Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-15
FATE OF new TARIFF
NOW UP TOHOOvER
Passage by House Vote of
222 to 1853 Completes
Congressional Action.

Congressional Action.
Continued From First Page)
all points of order to return it to con-
ference.
The rule was adopted however, by
220 to 1885, majority of 81, or IL more
than the margin given the bill on final
passage.
Farm Rates High.
| Opening for the proponents. Repre-
sentative Hawley asserted that from
studies he had made he believed the
benefit farmers derived from the pro-
lection given their products exceeds any
| burden to them from purchases of pro-
tected articles they buy"
| Agriculture" he said, was the high
| est rate ever given this industry. Polit-
| ical af1liation was not regarded and the
South was given needed relief on many
additional items. Labor in all its
branches is given the consideration its
! Importance justif1es. Industry generally
is granted the relief in such of its ac-
| Invites as are suffering from unfair
competition from foreign imports"
Representative Garner of Texas, the
| peppery leader of the Democrats, as
| serted the bill was condemned" by
the entire country, meant nothing to
| the farmers without the debenture plan.
and would reduce materially the foreign
market of industrial products turned out
in the United States by two and one
! half million workers.
mo one knows what the material
| effect of this bill will be-" he said.
adding, lit is easy to say it will cause
| prosperity, but We shall see"
Representative Crowther, Republican
New York, who in speech q year ago
said the tariff wall should be so high
that foreigners would break their necks
trying to scale 1t, was given a rousing
reception by his colleagues as he pokec
fun at the opposition argument.
He drew big hand when he de-
scribed an opposition triumvirate as
'Raskob, John j., of the du Points !;
Sloan, the generaliSsimo of General
Motors, and Mr.. Henry Ford of Ireland
and Detroit"
Georgian Denies Farm Benefit.
Representative Crisp. Democrat
Georgia, commended the bill "instead of
being limited revision to eoualize
agricultural tariff BENEFITS with indus
trial ones, widens the disparity and
| greatly penalties agriculture for the
benefit OF industry, and is general in
scope"
Representative Tilson OF Connecticut
! the Republican leader. did not sneak
| but in statement issued later, said
| "f1nal passage Of the bill will do much
| toward reassuring industry and restor-
ing confidence to business"
On this BILL" he said. 1.-The Repub-
hcan party and others who support it
VFff nt-fn 1t
American industries. The Democratic
party, in its opposition to the bill. stands
| with Wall Street. which its orators
nave assailed on every soap box from
here to California during the past half
century; the importers and the big
business interests who are using Amer
lean dollars to build factories in every
| port Of the world where labor costs are
| low"
| The measure carries the highest rates
In history on agricultural products.
wool and wooden goods and other tex
tiles, including the fast-growing rayon
! group.
Compared with 1880 named items
and basket clauses in the present law.
the Fordney-McC act of 1922,
| the Hawley-Smoot measure embraces
S,2l8 commodities by specified and
| group names.
OF these LIP have been changed
887 being given higher duties and 235
reductions. More than $50 of the in
creases are on farm products in the
raw and processed state including
sugar, dairy products, grains, cattle.
meats, tobacco, fruits, nuts and seeds
Taxed Items Now Free.
In addition rs items now carving
import taxes are placed on the free
| list, while 48 now free are placed be-
hind the tariff wall.
The principal items taken from the
| free list are soft wood lumber. brick
cement, long staple cotton, hides, leath-
ers ana SHOES. Logs, now dutiable at 81
thousand board feet, are the chief
\ commodity placed on the free list. The
lumber levy, applicable to fir spruce
| hemlock, pine and larch, is a provision
taking effect only If Canada or Mexico
tax American exports of these products
The sugar duty, which raises approxi-
mately one-fourth of the countrv's total
customs receipts, is increased against
Cuban raws from It's to 2 cents a
pound, with the rate against other
countries ESQ against 2.20 cents.
| Automobiles, plate glass and crude
/ and sheet aluminium and aluminium
wares are the major commodities given
| lower rates compared with existing law
In addition to protecting the New
England shoe industry. the bill raises
rates on straw and felt hats, clothing
Of all descriptions, zinc and manganese
ores, pottery and chinaware, novelty
! Jewelry. furniture. chemicals. paints
many varieties of paper, machinery and
scores of miscellaneous products.
Administration Changed.
The administrative provision has been
rewritten to a large extent, although
the makeup Of the Tariff Commission
Is kept at six members and will be BIZ
| partisan, as at present
The flexible provision has been modi-
! ned only slightly. Whereas at present
| the Tariff Commission reports its find
| 1ngs to the President, and he raises or
| lowers a duty within limit of so per
cent based on those findings, the com
mission under the bill would recommend
the duty within the so per cent range,
and the President would be required to
| act on that particular rate He could
| not change 1t, but he could refuse to
! proclaim it in effect.
| Sponsors of the bill contend the Tariff
! Commission will be enabled to speed up