Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
Washington Ticker
By the Associated Press.


One of the advantages the Senate will
have next week when it takes up, by
committee action, the new tariff bill lies
in the fact that policies and issuas
touching the subject have been pretty
well laid before the country. Joseph
r. Grundy, who has represented the
American Tariff League and Stalwart
protectionist viewpoint in Washington
during several tariff fights, remarks
that the fact win operate to get a good
deal of clarity and expedition into the
Senate's stages Of procedure with the
bill.
Since the enactment Of the original
measure by the House schedules have
been well advertised, issues have been
widely discussed and Senate members
will have the benefit Of considerable
showing of sentiment" Mr.. Grundy
said. THAT, along with the fact that
members of the Senate finance commit
tee on the average have longer legis-
lative service and greater familiarity
with tariff problems, will operate to ia
cilitate further dealing with the bill.
ALSO, the House committee hearings
and votes have served to set forth the
higher points of controversy. 1t Is prob
able that the Senate will have extended
hearings, but time in them Will be de-
voted to matters on which sharp differ
ences of opinion have been evidenced
by the House votes and the public re-
actions. The House action has sifted
out lot of material. The Senate may
be expected. to center its attention on
unsettled questions.
1--WE find that our industrial members
over the country, in so far as they are
satisfied with schedules awarded their
industries by the House bill, will not
seek for hearing time. The requests
for hearing time will come from those
who feel that their situation has been
unfairly or inadequately treated by
schedules voted through the House. We
feel that Senate members will be dis
rather thoroughly"
Semi official observation Of the
change Of government now proceeding
in England, to the degree that oppor-
tunity has been given for it, Is leading
that its effects, direct and indirect, on
American business will be rather IN
significant. In spite Of the traditional
position Of Great Britain as the best,
or nearly the best, national customer
of American industry, the new Labor
government Is expected to be installed
there without perceptibly changing
trade conditions. The Commerce De
partment view Is that, though the Labor
party as such has a free-trade bent,
its ministers viii not seek to alter the
experimental degree Of protection to
which Great Britain has lately resort
ed. in which So-called safeguarding"
duties have hindered American auto
mobile sales and have slowed down i'm
ports of rubber goods and some types
of specialties.
Those duties will probably not be
changed, business tnquirers are told.
II the Labor government does set for
ward on q new line of policy, American
officials expect that its most important
International phase will be, in striving
for more disarmament, in cooperation
with the United States. Progress IN
that direction might enable budget ex-
penditure to be devoted more to unem-
ployment relief.
Though the Federal Trade Commits
sion cited this week some 40 California
lumber firms to answer charges OF mis-
representation in selling yellow pine as
which gives the procedure the guise OF
a Federal prosecution, lumber trade
opinion is almost ready to regard the
step as q friendly one to the industry.
For some years there has been raging
in the lumber field a controversy about
the use OF the term white pine" which
proves there Is immense business i'm
portance in a name, and the prospect
that an arm of the Federal Govern
ment, exercised in the current proceed
ing, will lay down some legal and ac-
cepted rule Is warmly welcomed in sew
eral trade quarters.
White pine, in possibly the truest
trade usage, Is lumber derived from a
single botanical species, which has an
extensive Eastern and a limited West
ern range. California sugar pine is bo-
tanically white pine, but the forestry
experts insist that pinus ponderosa,
though 1t makes O white wood, is q yell
low pine, and the Arms cited are chiefly
engaged in marketing the ponderosa
under the white pine name. The COM
mission Is likely to run through lot of
perplexing tree pedigrees before it con-
cludes the investigation, but in the end,
lumber interests are hoping, 1t will set
tie the lawful term.
Several other trade terms for lumber
head into morasses Of similar type. |
One Of them have to do with Philippine |
mahogany, and all Of them exhibit the |
fact that wood, however excellent in |
itself, must have q good name to sell !
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