Vote on
Measure Today.
REPLY TO DEMOCRATS
representative Young Declares Act
VIII Benefit Farmers and Not Spec
ulators in Foodstuffs.

GidlOiS IN FOOUSIQIlS.
Washington, April 15.-The house
took up the Young consolidated emer-
gency tariff and anti-dumping bill
with general debate to continue ali
afternoon.
Representative Young, Republican.
North Dakota, said he would cal! for
final vote today.
Answering the i}cM,.cratic minority
statement, Repre-. ntutive Young at
tackled the assertion the mcaSuf.
would hand hundreds of millions Ga.
profits to manufacturers and Sprcula
tors said to control last years farm
products. The measure, he said,
would assure the farmers of favorable
market conditions for the crops now
in the ground or being planted.
General reduction in acreage was
contemplated throughout the country,
Mr.. Young aid, requiring passage of
the bill, and its opponents must take
the responsibility for shortage i'll
food products" i'll event OF the bill
failure.
Repre>. ntative w. Bourke Cochran.
Democrat, New York, painted Il
gloomy picture of national aid world
conditions, and predicted that long
lines of furnishing men and women ere
this condition passed will be standing
in front of soup houses
Il apprehend." he said. that when
these lines do form, as they surely
WILL they will not stand there III 81
lence as they have done before. |
apprehend something more menacing,
more dangerous to civiliZ ltion, 10 our
government and to US
He ~SSerted the Republican tariff
program mea- to de.;,rUy the proGuc-
tivity Of the industries, thereby leaV-
ing nothing for the cities To exchange
with the farmers Tor the product Of
The soil.
Representative Garner, TEXAS. Il
Democratic member of the ways ;lnG
means committee, said the bill con
tanned Joker" which would embar-
go products from Central Europe. The
clause he objected to particularly pro-
y
collectors of customs of the depreci-
alton in currency at more than 66 2-3
per cent.
Although he voted for the emergen-
cy tariff bill in the last session. he
said he could not support it in its
revised form.
House Democrats We're bound by
eaucn< action To stand unreSetYedly
against the measure and Representa-
tive kitchin, North Carolina, minority
leader, in a statement bitterly aSSail-
ing the Republican temporary tariff
program, predicted less than Il dozen
Democratic votes would be cast for
the Young BILL" as it is now called.
Expressing the views of minority
members of the way and means COM
mittee, which formally reported the
emergency bill, Representative kitch-
in declared the Republicans were toss
ing into the lap of three great trusts,
the packers, the sugar trust and the
woolen trust, $75,000,000 Il year" He
also asserted the terms of the anti
dumping provision rould operate to
diSbar future tr I with the central
powers and sma -er European states.
The Lew emergency tariff and anti
dumping bill provides the director of
the mint shall estimate quarterly and
the secretary of the treasury shall
proclaim the value of foreign coin.
The value as proclaimed shall be al
lowed in estimating the va1ue Of for
eign merchandise exported to the
United States during the quarter for
which the value is proclaimed. The
value of foreign coin as depressed in
the money account of the United
States shall be that of the pura metal
.oin of standard value"