Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1929, Page 42

TIE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. MARCH 17, 9—PART 2. Tariff Battle Now Near (Continued From First Page.) 1 in the cost of production here and abroad. The pressure for an extra session of | Congress to revise the tariff has come | in large part from the agricultural in- | terests. Farm leaders have insisted, | and are still insisting, that no schemc | of farm relief will be effective unless tariff rates are raised on many of the| products of agriculture which now are | imported in varying amounts. In the| aggrecate, the agricultural importa- | Tns ace heavy and the farm leaders fn and out of Congress, are insisting | that they be stopped. | Had it not been for insistent demand | from the farm leaders in the campaign ! and since the campaign there probably | would have been no extra session this | Spring. Many of the Republican lead- ers in the House and Senate look on | the calling of an extra session early in | the new administration with misgiving. | ‘They foresee much trouble for the | President and the Republican party. | The demand of agriculture, however, for higher tariffs and for quick legis- | Jation to bring them about has fallen | in completely with the plans of the in-| dustries that are dissatisfied with the 1922 rates. The leaders of these in-| dustries will not oppose general in-| creases in agricultural rates, but they | will demand that in return for votes| for higher rates on products of agricul- | ture, votes be given for higher sched- ules on many manufactured products. Basis for Controversy. | At this point there are many possi- | bilities of controversy. Some of the| agricultural leaders, in Congress and in the farm organizations, insist that, while | the agricultural rates must be raised to | a high level, the rates on the things the | farmer buys must be held down. It is not unlikely that most of the | agricultural members will be found | voting for high schedules on agricul- | tural products and then facing about | and voting against increases in the rates on manufactured products which the farmers largely consume. { It need hardly be said that if such a situation arises there will be quite as | fierce contention over the new tariff | measure as developed in 1922, 1913 or 1909, when Republican Insurgents of | the Middle West and Northwest made | their famous revolt against the regular | Republican organization led by “Uncle Joe” Cannon in the House and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island in| the Senate. Serious Revolt Recalled. In that revolt, in which men like | Dolliver of Iowa, La Follette of Wis-| consin, Nelson of Minnesota and others | of equal eminence turned loose the bat- teries of their oratory against the| Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, the Taft ad- ‘ministration, almost at its beginning, became inextricably involved, with po-| litical consequences which have hecomc} a matter of history. Ié can hardly be imagined that li!n this fnstance history ‘will repeat itself. One pr;nson why it is not likely to do #0 is that, because of the increased in- | dustrialization of the South, it will not| be possible to yoke the South up with the West in any such revolt against the tariff demands of the East as that of 20 years ago. Nevertheless, Republican leaders, or| some of them, reviewing the troubles of | the party with tariff revisions in the| past, look on the coming overhauling of | tariff schedules with misgivings and| foresee the possibilities of serious politi- cal effects in the 1930 elections. Scope Uncertain. The question most frequently asked | in Washington concerns the scope of the new tariff measure. Will it be a limited revision of the act.of 1922 or a general revision? Conflicting views are e on this matter by men of high rank in Congress. President Hoover, it is generally understood, fa- vors an upward revision of the agricul- tural rates and a limited revision of the other schedules. In other words the administration is looked on as opposing the idea of general revision. But the indications are that unless the President takes a positive stand against general revision and goes to the| point of letting it be known that he is &repured to veto such a bill, Congress the end will pass a measure which in effect will provide for a general re- vamping of tariff rates. Committee Hears Demands. ‘The hearings before the House ways and means committee have been marked by a great number of demands from many industries for higher rates. Mem- bers of House and Senate from the leading industrial States for the most part are taking a stand in favor of || numerous increases. As the situation stands the prospects are that the tariff bill will be written | four times before it is finally enacted | into law. The House ways and means committee now is engaged in preparing the bill. FPifteen subcommittees are taking up the different schedules and going into them exhaustively, taking into account the testimony set forth in the recent before the ways and means committee, of which Representa- tive W. C. Hawley of Oregon is chair- man. The ways and means committee will have a bill ready, which is expected closely to coincide with the administra- tion views, soon after the extra session opens. The House organization is such that the bill will be driven to passage in about the same form, perhaps the iden- tical form, in which it is reported from the committee. House Action to Be Speedy. On being passed by the House, which | probably will be in three weeks after the session opens, the bill will be sent to the Senate and referred to the finance committee, of which Senator Reed Smoot of Utah is the head. That com- mittee will be under tremendous pres- sure to make revisions in the form of | the bill as it passed the House. Scores | of industries will demand a bill of broader scope than the expected House measure. The finance committee can hardly escape giving hearings to some extent, although they will be limited as much, as possible. The bill will be before the finance committee for several weeks, judging by the course of previous tariff enactments, and when it is reported to the Senate will be amended in many respects. The rewriting in the finance com- mittee in all reasonable likelihood will be followed by another in the open Senate and by a third revision in con- ference committee of the two houses. Just what it will be like when that stage is reached, and what will be the | scope of the revision, is somet which no person can prophesy anything like accuracy. Senate Expected to Alter Bill. ‘What is entirely clear, however, is that while the Senate cannot origi a tariff bill under the Constitution, the Constitution gives it unlimited