Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-19
TARIFF
BILL is PROPOSED
FOR NEXT SESSION

! WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Chair-
and means committee, left today for
ST. Augustine. to seek the approval
of President-elect Harding to a plan
to put through at the extra session
of the new congress this spring a
second emergency tariff, to provide
protection for all products of Amer
lean industry.
mind would be designed as stop-gap
until a scientific law could be framed
in the light of after-thewar condi-
tions in the various countries.
Both senate and house today we're
expected to name conference commit
tees which will attempt to/adiust diff
ferences of the two legislative
branches over the emergency tariff
bill in time to send it to President
Wilson. before March 4.
Measure Passed
The tariff measure passed the sem
ate late yesterday after numerous
amendments had been added to it,
The house passed it some time ago.
While final passage of the meas
ure through congress is admitted,
presidential veto is regarded as
which stood 43 to 40, showed that
there is not sufficient strength back
of the bill to pass it over the veto.
Action on the bill, designed and
rushed through the house as an aid
10 the farmer, came after a pro-
tracted session during which four
Republican senators broke away
from their party alignment and two
Of them, Edge, of New Jersey. and
Moses, of New Hampshire, bitterly
assailed the measure and It's he
publican supporters. Likewise. solid
arity of the Democratic ranks could
not be maintain, nine of the mi
nority members being recorded in
favor Of the bill
Roll Call
The roll call follows:
Republicans for: Ball, Borah,
Brandegee. Capperi,, Curtis, E Hndd
ing, Gronna, Hale, Johnson (Califor-
niaj. Jones eva shington), Kellogg
KENYON. La Toilette, Lenroot, Lodge,
Mccormick, McCumber, Mclean: NC
Nary, New, Penrose Phipps Pooin-
dexter, smoot, Spencer W. s terms
sutherlnnd ToTpsend for s4
henderson, Jones, New Mexicol.
Kendrick, Myers, Pittman. Ransdell
and Sheppard Total Democrats
for. 9.
democrats against: Beckham, Dial,
Fletcher, Gerry. Glass, Harris, Aar-
rison' Heflin, Hitchcock. King, Kir-
by, Mcclellan, Overman,. Pomerene'
Simmons. Smith, Georgia; sw sm aon
South Caroline; ST Stanley 1rn SwSRod
W WnGhas, Magsa 1f walsh, Mon,
tana: Williams and Wolcott. Iotal
Democrats against, 26.
Republicans against: Colt, Edge
Reyes and Moses. Total Republic
ans against, 4.
Import Duties :.
As the bill passed the senate st; IL
carried the following import duties:
Wheat, 40 cents per bushel; lax
seed, 80 cents per pusnet; Mn 17sIor romt
corn and maize, Is cents per busheI6;
beans, 2 cents per pound; onions, ~
cents per bushel: rice, cents per
pound; lemons. cents per gallon,
cotton seed, cocoanut and SOFA peali
ellis, 20 cents per gallon: o ca''t eo ner
cent ad valorem; sheep, over l year
old. 50 per head; sheep under L year
81 per head: fresh and frozen meats,
20 per cent ad valorem; long stapIe
cotton Il 3-8 inches), cents per
pound; cotton manufactures, cents
per pound: unwashed wool, 10 cents
Der pound; washed wool, ~ Genus
per pound; secured wool, 40 Genus per
pound; sugar. cent per pound in
addition to the present tariff of l
cent per pound; butter. and substi5;
tutes, s cents per pound; cheese ana
substitutes, % per cent ad Valorem;
fresh milk, cents per gallon fresh
cream. Cents per gallon; condensed
or nreseryed milk, 2 cents per pound,
and sugar of milk, cents per pound.
Mixed wrapper and filler tobacco
if from two or more countries Gun
stemmed5. S2.85 per pound; stemmed,
$3.50 per pound; hides, IS per cent ad
vaiorem; apples, 80 cents per bush
eli; cherries, cents per pound: oilves
in solution, 25 cents per gallon, not
in solution, 25 cents per pound, ana
olives in bulk so cents per gallon.