Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-08
THE TARIFF AND NEW ENGLAND

posed that the compensatory duty should be nine cents a pound. This has been increased to ten cents Fig Jres were presented to show that the actual addition to the cost of the ma terial manufactured of long staple cot l ton would be as high as 10 1-2 cents a pound in some cases.
 Cotton silver and rowing have Leen included in one of the compensatory paragraphs, instead of being c1assi- fled with cotton waste. A successful i effort was made to obtain proper rates on cotton warp. While the figures have
 not been made known, it is said that
 satisfactory adjustment of the mat i ter has been reached
 The woolen and worsted mills of
 New England will be affected to a
 considerable degree by notifications
 in the wool schedule. The duty of B
 cents a pound Oh clean content wool
 will prove to be a much higher rate
 on low-grade woeIs than ever has
 been applied before. Throughout the
 wool schedule attention has been giy-
 en, it is said authorItatively, to the
 proper compensatory rates for the diff
 ferent nNanufacturers of wkol. The
 United States tariff commission has been called upon for assistance in fig
 uring out the proper rates. It Is said
 that on the whole, the cotton and wool
 schedules will be fairly satisfactory
 to the New England manufactur CTS
 Some changes, however, may be re- quired when the bill comes before , the Senate.
 New England has been deeply con-
 cerned with regard to the metal sched
 uie as many lines of manufactured goods have been cbn1ing into this country from Germany at extremely low prices. It became necessary fo. the committee to increase the duties or ) razors, cutlery and such articles to { greater extent than in most o1f1ei , schedules, but manufacturers believ, l that, even with the high rates writ
 ten into the bill, they will experiencv : difficulty in meeting German competi tion. The Americbn valuation plan has been strongly favored by the cut : lery manufacturers and they hay, asked, as an additional safegurd, fo l duties based upon the amount tha foreign currency has depreciated. Tn committee has given serious consid eration to the problem. Many sugges : tiens have been made but ., final de [ cision has not been req ached
 . The agricultural schedule will giv greater protection to the farmers an, : dairy interests of New England thal l they ever have had. The duties oi all farm products, including milk an, eggs, will be unusually high Tarlf :. experts believe the high duties wi : lead to a wider development of tn 3 agricultural resources of New Eng land and that the benefit will be re s flected by increased production. It i : their theory that the bill, instead c
 increasing prices, will maintain thef
 at the present level and probably wi a result in reductions. They say tha
 New England is paying high price
 today because it produces less tha T it consumes and depends upon region
 a thousand or more miles away fo
 farm products. In their opinion,
 the protection given New Engian - farmers results in increased produc
 tion that section of the country wi
 benefit materially.
 't The committee seems to be agree = that farmers the country over mu. g get higher prices for their product Il or go out of business Therefore. $ is giving the farmers the highest pre 2. lection in history. From some poini } of view, the increased protection due solely to the influence Of the at T. ricultural bloc. From other points 's view, prosperity in the agriculturi u West will mean prosperity in the 1T n dustrial East. Members of the con ot mittee and some of the leading tari I II Experts in Washington say that tl H. whole country will benefit from u III U, agricultural sections of the bill. Ill Tariff experts are asking all Ne
 England business int4rests to giS T particular attention to the administr; Id tive feature of the bill to be reportt al by the committee and to suggest ar 1t changes that they believe the Sena ne should make in 1t.
 a- This feature regulates the process l. for administration of the law and e ty tablishes the rules under which q ay schedules are put into effect. It is t D. official guide for the customs of y- cials. The committee has devoted pra is ticany all it's time to the respecti nt schedules. Comparatively little tin
 will be given to the adninistrati p, features. The experts say that u he less the law is adequately admin h. tered the rates it contains will becor an ineffective.
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