The Washington herald., 1921-03-04
2Ol TOlQVOTE
FALLS23 SHORT
OF TWO-THIRDS
Michigan Member Fights
Vainly to Have Measure
Enacted.
FEARS TRADE CURB
President Declares Time In
oppsrtune for Erecting
High Barriers.
FEARS TRADE CURB

Asserting tnat tnls II no Time
Tor the erection here Of high trade
baFriers. President Wilson late
yesUfdar vetoed the emergency
agricultural tariff bill.
The President sent q message to
thu House in which he set forth
his VIEWS on the subject. Repre-
sentative, Fordney, OF Michigan.
chairman Of the Ways and Means
Cemmittee, announced when the
message was read to the House
shortly before 6 o'clock that he
would move to pass the bill over
che Presidents veto.
NThe House later failed to pass the
ynSasure.- over the veto, the vote
stzndins 2o1 to 132, or % less than
ths required two-thirds. Three
members voted present.
That snuffed out the life of the
GILL, which Republican leaders had
sought a a measure of temporary
relief Of the agricultural interests
of the Country.
There was no discussion Of the
veto. Representative For n e y,
chairman Of the Ways and Means
Z Committee, called up the veto mes
sage and moved the passage of the
measure notwithstanding the Presi-
dents sdisapproval. The roll was
called Immediately.
Western Republicans voted al
most sofidly to reverse the Presi-
dent, but New England Republi-
cans. opposed to the measure be-
cause 1t carried no compensatory
duties on manufactured goods while
ievying a tax on wool imports, voted
to sustain the veto. Among Repub-
1ican members of the Ways and
Means Committee who voted with
the President were Tilson. of Con-
necticut; Treadway. of Massachu-
setts, and Bacharach, of New Jer-
sey.
Sees Blow to Exporta-
President Wilson declared in his
message that q high trade barrier
:, of the nature provided in the bill
would strike a blow at the large
and successful efforts which have
been made by many of our great
industries to place themselves on
an export basis" He said IL was
the duty of the United States to
laid IN widening instead of con-
tracing world markets.
Referring to the conditions which
rcaused the bill to be framed as q
Il measure OF Iei1eI lot Ine IdImefe.
sthe President declared that very
little reflection would lead anyone
/ to conclude that the measure would
not furnish. to any substantial De-
! gree. the relief sought by the pro-
ducers Of most of the staple CONS
modities II covers"
The President added that the
farmers will not only continue TO
supply the home demand but viii
be increasingly called upon to sup
ply . large part of the needs Of
the rest Of the world.
Needs Foreign Market.
what the farmer now needs il
not only q better system OF do
/. mestic marketing and credit, but
especially . larger foreign market
for his surplus product" he con-
tinued- Clearly measures of this
sort will not conduce to an expan-
sion of the foreign market"
The President remarked that the
bill seemed to be designed to pave
the way for a general tariff law
based on similar principles. He in
sisted that IF there ever was a
, time when America had anything
TO fear from foreign competition,
that time has passed"
He declared that IL Europe is to
settle her debts the United States
must buy its products