The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-07
DEMOCRATS
NOT ALLOWED
TO LOOK 1T OVER
So That Now There Is Not
Sufficient Time to Draft
a Substitute Measure,
Declare Republicans
Plan a Campaign of
Plundering

Washington, D. c., July Demo
cratic members of the ways and mean'
committee in minority report filec
to-day in the House of Representatives
denounced the administration tariff
bill as a Conspiracy to benefit few
favorites at the expense of all hui
manity."
Like every conspiracy it has beer
handled in secret" the report says
adding:
1--WE record our solemn Judgment
that this measure is plan to plum
der the people of our own country and
to oppose the people of every country
for the benefit of a few men who have
succeeded in usurping for all practical
purposes the taxing power of the gov
ernment, using it primarily to enrich
themselves and, secondarily, to finance
the political party which tolerates, en-
courages and facilitates the usurpad-
en-"
The report declares the tariff was
not an issue in the last campaign and
that this is not the time TO write a
tariff law. They assert that the prob
lens which confront our people, Grip
pie our industry, stifle our commerce
and perplex an amiable administration
have nothing TO do with the tariff"
Critieising the Republican majority
of the committee for Withholding the
bill from them and from the House
members and for permitting only a
week for its study, the Democratic
members declare there has been insuf
fcent time to draft substitute. They
do not undertake any detailed discus
sion of the schedule, confining their
27page typewritten report to a gen
eral indictment of the whole measure
and the manner of its preparation,
Emphasis is laid upon two things
the probable effect of the bill on Amer
lean commerce and the world indus
trial situation generally, and upon the
substitution of the system OF Ameri-
can valuation as basis for leyying
tariff duties.
Pointing to the rapidly decreasing
American foreign trade, the report
says;
I'VE need no tariff to cht of the i'm
ports and the exports of the United
States
Calling attention that the foreign
trade Of the United States fell from
Sl.lSs.255,449 last July to 1927 .37S,. |
S25. in May. 1921, the report says:
Certainly the natural process is /
preferable to the infected knife of in
terested surgeons which by selecting
the Industries to protect and those to /
. H. k.. hnfr
campaign contributions needed last
fall. Verify, the oil men are entitled |
to their reap, and the umbermen, the |
wooden and all the others who cast
their bread on the waters Of a Repub |
lican tide"
Charging that the bill was prepared
outside Of the ways and means com
mittee. the minority report saws the |
manner Of its making up cannot be
defended"
ats last minute changes whispered |
70 a favored few" the report contin-
ued. "are in keeping with the intrigue,
secrecy and iohbery which inspired It's
covert subtleties, its concealed indi /
rection; framed its newly invented /
schedules; cast its complex and com
pound rates. and fixed it, unascertain /
able and incalculablc duties, with the /
trickerv which has transformed sched /
ules. hidden iokers. transplanted items,
changed its nomenclature and made il 4
impossible to compare it with any of
its predecessors.
Cunning has made difficult. il not /
impossible. a comparison by printing /
Il in deadly parailrl with previous 4
law. This conspiracy has required
since last December, or six months, TO
shade its montrosities."