Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-12

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by foreign producers for export sale
OF late have been so extremely low
that they threaten shc destruction OF
American industries and have con.
scqucn,ly demoralized American
trade II added that '',his condition.
exists at the present time and il IS
believed will continue TO exist uny!
rates arc established that will at.
ford fair protection 10 American n-
4 dustries."
Before its presentation in the sem
ate, the bill was formally approved
at the first meeting OF the entire
committee since the work of draft
ing the measure was started three
months ago. Democratic members
OF the committee present voted
against it and were given 10 days in
which to prepare their minority re-
port and also for the fight which
they plan to launch against it im-
mcdiately after it is called up.
Secrecy is Charged.
| The charge OF secrecy in the pre-
paration of the bill was raised
promptly in the senate from the
democratic side. Senator Harrison
OF Mississippi called attention that
the bin was introduced today during
an executive session OF the senate
and added.
1T was perfectly natural that it
should be done I'M secrecy. Every
thing else about it has been done in
secrecy" .....
Opposition will not be confined to
the democratic side. Senator Smoot,
Utah, ranking republican on the fl
nance committee, plans to take the
| floor in his fight. for duties on sugar
higher than the cents a pound on
iull duty and 100 cents a pound on
Cuban raw, which are now in force
in the emergency tariff and which
the committee has recommended.
Immediately after the bill was i'll
troduced. the effort to raise the ]
/ cents pound on long. staple cot
ton, now i'll the emergency law and
approved by the committee, was
launched, Senator Cameron, repub-
lican, Arizona, introducing an
amendment to make the rate Is cents,
the figure urged by producers of this
cotton in his and other southwest
ern states, and by the republican
agricultural tariff bloc. The short
staple cotton is retained on the" free
list but opposition is promised TO
someto of the rates proposed on cot
ton goods, which in some instances
are higher than thse in the Payne
Aldrich bill.
I Agriesitutal' Schedules.
| One of the principal schedules in
the new bill is that dealing with
\ agricultural products. 1t includes
most items of foodstuff, many Of
which were on the free list in the
| Underwood bill, and includes duty
Of so cents bushel on wheat as under
! the emergency law, but 5 cents
4 higher than proposed in the" Fordney
bill. The compensatory duty on
!. flour was placed at 78 cents per 100
pounds, as compared to so cents
in the February bill and Is per cent
| advalofem in the Payne-Aldrich
measure.
| In framing this schedule, the COM
mittee majority gave the republican
agricultural bloc about the rates
asked for but the committee experts
said that with few exceptions the,
duties would.not exceed Is per cent
| ad vaiorem.
| Explaining the schedule in its re-
port, the maiority said it had adopted
i the policy OF giving to agriculture
i the measure of protection that has
!. been accorded to other industries
with due considerations to the needs
Of all sections and of all industries.
d Besides the provisions to take care
; Of the dye and glass industries de-
veloped during the war, the com-
I mittee majority sought to give pro-
lection to other wartime industries.
1t provided for duty of 20 per
cent ad vaioren-doubles the Payne
Aldrich and Underwood rates-on
n dolls and toys to protect the indus
q try primarily from German competi-
81 ton.
Potash Protected.
II +W1tH d view " uCNClOpfiS tiS
potash industry in California, Utah
and other western states by protect
ing it from the Germans, the COM
rnittee recommended that Tor peri
:. cd OF FIVE years tduties be placed on
. the actual potash i'll potassium chlor-
ide and all crude potash salts, etc,
: as follows:
] For the first two years ? l-2c a
: pound, for the third year, &c; for
i the fourth year, lie, and for the
fifth year, 1c.
4 Explaining the proposed duty of
! S-16c a pound on crude magnesite.
, which was on the free list in the
Payne -Aldrich and Underwood acts,
the committee majority said the pur-
pose was to enable producers of this
material i'll Washington state to lay
down their product at the steel mill
centers of the country on an equality
with imported magnesite.
: Many changes i'll the administrative
t features OF the house bill were made
/ BY the senate committee majority,
the most important being the elimina-
: lion of provisions giving the presi-
T dent authority TO enter into re-
/ ciprocity terms with foreign ccun-
I tries and also to give him authority