The Colorado statesman., 1921-07-09

tartff bill will meet these conditions
or not Will depend entirely upon the
developments of the future, but n
bill with the intent noted in view Is
the kind of bill that probably viii
be enacted.
Tie dye, metal, wool and lumber
schedules are the ones which have
caused the greater controversies and
which are responsible mainly for the
delay in getting the legislation under
way.
Lumber Producers Don't Agree.
Seemingly the lumber producing sec
tlons of the country are divided on the
question of the duty on the finished
products of lumber. The ways and
means committee by majority vote
decided to put duty Of % per cent
ad valorum on finished lumber. The
vote was taken in the committee ana
this duty carried. Instantly there was
trouble.
The northwestern sections Of the
country seem to he opposed TO this
% per cent duty, while in some OF the
other sections of the country 1t Is
claimed the duty is favored by lumber
men. At this writing 1t Is not known
definitely just what the outcome VIII
| be, but attempts are being made TO
get the committee to reconsider lts
action and to remove the duty. There
will be n fight In the house over this
schedule Of the bill, no matter what
the committee may report.
/ The wool schedule continues 10
create dissension. As somebody has
nut II. wool is always a breeder of the
''tlck of trouble" The particular anti
dote for tick which the Agricultural
department recommends to all shep-
herds seemingly cannot be OF service
in the present case. So far as con-
gress is concerned, wool always has
contained an itching irritant.
The original draft of the schedule
as prepared by the subcommittee this
year has been abandoned. Opposi-
ton developed TO it among some OF
the majority members of the com
mittee. So it is today that the com
mittee has been compelled to ask the
tariff commission for information on
which 1t can redraft. if it wants to,
the provisions of the wool schedule.
OVC lnuuoAiJ ~ "
The metal and dye industries are
deeply interested in the present tariff
measure 1t is said that the determi-
nation of the majority In congress Is
TO see to II that a dye industry shall
he built up which will make the
United States independent of other
countries in dye products in the fu-
ture.
The war produced an argument in
favor of shutting out dyes by means
of high tariff. The dye industry OF
Germany was responsible scientifically
for the Germans great advance In
some of the material of warfare, ex-
plosives, gas and other things. The
argument is being advanced that here
after the United States must be able
TO produce its own from weil-estaO-
lished Industries and not be compelled
to wait on experiment and on the
building of factories In case war
should come.
There is opposition, of course, TO
the dye proposition as 1t is likely TO
ba scr forth In the tariff bill, the argu-
mont being that monopoly will be
created.
War Grafters to Be Hunted Down.
The attorney generals office has
announced that there will be an IN
yestipation of war protiteerlng on the
government. that it intends to make
the inquiry thorough and to bring
punishment down on the guilty.
The attorney general in connection
with this matter, has said: The gov
ernment is not going after the llttle
fellows. We can afford to throw the
minnows back and let them start over
ornin. 1t is the big fellows that we
are after and expect to get"
No one, of course, can tell whether
the investigation will result in disclos-
ing proofs of guilt and in the conVlc-
tion of the guilty. 1t is sald that
about only one government investiga-
tion in five ever produces real results
but this in a general way may be put
down TO the fact that the government
especially the congressional part of it,
has the investigating habit fixed, and
is given to ordering inquiries into TINS
matter and the other matter without
much regard to the strength OF the
initial facts in the case.
Others Who Are More Despicaple.
The grafters on the government DUR
ing the war were high scale robbers.
hut. as the expression goes, they were
not i'm 1t in meanness with the profi-
teers who preyed directly on the peo-
ple. all ] particularly on men who were
going to give up good paying places
to enter one or the other of the armed
eor,-icaS of the country.
There are some thousands of ex-
soldiers who would hold jubilation
nc hearty as the one which followed
Tho ormistice If some of the cheap
criminals who grated on them woulo