The Princeton union., 1922-08-17
NEWS SUMMARY
OF THE CAPITAL
Kellogg's Tariff Amendments Win;
Means Victory and Large Say
ing to Consumers.
MINERS RETURN TO PITS
Railroad Farley Still Unsettled; Con-
ferences Pending and Results
Hopeful for Settlement.

Led by Senator Frank B. Kellogg
of Minnesota, insurgent republicans Of
the senate Wednesday transferred
three sections of the lumber schedule
in the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill
from the dutiable to the free list. The
senate's action was a rebuff to the
high tariff bloc and is regarded as a
blow to the lumber interests of the
Pacific northwest. It was victory in
behalf of consumers.
The items put on the free list in
clude:
No. /. Logs Of fir, spruce, cedar or
western hemlock upon which the house
placed duty Of 81 thousand board
feet and which the finance committee
approved.
No. 2. Paving posts, railroad ties
aid telephone, trolley, electric light
and telegraph poles of cedar or other
woods. The duty in the bill was 10
per cent ad valorem.
No. 8. Pickets, palings, hoops and
slaves of woods of all kinds. The duty
in the bill on these also was 10 per
cent ad valorem.
Senator Kellogg said passage Of his
amendments means immense savings
to consumers of these products. The
far northwest senators, aided by the
tariff block which boosted the rates of
cotton, wool and many of the farm
products, succeeded in retaining the
house rates when the subject was be-
fore the finance committee.
Senator Kellogg did not make a
speech for his amendments. He re-
Gently led the fight for free shingles.
Apparently his arguments against a
duty on shingles convinced a majority
of the senate there is no excuse for a
duty on logs, poles, hoops, slaves and
the like.
Action of the senate leaves only GER
tain Of the foreign woods now on the
dutiable list. According to Senator
Kellogg, these will not injure the
average American consumer in the
least.
Before the senate takes final vote
on the tariff bill Saturday, Senator
Kellogg expects to offer other amend
ments for reduction Of rates on trans
fer of items to the free list. One of
the latter is ammonium sulphate,
which is used in the manufacture of
fertilizer.
There is not a single reason for a
duty on the product, Senator Kellogg
said. Farmers throughout the coun-
try use it as fertilizer. It has been
charged that the only purpose Of the
duty is to afford the manufacturer an
excuse to increase the price to the
farmer. Senator Kellogg said the
vote probably will be very close.
For the first time in 20 weeks strik-
ing soft coal miners at scattered
points in seven states were today un-
der orders to begin coal production.
This result Of the part settlement of
the strike affected only a small ma
jority of the 450,0O0 soft coal diggers,
who threw down their picks last
March 81, but union officials were on
their way back home to seek to make
peace with other employees.
With miners at scattered points in
seven states ordered back to work, at
tention turned to the miners-operators'
parley at Philadelphia Thursday,
when it is hoped the anthracite strike
will be settled.
Thousands of Illinois miners are
preparing to go back to work in be-
lief agreement will be made shortly.
Washington state operators refuse
to meet miners, saying their mines are
running satisfactorily on the open
shop basis.
Troops were ordered withdrawn
from mines in Ohio. A few men in
Ohio resumed work today under the
Cleveland agreement.
Agreement between railroad execu-
tives and railroad labor organization
leaders to hold another conference
Thursday in New York to seek set
tlement of the shipments strike, it was
said, had resulted in President Hard
ing questioning the desirability Of
making his expected report to con-
gress and the country on the strike
situation within the next few hours.
Plans made for the reception of his
communication Thursday at a joint
session of the house and senate con-
sequently were understood to be on the
verge of revision, as the president
was represented as being desirous of
withholding his statment of the case
if the union chiefs and the railroad
presidents could hold out any pros
poets of mutually satisfactory set
tlement.