New-York tribune., 1921-09-23
Tariff Adoption
May Be Delayed
Till Next April
Recommendations ON Amer
lean Valuation Plan Won't
Be Ready for 90 Days,
Reynolds Tells Penrose
To Extend Dye Embargo
Emergency Agriculture
Schedule Also To Be Kept
i'm Force, 1t Is Understood

rom lhe Ir1onne's WASHINGTON Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-Protract.
ed delay in the passage of the tariff bill
became certainty to-day. Following
meeting of the Senate Finance Com
mittce Republicans it became clear the
tariff measure will not become Law
until late the coming winter. 1t may
even be delayed antil March or April
For days it has been rumored the
tariff measure would be held back until
after the arms limitation conference
While no formal decision has been
reached to delay it until after the con-
ference it is making such slow prog
ress that it is entirely possible the
conference will be ended before it is
law.
Chairman Penrose and other Finance
Committee Republicans conferred with
j. B. Reynolds, former Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury in charge of Gus
toms, who has been designated by Sec
retary Mellon to mobilize the corps of
Treasury experts who are to make a
report on values under the American
valuation plan.
Mr.. Reynolds has been in touch with
customs administrative officials of New
York, from whom large part of the
needed information must be obtained
Mr.. Reynolds told the Finance Commit
tee what he had done and what would
have to be done, and gave it as his
opinion that report could be made in
sixty days.
Senator Penrose said this would be
in ample time to be available for the
Finance Committee in order to be used
in shaping the rates of the bill. Inas-
much as sixty days hence will be we'll
toward the end of November, it is now
the belief that the Finance Committee
either will not report the bill in the ex-
ira session or will not report it in time
in the extra session. Under the cir
cumstances it will be manifestly i'm
possible to get the bill enacted before
the holiday recess of Congress. Its en-
actment will go over until after the
new year begins, and then it is antici-
pated there will be delays which will
prevent it being passed finally before
the regular session is we'll advanced.
Senator Penrose denied there was
any concerted purpose indefinitely tc
delay the bill or put it to sleep"
The Finance Committee Republicans
decided to leave it to Chairman Pen
rose to decide when and how to con-
tinue the hearings on the bill. Sena-
tor Penrose said there were many diff
ficulties in the way, inasmuch as nearly
all the members of the Finance Commit.
tee wanted to be on the floor while the
tax bill was under discussion, and it
was not easy to arrange hearings by
subcommittee, since in the case of
many schedules all of the committee
wanted to be present.
Talk that there will be no tariff law
enacted before the middle of January
and probably later than that became
general about the Senate among Sena-
tors who are in touch with the Finance
Committee to-day. 1t is the expectation
the emergency agricultural rates and
the dye embargo will be extended to
meet the situation later on. They ex-
pire November 81.
Strong protest against the prospec-
tive delay in tariff legislation is ex-
pected from manufacturers Western
agricultural members said they could
afford to let the bill wait, since they
had the emergency agricultural rates
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