The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-20
OPINIONS VARY
 ON TARIFF BILL
Two Houses of Congress at Loggerheads on Proposed
 Measure
By HUGH W. ROBERTS

800 Davidson Building Washington, April 19.-(Speeial)- Regarding the tariff which the re- puplicans threaten to enact some time in the future. there is variety of. opinions. Regarding other tariffs, there were only two, the democratic and the republican opinions.
 Senator McCumber, of the finance committee, says that 1t will be the first national" tariff ever enacted. Senator Johnson of California says that 1t will protect the west, where as in all other tariffs, the west was ! fignored.
 The west. permitted to despoil the zconsumer along with the east, is sat 5fsfied. The east is satisfied because lit Is protected although there is |Shparent an undercurrent of dissatis- Faction because it is not the only 3section greatly favored
 Senator New of Indiana says that ] the tariff will increase the cost of Living but will protect the farmers i products. Benjamin c. Marsh, man aging director of the farmers na- ztional council. says, The tariff bill Reported by the Senate finance com nlittee Is the very worst of the many 7 gold bricks handed the farmers by zthis administration"
 In the meanwhile, the two Houses j are at loggerheads The ways and means committee insists that the rates be based on American valua- &tons, whereas the finance committee insists that rates shall be based on European valuations.
 The opinion of democrats is ex- pressed formally by Cordell Hull of Tennessee. chairman of the demo- &cratic national committee. His state ment follows:
 The tariff for the first time is giving even the blind reactionary re- #publicans real trouble. The admin
 stration Is facing in the opposite drection from every sound economic prnciple-domestic and international. For three years they have been en- deavoring to apply antiquated, pro- vincial tariff doctrines to new world conditions. In their helpless, re- aotionary state of mind. they cannot realize that a wonderful change and Hdevelopment in our financial, com |mercial and industrial affairs have taken place during recent years. A 9great creditory nation, possessing a
 Foreign debt Of Sl5, 900, 100000. also Eearly one-half of the worlds gold
 supply, with wonderful merchant
 marine and a productive capacity
 from 30 to 40 per cent above it's ca
 pacity to consume, is to be hand
 cuffed and bound by a typical re publican high protective tariff based
 upon the modern absurdity that com-
 merce is not barter. that we will sell |but not buy, that our debtors can bay us off in gold which they do not
 possess, that our merchant marine
 shonld carry freight only in our di-
 rection, and that our increased pro-
 duction capacity of 30 per cent and
 increased annual income of sl5.000,-
 oe0,o00 should be cut down to equal
 our home consumption.
 Under the blighting threat of this
 archaic policy our foreign trade has
 already declined from $500 000, ,090
 n 1920 to s7,000, 100000 in 1921, and
 tapital and labor are out of em-
 ployrnent on every hand. In order 10
 bring prosperity to the farmer, the
 miner. the laborer. and 10 all Amer
 ican producers of surpluses, reel
 procal foreign market conditions are indispensable Our republican friends.
 having always frowned on foreign
 markets. know nothing about de-
 keloping them"
 A. F. TO HEAR LADY AsToR