Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-05-16
GOODllG SAYS
TARIFF BILL
AIDS !. !: |! ! FARMERS !; ! !, j ]
All Farm Products on Dui-
able List, Idaho Sena-.
XII. tor Says.
American Valuation Brought
Into Discussion by Sena-
tor Capper.

washington, May 16.-All products
Of the farm are on the dutiable list
In the McCumber-F tariff bill,
Senator Gooding Of Idaho, chairman.
Of tho Republican agricultural tariff
bloc announced today in the senate
If any farm product Is on the free
List DO not know nov what "a: !. , iS, ,,+ ne tt
on the dutiable list il it needs pro-
tection.' .
senator Gooding, said the average
rate Of duty in te bill on farm prod.
ucts was Fl $40 per cent cent and
call attention that only few things
produced by the farmer were on the
dutiable list in the Underwood law.
Urges Closed Ports.
The Idaho senator declared that the
United States ''ought to pretty near
close its ports" to similar foreign
products when there was an over
reduction Of stale farm uroducts. He
production Of manufactured articles,
the Manufacturers closed their fac
tories with the approval of the pub.
lie, but added that the farmer could
not cease production. He argued,
however. that what he described as
the Democratic policy OF "free trade"
would drive farmers to a curtailment
Of output.
The tariff bloc chairman asserted
that "all this talk about the McCum-
ber bill being framed behind closed
doors Is without foundation" He said
that when the doors were closed any
senator was welcome, adding that he
had been present with farmers on
several occasions. ..
Declaring that this was the first tariff
bill ever framed that gave the farm
n q n y a k1~
charged that "all this delay in the
senate" was for. the purpose OF
molding public opinion to the idea
that this bill ts infamous.''
valaa4ioa plan Enters.
Washington. May 16.--American
valuation again waa brought into sem
ate discussion OF the tariff bill today,
Senator Capper; Republican, Kansas,
chairman Of the senate agricultural
! bloc, charging that the most zealoua
asdtf'-otetss. z OF this system desired 1t
pt sasy sfsy hel:sved that BY It they
|sNsessta 0hceAfe from the American
psople kthe sxtent: to which they. de-
sire to- raise rates. .;. =
# In effect" he said, they admit
that they are seeking rates so high
as to the unpopular, that they are
endeaYoring not to represent the will
Of the people. but to fool the peo-
PIC.
Senator capper predicted that the
real propasanda' for American val
uatton was coming in spite OF the ac-
ton Of the senate finance COMMITTEES
in abandoning 1t in favor Of foreign
valuation, and that It would be
launched by those who "desire exces-
sively higher protective duties on
manufactured articles" He added
that manufacturers were not content
with tariff rates that would equalize
their position in COMPETITION with
foreign producers but desired" an ex-
elusive position in the American mar
kets." - = 't' :
II believe" says the head Of the
farm bloc, that American valuation,
IT, incorporated in the present bill,
would have the same economic and
political effect as did the concealed
protection in the compensatory 1du-
ties Of schedule K Of the Payne-Ald-
rich act. President Taft was COM
PEELED to state that schedule X Of that
tariff act was indefensible. The op-
ponents Of the bill were able to attack
it more successfully merely because
the protection which it contained was
concealed. In the same way Ameri-
can valuation, II Incorporated in the
present bill, would weaken the posi-
ton of the Republican party. It
would almost certainly conceal an
excessive amount Of protection, which
would be dimcut to defend"
Senator Capper said American valu-
alton might be properly resorted to
10 meet unusual competitive stu
atoms as proposed IN the present bill
but added that beyond that 1t is q
cloak for excessive protection and q
needless political burden for the Re-
publican party to carry" He ex-
pressed the opinion that within few
years. perhaps when Europe has re-
covered from the moro violent tariff
effects Of the war. and stabilized her
currencies, it was not unlikely that
the provision Of the bill for the proc
lamation Of American valuation by
! the president would be q dead letter