Evening star., 1921-07-14
SAYS TARIFF ON OIL
WILL LA|DM0NOPOLY
Treadway Of Massachusetts
Makes First Public 0p-
position Among G. 0. P.
SPECULATION IS SCORED
Increase Will Affect 4e, ,o00, 900
Gas Consumers, Chairman Of A..
ISOLATION Committee Says.

The hrst public expression Of dis
satisfaction among republican mem-
bers with tho proposed tariff on oil
came today from Representative
Treadwsy OF Massachusetts. q men,
ber Of the ways and means commit
tee. who told tho House that the
au;y would aid only tho monopoly
which markets tho product" He es.
timated that the rates Of 80 cents
q barrel on crude and Is cents .
barrel on fuel oil would mean at
least ! cent q gallon extra In the
cost Of oil to New England.
No tariff could relieve conditions
in the Oklahoma oil industry. due
to "inordinats speculation and gen
eral business depression" the speak
er said. To restrict oil importations.
he added. was blow at the policy
Of conservation of natural resources
Gov. Cox of Massachusetts, in a
letter read by Mr.. Treadway. urged
defeat of the oil schedule. saying
New England business men were
unanimously opposed to 1t. =.
1T would be a serious blow to New
England industries. large number OF
we'll as an injury to the several a2w
oil refineries recently built in Massn-
chusetts." Gov. Cox said. 1T would
tend to raise the price of coal in Ne"
England. and also to increase the
price of gasoline. ~.
The governor estimated that 800.
OOO. 900 gallons of Mexican crude OIL
would be taken into Massachusetts
this year. equivalent to 2.750,00O tons
of coal.
MIR. Treadway also opposed any duty
on hides, saying that If they were
placed on the dutiaole list ieatner aiu Nv
other products of hides also must ne
levied against American shoe manu-
facturers considered themselves com
petent to compete with the Woriu, hS
said, if they get their raw mate-'ai
without tax.
Yesterday's Defense OF Bill.
Outstanding in yesterdays discus
| sion was a defense of the bill by Keep
! resentative Green of Iowa, ranking
republican on the ways and means
| committee. who Contended that II
would not result in a reduction or
American trade. and Il criticism OF
! several Of it's provisions bv Repre-
sentative Carew of New York. demo-
cratic member of the committee.
! Representative Carew said the peo-
| pie were not interested in what the
| House was doing on the tariff and
would not be until pinched by the
| bad times coming and sure to stay
under the bill. Then. he said. they
would "wreak terrific engeance
upon the party and the influences
which have wasted opportunity to
give them relief from evils which are
upon them"
Representative Green. Iowa. coun-
, tered with the assertion that no mat
ter what duties the bill imposed
world trade would continue to seek
American markets There was no
country. he said. so filled with sup
plies other countries must have. and
there never was a greater fallacy
than the assumption that debtor ma
| tions would not buy here "if we do
! not buy an equal amount from them
Mr.. Green explained that in deciding
! to push action on the tariff republican
| leaders believed they could not ac-
curately prepare the revenue bill un-
! less they had some idea Of the amount
! to be turned into the Trasury through
| the custom houses" Taxes, he add
| ed. must be lowered.
| Representative Hawley of Oregon
another republican member of the
committee discussed the benf1ts
which ne said would accrue to the
farmers through the agricultural
| schedule He read statistics to show
| that 10000 farmers had left the land
! i'll the last decade.