The Nevada County picayune., 1922-09-28
TARIFF BILL AGAIN IN
 DOUBT.
Revolt of Western Republicans in House Sends ii Back to Con-
 ference

llfe back tO committee LOT IuIintl It visal. and ii is now uncertain whether or not it will again be reported before the November election.
 This show of violent opposition to the bill even in the House of Repre- Sentatives. where the Administration control of members and votes was l thought to be strongest, is undoubtedly 1 a new and painful evidence of the un- popularity of both the framerS and their handiwork.
 Agricultural products bore the brunt of the reductions which the Republi- can conferees made in certain rates of
 the bill as il left the Senate. The eX
 cessive duties on manufactures, notab- 1 ly woolen and cotton fabrics remain intact, so that the farmer will have to pay as big q price for his clothing as any one else while at the same time
 he has to part with the high "protcc
 ton" he was promised on his wool and
 other products when the bill was pass
 ed by the Republican Senate.
 In addition to withdrawing some of this protection" from the products of 1 the farm. the Republican c0nferees re
 stored the exhorbitant duty on potasa
 which the farmers of the country re- quire as a fertilizer. Representative Garner. who made the successful mo- 1 ton to recommit the bill, declared that this tariff on potash had been placed in the bill in order that certain interests in the state of Utah may have an op- Iportunity =to rob the farmers at the rate of $30 a#ton for the potash they hold" Senator Shoot. who engineered the high rate on sugar iS also one of the supporters of the potash tariff.
 In compromising between Inc Sen ate rate of = cents secured pound on raw wool the Republican conferces agreed on 3l cents That was con siderable drop in the rate of aprotec- tions given To the growers. II iS an nounced, however, that the compensa- tory duties to manufacturers were low cred slightly in consequence of the reduction in the rate on raw wool. but that the ad vaIorem rates on cloth blankets and other articles of clothing remain exactly where they were put by the lobbyists of the Woolen Trust.
 In this one case of wool therefore. the producer of the raw materials is forced to shoulder all the cost of this Republican prctense of revising the bill downward" while the manufac- turer gets all that he demanded and the Republican Congress gave him in the first instance.
 The rate on suger was cut from S4 cents the rate fixed by the Senate, to 1 16 cents Il pound Thus, the cane growers of Louisiana and the states where beet sugar is produced have been deprived of the high protection" without which, Republican Senators like Shoot Utah. Townsend. Michigan Gooding Idaho. and others declared the American sugar industry could not survive.
 Western live stock interests which had hopes that hides would he made duttahle have been disappointed again The Senate proposed and then with drew protection on hides The Re publican confereeS did moi restore il
 Corn lost ! cents q bushel in con ference compared with the Senate rate which was 20 cents bushel. This is not regarded as serious matter. how ever. 0S the imports of corn are of practically no significance The Re publican emergency tariff on corn and wheat and other cereals has been of no avail in giving the farmer better market or price for his grains
 In any instance in which manufac tured products have undergone Il loss or dimunition of protection in this Republican conference there is still n"Ft l7i tie Nhei 'Sdh hhdhuIaetitler He can appeal to the President, who has authority under the Fordney Me Cumher bill. to increase duties over the levels fixed by Congress. This is great advantage to the manufacturers. who is producing articles that are in some degree of competition with Flu ropean wares of the same kinds. but it