The New York herald., 1922-07-07
! |ffort Is to Prevent Making
of Substitutes for Ami
NAL Fats.
|DROIT PARAGRAPH USED
ling Will Expose Attempt
and Lead Attack on
1t To-day.
ctal Dispatch to THE New York Hr.ALD.

New York Herald Bureau,
Washington. ID. c., July @.
The glaring effort Of the agricultural
riff bloc to hold up the price of
tier, and. If possible, of lard. by a
bragraph in the chemical schedule.
hich is remarkable in many ways,
I'LL be revealed tomorrow when the
Psault is resumed upon the Fordney-
cCumber tariff bill.
Paragraph 50-A of the bill. as re-
brted by the Finance Committee, per-
it's the free entry Of cottonseed oil.
Pcoanut oil, peanut oil and soya bean
J. but at the same time provides a
ity of three cents and four cents a
pund II these same oils are used for
|od.
The rate on cocoanut oil and peanut
is four cents a pound, and on cotton
ed oil and soya bean oil three cents
bund. 1t is provided that II the oils are
pt used in the manufacture Of articles
for food the duty is to be remitted at
e end of three years. whereas, II they
re used for articles fit for food. an
dditional duty of three cents pound
nall be levied.
Farm Bloc Wields Lash.
The whole meaning of that IS that tho
enate Finance Committee. under the
sh OF the agricultural bloc it at
mpting to placate the dairy interests
the country, and at the same time
Atisfy the manufacturers Of soap and
ertain vegetable oils not used for food.
he paragraph. IL it is allowed to stay
the bill, will. its opponents declare.
pset the whole vegetable oil industry.
the United States.
The attack is to be directed by Sem
tor King (Utah. Dem). who has been
ne Of the leading opponents Of the high
nd unscientific rates of the Fordney-
fcCumber bill.
The paragraph in question, which is
part Of the chemical schedule. was
hssed over because of it's relation to
he agricultural schedule. The agricul-
iral schedule now. is nearing compile
on and the Senate is going back to the
batter OF vegetable oils.
According to the opponents of the
EN- the paragraph Is another attempt
K the dairy interests to obtain class
legislation in the tariff law, in line with
ieir f1agrant efforts in the past. chiefly
n obtaining an excise tax of 10 cents
pound on colored oleomargarine and
! quarter of a cent pound on uncol-
red pleomargarine. The new attempt
all the more surprising because OF the
esults of the actual operation of the
merge ncy tariff law. when these vege-
able oils were made dutiable at a lower
ate, although on the class OF oils in
olved. not a single pound of them had
ffected the American product.
American foreign trade is seriously
ffected. II the paragraph is allowed
stand, because of the insistence OF
he agricultural bloc the whole cotton
eed industry in the United States.
which is enormous, will suffer. and inn
ortations to Europe of oleomargarine
nd Of lard will be materially reduced,
not cut off altogether.
Forces UP Living Costs.
Coupled with these rates on vegetable
Nils to make the case against the agri-
cultural bloc in its effort to raise prices
rs the effect that the Finance Commit
Zee raised the House duty on lard COM
Mound or lard substitutes from 20 per
ent. ad valorem to 5 cents pound.
rhe critics Of the items declare that the
whole matter is an attempt to send up
Xhe prices for housewives, who, more
'hnd more in recent years. have come
10 accept lard and butter substitutes
made from vegetable oils as a means OF
keeping down the cost OF living when
he prices of butter and hog lard scared.
Eighty per cent. of the American cot
Eonseed is made into lard, and IS per.
tent of the product Is cottonseed oil.
the rest being peanut oil, corn oil, hog
Hard and edible tallow. There have new
er been any imports into the United
States of lard substitutes.
In addition to cottonseed for the man.
ifacture of lard. some of II in proper
tion is used for oleomargarine. along
with other vegetable oils. Virtually all
bf the American cottonseed is used for
Edible products.
The manufacturers of soap and GER
Rain Industrial oils have been depending
|on the importation of inferior cotton
lseed from China and other Asiatic coun.
Etrles. and In this way the higher grade
cottonseed has been free to be used for
manufacture of lard and oleomargarne
Nor export trade. Up to the time of the
Emergency tariff law there was no duty
ION these inferior oils and on cottonseed
$50 that the imports to soap manufac-
+turers and to Industrial oil makers were
barge.
Injuries American Industry.
with the levy Of tariff on these oils,
scottonseed and similar products. in the
Emergency tariff law the producers in
such countries as China and Japan have
sought the European market In prefer
.ence TO the United States. where their
/ products could be made up into inferior
Hard and butter substitutes. 1t has had
| the result of closing this market to a
large extent for American manufactured
lard and oleomargarine. and In conse-
quence, instead of protecting the pro-
ducers of cottonseed. which is a by
product of the cotton industry. has
caused a reaction in price on account of
the surplus.
The grinders of cottonsccd. to-
.gether with the manufacturers OF soap.
have iade vigorous protest against the
placng OF the duty on such oils. which
|they declare simply is for the protection
/ of special interest. the dairy interest,
land the farmer. who may benefit to the
slight extent that the price may be
raised on hog lard. They have file
Ipetitons with the Senate Finance Com
mittee, but without avail due 10 the
|strength OF the agricultural bloc. which.
| OF course. is able to uluster twenty-five
Republican votes and which has been
dominant In the framing of the much
condemned Fordney-McCumber bill.
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