The New York herald., 1922-04-12
REVISED TARIFF
SENT TO SENATE
Confined from First Page.

Continued from First Page.
In most cases than those contained In
the House BILL. For instance. in the
House bill the duty on wheat was %
cents a bushel while in the Senate bill
1t is 30 cents bushel; the duty on oats
while in the Senate bill it is Is cents
bushel The rate on flour. eggs. milk.
butter and cheeses are also higher in
the Senate measure than in the House
| bill.
The agricultural bloc In the Senate
scored another victory in having in
serted in the bill a duty of 10 per cent.
ad valorem on hides. This Is the first
time since the Dingley bill that any
tariff has been imposed on hides. They
were admitted free under the Payne
Aldrich bill and also under the Under
wood bill. Compensatory duties are
placed on boots, shoes and other leather
DiSsunss, AS has been their custom. the Demo
Gratis will train their guns especially
on the rates on wool, which the tariff
! trainers say Is about the same as in the
Payne-Aldrich BILL although reached in
different way In the Payne-Aldrich
/ bill the duty was II cents a pound ON
| wool in the grease, while in the pending
| measure 1t Is 33 cents a pound on the
secured content. Senator Smoot. one Of
the leading advocates of the wool sched-
! ule as finally adopted by the committee.
| says wool loses &C per cent. as result
of the cleaning process, and on that basis
| the proposed rate is the same as that in
| the Payne-Aldrich BILL
Smoot Estimates Called Too High.
However, Democratic Senators say
| Senator Shoots estimates are too high.
| that some woods lose only 20 per cent
| by cleaning while the average runs
from 40 to so per cent. They contend
that the proposed rate Is the highest
ever imposed by the United States and
will boost prices of wooden commodities
perceptibly The tariff on wool In the
House bill was rs cents pound for the
secured product.
A long and bitter fight is predicted
over the woolen schedule. AS hereto
fore the party lines on that question will
be tightly drawn. The Democrats claim
there is no justification for high duty
on wool. On the other hand the Repub-
| licans say wool is a typical American
product and should be protected from
large mportations from Australia and
Argentina.
over the protest of publishers. who
desired to protect the American forests
from depletion, tho Senate committee
| imposed duty. of per cent. upon
chemical wood pulp. The House bill per-
| mitted the free entry OF both chemical
and mechanical wood pulp. The COM
mittee took the view that in order to
| equalize competitive differences in the
| manufacture of chemical wood pulp
| per cent rate Is necessary. The COM
| mittee adopted the policy OF the House
bill in recommending the free entry Of
mechanical wood pulp and standard
newspaper print.
Where Bloc Was Bumped.
In the steel schedules as reported by
| the Senate Finance Committee the
agricultural bloc In the House -ot a
real bump. In o desire to soak the
steel trust" the agricultralists in the
t.ouse had inserted In the Fordrcy bill
a duty Of S1120 gross ton on man
ganese: a duty of s39.d2 a gross ton on
| ferro-manganese, and a duty OF SIS
net ton on n,agnesitc. basic materials
| for the manufacture of steel products
Heretofore ON the free list. except ferro-
manganese, which was s4 gross ton
under the Dingley bill. $3.50 q ton
under the Payne-Aldrich bill. and free
under the Underwood bill.
| In view of the low schedules OF duties
! on finished steel products in the Ford
ney bill the Senate committee put
manganese ore on the free list duty
of $3.50 per ton on ferro-manganese
and Sc ton on magnesits.
| The duty was put on magnesite be-
cause the Senate committee learned
that it is produced in this country only
by one concern. in the State OF Wash
| ington. Magnesite is used as a refract-
ory IN the steel industry. Reports OF the
Geological Survey, IN the hands OF the
committee, show that there Is not suf-
fcient manganese orc in this country
to supply the need Of the steel industry
for three years.
Proposed Duty on MaEnesftc.
The committees experts explained
that the proposed duty on magnesite Of
SIC Is equivalent to about 100 per cent
ad valorem under pre-war prices at
| Atlantic seaboards. and the proposed
duty or s1t.20 a ton on the pre-war
market value Of manganese ore at At
iantic seaboards.
| In brief the steel schedules. say the
| experts. are no higher than those in the
Payne-4Aldrich bill. and the specific
rates are only about so per cent. Of
those In the Dingley bill. They range
\ from per cent. ad valorem to about
20 per cent. ad valorcm. There are no
compensatory rates except on highly
finished steel products which are not
manufactured In this country, Barbcd
| wire Is put on the free list.
/ Fruit and nut growers of california
succeeded In having Incorporated In the
bin the schedule on their products
which they advocated as necessary 10
protect them from big importations from
Italy and other tropical countries.
| Yielding to the request of American
manufacturers tariff Of only 90 per
cent. ad vaIorem is proposed on auto
mobiles, automobile bodies, chassis and
parts. This is considered very mod
crate tariff and Is due, so II IL under
stood, to the fact that the American
| product Is now much in demand all over
the world and 1t was feared that if a
high tariff was proposed on that product
| It would hurst this great American In
dustry and might resort 10 retaliatory
measures on other commodities.
Cut Out of House Bill.
This provision was cut out OF the
House bill: That II there be imported
into the United states any automobile,
automobile bodies. automobile chassis,
motorcycles and parts manufactured In
or exported from any country which Inn
poses duty greater than 20 per cent
ad vaiorcm upon similar articles exported
from the United States there shall be
levied. paid aud collected upon such
arf4rlc@ n dutv couaf 10 tho dutv f,,,