New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Rates Stay Up
AS (.onferees
+ 'iinisll I.aI,ors
Ios,se Expected to Receive
Report Tuesday; Wool
Bloc and Sugar Men Win
III Compromise Figures
s. vsss.aiion Rejected
i've Enabargo's Retention
Will Be Recommended:
shingle Fight Developed

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Il is sHfNGT0N, Sept. Q. Senate and
us.,se eonfeYees on the tariff bill prac-
sesflv completed an agreement on the
~sssnre this afternoon. The report
will 90 to the aouse Tuesday and viii
T. taken no for action in that body
Wednesday. The repor; vail be taken
81 in the Senate after il has been
ssopted by the House.
Senator McCumber. chairman OF the
finance Committee, announced this
Nternoen that the conference coHa-
,n;tfaa had arrived at an agreement,
y Irnorfaut features of the agreement,
sitbnu0b NOT announced by the con-
Terence committee, became known THIS
eftsrnoon. One OF .hese is thl sugar
Tate II has been fixed at LIZ cents
per nound on Cuban sugar This is os
.,srt hsIow the Senate rate and .16
Tenf above the House rate and. the
emeryeucy rate. ln the Senate bill the
SeneYsf rate is 2.20 cents and the Cuban
Fate f.sl cents per pound. In the
HcEse bill and the emergency act, the
General rate is 2 cents and the Cuban
fate f.e0 cents. In the conference re-
pcrt the general rate is 2.20 cents and
sse Cuban rate, as already inaicated,
y7e cents.
Seen as High s5gar Victory
: Fixing Of the Cuban rate at i.76 is
noked en- as victory by the advocates
d i higa sugar tarlf While obliged
Is retreat slightly from the Senate rate
Aey have succeeded in winning a rate
katerially higher than the House rate
il the emergency rate. Senate Demo
rats are prepared TO assail the con-
krence report sugar rate on the
round it is unnecessarily high and will
lid many millions to the sugar bill of
Anercan households.
The wool rate, like the sugar rate,
sss subject OF controversy in the con-
kgence. The conference report rate is
j cents per pound of clean content of
nw wool The Senate bill rate is 80
knts and the House rates were % and
Is cents.
The high wool rate in the conference
ssport is a triumph for the agricultural
brif bloc. That body, headed BY Sena
soy Gooding, of Idaho, .-laid down" on
.he conferees to adopt the Senate rates
"a wool, sugar, agricultural products
Ind long staple cotton. While the con-
ference committee shaded down the
fates on wool and sugar the agricul-
taral elements are well pleased with
them. The Senate rates on agricultural
PRODUCTS are but little reduced The
duty on long staple cotton is stricken
oat, but this was of little real concern
ia the farm tariff bloc, outside of Ari-
iona. Elimination of the, duty on long
staple cotton has made possible reduc-
tion Of compensatory duties on cotton
naauiacturers.
Favor Dye Embargo
The conference committee agreed to
recommend continuation of the dye en-
barge in the emergency tariff act, with
The rates originally recommended by
the Finance Committee, so and go per
5eat ard seven cents pound.
Ia view of the bitter opposition to
hs hssmbargo, it is expected this action
Bill ense protest, both in the House
sadthe Senate.
Chairman Fordney of the Ways and
Means Committee, who said some time
teH3uS WSbih III QEIll SuOH nISo
for American valuation, abandoned the
lght before the frost came. The con-
seFees adopted foreign valuation, with
sproviso in the flexible tariff that the
President can impose American valua-
hon when needed to equalize cost of
Production.
The flexible tariff features of the
Senate bill are retained and to some
extent broadened. The free zone pro-
sisions Of the Senate bill are elirsi-
mated.
big eleyenth-hour fight developed
ever the duty on shingles. The House
imposed rate on shingles of, SO cents
per thousand. The Senate put them
On the free list. The conferees com
Promised at rs cents several days ago.
then Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota,
served notice he would vote against
ns blil unless shingles were on the
nee list, Senator Nelson, it is under
STOOD, takes the same position.
hslethis afternoon Senator's Good
.ag, otanteld and McNary went to the
fanahce cle Committee rooms. called
Txnslfmas Fordney of the Ways and
.ussas committee out of conference
aaa urged him to insist on at least IS
seass , on shingles. He told them he
s;o HOula stand by this rate or force
Isastesment and let the House decide