Evening star., 1932-04-17
HULL WILL FIGHT
ALL TARIFF PLANS
Promises Move to Block In
cIusion of Duties in Tax
Bill.
BY the Associated Press.

A fight against including tariffs In
the billion-dol tax bill was promised
by Democratic member yesterday as
the Senate Finance Committee plowed
ahead through tumultuous testimony on
the question of taxing oil imports.
From Senator Cordeu Hull of Ten
| nessee-implacable foe of protective
| tariffs-came the assertion to news
paper men that Immediately on con-
clusion of the hearings he will move
to strike out the import duties and bind
the committee not to add any more.
The success of such move is prob
lematic. Besides the drive for duties
on oil and coal, called for in the House
bill, agitation has sprung up in Sem
ate quarters for tariffs on copper anG
/ lumber
The Democrats on the committee are
far from solid behind Hull. Vigorous
proponents of the tax on imported oil
arc his fellow Democratic members,
Senators Connally Of Texas and Gore
of Oklahoma.
Tydings Opposes Inclusion.
On the Senate floor Senator Tydings,
lJtIlOCld dI, VI Wal AeiilNa' AfaS PAcl'C'Nh "
reSolution-as vet not acted upon
which would instruct the committee
against including tariffs in the bill on
the ground that otherwise the enact
ment of the sorely needed revenue
measure will be further delayed.
Handling with dispatch a long sue
cession of witnesses for and against the
oil import tax, the committee stuck to
its schedule of hearing today, closed
testimony on that particular provision
and prepared to hear representatives Of
the automobile and radio industries on
Monday.
Chairman Smoot, Republican, OF
Utah, has hopes of winding up the test1-
nony by Wednesday and expects to con-
clude by Friday at the latest. Then VIII
come week or more Of discussion.
writing and rewriting, with the aid OF
new draft of a tax program from the
Treasury Department.
Opposition to the oil import tax came
largely from residents of the Eastern
seaboard, who contended that raising
the price of oil and gasoline would
hurt their business.
When they concluded. Writ Franklin
of the Independent Petroleum Producers
Association. who testified yesterday,
took the stand again in rebuttal. He
told the committee in emphatic tones
that the present over-supply of oil in
this country results from foreign i'm
portations rather than domestic over
production, which he denied exists.
Charges Use as Club"
Foreign oil, he asserted, is used as a
club" to drive down the price that the
domestic producer can get.
INV
Paul H. Harwood vice president of the
Pan-A American Petroleum & Transport
Co. which imports oil from Venezuela.
He asserted such a tax would bring
the Government no revenue. raise the
price of oil and gas and benefit no one
but the 30 major oil companies"
He contended the big firms which
control most Of the transportation, re-
fining and distribution facilities would
reap most of the 5000 ,000 900 tribute
imposed on the people and industries
of the United States by this tariff, not
the small producers.
When Senator Hull sought to bring
out further points against the tariff by
questioning the witness, Chairman
Smoot sought to stop him, saying Har-
woods time had expired. In reply
( Hull threatened to move then and
there that the oil tax be stricken out
if he were not allowed to bring out
the facts"
William c. McTarnahan, New York
representing the American Oil Burner
Association, testified the tariff would
hurt the oil burner business and throw
100000 persons out of work. Michael
O'Shaughnessy, New York. editor of an
oil publication, charged the American
oil industry with greed" and seeking
subsidy"