The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-13
Action on
sImpost Measure Is
| Set for Tomorrow
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Senator Watson, the Republican
ader, charnpioned the bill in the
psing hours of debate. Before
: owded galleries, he heralded it as
4 answer to business depression.
With the diplomatic gallery well
lied. the Republican leader denoun-
ID the attacks on the legislation by
representatives. Of foreign govern
ents.
He concluded with a laudation of
ne work of Senator Smoot, Rcpubli-
IN, Utah, who piloted the measure
rlough the senate al chairman of the
nance committee.
Senator Simmons. Of North Caro-
ma. ranking Democrat on the fl
ence committee, Joined in praise Of
he spirit in which the controversial
inject wasdebated by the senate and
c, In turn. was lauded for his part.
PREDICTS PROSPERITY
Watson said that IF this bill Is
assed this nation will be on the up
rade financially. economically and
commercially winthin thirty days, and
,ithin a year we shall have regained
he peak of prosperity and the po-
ition we lost last October"
He aSsailed Henry Ford and Alfred
,. Sloan, president of General Motors.
or their opposition to the measure,
aging they both produced automo-
lilies abroad and want free trade IN
hose articles in order that they may
compete in our market, where they
ray so percent more wages"
Senator Borah, a leader Of the Re-
publican independents, declared the
,ill fell short of the party platform
pledge to restore agriculture to an
equality with industry.
How are you going to fulfill the
pledge made at Kansas City to re-
store agriculture to an equality with
industry without the debenture?" he
asked. If you raise agricultural rates
and correspondingly raise industrial
.ateS you get nowhere"
Borah contended the duty on &C.
,nent alone was sufficient to offset
any possible benefits" to the farmer.
This would cost the farmer $16,500,000
more q year, he said.
Senator Robinson, OF Arkansas, the
Democratic leader, said:
Charges Discrimination
'The measure is a disappointment
to its supporters. As q feature OF the
administrations farm relief program
it is an abortion. Instead Of promot-
ing the prosperity Of agriculture It
perpetuates and intensifies inequal-
tiles and determinations between
agriculture and other industries"
Senator Connally, Democrat, Tex
as, said the farmer was not helped
by the legislation and he could hope
for little relief except through the
export debenture plan.
THE American farmer" he said. us
the most popular individual-at cleo
ton time-but after that he loses his
popularity except for orations IN his
behalf"
Connally said the bill increases the
cost to the people at home and In
creases the number Of their enemies
abroad"
Asserting the world is In rebellion
against these taxes Of congress"
Senator Simmons, Democrat, North
Carolina, commended foreign countries
would mo longer give us their trade
II do not see. how this bill can pos
sibly help agriculture, the most de-
pressed Of oil industries" he con-
tinued. THE little help held out for
agriculture will be many times Offset
BY the increased burdens levied on
it by the excessive industrial rates"
Meeting an hour earlier than US.
ual to give remaining speakers ar
opportunity to explain their votes,
the debate-exhausted Legislators
were given but three hours to talk
tariff before . showdown vote or
the conference reports at 2 p. M.
House leaders had announced that
in the event of affirmative senate
action. they would call up the con-
ference agreement tomorrow with
view to completing congressional ap'
prevail before the weekend.
President Hoover would have .
week or more to sign or veto the bill
before the end Of the session. Should
he sign it-and administration chief
tains have predicted he will--ths
first tariff legislation in eight
years and the 21st revision since thu
initial tariff act of 1872 would take
effect the following dSy.
The bill as it stocd at the fina
roll call was not the measure which
passed either house or senate, but
was a compromise between the two
reached by conferees Of the two
houses. as was the case in virtually
all the 20 tariff bills that preceded it
Supplanting the republican Ford
ney-M Nice umber act of 1922, the meas
ure would raise an estimated revenu,
of $500. O0O, 900 or S107, 100000 mor'
than the existing law based on 1925
importations.
Of 3.218 named commodities an,
basket clauses comprising the meas
ure, changes are made in 1,122, O.
about 80 per cent of the total. Their
are 1877 increases in rates and %
decrease. rs items transferred from
the dutiable to the free list and d
now on the free list placed in tn
protective category. Over $50 Of tn
increases are on farm products.
Higher duties on sugar, dair,
products, livestock, meats, grains
fruits, fresh and canned vegetables
nuts, and seeds are provided in tn
agriculture schedule. which is raise
to the highest general level in his
tory.
Many of the products given pro
lection for the first time in year
r Of first Importance. They in
clude brick, cement, softwood lum
Der, long staple lotion, hides, leath
ers. boots and shoes, all now on tn
free list. The duty Of 81 per thou
sand feet Of lumber. however, is onl
provisional. It would not becom
operative unless Canada or Mexic
takes American export Of lumber.
No Levy ON Logs
Logs, now dutiable at 81 per thou
sand board feet. are among the Z
commodities on which levies wer