The Washington herald., 1921-04-02
G.0.P.LEADERS
FAIL TO AGREE
ON TARIFF BILL
House and Senate Divided
On Manner of Putting
Measure Through.
f. PENROSE SUGGESTS
COMBINATION LAW
Committee Gets Figures
On Wages Paid in Ger
man Industry. !.

New difficulties are developing in
connection with the program Of
Republican Senate and House lead
ers for emergency tariff legislation.
The Senate and House Republic
ans have failed TO reach an agree
ment on the manner in which the
three emergency measures. the
agricultural emergency tariff bill.
the Americfn valuation bill and the
sntidumping bill. shall be handled.
Following the refusal Of Chair
man Fordney Of the House Ways
and Means Committee to combine
the three measures in one, Senator
Penrose. chairman Of the Senate FL
nance Committee. stated yesterday
that regardless of what the House
does the Senate will put them to-
gether.
Under this program the Heuss
woui1 pass the three bills indepen-
IDENTIFY and the Senate Finance Com
mittee would add the anti-dumping
and valuation bills to the emergen-
cy tariff and report a single measure
TO the Senate.
Urges Combined Bill.
According to Senator Penrose the
prospects of the passage of the
emergency tariff bill will be better
If the three bills are combined.
Supporters of the American valua-
tion bill who are Iukewarm on .
farm tariff would support the COM
biaed measure.
Some of the House Republicans
insist that the measure which Is
most likely toscneountsr difficulties
is the American valuxti6n bill. 1t
~ their opinfsn that By addiEt THIS
yJiil to the ernersencS kariH " might
mean the defeat Of both
Although conditions are chaotic
and statistics relative to differences
in the cost of production are only
guesses as applied TO the future the
House Ways an d1Ieans Committee
has been furnished with a mass of
Dor costs in foreign countries.
Low wages paid in Germany form
one of the chief reasons for the
demand of many classes of manu-
facturers for increased tariff pro-
lection
wages Arc Lower.
Figures presented to the COM
ufttse by different countries tend
TO show that. while wages in Ger
many have increased since the pre-
war period. yet the increase in Ger
man marks has not been as great
as the decrease in the value OF
the mark in American dollar cur
rency-
AS an illustration Of this Amer
lean glove manufacturers declare
that, while before the war labor
costs in Germany were about one
fourth of what they were in the
United States. they amount now to
only from one-twelfth to one-fif-
teenth of the American average.
The glove manufacturers have
presented figures showing that the
labor in the manufacture of a doz-
en- sueded cotton gloves in this
country costs s2-o3. as against 1902
cents in Germany. The total cost
of the gloves. including materials,
in this country, amounts to $5.53
per dozen as against S2.2s in Ger
many.
skilled Labor Cheap.
The manner in which wages in
this particular industry have in
creased in Germany is indicated by
the fact that girls employed In glove
factories before the war receiving
Is marks per week are now getting
$50 marks week. Computing these
wages in American currency at the
prevailing rates of exchange before
the war and at the present time the
wages which formerly amounted to
s3.75 per week have been increased
only to s4.12 per week. Wages of a
higher grade of labor in the glove
factories In Germany. which before
the war were "a marks, or ys a
week, have been increased to $50
marks. which. on the present basis
of exchange. represents an actual
reduction OF s5-ss per week.
Chemical manufacturers have pre-
sented similar figures showing that
wages in Germany on TIE basis Of
present exchange values are rela-
lively lower In comparison with tho
United States than before the war.
Figures Of the Royal Baking Pow
der Company OF New York relative
to the manufacture of cream Of tar
tar and tartaric acid show that while
labor costs in this country have
tripled during the period from 1919
to the present time the German
wages figured on the present ex-