The New York herald., 1922-09-14
Dyestuffs Embargo and
Potash Duty Ordered
Stricken Out.
OUTCOME NOW IN DOUBT
Chamber Adjourns on Ford
ney's Motion--Vote for Re-
vision Is III to 13O.
Special Dispatch to THE NEw York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.

cPectdt QtSputCh 20 NEW YORK HERALp.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. c., Sept. l3.
AS the climax of an unexpected and
bitter fight in the House to-day over
the conference report on the Fordney-
McCumber tariff bill. 1o2 Republicans
broke away from their leaders and
with the aid of the Democrats sent
the measure back to the conference
committee with instructions to elinin-
ate the dyestuffs embargo and the duty
on potash
The vote to recommit the bill was
III to 130--a result so astonishing that
1t almost swept the Republican leaders
off their feet. AS soon as 1t became
known that almost half the Republi-
cans present had abandoned their
leaders Chairman Fordney tMich.) Of
the Ways and Means Committee asked
tariff framing associates could get
their breath. Since they had expected
little difficulty in obtaining an agree
ment to the conference report. the
action left them without a program.
What this sudden turn OF events really
means In the future of the Fordney-
McCumber bill Is In doubt. although
Senator McCumber, chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee, asserted that
It would not bring about the defeat of
the measure at the present session.
McCumber Predicts Enactment.
There will be tariff law" Senator
McCum5er said.
In the House the opinion was not so
well defined Floor Leader Mondeli
and Chairman Fordney both refused to
predict what the conferees would do al
though 1t was assumed that they would
follow the instructions of the House, re-
porting the bill back with the dycstuffs
embargo and the potash duty eliminated.
The situation at any rate is more
tangled than ever. and the question of
whether there will be tariff law at the
present session arises from the fact that
it Is getting more and more difficult to
hold a quorum in Washington. The
prospect of a fight in the Senate Is an
other consideration.
The revolt In the House became ap-
parent early in the day. after the read
ing Of the conference report. when Rep
resentative Fish On. W made a point
OF order against the dye embargo in
the bill on the ground that since It had
been rejected previously by both the
senate and the House It was new mat
Ter which the conferees had no author
iiy TO put into the bill.
Speaker Gillett overruled the point Of
order and when Mr.. Fish appealed from
the decision of the chair the real
strength of the opponents of the en-
barge became apparent. Speaker Gillett
was upheld by the narrow margin OF
three votes, the vote standing $50 to
LAT.
Agricultural Opposition.
Trouble developed soon afterward
over the restoration of the duty on pot
ash. fixed by the conferees at a cent
and a half pound. Members from
agricultural States particularly came
out In opposition to the potash duty
which. they said, would double the price
of fertilizer to the farmers
Representative Garner, (Dem., Tex.),
IN charge of the opposition to the bill.
offered the motion to reccmmit IL with
instructions that both the dyestufYs en-
barge and the potash duty be eliminated.
1t was evident with these two features
in the motion that IL would carry.
Senator McCumber said tonight the
House action would not interrupt the
Senate program for taking UP the bill to-
morrow, and that In all probability he
would ask for the appointment Of new
conferees from the Senate to reach an
agreement with tho House conferees.
1he definite program however, will not
L. g.
The breaking away OF so many Re-
publlcans from their leadership was not
due alone to objections to the dyestuffs
embargo and the duty on potash, al
though those were the only two items
mentioned in the motion to recomniit the
bill. Among those who voted were mem
bers who regard the rates all through
the bill as far too high and unscientifc
and others who believe that It's passage
simply would mean the unwarranted dis
turbance OF economic affairs. bringing
political defeat TO the party responsible.
IF this bill is passed the Republicans
VIII lose twenty-five seats In the next
Congress-" Representative Underhill
CRep., Mass) warned the House in de-
nouncing the measure as unscientific.
Representative Fish declared the meas
ure was the work OF invisible govern
fnent.
In discussing the bill Representative
Garner made sensational attack on
william Burgess OF the Tariff Commits
sion because OF part he had In the
adoption OF chinaware rates when the
bill was In the Senate
OIL OUTPUT GAINS