The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
HOUSE AND SENATE FACING ROW OVER
 TARIFF MEASURE
House Will Write New Bill if Measure Passed by Senate. Declares Chairman
 Fordney
By Associated Press


 Washington, February 1S.--A row between the House and Senate over American valuation was forecast to- day after it became known that re- publican members of the Senate finance committee, in rewriting the so-called permanent tariff bill, had agreed tentatively on continuing the present principle of passing duties on foreign market value.
 Chairman Fordney, of the House ways and means committee, declared that if this kind of a tariff measure was nassed by the Senate the House would write new bill with an American valuation clause and let the Senate try again" If this should happen 1t was said there would be little prospect of a tariff bill at this session unless Congress remained cn the job throughout most of the con- gressional campaign
 Declaring that the House ways and means committee had written a Dill on the American valuation plan only after full agreement with all of .he republican members of the Senate committee except Senator LaFolleste of Wisconsin. Representative Ford ney said the abandonment of this principle by the Senate committee majority was "a thing the gentlemen bf the ways and means committee would not have done without con snlting the finance committee. Will Rewrite It
 < ''If they send q bill over here basad on foreign valuation" he added, they yt q the ways and means committee, which will send back to the Senate a bill also based on American valuation
 m never agree to any foreign valuation and I do not know of any republican member of the House who will. or who wants foreign valua- tion.'
 The valuation plan as framed in the House bill was abandoned some time ago by majority members of the Senate committee. who have been considering two plans based largely on the recommendations of President Harding in his annual message TO Congress last December. The execu- tive then said regarding American valuation that there could not be ignored the danger of such vaIu- ation" making American tariffs pro- hibitive.
 In the light of the Presidents po- sition it was suggested that in the event of a disagr cement between the House and Senate on the valuation question the matter might be refer red to the executive in an effort 10 bring about an agreement before such an impasse as that suggested by Mr. Fordney would be brought about.
 Preparing New Ad VaIorem
 The Senate committee majority be- gan today the rewriting of the ad valorem rates in the Fordney bill on the basis of foreign valuation. Senators said that many of the rates were being scaled upwards since the original figures were predicated upon an assessment of duties on the basis of the value of articles produced n this country comparable to those m- ported.
 The valuation plan as tentatively agreed upon, known as the Shoot plan. carries provisions designed to meet unusual conditions now exist , ing in world trade. These provisions include proclaimed American valua- tion; flexible rates within a radius of 50 per cent of the values fixed in the bill and a depreciated cur tions designed to prevent unfair com petition in importation and discrim- ination against American foreign commerce.
 It was said today that final vo.e on the Shoot plan was being de- layed pending further information from the state department as 10 whether the depreciated currency provisions would be in violation of the favored nation" clause of exist ing commercial treaties. There is some doubt in the committee now on that score and this provision may have to be modified.