The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-12
THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER

developments Of the future, but a
bill with the intent noted in view IS
the kind Of bill that probably will
be enacted. %g% gE
Tie dye, metal, wool and lumber
schedules are the ones which have
caused the greater controversies and
which are responsible mainly for the
delay in getting the legislation under
way. &
Lumber Producers Don't Agree.
Seemingly the lumber producing sec
lions of the country are divided on the
| question of the duty on the finished
products Of lumber. The ways and
means committee by majority vote
decided to put a duty Of 20 per cent
ad valorum on finished lumber. The
vote was taken in the committee ana
this duty carried. Instantly there was
| trouble. - 4. E Z
The northwestern sections Of the
country seem to be opposed to this
25 per cent duty, while in some OF the
other sections Of the country 1T IS
| claimed the duty is favored by lumber
! men. At this writing it is not known
| definitely just what the outcome Will
be, but attempts are being made to
get the committee to reconsider ITS
action and to remove the duty. There
! will be fight in the house over this
schedule of the bill, no matter what
the committee may report. ~.
The wool schedule continues to
create dissension. AS somebody has
put it, wool is always breeder OF the
tick of trouble" The particular anti
dote for tick which the Agricultural
department recommends to all shep-
herds seemingly cannot be of service
in the present case. So far as con-
gress is concerned, wool always has
contained IN itching irritant.
The original draft of the schedule
as prepared by the subcommittee this
year has been abandoned. Oppose
ton developed to it among some OF
the majority members Of the COM
mittee. So it is today that the COM
mittee has been compelled to ask the
tariff commission for information on
which it can redraft. if it wants to-,
the provisions of the wool schedule.
Dye Industry to Be Fostered. +
The metal and dye industries are
deeply interested in the present tariff
measure. 1t is said that the determi-
nation Of the majority in congress Is
to see to it that dye industry shall
be built up which will make the
| United States Independent of other
countries in dye products in the fu-
ture. e.. -.@@. is.
The war produced an argument in
| favor of shutting out dyes by means
of a high tariff. The dye industry Of
Germany was responsible scientifically
for the Germans great advance in
some of the material Of warfare, ex-
plosives, gas and other things. The
argument is being advanced that here
/ after the United States must be able
to produce it's own from well-estab-
lished industries, and not be compelled
to wait on experiment and on the
building of factories In case war
1 should come.
There is opposition: of course, to
| the dye proposition as 1t is likely to
be set forth in the tariff bill, the argu-
ment being that monopoly will be
created. = ~ j y &5#
War Grafters to Be Hunted Down.
! The attorney generals office has
announced that, there will be an in
vesneation of war profiteering on the
government, that it intends to make
the inquiry thorough and to bring
punishment down on the guilty.
The attorney general, in connection
with this matter, has said: 1.-The gov
eminent is not going after the little
fellows. We can afford to throw the
| minnows back and let them start over
again. 1t is the big fellows that we
are after and expect to get"
No one, Of course, can tell whether
the investigation will result in disclos-
ing proofs of guilt and in the convic-
ton of the guilty. 1t Is said that
about only one government investiga-
ton in five ever produces real results,
but this in general way may be put
down to the fact that the government,
especially the congressional part OF 1t,
has the investigating habit fixed, and
is given to ordering inquiries into this
matter and the other matter without
much regard to the strength Of the
! initial facts in the case. .> 49,. ..
Others Who Are More Despicable.
The :grafters ntthe government dur
| ing the war were high scale robbers,
but, as the expression goes, they were
not in it in meanness with the prof.
teers who preyeds directly on the peo-
pie, AMI particularly on men who were
going to give up good paying places
to enter one or the other Of the armed
services of the country. ~
There are some thousands Of ex-
soldiers who would hold a jubilation
as hearty as the one which followed
the armistice If some Of the cheap
criminals who grated on them would
be made the object of government in
yestigation and Of subsequent punish
ment. n -- ..... e.
The young fellows who were COM
missioned were obliged to buy their
uniforms. They would 60 into a store
and buy blouse and breaches, paying