The Washington herald., 1921-05-08
Gives Notice He Will
Fight Extension of
Dye Embargo.
FORDNEY UPHOLDS
VALUATION I'D E A
Says Public Favors Plan
For Assessing Duties
On Imports.

line up their full party strength In
the Senate in support of the emer-
gency tariff bill. Senator Moses,
Of New Hampshire. Republican. who
fought the bill in the last session,
made this plain yesterday when he
served notice in the Senate that be-
fore the debate is closed he will
make a speech against it. He said
he was especially opposed to the
provision Of the bill which extends
the embargo and license control over
imports Of dyes now exercised by
the War Trade Board.
Senator Moses made his position
clear after Senator Harrison, OF
Mississippi. Democrat. had read to
the Senate a quotation from an ad-
dress by the New Hampshire sena-
tor attacking the measure during
the last session. Questions asked by
Senator Moses during yesterdays
debate had given Senator Harrison
the impression that the former had
changed his position.
His fOelr1on DncnanScu.
.I suppose the Senator is seeking
to wiring from me an admission that
have recanted." said Senator
Moses. after Senator Harrison had
read from his speech 81 have no
intention Of changing my position,
and before this debate is closed I
shall express my views again in a
few weIl-chosen words"
-
bill has tended to increase still
higher the cost Of living" said sena-
tor Harrison Nothing has been
the people.
anti-dumping provisions are con-
cerned 1t will increase the cost of
commodities. The worst part Of II
is that II does not apply only to
agricultural commodities, but to
everything. So the bill Is worse
than IL was before Whatever ex-
cuse there may have been for vot-
ing for the bill before. there is
none now.
IF this anti-dumping provision
prevails IL may. il circumstances
arise. take articles from the free
list and impose a tax upon them.
thus burdening the farmer that
much more"
Says Public Approves.
Representative Fordney. of Mich
igan. chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee. issued the
following statement:
The proposal to adopt American
valuations has met with great and
growing approval as the full sig
nihcance of the change is being bet
ter understood The necessity for
the change is becoming more and
more apparent. The collection of
information as the true wholesale
market values in all the countries
Of the world has shown itself in
the past to he extremely difficult
and recently practically impossi-
BILE.
Favors Stability.
We must have stability and GER
tainty in our method of collections
of revenues il she country is to meet
the heavy expenditures which now
face it. While ia the past. as a
prosperous nation without heavv
tax burdens. we could or rather did
overlook this necessity of certainty
in our revenue collections, we now
realize that the full revenue from,
this source must be collected ana
not left in the hands of the foreign
manufacturers, or by permitting un-
dcrvaluations to widen the profit Of
his agents. the importers in this
country.
The extraordinary conditions
abroad have accentuated beyond
measure the Necessity of protect,n9
the American working man and
skilled artisans in his employment
which can only be done by two
things:
Cd so adjusting the tariff that
1t makes up the difference between
low standards of wages and Iiving
of the foreigner and the AmerIca1
standard which we must preserve at
all costs.
Protection at Home,
:. "Deyising a means whershv
American industry will be protect.
ed against the persistent under
valuations of the past, so the rev.
enue Congress determines upon will
be readily collected and the de-
gree of protection IL deems neces-
sary to give American Institutions
VIII be real rather than fictitious
This can only be accomplished by
oasing the rate properly readiust.
ed upon the American wholesale
value.
"A hearing was granted last
Tuesday at which both sides of the
question were discussed by repre-
sentative business men and which
tended greatly to clear the atmos-
phere."
An extraordinary fact deyeloped
during the hearing and that was
that the concentrated opposition
which had centered in the activities
of a great commercial organization
was discovered to be without
foundation in fact. The members
of the organization which had been
invited by the Ways and Means
Committee to express its opinion
had never been consulted. The
supposed consensus of opinion en-
pressed in an. elaborate brief, was
merely the conclusion of a single
committee composed largely OF rem
resentatives of the importing in
terests.