Evening star., 1921-07-15
RULE
APPLIED TO TARIFF
Debate and Consideration Of
Amendments to Bill Con-
tinued in House.

The House has started on q seven
day stretch to consider amendments
to the tariff bill and debate under
the fve-minute rule. General debate
was finished late last night, after the
! longest of the six days given over to
| unlimited debate.
Schedules open to amendment from
| the floor will be taken up, according
| to announcement Of Chairman Ford
| ney Of the ways and means COM
! mittee. in the following order: Hides.
dyestufrs and dye control. oil, cotton
and asphalt. The committee, which,
| by special rule. Is permitted to offer
| amendments to any paragraph. has
many changes 1t will recommend
mostly. however. it is understood. in
the nature of correction Of errors.
Oil was to the fore In yesterdays 8
discussion, although Representative
Cochran, democrat. New York, made
q two-and-one-half-h attack on
the bill generally. describing 1t as
"a policy of plunder."
Plea for Compromise.
Appeal to President Harding was
made yesterday to withdraw his re-
ported opposition to the PROPOSED
duty on oil. but no definite informa-
tion was forthcoming as to course.
If any. he might take.
Senators Curtis. Kansas. and Har. ar.
reid, Oklahoma, and Representative
Chandler of the latter state. accom-
panied by several producers. caliea
upon the President and suggested
that q compromise might be. reacneo
which would insure adoption OF tne
l. Ir7n
was suggested by the delegation !nat
the bartering provision the president
is understood to have indorsed IN 2
recent letter to Chairman Fofoney
be inserted in the bill to become eI-
fective at the end OF two-year
The oil duty. inserted in the last
moments Of committee deliberation,
had both friend and foe on the moor
during the day. the discussion oeins
led by Representatives Chandler OF
Oklahoma in it's defense and Tread
way of Massachusetts, in opposition.
Both are republican members OF the
committee which drafted the bill.
Charges Propaganda.
Mr.. Chandler charged that attempts
to compel withdrawal of the duty ot
IS cents a barrel on crude ana 20
cents a barrel on fuel oil were trace
BILE directly ITO propagandists for tne
Standard Oll company. A1S oe
also that the Standard was RESPONSE
bic for "the nationwide impression
that there is a shortage Of oil ana
that American oil deposits must be
preserved"
A tarifr, he contended. was necess-
ary to maintain American supremacy
in oil.
Mr.. Treadways opposition was based
on the determination which he said
would result from an oil duty. He de-
cIared it would cost MASSACHUSETTS,
industries $5,OO0.000 a year in extra
manufacturing expenses. while at the
same time there would be an addl-
tlonsl demand for coal throughout
New England. He read a letter from
Gov. Cox of his state. urging defeat
of the proposition and saying thai
New England business men were
unanimous in opposition to 1t.
Cochran DenOunces Bill.
The tariff bill was denounced by
Representative Cochran, democrat.
New York, as "a policy OF plunder
and a declaration of commercial war
fare on the world. He added that IT
was all the more dangerous because
the "plunderers' had enlisted the aid
Of - good man. Mr.. Fordney OF Mich
iSan," in support of it.
you republicans" Mr.. Cochran ex-
claimed, "have gone astray from your
program Of protection. You have en-
tered into a scheme of robbery. You
seek to enrich few favorites."