The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-08-09
Sugar Tariff
Is Increased:
Potash Is Free
Bounty Is Denied Producers
Of Chemical-Manufac.
turers Buy Supplies
in Europe.

Washington, Aug. 8.-The senate
approved today an increase Of $40 Of
a cent a pound in the tariff on sugar;
rejected 4 plan for = government
bounty of $o,5Oo,0Oo for domestic
potash producers and rescinded ito
former action in voting an impost
Of z cents a pound on white arsenic.
Potash and white arsenic were placed
on the free list.
The sugar rate OF 2.3 cent a pound
was a compromise between the rs
cent duty urged by Louisiana cane
and western beet sugar producers,
and the 2 cents proposed by the
house and approved by the finance
committee majority. 1t was 3-l0ths
OF cent above the tariftin the ex-
isting emergency act and los cents
above that in the Underwood act.
The compromise as offered by Sen.
stor Smoot of Utah, ranking republi-
can on the finance committee and
was accepted by the same vote that
the senate rejected the ascent duty,
81 to s..
Vote on Potash.
The vote against the bounty on
potash was 81 to so, with II re-
publicans opposing and three demo-
Gratis supporting.
The republicans: Borah, Capper,
Cummins, Edge, Jones of Washing
ton, Lenroot, Mccormick, Oddie,
Sterling, Townsend, Wadsworth and
Willis. The democrats were: Jones
of New Mexico, Kendrick and Rams
dell.
Before considering the bounty, the
senate voted, 66 to I, to strike out
the provision by which the tariff duty
would have been imposed on potash
for five years at the same rates that
it was proposed to pay the bounty
Of IN cents pound for the first two
years, cents for the third years, 1H
cents for the fourth year and ! cent
for the fifth year. Senator Short
ridge, republican, California, alone
voted against eliminating the duty,
explaining that he thought the indus
try should be fostered by a tariff
and not by federal bounty.
Lenroot Fights Bounty.
The committee substitute amend
ment proposing to pay potash pro-
ducers bounty over period Of FIVE
years led to sharp fight, during
which Senator Lenroot, republican,
Wisconsin, denounced the PROPOSE
ton as one which would open the
door of the federal treasury for
steady drain of the same sort in the
future.
adopt this amendment" he said,
"and we embark on the sea of boun-
ties of which we may never return"
Senator Smoot replied that as he
saw the situation it was question
whether the United States was to
give its industry an opportunity to
develop or permit the German and
French cartels to have compile te
domination.
The senate was told by the Utah
senator that S. D. Crenshaw of Rich
mond, Va, vice president of the Vir-
ginia- Carolina Chemical company,
had made a deal whereby "a Ameri-
can manufacturers of fertilizer hod
signed contracts with the German
and French concerns for their entire
supplies of potash for this year to the
exclusion of American producers.
Reed Raps Trust.
Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri,
declared that to him it was utterly
intolerable" that American manufac-
turers should be permitted to sign
contracts with foreign concerns that
would even have a tendency to ex-
clude American products from the |
market.
THAT is trust practice in its worst |
form," he said, "and I think that any
manufacturer who would |
do it ought to be sent to joil for a
good long term, because he not only
is suppressing competition but doing
it in the interest of foreign producers
as against American producers"
Under its unaniuous consent
agreement the senate tomorrow will
dispose of amendments to the para
graphs dealing with duties on hides,
boots, shoes, leather and leather
goods and then before recessing on
Friday will dispose of the flexible
Tariff provisions proposing broad
power for the president over tariff
rates and the amendments to the
tariff commission act, the so-called
scientific" tariff proposition.