The Washington times., 1921-07-17
HOUSE APPROVES
| EMBARGO ON DYE
IN F0RDNEY BILL
Votes, 122 to 1o6, for Provision
To Keep Out Low-Prlced
German Products.

Interna&lonaI News Service.
The House late yesterday afternoon.
by vote Of 122 to 1916. approved the
dyestuff embargo provision OF the
Fordney tariff bill. The provision
calls for three-year embargo on i'm
portation Of dyestuffs. subject to con-
troll Of the United States Tariff Com
mission. and is aimed against low.
priced German dyos.
Harsh charges against an alleged
dyestuffs monopoly wore made BY
Congressman Frear Of Wisconsin. who
opened the attack on the chemical
dyestuff schedule OF the Fordney tar
III bill.
Warns Of. Effects.
Frear read to the House warning
from Wilbur Wakeman. of the Amer
lean Protective Tariff Association.
would lose every doubtful Congress
sional district" for the Republican
party In the next election.
Frear moved to strike from the bill
paragraph 81, which places an en-
largo on the importation Of competi-
tive German dyes.
THE change / propose" said Frear,
Noes not affect the IS per cent ad
vaiorem and Z cents pound rate on
dyestuffs carried in another para
graph of this bill. That duty is prac-
tically $50 per cent and Is much high
err than carried in the present law,
higher than in previous Republican
tariff laws.
Embargo Means Monopoly.
This duty should be sufficiently
protective. The embargo provision
will grant a monopoly in the dyestuffs
industry to interests I'm this country
which have secured valuable German
chemical dye patents for song as
result of the war and the action OF
the former alien property custodian.
1T will prevent, or make unduly diff
ficult, the American user OF dyes
to get a good dye or a special dye
that he desires for use In his indus
try"
Congressman Longworth OF Ohio
read a letter to the House from
General Pershins stating that protec-
ton IL necessary for the dye indus
try and coal tar products because a
majority of the high explosives used
In warfare are made from thess
products.
Californians Ask Protection.
The California Congressional dele
CATION and State Senator Aaron, Cali
fornis, are bringing pressure to bear
on the Ways and Means Committee
for increases Of duties carried In
tho Fordney tariff hill on Turkish
tobacco. almonds. walnuts and beans.
A subcommittee of the Ways and
Means Committee. consisting OF
Coggrsssmen Hawley, Young and
Houghton, have under consideration
q ~ 40 30 ha
fornia delegation. These are that
the duty on California tobacco the
Turkish variety. be increased from
so cents to 'sl.20 a pound; the duty
on beans from IN to cents
pound; the duty on walnuts from p,
cents a pound unshelled and cents
a pound shelled to 2h cents unshell-
ed and ~ cents shelled; and the
duty on almonds from 4 cents
pound unshelled and s cents a
pound shelled to cents unshelled
and IL cents shelled.
Duties 'Unscientific.'
The Californians claimed that the
duties In the bill on almonds and
walnuts we're unscientific. 1t takes
three pounds of the unshelled nuts
to make pound of the shelled nuts,
and the duty differential should COW
er this loss and protect the Ameri-
can labor necessary TO the Smelling.
they say. An increase of the al
mond duty to cents pound UNI
shelled and Is cents q pound shelled
was urged, but there will be salts
faction IL the committee agrees only
to the Az cent proposal.
Turkish tobacco is grown in the
United States in California and Vir-
ginia, but the latter State produces
only small quantity because of eli
matte conditions. The California pro-
duction, started sixteen years ago, is
increasing. Imports come from Bull
garia and Turkey.
The latter country recently re-
moved Its export duty on tobacco
and the Californians urged that this
export duty be replaced by an Inn
port duty. 1t costs from three TO
four times as much to raise the
Turkish tobacco in California as in
Bulgaria. Existing tobacco duties.
they claimed, were framed without
consideration of the California prod