Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-18
SENATE REPORTS TARIFF.
Fordney Measure Approved With Many
Amendments,


Washington, January 15.-The Ford
ney emergency tariff bill broadened to
include practically all farm products
instead of the limited number in the
measure as it passed the house, was
approved today by the senate finance
committee which voted to report it to
the senate Monday.
Seven amendments were added to
the bill in today's sessic..,. making
total Of ten which have been tackled on
by the committee. No provisions OF the
original bill, however, were removed,
and rates on the major products, car
ricd by the house bill, were left intact.
Opponents Of the bill in the commit
tee Joined with the authors of amend
ments and forced the acceptance of
them despite opposition from the bill
defenders. There was no record vote.
II was said that the Democrats IN the
committee with the exception Of Sena-
tors Nugent Of Idaho and Jones Of New
Mexico, stood against reporting the Dill.
The amendments finally were made
n part Of the measure.
There was no attempt to change the
life Of the bills provisions and little de-
bate took place relative to whether ten
months would be sufficiently long Pc
riod for application Of the lazy. Sever
al Republican senators, in. anticipation
Of argument on this phase Of the meas
ure, were said to have explained that
the permanent tariff bill, how under
consideration by the house ways and
Smcans committee, would be whipped
into shape before the expiration Of the
emergency law and that the latter
would be automatically repealed.
Action of the senate committee in ac-
ceDting today an amendment to the
tariff bill which would provide protec-
ton for long staple cotton down to one
and one-eighth inches in length, it,
was explained tonight, means that all
classes of long staple cotton would be
accorded protection. Gplands and long
staple cotton would thereby be specif1-
cally included, meaning the addition Of
thousands Of bales of cotton annually
to protection. -
Amendments accepted today includ-
cd: Sugar $213 per hundred pounds,
until the retail price reaches 10 cents
a pound; frozen meats Of all kinds,
cents pound; all other meats 25 per
cent ad valorem; apples, 20 cents
box; cherries, cents a pound; topac-
co, Sumatra wrappers and filters, S2.85
per pound; stemmcd Sumatra, S3.5U per
pound; butter and cheese and their
substitutes, cents pound, instead Of
4 cents. provided in an amendment ac-
ccpted yesterday.
The length of long staple cotton on
which the tariff will be effective and
reduced from 3-S inches to is inch
es, the duty remaining at Z cents q
pound as the bill passed the house.
Cattle and sheep to be used for
breeding purposes We're exempted from
the duty on imported animals.
Rice 10 be used in manufacture Of
canned goods was exempted from the
tariff of > cents i pound levied in the
house bills.
Amendments of several opponents OF
the bill tn load it down with amend
mcnts dealing with extraneous subjects
were unsuccessful. Members of the
committee said, however, they under
stood it was the plan of some senators
TO reintroduce their amendments when
the measure was taken up in the sem
ate.
Among those which the committee
refused to accept were the bill recodi- =,
flying tho Federal laws, the reclamation
bill. the soldiers bonus and the COM
mittee draft of the proposed new i'm
migration laws
The bill will be reported sin the form
it is to be defeated said Senator
Smoot, Republican,, Utah. He said that
about everything everybody asked for
was put in" Several other supporters
OF the measure also expressed dissatis-
faction with the results of the commit
tees work. y
In its tariff revision hearings today
the house ways and means committee
took UP schedule D Of the Underwood
act comprising wood and wood pro-
duets.
dent of the Southern Tariff association,
asked the committee for a rate Of Is
per cent ad valorem on imported lum-
ber, saying that such Il tariff would
yield SG.OOO.O00 annually in revenue and
would not increase the lumber cost to
American consumers.