Albuquerque morning journal., 1921-07-12
TARIFF MEASURE
IS CRITICISED
AND PRAISED IN
SENATE DEBATE
Collier, Democrat, Says
ordney Permitted the
Committee to Hear Only
One Side of the Case,
DEMANDED FREE SUGAR;
GET FREE JOSS STICKS
American LeeCheS' Have
Been Hanging Around
For Months Asking For
High Rates. He Declares


Washington, July 1.-THE Ford.
ney tariff bill was alternately con-
demned and praised in a siX-houR
session Of the house today. In a
speech which drew repeated re-
joinders from republicans, Repre-
sentative Collier, Of Mississippi,
Democratic member of the ways
and means committee, charged
that Chairman Fordney had per-
mitted the committees to hear only
one side of the case in framing the
measure.
Mr.. Collier said the American
people had asked for duty FREQ
ment and they got lava and skele-
tons; that they asked for free
sugar and got Chinese joss sticr.
Declares Rates Are High.
This Fordney bill has put
rates so high" he said, that
the people will suffer depriva-
in without duty. American
leeches have been hanging
around the ways and means
committee for months asking
for rates so high that they
would draw the very life blood
of the people and l fail to see
the logic of letting in other
leeches without being taxed
upon their American valua-
ton"
The republican speakers includ-
ed Representatives Wur2bach of
Texas, who challenged the demo-
cratic members OF his state delega-
ton to vote for a bill. which, he
said, would help their people as
much as those of any other seq
ton.
Dye Embargo Provision.
Representative Frear of Wis
consin, the only republican mem
Der of the committee which drafted
the bill who has not lined up with
the majority, centered fire on the
dye embargo provisions, and ass
sailed Francis p. Garven, former
alien property custodian. for the
methods he is alleged to have used
in disposing of German dye pat
ents.
Mr.. Garven, Mr.. Frear charged,
had not gbeyed the laws Of his
country in the sale or the patents
and has violated international laws
as we'll. Mr.. Frear asserted lie
would ask the dye provisions be
voted out of the measure.
Razors, knives. needles and
parts Of watches succeeded to-
day the old straw hat as eX-
hibits.
Representative Tilson of Connec-
ticut, a republican member OF the
ways and means committee. de-
clared that all these articles were
American made articles which
would feel most keenly any effect
OF a German drive.
Comedy" Says Collier.
Mr.. Tilson's argument was de-
scribed by Representative Collier as
a continuation of the comedy
which he said marked the hearings
held by the committee prior to the
drafting of the bill. He charged
that Chairman Fordney was willing
to listen to testimony only If the
witness wanted tariff wall as high
as it could be built.
Mr.. Collier declared that In put
ting steel rails on the dutiable list,
the republicans were paving the
way lOG higher lIfl5 III loeCSi SAAiSS
all the increase in cost must be
borne by the railroads.
Additional Cost of Steel.
The additional cost of steel,
both for the railroads and for
structural operations, he added,
will find its way eventually into
the Golfers of "the steel trust."
which he described as the heaviest
contributor to the last republican
campaign fund.
The Mississippi member also at
tackled what he called the calcium
carbide trust which. he asserted.
would benefit to the extent OF
$2.500,000 annually while The
treasury will receive only fey
dollars in revenue because or the
small import.
"What a staggering pri~s
the American people are pay
ing" exclaimed Mr.. Collier,
"to reimburse the great corpo-
rations for the immense sums
contributed to the campaign
of the republicans last fall"