New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-11
Administration
Insists EMBARGO
OnDyesRenaiin
Senators Warned America
Must Not Be Only Nation
Unprotected When Con-
ference Opens Sessions
Harding Applies Pressure
Tariff Called Futile as Bar
Against German Supplies
Waiting to Flood Country
By Carter Field

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1o.-The Har-
ding Administration in the next few
days will line up squarely for the
continuance of the dye embargo. The
Administration is alarmed at the pros
pect of Congress removing the embargo
on the eve of the armament Limitation
conference, thus making the United
States the only nation at the meeting
which has not made ironclad arrange
ments to protect it's potential gas and
explosive factories from German COM
petition.
formed, on unimpeachable author;tv 1l
that President Harding will take a
hand in behalf of the embargo. which
has been losing in the battle on Cap
ltol Hill. In fact, it is generally ad
mltted and has been fatty stated by
many observers that the EMBARGO is
dead To-day's news, however. that
President Harding will act to pre-
serve the ban changes the picture, and
the prospects tonight are again very
bright for the continuance Of the
barrier.
Weeks and DENLY Help Harding
Secretary of War Weeks and Secre-
tary OF the Navy DENLY last week came
OUT IN favor of the embargo in letters
70 Senator Penrose, chairman Of the
Finance Committee, which is consider
ing the proposal as one of the provi-
sions of the tariff bill, and which has
been holding hearings for more than a
week on the subject.
These letters, however, did not ac-
nj j,
there has been little evidence of a
change of sentiment either in the
Finance Committee or in the Senate
FOLLOWING up the appeal Secretary
| Weeks to-day wrote strong letters in
dorslng the plan to Senator Wadsworth,
as chairman of the Senate MILITARY
Committee, and Chairman julius Kahn
of the House Military Committee.
This is one of the moves of the
eleventh hour drive of the Admnistra-
tion to make sure that there will be
American dye plants to make gas and
explosives for the army and navy in
| the event of war. 1t is an eleventh.
| hour move because the House of Rep
resentatives has already voted on the
proposition and turned it down cold,
while 1T was to be strangled to death
! in the Senate. Even to-day, before they
learned of the Presidents intentions.
Senators who usually are accurate in
their estimates of the strength of meas
ures declared that the dye embargo did
not have a chance.
So the task confronting the President
! is not only to win enough Senators now
opposed to the embargo for one rea-
son or another TO make a majority in
the upper house, but he must bring
enough light or pressure according to
whether the person using the word is
! forward looking or practicable bear
or the House to induce that body to
change its attitude.
The Administration, however, feels
strongly on the situation, and many
important advisers OF the President
are convinced that the embargo is the
/ only plan by which the American dye
| industry can be preserved.
Huge Stocks Ready in Germany
A Cabinet member told The Tribune
correspondent to-day that the Admin
istration had information to the ef-
feet tn at the German dye interests had
supplies piled up in their ports ready
to ship TO America the moment the
embargo expires, which would simply
swamp the market in the United States
and make it impossible for any Ameri-
can dye manufacturer to do business.
The embargo expires by Law on Au-
gust 81, unless it is extended by act
Of Congress. The British, French and
Italian governments have protected
their own dye interests by cmbargoes,
and the japanese BY What amounts TO
the same thing.
The Administration does not believe
the tariff duties, no matter how high,
will meet the problem, for it is thought
that the German dye interests, backcd
by their government, will be willing to
take any reasonable amount Of losses
for time in order to put the Amer-
can manufacturers out of business and
obtain monopoly in this field.
The British, French Italian and Jap
ancae governments have seen this, it
was pointed out, and have placed pro
hibitivr wallis around their own dye
interests, not primarily TO protect un
industry ji the ordinary sense, but on
account Of the fact that dye factories
are the experimental laboratories in
which many explosives and gases are
made, and are capable Of being imme-
| dialciy convertible, in the event OF
| war, into factories for munitions and
poisonous Hascs.
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