The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-12
Strong Opposition Will Be
Made in Both Houses to
Potash Duty.
CHANGES KEPT SECRET
Findings of Joint Board Will
Go to House To-day and
Senate Tomorrow.

Special Dispatch TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau, 1
Washington. ID. c., Sept. IL.
The Conference Committee report on
the Fordney- McCumber tariff bill will
be submitted to the House tomorrow,
and that is to be the signal for re-
newed fight on the rates of the meas
ure which may endanger it's final pas
sage.
The restoration of the embargo on
dyestuffs is one of the chief issues of
controversy. In the Senate, particu-
larly, objection to this feature of the
bill is rampant. Senator Moses (Rep.,
N. H., who made a fight against the
embargo when the bill was up in COM
mittee of the whole. will renew his at
tack, even to the extent of preventing
II possible the passage of the bill be-
fore elections.
Senator Moses said to-day that he be-
lieved the Senate and House conferees,
In restoring the embargo after it had
been rejected by both the Senate and
House, exceeded their authority. and
that he intends to make point Of
order against it under the Curtis rule
forbidding a conference committee from
reinstating a provision so rejected He
will. at the same time. renew his attack
on what he has called the "Dyestuffs
Trust"
Moses TO Force Test Vote.
If the point Of order is not sustained
against the bill because of the embargo
Senator Moses will ask that the meas
ure be sent back to the conference COM
mittee with instructions to make the
change. and upon this question will
come test vote much the same as that
In which the Senate in the first instance
turned down the embargo.
Senator Moses feels that he has
margin of not less than eight votes
against the embargo. IL this course
fails another test will come on the
adoption OF the conference report, when
Senator Moses and those who agree
with him on the dyestuffs issue will go
to the extent of voting against the bill
II the embargo is not eliminated.
be made to cut Off the conference COM
mittee rate of one and half cents a
pound duty on potash. On this item one
OF the most vigorous OF all the fights
was staged when the bill was up in the
Senate.
The rate is intended to aid a few
manufacturers of potash who insist they
must have protection or their industry
will succumb to German competition.
1t means. according to tariff experts, a
virtual doubling of the rate on potash,
which Is used for fertilizer. The fight
may even endanger the final passage Of
the bill, because of the fact that 1t Is
getting harder and harder to keep a
quorum In the Senate and House.
Farm Bloc Pleased.
Although the rates for agricultural
products have been cut to some extent
1t developed to-day that the agricultural
tariff bloc, led by Senator Gooding (Rep.,
Idaho). and composed OF twenty-five
other Senators from farming States. Is
immensely pleased by what they got.
They will. in consequence, support the
bili, as items they obtained were in trade
for other high rates proved for special
interests.
Methods OF the conference committee
were revealed to-day when members OF
the Senate and House attempted to OBJ
tain some of the facts abou. the changes,
They were told that this could not be
done, because the members OF the COM
mittee were pledged to secrecy.
The changes have been revealed only
to lobbyists and other representatives OF
special interests who were able to pull
certain wires TO get information they
wanted II was from these sources that
the newspapers were able last Saturday
to obtain figures on some OF the essential
rates.
The printed text or the bill containing
all the conference committee changes
will be available at 3 o'clock tomorrow
morning Members of the Senate and
House seeking information have been
told to wait Until II liz made public