The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-30
TARIFF RATE
RANGE IS TO
20 Per CENT
Unofficial Estimate Reported
by Fordney-Hardlng In
sists Taxes and Duty
Schedule Have Precedence.
PRESIDENT TAKES HAND
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age rate of duty in the administra-
tons permanent tariff bill introduced
yesterday in the house will range be-
tween Is and 90 per cent, according
to unofficial estimates as compared
with 1885 in the Payne-Aldrich, Chair
man Fordney of the ways and means
committee declared today. The Under
wood average he added was six per
cent and the Dingley average 2612 per
cent.
But when we are able to work out
accurate the correct figures it will be
found that the new bill will run
slightly below the Payne -Aldrich mea-
sure" Mr.. Fordney said
Under a change of plans today the
measure will not be considered by the
full committee until Wednesday, after
house members have returned from
the holiday over the Fourth of July.
1t will be reported that day. Demo
cratic members of the committee al
ready are at work on a minority
report in the hope Of submitting it
along with the majority views.
Harding is Firm
President Harding is said to have
taken a firm stand today during a
conference with house leaders that no
Legislation should be attempted that
should delay enactment of the tariff
and revenue bills. The President was
said to be keenly solicitous that both
the senate and house give priority to
those two measures and expedite ac-
ton on them.
Those calling at the White House
were Representatives Mondell, of Wy
oming, Republican leader; Charles
Siegel, of the house census commit
tee, and Representative Newton, Re
publican, Minnesota,
Reapportionment OF representation
in congress on the basis of the 1920
census was discussed and the execu-
tive was said to have expressed no
opposition to the passage of a reap
| portionment bill, provided it would
not interfere with the tariff of reve-
nue. legislation.
| Action July IL
| After the conference the house cen
| sus committee decided to report a re-
| apportionment bill for action at this
| session, but agreed not to determine
| the proposed size of the house until
\ July IA.
! Examine Bill
| Most Democratic members of the
| house after running through the tariff
! bill to determine how its schedules af-
| fected their sections turned to the
wool schedule particularly to see how
! its rules compared with the famous
schedule K of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
act of 1909, which caused such a bit
/ ter fight. just how these rates com
pare is expected to prove the subject
of an unending controversy
Members studying the measure
found that generally rates proposed
were in many cases lower than CORE
! spending rates in the Payne-Aldrich
law, while others were corresponding
| ly higher. Many were of the opinion
however, that only a detailed study OF
! the bill by tariff experts would pro
vide the basis for an estimate OF com.
/ parison between it and the Payne-Al.
drich measure, as the schedules OF
| the new bill were in many cases diff.
ferently constructed
Free List Changed
| Compared with the Underwood bill
which superseded the Payne-Aldrich
| law in 1913, during the Wilson admin.
lstratiOn, the new measure showed in
creases in the great bulk of imports
already being taxed and decreases In
some cases. The free list contained
169 para graphs under which many kin
dred articles were grouped in many
cases, but many imports, particularly
of agricultural products, were remov
ed from the free lists as contained in
the Underwood law.
Some articles which were on the
free list of the Payne-Aldrich bill. not
able crude oil and fuel oil, also were
placed on the dutiable list the duty or
crude oil being 35 cents a barrel of s.
gallons and on fuel oil 20 cents a bar
, rel of the same content Such oil.
were continued on the free list by the
Underwood law
Estimate of Return
The bill was introduced without ac
companying explanatory statements
heretofore customary and it contained
no index. Members of the ways ant
means committee made no official es
innate of the amount of the revenu,
it is expected to return, but some o
them in unofficial estimates PLACED
the total as high as seven hundred
million dollars as against the thre,
hundred million dollars produced b,
the Payne-Aldrich law in the norma
pre-war years.
, Chairman Fordney has announces
that he expects the house to pass th,
; bill by July 20. but Chairman Penros,
, of the senate finance committee. ha.
estimated that two months will be re
quired for consideration by his com
mittee. A Democratic fight in tn
; senate is expected with extended dc
bate as a result and leaders were yer
turing no predictions as to the prob
able date on which the measure wouI
ho cant IN he Write