Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-07-24
LONG TARIFF
DELAY SEEN
Bill Not Likely to be Acted
Upon Before Election, Out
look at Washington
BY GEORGE II. MANNING
washington Correspondent of the
Perth Amboy Evening News.)

wv aShlnStOn correspondent OF the
Perth Amboy Evening News.)
WASHINGTON, July 24.-All
hopes of passing the F'ordney-Mc-
Cumber tariff bill in time for them
to participate in the coming con-
gressional campaign appears to have
been abandoned by Republican lead
ers of the senate.
1t now seems that consideration of
the measure will be extended to the
er,d of September or the middle of
October, and the matter IS becoming
Il source of grave fears among that
contingent of the upper chamber
who come up for reelection this fall
Thelr presence on the ground is
needed in order to combat criticism
of certain of the high schedules pro-
vcked by Democratic members and
the insurgent Republican group.
Tariff legislation must either be
laid aside together with the ship
subsidy and soldier bonus bills. or
the congressional campaign will be
carried on from the offices of sena-
tors and representatives at the cap
ltci, Something of a long distance
campaign would follow from this.
Members would have to do their
electioneering by mail and by proxy,
which recent events have pointed
out to be very ineffective method
of procedure entailing the loss of
personal touch with their constitu-
enCies.
The tariff is the main stumbling
block. Ship subsidy and bonus
legislation, it is said. might be ne
gotiated with comparative ease.
Those measures could be enacted
INTO law within a reasonable time,
but political observers who hava
watched the course of tariff debate
In congress during previous admin
lstrations believe that the Fordney-
McCumber cannot be disposed of by
the senate, by the conference com
mlttee and by the House and senate
again until the fall months have
arrived.
LIZ progress on the remainder of
the bill is no greater than on that
which has already been disposed of
f1Ve or six months, in the least, will
be needed to pass. 1t is thought
that the conferences between mem
bers of the House and senate to ad-
Just the differences arising between
the two chambers will take another
month.
Up to the present time, the senate
has only passed the nine hundredth
paragraph of bill which has 1880
paragraphs. Further, many of the
debatable items in the bill have been
passed over and still have to come
up for discussion. And after the
been disposed of there are $40 sec
tions covering administrative mat
tiers and general provisions which
must be considered
The tariff bill has been before the
upper chamber for three months,
having been presented for debate on
April 20. So far only committee
amendments bearing upon rates
have been considered--under the
rule no minority amendments may
be considered until after those by
the committee have been disposed
of. Therefore, it is estimated that
the senate has not actually acted
upon one-third of the bill.
Greater still. the remaining two
thirds include items of highly con-
trovarsial nature such as the duties
on fax, silk, sugar, wool, leather,
and other commodities of a similar
| character. Then too there are the
clauses relating to arbitrary fixing of
rates by the president, reciprocity,
and the reappraisement of values
upon protest. All of which. together
with the fight to come on the Amer
lean valuation principle. will pro-
vide ground for unlimited discussion
which may carry the ultimate date
of vote way into the future.
In reporting the bill, the senate
finance committee recommended g.
082 amendments to the measure as
committee has offered numerous
, passed by the house. Since then the
change and revisions.
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