Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-17
Sugar Added to
Tariff List in
Committee Report

washington, Jan. 15.-The FOrdney
emergency tariff bill. broadened to In
ciude practically all farm products
instead CT the limited number in the
measure as 1t passed the House, was
approved today by the Senate finance
committee which voted ITO report it to
! the Senate Monday.
Seven amendments were added to the
bill in today's session, making a total
OF 10 which have beentacked on by
| the committee. No provisions Of the
| original bill, however. were removed
and rates on the major products c~-
ried by the House bill were left intact.
Opponents of the bill in the COM
mittee Joined with the authors of
amendments and forced the acceptance
OF most of them, despite opposition
from the bills defenders. There was
no record vote.
| 1t was said that the Democrats in
the committee. with the exception of
| Senator'S Nugent of Idaho and Jones
| OF New Mexico, stood against report
ing the bill.
| The amendments which finally were
made part of the measure by COM
mittea action included:
| Wheat, 40 cents a bushel instead of
30 as reported by the House
| Sugar, S2.13 per 100 pounds until
the retail price reaches 10 cents a
pound.
Frozen meats ofSall kinds, cents
a pound; all other meats. 25 per cent.
ad valorem.
| Apples, 20 cents a box.
! Cherries, A cents pound.
| Tobacco, Sumatra, wrappers and
filters, $2.S5 per pound; stemmed
Sumatra, $3.50 per pound.
| Butter and cheese and their SUBJ
stitutes, S cents pound instead OF
cents, provided in an amendent
accepted yesterday.
The length of long staple cotton on
which the tariff will be effective was
reduced from 1 3-S inches to l is
inches, the duty remaining at Z
cents a pound as the bill passed the
| House.
Cattle and sheep to be used for
breeding purposes were exempted
from the duty on imported animals
| Rice to be used in manufacture OF
canned goods was excepted from the
tariff of two cents pound levied in
the House bill.
Among those which the committee
refused TO accept We're the bills re-
codifying the federal laws, the re-
clamation bill, the soldiers bonus
and the committee draft of the pro
posed new immigration laws.
| The bill will be reported "in thte
form it is to be defeated" said Sen
ator Smoot, Republican, Utah. He
added that about everything anybody
asked for was put in. Several other
supporters of the measure also ex-
pressed dissatisfaction with the com
mittee's work.
There was no attempt to change the
lie OF the bills provisions, and little
debate took place relative to whether
10 months would be sufficiently Ions
period for application of the law
Several Republican senator's, in an
ticipation of argument on this phase
or the measure, were said to have ex-
planned that the permanent tariff bill
now under consideration by the
House ways and means committee
would be whipped into shape before
the expiration of the emergency law
and that the latter would then be au-
Dramatically repealed
| In it's tariff revision hearings to-
day. the House ways and means com
mittee took up schedules of the I'm
derwood Act, comprising wood and
wood products.
| John II. Kirby. Austin, Tex, pres
ident of the Southern Tariff Associa
ton, asked for a rate of Is per cent
ad valorem on imported lumber. say
ing that it would yield 100000 an
nually in revenue and would not in
crease the lumber cost to American
consumers.
Charles A. Bigelow, Bay City
Mich, representing the Hardwood
Manufacturers Association, and j. O
Eckman of Cincinnati, president OF
the Oak Flooring Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION, proposed an ad valorem
duty Of 25 per cent. They explained
| that the Canadian tariff on lumbe,
products was 25 per cent and that
American manufacturers desired tc
be placed on an equal basis with their
Canadian competitors.
Mr.. Bigelow said, however, that the
manufacturers in the United States
would be satisfied if a reciprocity