New-York tribune., 1922-09-13
Schedules i'm Completed
Measure Are Shaded
Onfy Slightly Below
Those Fixed by Senate
House Is Limited
To A Hours Debate
Strong but Futile Fight
Forecast; Law VIII Go
to Harding Next Week

| WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.--Chairman
Fordney of the House Ways and Means
Committee reported the ,ariff bill from
the conference committee to the House
to-day and preparations were made for
the struggle over the adoption of the
report which will come in the House
tomorrow. Agreement was reached to
allow four hours of debate on the bill
IN the House. Under this arrangement
a vote will be reached late tomorrow
afternoon. The Senate will take up the
bill after the House has acted. Senator
McCumber, as chairman of the Finance
Committee and head of the Senate con-
1efees, lad the report of the confer
ence committee before the Senate.
AS soon as the report of the confer
ence committee was made public the
Democratic Senators and House mem
bers and the small group of Republican
opponents of the bill began to grid
themselves for the attacks which they
] Will launch against it. The House oppo-
sltion will have but little time to ex-
press its views. In the Senate there
Will be ample time for broadsides Of
, criticism and the report will be before
| that body for some days. Estimates in
some quarters were that the bill would
be debated in the Senate for two weeks,
but this is improbable and it NAV be
passed by the end of next week. If
there is any attempt to unduly delay
adoption of the report in the Senate the
: Republican leaders will force night ses-
sions.
Bill Sure to Become Law
In gpito ,of fon nt ILL
raked with criticism from the Demo-
Gratis and from some Republicans, a
canvass of the situation shows con-
ciusively that the Seport will be
adopted as it stands. President Hard
ing will sign it. The fact the flexible
features of the Senate bill, strength
ened in some particulars, were retained
Insures the signsture of the President
Had they been }eft out there is said TO
be no doubt he would have vetoed it,
Opponents bf the extension for one
year OF the 1ye embargo made prepara<
tlons to-day for the battle they wifi
wage in hoth, houses against the ,.e,f.
/ barge provision. They have, however,
llttle or no hope Of defeating it.
WhaG they will contend the con-
fereIs exceeded their powers, there is
LITTLE reason to believe the chair in
either house will rule against the con-
{ florence committee
/ Z The conference report as made public
I to day contained few surprises Study
! of the report disclosed that the bill
as agreed to in conference is close 20
I the Senate bill and much more re-
sembles that measure than the House
4 bill. The Senate conferees receded on
/, only 70 out of the nearly $500 amend
ments which the Senate put into the
House bill before it passed it. The
House conferees gave way to the SEN
1; ate conferees in many hundreds of in
i stances. Actually, the House conferees
reccded on more than 1000 amend
/ ments, but part of these were in para
graph numbers or unimportant in
ckaracter.S
! TIE fact the House conferees ac-
cepted the Senate plan for foreign val
uation in part accounts for the re-
semblance to the Senate bill.
Rates Remain Generally High
+. Broadly speaking, the rates, while in
| some respects shaded below the SEN
] ate rates, remain at high general
level. They are looked on, upon the
whole, as above the Payne-Aldrich level.
Under the surface there is great
current of scathing criticism of the
measure. Many Republicans who will
vote for adoption Of the report will
do so reluctantly and with apprehen-
sion of political reaction.
i 1t is expected by the Senate Repub-
llican leaders that it will be possible
Ito send the bill to the President before
the end of next week. Senate leaders
said they hoped to adjourn the session
week from Saturday. The bill will
go into effect practically on passage, or
| at midnight after it has been signed
by the President.
| 1t is generally recognized that the
outstanding feature of the bill is the
/ flexible tariff provision, giving the
/ President power to raise and lower
rates on recommendation of the Tariff
| Commission. Inasmuch as the con-
ferees struck out of these provisions
/ the time limit Of July /, 1924, the
President will have ample opportunity
] to give them a thorough try-out, pro
vided, of course, the courts uphold
fcnntjnued an usoe fjye)