The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-03-28
WILL PREVENT DUMPING
According to Washington advice

| the wool growers ana StOckmen or
the west are going to get early and
substantial relief in the way of leg
islation. President Harding has
been thoroly awakened to the neces-
sity for doing something to save the
wool and livestock industries from
destruction and he now has taken the
leadership, which probably will re-
suit in passing thru congress early in
April special emergency tariff bill
much simpler than the Fordney bill
which passed the last congress and
was vetoed by President Wilson.
There may be a change in the pro-
gram, but special tariff bill is what
now seems most likely.
There is now, as there always has
been, an aversion to imposing an en-
barge on goods from foreign count
ries in time of peace, and President
Harding himself, while aware that he
could impose an embargo on wool
and meats under war law, believes
that the same good can be accom-
plished in another way. Therefore,
he has turned to the idea of passing
thru congress a special emergency
tariff bill which will impose practic-
ally prohibitive duties on wool and
meat products and possibly on three
or four other commodities, and in
that way stop the dumping of cheap
competitive products from abroad.
President Harding, who thoroly
understands the ways in which. con-
gress operates, has said that there
is no reason why congress could not
pass such an emergency bill in forty
eight hours, and II the president
brings to bear the proper pressure
on the leaders of the senate and
house and lays before congress the
true situation of the wool and live
stock men it may be possible to have
such a bill passed within a few days.
1t would be something unprecedented
to have congress pass any sort of a
tariff bill in such short time, but
these are times when the unprece-
denied happens frequently, and EVIL
IDENTIFY President Harding is no more
bound by a regard for tradition than
was his predecessor in the White !
House. The fact that thing had |
never been done before never de-
TERED President Wilson from at
tempting it, and evidently President |
holds the same view.
That a solution of the wool situa-
ton has been found and the found
ton has been laid for quick action
at the coming session of congress is
due almost entirely to the tireless
energy of western senators. These
men worked day and night for at
least two weeks in getting their sub
ject properly before the president,
and the fact that the president and
The cabinet admitted the justice of
their demands after one meeting of
the cabinet is evidence of the thoro-
ness with which they worked up
their case. The fight for the preser-
vation of the wool and livestock in
1ustry Is not yet won, and cannot be
won until the subject is disposed of
BY congress, but the senators who
have taken hold are planning to get
action during the first few days of
the special session, now that the
president has declared that passage
If this tariff bill should be made the
first business of the special session
to the exclusion of everything else.
They are dispelling the idea that the
wool and stock men are seeking
special tariff favors, and are showing
that what they really ask is not
tariff for tariffs sake, but the stop
page of the flow of foreign woods and
foreign meats into the United States
until such time as the new perman-
snt tariff bill can be put into opera
lion. IN other words, what they are
asking and what the president row
seems to favor is the equivalent of
IN embargo which will not be open to
he same International object chs as
IN embargo. Lake Trlbune.