New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
Senate Finance
Chiefs Approve
Tariff Measure
Make Ten Amendments to
House Emergency Bill,
Which Will Be Reported
Monday for Final Action
Much Opposition to Draft
Smoot Predicts Its Defeat;
High Rates Are Fixed on
Dairy Products and Sugar

w AS'AIAlANNl YIN, Jau. 1O.--WlCn ten
amendments added, the House emer-
gency tariff bill was approved to-day
by the Senate Finance Committee. 1t
will be reported to the Senate Monday.
There was no record vote on any of
the seven amendments which were
added to the bill in to-days meeting,
although Senator Simmons, Democrat,
North Carolina, said the Democrats
generally had voted against every
thing" One Of the amendments agreed
to yesterday, that placing duty on
certain dairy products, was changed to-
day, a higher rate being accepted.
Amendments accepted to-day in
cluded:
Sugar, $2.13 hundred pounds until
the retail price reaches ten cents a
pound.
Frozen meats of all kinds, two cents
a pound; all other meats, % per cent
ad valorem.
Apples, 20 cents box; cherries, four
cents pound.
Tobacco, Sumatra, wrappers and fill
ers, $2.85 pound; stemmed Sumatra,
$3.50 pound.
tutes, eight cents a pound, instead of
six cents, provided in an amendment
accepted yesterday.
House Cotton Figure Unhanged
The length Of long staple cotton on
which the tariff will be effective was
reduced from 1as inches to rs inches,
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pound as the bill passed the House.
Cattle and sheep to be used for
breeding purposs we're exempted from
the duty on imported animals.
Rice to be used in the manufacture
OF canned goods was excepted from the
tariff Of two cents pound levied in
the House bill.
Attempts OF. several opponents of the
bill to load it down with amendments
dealing with eXtraneous subjects were
unsuccessful. Members of the commit
tee, however, said they understood it
was the plan of some Senators to re-
Introduce their amendments when the
measure was taken up in the Senate.
Among those which the committee
refused to accept were the bill recodi-
flying the Federal laws, the reclama-
ton bill, the soldiers bonus and the
committee draft of the proposed new
immigration laws.
The bill will be reported ain the
form it is to be defeated" said Senator
Smoot, Republican, Utah. He added
that "about everything anybody asked
for was put in" Several other sup
porters of the measure also expressed
dissatisfaction with the result of the
committees work.
Lumber Men Ask Protection
In its tariff revision hearings to-day
the House Ways and Means COMMITTEES
took up Schedule of the Underwood
act, comprising wood and wood prod
ucts.
John II. Kirby, of Austin, Tex, presi-
dent Of the Southern Tariff Association,
asked the committee for a rate of Is
per cent Aad valorum on imported lum-
Der, saying that such a tariff would
yield $6,0oo,0oo annually in revenue
and would not increase the lumber cost
to American consumers.
Two other witnesses, Charles A. Big
Glow, of Bay City, Mich, representing
the Hardwood Manufacturers Associa-
ton, and j. O. Eckman, of Cincinnati,
PRESENT of the Oak Flooring Manu-
facturers' Association, were before the
committee with proposals for an ad
valorum duty of % per cent. They ex-
planned that the Canadian tariff on lum-
Der products was 20 per cent and that
American manufacturers desired to be
placed on an equal basis with their
Canadian competitors.
Mr.. Bigelow said. however, that the
manufacturers in the United States
would be satisfied if a reciprocity agree
ment affecting their products could be
arranged, adding that they desired only
to have an equal opportunity.