Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-12
CLAIMS PEOPLE
WILL SUFFER #
TARIFF ADOPTED.
Mississippi Democrat Says
Measure Would Reimburse
Campaign Contributors
HIGH RATES ATTACKED
F ordney Accused of Hearing
Only One Side of Question
Before Framing Bill

WASHINGTON, July II. = The
Fordney tariff bill was alternately
condemned and praised in six hour
session of the house today In
speech which drew repeated reioin-
ders from Republicans, Representa-
tive Collier, of Mississippi. a Demo
cratic membr of the ways and means
committee, charged that Chairman
Fordney. had permitted the commit
tees to hear only one side of the case
in framing the measure.
Collier said the American people
had asked for duty free meat and
they got lava and skeletons; that
they asked for free sugar and got
Chinese joss sticks.
This Fordney bill has put rates so
high" he said, that the people will
suffer deprivation. The bill lets
leeches in without duty, American
leeches have been hanging around the
ways and means committee for
months asking for rates so high that
they would draw the very life blood
of the people and I fail to see the
logic of letting in other leeches with
out being taxed upon their American
valuation"
The Republican speakers included
Representative WurZbach, of Texas,
who challenged the Democratic mem
bers OF his state delegation to vote
for bill. which, he said, would help
their people as much as those of any
other section.
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the only Republican member of the
committee which drafted the bill who
has not lined up with the majority,
centered a fire on the dye embargo
provisions, and assailed Francis p.
Garvan, former alien property custo-
dian. for the methods he is alleged
to have used in disposing of German
dye patents.
Garvan, Frear charged, had not
obeyed the laws of his country in the
sale of the patents and had violated
international laws as well, Frear as
serted that he would ask the dye pro-
visions be voted out of the BILL
Knives, needles, and parts of watches
succeeded today the old straw hat as
exhibits.
Representative Tilson, of Connect
icut, Republican member of the
ways and means committee, declared
that all these articles were. American
made articles which would feel most
keenly any effect of a German drive.
Tilson's argument was described by
Representative Collier as continual
tion of the comedy" which. he said.
marked the hearings held by the COM
mittee prior to the drafting of the
bill He charged that Chairman Ford
ney was willing to listen to the testi-
mony only if the witness wanted a
tariff wall as high as it could be built.
Means Higher Freight
Collier declared that in putting
steel rails on the dutiable Inst, the
Republicans were paving the way for
higher rates. since all the>increase in
cost must be borne by the railroads.
The additional cost of steel both for
the railroads and structural opera
tions. he added. will find its way
eventually into the Golfers of "the
steel trust" which, he described as
the heaviest contributor to the last
Republican campaign fund.
The Mississippi member also at
tackled what he called the calcium
carbide trust which, he asserted,
would benefit to the extent of S2,500,-
600 annually while the treasury will
receive only few dollars in revenue
because of the small import.
What staggering price the
American people are paying" eX-
claimed Collier. ito reimburse the
great corporations for the immense
sums contributed to the campaign of
the Republicans last fall"