New Britain herald., 1921-07-07
Ii. 0. ?. TARIFF IS
 BITTERLY ATTACKED
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upon the substitution of the systen of American valuation as a basis fol levying tariff duties.
 Pointing to the rapidly decreas ing American foreign trade the re- port says i've need no tariff to, cu off the imports and the exports ol the United States" Calling atten- tion that the foreign trade of the United States fell from $1,1S8,255, 44s last July to $527,37S,825, the report Isays:
 | Reward For Giving Aid.
 Certainly the natural process is preferable to the infected knife o1 Interested surgeons which by select ing the industries to protect and those to destroy can reap the harv- lest their campaign contributors seeded last fall. Verify the oil men are entitled to their reward, and the lumber men, the wool men, ana all the others who cast their bread on the waters of a republican tide.
 Dealing with the plan for American valuation of imports the reports says
 American Valuation
 First among the subtle covert ln- famies that mask their way through 1 oAAO base for ad valcrem duties from the actual price paid for them when pur- chsed by the importer to speculative, indefinite. uncertain, nebulous opinion reached by an appraiser hidden III the recesses of a custom house, con- lsulting, if he is industrious and cannot be beWildered as to what IS the al- legged wholesale prices of comparable land competitive products of the United States, or in default there of the alleged value in the United States of the identical imported article whether sold or not excluding or 1n- cluding all or any cost, charges, ex- penses, including duties and also profits and commissions; in short per hitting the appraiser to place any value he may see fit on the goods and making it impossible for thu importer to know what duty he will have to pay until he is actually imp 3rted and passed them through the custom house. .-+-
 which this bill necessarily compels as to duties it would be impossible for any importer to continue in business !. and the result of this provision will be destruction of import trade of the United States.
 Another effect of American valua- tion system, the report contends is , tthat the same duty will be imposed i, upon the intelligent high cost pro- f duction of Canada that we are to i'm pose upon the coolie labor of India China and Japan
 Commercial War
 I Asserting that it is proposed by this . bill ito declare a savage commercial !, war upon the whole human family the democratic minority says it is . doubtful eff in the history of politica affairs a measure so irredeemably and ! universally vicious has ever beer submitted to the law making power of a civilized society"
 Its adoption" the report goes or to say twill be established by the United States of an economic boycott against the civilized world The coun- tries that fought with us in the late war will be victims of it's savagery ir exactly the same degree as those who fought against us, while at the same time it will oppress grievously our own people; who would indeed sbe \ it's chief victims were it not that nations reduced to extremity of distress through the most disastrous war ever
 
 from it's operations because all efforts to restore their industrial life to nor nal conditions will be grievously i'm peded, if not wholly frustrated by the drastic restrictions on trade which | it imposes
 Charging that the bill was pre- pared outside of the ways and means committee, the minority reports says 1.-the manner of it's making up "cannot be defended"
 Intrigue and Trickery
 Its last minute changes whispered to a favored few'' the report contin- ues, ''are in keeping with the intrigue secrecy and jobbery which inspired it's covert subleties, it's concealed in- direction, framed its newly invented schedules; cast it's complex and com . pound rates, and fixed it's unascertain- able and inca1culable duties, with the trickery which has transformed . schedules, hidden jokers, transplantee items, changed it's nomenclature ane made it impossible to compare it witt . any of it's predecessors.
 : Cunning has made difficult if no r impossible comparison by printin, , | it +, deadly parallel with previou 2 law. This conspiracy has requires since last December or six months, t . hatch its montrosity."
 The democrats say in their repor that they vainly sought to have tn committee refer the bill to the treasur deparment win view to obtaining in formation as to the probable amour of revenue to be derived as well as tn economic effect upon the country They also say that they sought to ob tain action through the committe from which the rates and classifica tions in the bill might be compare with the Underwood and PayneAl drich laws. Tt seems the report say that he majority prefer not to giv information to the house touching tn