Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-12-31
TARIFF PASSED
by HOUSE WILL.
Be REWRITTEN
Issue Whether Ameri-
can Valuation or Hard
ing Plan Is Preferred.
Charge Made Canadian
Lobby Is Interfering;
Butter Duty Clamor.

Washington. Dec. 3O.-Senate tarif
makers plan to start next week tn,
redrafting of the so-called permanen
! tariff bill passed by the house las
spring. Their aim is to have thu
measure ready for the senate by earl,
| spring, but because of the great tasl
involved in passing on the more thar
100000 items in the bill, this hope
may not be realized
The first task before the finance
| committee is a decision as to the
adoption of straight out American
valuation plan Of assessing duties, ol
! the substitution Of a plan similar Il
that outlined by President Harding il
his message to congress early this
month.
Hearings Virtually Closed
Hearings on the tariff virtually were
closed Friday. though on January 8,
representatives of the Southern Tariff
association will appear.
Lumber and dairy products were
the principle subjects discussed Fri
day, the lumber hearings being marked
by charges by Robert 3. Allen, of
Seattle, speaking for the West Coast
Lumber Manufacturers association,
that Canadian lobby" in Washing
ton was fostering "an insidious propa-
ganda" against the proposed duty of
so cents a thousand on shingles and
the provision of the Fordney bill
giving the president authority to i'm
pose duty on lumber If countries now
taxing American lumber imports de-
cline to remove that tax.
Mr. Allen said he had been informed
that Canadian shingle makers had
been assessed a total of S47, 900 to
defray expenses Of the tariff fight.
He added that he had seen no evidence
of the use Of this money until he saw
the propaganda from Washington,
which he described as ''insiduous even
as that produced in Germany during
the war"
Free Cyanide Urged
The witness charged that much of
this propaganda" apparently had been
put over under the name of the
Western Pine Manufacturers associ
alton. but that this association had dis
claimed any responsibility for it.
Mr.. Allen approved the duty of 80
cents thousand on shingles and also
said he favored the provision giving
the president authority TO impose a
retaliatory duty on lumber from
Canada il the Canadian government
declines to remove it's present duty
against American lumber.
Retention of potassium cyanide On
the free list was urged before the
senate finance committee by Senator
Sterling. republican. South Dakota.
He explained that cyanide was used
principally in industry for extracting
gold from ore and in fumigating citrus
fruit trees.
Senator Sterling declared the com
mittee of the whole ought not to heed
"the demand for a tariff made by the
Rossler Hasslacher Chemical company
of New jersey" which he declared
would have monopoly. Senator
Smoot, republican. Utah. said the pro-
posed duty would not affect the price
of gold, as only 25 cents wsrth of
cyanide was used to a ton of ore.
Potas. Issue Acute
The 81 American fertilizer com
panies which contracted to take rs
per cent of their potash requirements
for this season from the German
potash syndicate have contracted with
French mines in Alsace for the re-
manning % per cent. the senate finance
committee was told by Wilbur Laroe.
of Washington, of counsel for the
United States Potash Producers as
sOciation.
These "a companies produce more
tilizer turned out in this country, Mr..
Laroe said.
The witness declared that, if given
the American potash industry could
supply all the needs of the United
States Unless it is protected, he
added, American farmers will be at the
mercy of German potash companies.
Want Tariff to Bar Danish Butter
A duty of 10 cents pound on
butter in place of the proposed eight
cents with corresponding tax on
other dairy products brought into this
country, was urged by R. w. Balder
son, secretary of the Interstate Milk
Producers association, and A. M.
Lewis. of Washington, who said he
represented the National Dairy union
and the National grange.
These witnesses charged that the
Danes were making the United States
"a dumping ground for their butter
whenever they found the English mar
zet, their natural outlet. weakened |
Ask Vegetable Oh Rates
Charles w. Holman, executive Sec
.etary Of the National Milk Producers
who spoke for that and
,ther organizations, asked for duty |
If 1 cents a pound on cottonseed, soya |
BEANS and cocoanut oil, and AZ cents |
pound on peanut oil, with cOmpen-
'atoryA duties on the raw products
rom which those oils are extracted. |
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