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some thirty million of our people are
engaged, are entitled to protection on
The same basis as those of other in
dustrieS.'
The tariff, 1t added. seldom would
be added to the price of farm products.
except under unusual crop or market
conditions.
The report made no direct or gen.
eral comparison of rates with the
Payne-Aldrich bill. although in not
ing few individual items the new
duties were said to be lower
There was no reference to the elev-
enth-hour action of the committee in
placing a duty of 35 cents a barrel on
Crude petroleum and % cents a bar
rel on fuel oil, although it is ex-
pected that fight for removal of this
duty will be made and the issue be
put before the House for straight
vote.
: Lumber on Free List.
With the exception of cabinet
woods. on which a small ad valorem
duty was imposed logs and lumber in
general are placed on the free list
the report declared. The tax of 81 a
thousand .on AR. spruce and western
hemlock logs, it said, was imposed to
place a premium onr fair treatment
by other countries.
The provision authorizing the Presi-
dent to proclaim retaliatory tariff
on finished lumber against any coun-
try taxing American products, was
declared to be in harmony with other
bargaining provisions of the bill.
THE proviso. it is Believed" the re-
port said. will have a beneficial effect
on the export trade of finished lum-
ber."
Minority Report Filed.
; Charging disregard of republican
party pledges. Representative Frear
Of Wisconsin. a majority member of
the ways and means committee that
drafted the permanent tariff bill in
a minority statement yesterday ac-
cused his republican colleagues on the
committee with proposing "funda-
mentally indefensible" provisions and
rates of duty.
,. The Frear statement was filed at
the same time as the majority report
On the tariff bill. which was present.
ed to the House today.
) Attacks Many Provisions.
Mr.. Frear's attack, while predicat-
ed on the 'atrocity'' of the dye color
control provisions. embraced many
other features of the bill. The Wis
consin member declared the rates of
duty to be excessive in scores of in
stances. and added that they would
lead to exactions by trusts and
-
den the people must carry.
Mr.. Frear referred to the argu-
Tent that protection for the dye
manufacturers was necessary for ma
tional defense. and asked why it
was necessary to assume that the ma
tion wuuld I've thrown into a great
war and at the same time ito grant
practically exclusive rights of dye
pla1ufacture to recognized mo-
nopoly."
lican doctrine. is thrown to the wind
Ia the chemical dye schedule" Mr..
Erear said,
tThe question which must be de-
cided by republicans in Congress, he
added, was Can the bill as drawn
he defended?"- Its critics. he con-
tinued. would disclose how far 1t ex-
ceeds strictly productive lines in a
revenue way and where it becomes
prOhibitive.
in. his minority report Representa-
tive Frear says:
EDuring the war an American dye
business of enormous proportions
grew up over night like a mushroom
extracting unconscionable war profits
from the American public. For six
years it has enjoyed a complete en-
bargo against all foreign dye COM
petition. The American dye industry
is now controlled by the chemical
'feundation' that represents over q
half billion dollars in assets and owns
Thousands of German dye patents
seized during the war by the govern
ment and sold, by the alien property
custodian for a song-at private sale
to the dye trust foundation of which
Mr.. Garvin is president.
'"This dye foundation leases the
patents to its members at it's pleas.
ure and own rate of profit. 1t has nc
competition: it controls production
II controls prices and now asks the
AID of Congress by this tariff bills
the American public indefinitely
throHEh a perpetual embargo thai
will :prevent the importation of su.
perior foreign dyes at lower prices
The American dye trust. of which the
Dupont Powder Company is an i'm
poFtant factor. now exports millions
of pounds of dye stuff in competi.
tion of the world, including Ger.
many. which country is no longer
a 3serious competitor according tC
government reports.
= Protests Grant OF Power.
objection was voiced by Mr.. Frea1
to- provisions which would pass to
the tariff commission Legislative
fuhctions'' In the determination OF
enter customs. The provisions, he
declared. meant that the commission
would be authorized to determine
''the character of a necessity to mod
quantity and quality of goods that
may be imported and the price that
shall be paid by the consumer"
IF this precedent is adopted" he
continued. then every tariff schedule
may be made prohibitive. in fact
without the interposition of Con-
gEess. A subordinate commission, not
responsive or responsible to Con-
gress or the people. may thus prevent
all iNaLprts of commerce between