Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-18
TARIFF To TOP
| NEXT SESSION,
c. 0. ?. STAND
w Western Solons Ask
Immediate Embargo
on Many Products.
Wool Includes Tops,
Yarns, Waste, Says
Senator Cameron.

Washington, March 17.-Republican
members Of the house ways and means
committee stood pat Thursday on the
proposition that permanent tariff
bill should top the legislative program
Of the new session of congress.
This view was expressed at com
mittee conference, which took up,
among other things. the question OF
preparing and rushing through the
house the same anti-dumping bill pass
ed last session, together with an added
American valuation measure.
President Withholds Assent.
There was no intimation from the
White House as to whether the pres
ident had approved the program agreed
upon Monday at the conference of the
ways and means and senate finance
committees. The president had ex-
pected to see western members of the
former committee who have been in
sistent in demanding that the tariff
ion, but the meeting was postponed at
his request and Chairman Fordney ex-
planned that he. had sent Mr. Harding
q list of members with whom he might
want to discuss the situation.
Meanwhile there were other move
ments under way which would have the
effect of giving interests demanding
it an emergency tariff.
Agreement was reached at the meet
ing Thursday that the anti-dumping
and valuation bills should not delay
consideration of straight tariff bill
for the reason that it did not fit the
situation with respect to the free list.
Vast Is Hit Hard.
Representative Young, Republican.
mittee. declared the passing of the
anti dumping bill would not satisfy
the west, as most of the farm prod
ucts of that section were on the free
list.
THE man on the verge OF bank
ruptcy wants something to tie to-. he
said. '"The west is up against it hard
and to my mind will insist upon hav-
ing the tariff taken up ahead of all
other legislation"
An appeal to the president to place
an immediate embargo on imports of
wool, hides, meats, butter, lemons, cot
tonseed oil and cotton, has been made
by II group of western senator's and
Senator Cameron. Re-
publican, Arizona, announced Thurs
day night. The situation facing the
producers Of those products also has
been laid before Secretaries Wallace,
and Fall.
Harding Seeks Advice.
The president took the request
under advisement. Senator Cameron
said. and indicated that he wished to
get the advice of certain of his cabinet
members before acting.
The western members of congress
were said to maintain that war powers
still retained by the president gave him
authority to declare an embargo such
IS they recommended.
The embargo, as applied to wool,
would include tops, yarns and waste.
In making his announcement, SEN
ltOr Cameron issued q statement in
which he said:
Cameron's Statement.
/ regard this situation as the
most important question that has
confronted the country in years.
More than hundred million
pounds of wool have arrived in
this country since last November,
and in the last sixty days it has
been coming in at the rate of
million pounds a day.
Growers Of other commodities
for which we are asking an en-
barge are facing very much the
same conditions as that of the
wool men. The bankers of the
west have loaned all the money
they can to the cattle and sheep
men and can 60 no further, so
that there is no chance for relief
unless this embargo is Immediate
] yput on. We must act now to
conserve and guarantee the CONT
nuance of these industries which
are absolutely and vitally neces-
sary for the people.