The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-06-19
FARES BEST IN
SMOOT-HAWLEY TARIFF BILL

Agriculture fares four times as we'll in the new
tariff bill as industry whole Senator Smoot of
Utah, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee
says in formal statement based upon an ANALYSIS Of
the measure prepared by the Tariff Commission ac-
cordlng to information received by the Carbon Coun-
ty News this week.
Taking imports for the calendar year 1928 as a
basis, the Commission estimates that the total in.
crease of duties under the new bill as compare to the
1922 Act will be S1O7, SO6897.
Practically 68 per cent of this total increase"
Senator STnoot says results from the higher duties
on agricultural raw materials yet the declared value
OF these items imported such was only 33 per cent
of the declared value of all comparable imports in
1928"
Senator Smoot adds that this simply means that
the new tariff bill written primarily for agricul-
ture
Discussing the bill section by section, the Fl
nance Committee chairman calls attention that al
most every schedule in the measure carries items of
protection for the agricultural industry dispelng a
more or less general notion that the farmer benefits
only from the agricultural schedule
The Senator asserts that the 218 per cent in
crease in duties in the chemical schedule results al
most entirely from:
An increase in the duty on olive oil in the in
terest of domestic producers of competitive oils
and raw materials therefor;
An increase in the duty on soy bean oil in the
interest of the growing domestic production of
soy beans for oil crushing;
An increase in the duty on oasein in the in
tereSt of domestic producers Of skim milk, the
raw material for casen;
Increases in the duties starches dex
trines, glue and gelatin in the interest of Ameri-
can farmers who produce competitive raw mater
ials;
Increases in the duties on olec acid and
stearic acid, joint products Of tallow IN the IN
terest of American farmers and ranchers;
Increases in the rates of Buty acetate and
anvil acetate competitive with the domestic fer
mentation of corn.
Increased duties in the sugar schedule, Sena-
tor Smoot points out, are made solely in the in
terest of the American producers Of sugar beets
and sugar cane. He asserts that sugar beets
constitute the sheet anchor of irrigated agricul-
ture.
The slight advance in duties in the tobacco sche-
Gule results wholly from higher protection for
wrapper tobacco which is raised by American farm
erS.>
One-half of the increase in duties in the cotton
schedule of the bill results from protective rate of
cents pound on long staple cotton raised in Cafor-
MIA and the Southwest and competitive in the home
market with Egyptian cotton
The flax industry is given additional pro-
tection Senator Smoot points out while the
bulk of the increase in the wool schedule is
in interest Of the producers of wool who are
scattered from one end of the country to the
other
Cattle hides and skins given protection
for the first time in the interest of ranchers
and cattle growers generally.
All of these items are wholly aside from the hun
dreds listed in the agriculture schedule itself The
increase in duties in this schedule is computed at ID
IA per cent, which is far greater increase than
found in any other schedule in the bill Senator
Smoot says the important increases affect these
items:
Live cattle, beef and veal;
Canned and other prepared and preserved meats
andfresh meats not specifically provided for:
Dairy products;
Poultry products;
Feed concentrates;
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