Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-17
SENATE VOTES
FREE ZONE FOR
RAW IMPORTS
Would Permit Conver-
sion of Exports With
out Payment of Duties
Harreld Proposal for
High Duty on Oils De-
feated in Voting.

Washington, Aug. 16.-Free zones al
American ports wherein crude i'm.
ported materials might be converted
for export without payment of tariff
| duties would be provided for in an
| amendment TO the tariff bill, approved
| Wednesday by the senate without a
roll call
The Harreld amendment to impose
| tariffs of 30 cents barrel on pc
troleum and % cents a barrel on fuel
oil was rejected 45 to 8.
Those supporting the Harreld
amendment were Broussard, democrat,
and Bursum, Capper, Curtis, Harreld.
McNary, New, Nicholson and Stan
field, republicans.
The house rates on these materials,
which were unchanged by the finance
committee majority, were 81 per thou
sand board feet on logs and 10 per
cent ad valorem on the others. The
vote to transfer logs to the free list
was % to 26, but the other changes
were made without roll calls.
The free zones" amendment had
the approval of the senate commerce
committee, but Chairman McCumber,
OF the finance committee, declared
close study of it would be necessary
before its approval in conference
Under the amendments goods could
be brought into the United States,
manufactured within free zones and
re exported without the payment of
duty. If after manufacture they
should enter the United States. the
duty would be paid.
Three other changes in the bill
were made in rapid succession, Sen
ator Kellogg. republican, Minnesota.
finally winning his fight to place on
the free list logs of fir. spruce, cedar
or western hemlock, paving posts,
railroad ties and telephone, telegraph
trolley and electric light poles and
hubs for wheels, heading blocks and
the like
Tariff duties on crude petroleum
and fuel oil were advocated Wednes-
day in the senate by Senator HarreId,
republican. Oklahoma, as the only
means of protecting the independent
oil producers of the United States
against what he described as a mono
poly by the Standard. E. L. Doheny
and Royal Dutch Shell oil companies.
Renewing his charge of last August
that the Standard. Doheny and Royal
Shell companies were seeking to mono |
police oil production in this country, |
Senator Harreld said that since that /!
time the Royal Dutch Shell had taken |
over the Union Oil company of Della /
ware, thus getting control of $4,000 |
DOO worth of properties: that the !
Standard and Doheny companies had
acquired the Tea Pot Dome in Wyo- !
ming and other valuable holdings in !
California and that the Standard of /
Indiana had acquired 30 per cent of the /
stock of the Midwest Refinery COM !
Dany. /
The Oklahoma senator also asserted /
hat during the past year when oil /
prices were low the monopolies did |
succeed in purchasing the holdings of a !
treat many independent operators at 4
forced sales and at very
small percentage of the value of such |
properties.
Charging that the three companies
le named had monopoly of produc-
ion of oil in Mexico. Mr.. Harreld
old the senate it was their policy to
harge all that the tariff would bear
md that consequently the price would
!ot be affected by tariff He argued
hat on the other hand the tariff
you'd bring to the government huge
mount of revenue and at the same
lme protect the thousands of small
ndependent producers in the United
tates.
Mr.. Harreld said the fact that the
of the companies had
OF appeared before the finance com
iittee to oppose the proposed rates
n petroleum and fuel oil shows how
and shrewdly these people
perate."
They had consumers of fuel oil
ppear before the committee" he con-
nued. lin the form of railroad com
anies represented by one Mr.. Thorn
nd various other users of fuel oil ,
'om various parts of the country and ,
ppOse the imposition of this tariff" ,