Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-03-19
Popular City Comptroller Talked of to
Succeed Thompson as Mayor-Boom
Latter for i. S. Senator
Harding Considered the Strongest Man in the
City Hall Combine to Make at
Mayoralty Election

pOSal and they want to give the per
manent tariff priority over the tax
bills On the legislative calendar.
Want to Save Time.
They argue that it will take nearly
as long to pass a temporary tariff
bill as a permanent one, and that time
will be saved by discarding the emer-
gency plan and taking up the per-
nanent measure at once. The wis
dom of President Harding's plan. to
restore the Payne-Aldrich duties is al
SO doubted.
Many contend that the idea is
neither feasible nor practicable, as the
Payne-Aldrich schedules can never be
made applicable to the present situa-
ton, for which, they declare, an en-
tirely new bill must be drafted. A
sharp division exists On this point,
but both factions agree that the revi-
sion of the old schedules as suggested
by the President will consume as much
time as the writing of a permanent
bill would take.
The ideas of the senate and house
leaders On the legislative program
were laid before the President by
Senator PenrOse of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the senate finance COM
mittee, and Representative Fordney of
Michigan, chairman of the house ways
and means committee.
The President, it was learned, with
held his consent to the plan for the
| abandonment of the emergency tariff,
although he approved the proposed
| anti-dumping act and the change in
the method of imposing import duties.
His insiStence on a temporary tariff,
| it was revealed, is due to the strong
| pressure coming from the farmers,
who claim that nothing else short of
an immediate tariff will save them
from complete ruin.
The position of the President was
strengthened when a delegation Of
western senators and representatives
called at the White House to urge an
embargo on wool to shut off the M
ports from Australia and New Zealand
which are depressing the American
| market. The President gave the de-
| legation a sympathetic hearing, and
| informed them that he would ask Sc
cretary of Agriculture Wallace to
| work out solution of the problem.
Emergency Measure Hopeless.
In their desire for harmony, Iegis-
| lative leaders would be willing to ac-
cept the Presidents plan, but their
| experiences with the emergency tariff
| at the last session have convinced
! them, with a few exceptions that it
would be a waste of time to introduce
| similar measure in the coming ses-
sion. 1t is virtually hopeless, they
| declare, to think that temporary bill
confined solely to principal agricul-
tural products can be put through, be-
cause of the varied interests repre-
| sented in the senate who insist that
protection for them is just as essen
| tial.
| Senator Penrose said that with a.
"disciplined" majority behind it. an
emergency tariff bill might be put
| through as the President wishes. but
| that he doubted if various senators
| could be induced to Submerge their
| demands for tariff on other COM
| modities until a permanent measure
| is drafted. A decision in the contrO-
| versy is expected sometime this week,