The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
REPUDIATE PET SCHEME OF
 FORDNEY AND LONGWORTH

Washington. June 5.-(Special.)-- Those high priests of protection who | constitute the majority of the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives, and especially two Of
 them, Chairman Fordney and Repre- sentative Longworth, have been repud- lated in their advocacy of pet scheme by the republican party in the House. And the new Richmond in the field is Representative George M. Young of North Dakota. It was he who defeat ed Longworth and Fordney and those
 members of the committee who are wont to do what they are told by Ford ney and Longworth to do.
 | It was reported that the republican l caucus, which met for the purpose of indorsing the Longworth resolution making effective the rates of the per-
 manent tariff bill on the date of the introduction of that bill, was unable to | reach an agreement. It was not report ed, however, that the caucus read the riot act to Fordney and Longworth and told them, to all practical purposes,
 that they would not tolerate the at tempt of the committee to run the en- tire Congress. And nothing was re-
 ported of the storm that ragged and the echoes of which still reverbrate. Democrats Crfticise. | MT. Longworth, as is recalled, intro-
 duced resolution making effectiv.
 the tariff bill before it was enacted. Representative Garner of Texas, demo- crat, declared the bill to represent l sovietism run wild. Senator Robinson
 of Arkansas said it proposed "to do
 an unheard of thing, contrary to all custom and law" Republicans, non
 members of the ways and means com
 mittee, shook their heads and won | dered to what the country would l eventually come.
 But the republican majority of the l ways and means committee indorsed
 the resolution of Longworth and decid- ed to make the republicans, in a caucus, \ bind themselves to support it. There | was one dissenting member of the l ways and means committe. He was Representative Young.
 | That man carried the fight against
 I.ongworth to the caucus. He won that fight. His argument was in five parts, as follows:
 First, if passed, would it have the
 force of lawo The decisions of the su- l preme court are unit on the proposi-
 ton that Congress cannot delegate leg islative authority. Is the preparation O. tariff bill, containing hundreds of J items of customs duties, together with other provisions in respect thereto, a | legislative or an administrative fuIc- | tion? The question is easily to be an-
 swered.
 Second, ought it to pass? The mem
 Der of Congress who is willing at this l time, 20 days before he can know any
 thing about the rates of duty which
 tho permanent tariff bill will contain,
 who will agree to give such rates tho force, of law as soon as reported to 1 the House, must have a faith in the ways and means committee nothing
 short of sublime! Are you quite sure
 the rates, when you learn what they
 are. will be such as can receive your
 support upon final passage of the bill? | Senate to Abdfcate
 Third, will it pass? Granting for arr
 gument that the House would pass the Senate do with or to it? Will the Sen ate finance committee witness a gem eral tariff bill becoming law without receiving its consideration? Will the Senate abdicate If not, why waste time of the House?
 Fourth. will the President, taking into account not only economic consid- era ations, but possible complications
 with foreign countries, tie his own | hands?
 Fifth. The defense of the resolution that Great Britain. her colonies and
 France have already taken similar ac- ton. should be received with a grain
 Of salt. These countries have a di-
 rectly responsible government which can hold office only at the pleasure of the popularly elected branch of the legislature and can be voted out of of-
 fee promptly if they report customs rates which are unsatisfactory."
 The Longworth resolution is remem- | L cred as an attempted departure from l everything with which the people of 1 this country have become accustomed. Inc chances are that it will never be rcsuscitated.
 CONGRESS- TRIES TO PERFECT ACT CREATING FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
 Washington. June 5.-(SpeciaL)--In effort to find a remedy for present conditions in the agricultural belts of the country, and possibly to impress
 their constituencies with an idea O. their constant vigilance in their be-
 half, numerous members of Congress are preparing to amend, and thus mako ] perfect. the act which created the fed- | eral reserve system.
 Representative McFadden of Penn-