The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1921-04-22
WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER.

WASdlNAIxON NEWS LETTER.
Exclusive to the Pioneer Express)
With the passage of the Young
Emergency Tariff Bill upon Friday,
the day following the opening of the
general debate upon the measure,
the House achieved a record for ac-
tion that has seldom been equalled in
the consideration of legislation of
this kind. The bill is now before the
Senate Finance Committee, and it is
the hope of Senator McCumber and
other friends Of the bill in the COM
mittee that it will be reported to the
Senate for action early this week.
However a number OF, minor changes
yin rates are said to be likely while
the Young bill is before the Finance
Committee and such a course will
necessitate some delay.
When debate upon the bill began
in the House the time was divided to
be equally controlled by Young of
North Dakota, for the Republican
side, and Garner of Texas, upon the
other side Of the aisle. General de-
bate lasted throughout the day on
Thursday and the bill passed the
House late upon Friday.
The Young bill was composite
measure, combining emergency tar
iff legislation for agricultural pro-
ducts, similar in most respects to the
emergency act of the last session,
and an anti-dumping act in the in
terests Of certain home manufac-
lures.
In speaking upon the emergency
character of the duty placed by the
bill upon wheat Congressman Young
said:
"Our friends across the aisle have
never seemed to quite make up their
minds whether a tariff on wheat will
raise the price and make living dear
er or would have absolutely no effect
at all. In every debate we have
ever had upon this subject we have
always had representatives of both
views upon that side of the aisle.
Those of us who come from the
West would rather be considered
selfish than foolish. We entertain
the view that tariff on wheat will
be of distinct value to the wheat
raisers Of the country. If we did
not believe so, we would not ask for
this duty. It ought not to be con-
sidered selfish, however, to ask pro-
tective duties upon farm products,
when other industries to which the
farmers pay tribute, are protected"
"The consideration of a few out
standing facts in respect to wheat, it
seems to me, will completely dissi-
pate the idea that duty on that
commodity is of no value. Up to
the time that wheat was put on the
free list we seldom had term Of
United States court in North Dakota
when there was not some one there
charged with smuggling wheat into
the United States. Men do not take
the risk of being arrested, tried, and
sent to prison for nothing. That
fact ought TO have some significance,
"There are three great continental
railroads in Canada-the Canadian
Pacific, the Grand Trunk, and the
Canadian Northern. Naturally those
roads want to have the dong hauls,
and naturally the Government Of
Canada and the people Of that coun-
try want to see the grain hauled on
those lines east and west, particu.
larry now since large portions Of
those roads are owned by the Gov.
ernment of Canada. In spite Of the
fact that it would be natural 70,
them to stand for long haul on the
east and west Canadian railroads
the wheat has been coming straight
south to the railroads of the United
States, and there has been con.
slant flood of wheat importations
The great bulk Of the western wheat
in Canada has been coming south
over their own transportation lines
II that means anything, it mean.
that we have a better market 70,
wheat here. than Canada can find
either in Canada or abroad, wher
shipped direct from that country
From September I, 1920, to Decem.
Der 81, 1920, 27,So0,0oo bushels Of
wheat were shipped into the United
States for domestic consumption
We notice ct times dippant remariu
in the Newspapers about how thi,
wheat is simply going through the