right of amendment, and it will exercise that right, as it has always done. The his- tory of tariff bills is that the Scnate finance committee has revised the House bill and the Senate has once more rewritten it. Then, in conference, the differences between Senate and House have been composed. There is no reason to doubt that the new tarifl measure will take substantially the same course as have its preds SO! One of the members of the finan committee is Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania. _Senator Reed is one of the foremost Republican members of the committee. While he has not yet attained that pinnacle of influence in Senate affairs that was occupied by the late Boies Penrose, he is a factor that must be reckoned with in tariff re- vision. Senator Reed, backed by the demands of powerful industries in his own State and other States in the East will demand many increases in rat:s, In effect, he will ask general revision. Industrial States to Bring Pressure. Supporting Senator Reed will be other Senators representing great in- dustrial centers. when the tariffl measure finally reach: the statute books it will to a consider- able extent meet their wishes. It is heardly to be imagined that Congress is going to pass a tariff measurc that boosts agricultural rates all along the | line but contains only a few readjust- ments of rates demanded by the in- dustries. Those who are now predicting that Congress will Tush through a tariff measure, as well as farm relief, in a little while and adjourn in June are likely to be disappointed. Saying noth- with | ing of the possibilities of controversy over farm relief, it is not overstating the case to say the tariff is loaded with high explosives. Predicts Protracted Deliberation. The tariff bill cannot be rushed through by any cut and dried formula. discussion in the Senate and perhaps likelihood be late in July or early in complete the measure and adjourn. Not a few well advised leaders believe the extra session will run until Fall, and for this view they have no lack of precedents. Without attempting to go into the | ubjects as the proposed tariff on hides, the tariffs on vegetable oils and the textile rates will excite great conten- tion. The flexible tariff and the Tariff Commisison will be subjects of contro- versy. The subject of American valua- tion or foreign valuation will once more have to be thrashed out. Many intri- cate questions relating to administration of the law will have to be considered. May Alter Administrative Features. It is not unlikely that Congress will undertake important changes in the law relating to the flexible tariff and the Tariff Commission. When the present rmfls!ons as to the commission an law in the 1922 act, much glowing prophecy was heard that the resultant statute would provide a really scientific tariff; that the tariff at last would be removed from politics and administered on the basis of the difference in the cost of production here and abroad. Nothing of the kind has come to pass. ‘The flexible tariff law and the Tariff mmission provisions have satisfied neither high tariff men nor low tariff men. Just now, there is serious talk in Congress of providing that a tariff com- mission shall be maintained, but that it ADVERTISEMENT i o safe guoss that | and away exceeds the buying power of 1t probably will require a month of |to know just how it will work out.| even more, and it will in all reasonable |there were many predictions of a gloomy August before the extra session can ~—— many phases of the new tariff measure | which will provoke controversy, such | si d | he flexible tariff were written into the | : & GETS-IT shall report to Congress and be a fact- finding body to help Congress in rev sion of rates. It is not impossible that this will re- ult, Neither the ways and means commit- tee nor the finance committee today:has the faclities Zor a careful and constant cxamination into the workings of rates. | Compiexities Beset Issue. For Congress to raisz or lower a set of tariff rates might seem at first a simple task, but it is a work of utmost importance and difficulty. Not only is it needful to consider the effects of rais- ing or lowering rates on the domestic . market and on producers and consumers of the United States, as well as on the revenues, but the international effect has to be taken into account. In fact, the international phases of | the forthcoming tariff revision are giv | ing scrious concern to leaders in Co gress, and high officials. For illustra- tion, it will be a comparatively simple thing to put the agricultural rates up to a level which is practically prohibi- tive. some manufactured articles up to the point where foreign_importation is duced to nothing. But the next ques- tion is what foreign nations are going to do about it. Foreigners May Retaliate. ‘The inevitable effect of excluding for- eign importations from this market wfll | be retaliation. At least there is already | talk of it in some quarters, notably in Canada. Congress will have to con- sider, in readjusting tariff rates, how | protection to American producers, while | not causing injury to American trade | OD uprights abroad. This is made more difficult by the It will be easy to thrust rates on | | stalled in public playgrounds. it _can afford the utmost reasonable | chairs are suspended on cross pleces at But they were not fulfilled. It was said the rates were prohibitive. But | importations under the Fordney-Mc- | Cumber act have been greater than ever | before. Senator Simmons said: | "It is predicted that this bill, with its | prohibitive rates, based on an uncer: | uring differences in competitive cond | vance present prices, increase the cost jof living, reduce production, create un- | in the practical monopolization of prac- !tically ajl of our protected industries, i making the sway of the trusts and | monopolies supreme, and that the over- | throw of the Republican party, which will follow, will be as complete and more permanent than that which swept it out of power in 1912." | _ There was no debacle; the uprising of the people did not occur and the Repub- lican party was not swept from power. In fact, for reasons he did not then foresee, Senator Simmons in the last | campaign helped to keep it from being swept from power. . With the dismal forebodings of 1922 | in mind, knowing how compeltely they failed of fulfillment, it is a fairly reason- able assumption that the new tariff law will not work out unhappily. On the | contrary, it is likely to tend to enhance | national prosperity. Ferris Wheels for Tots. Children of India are taking to minia | ture Ferris wheels that are being in- Four right angles to each other and mounted The device is propelled by man power, and as they are never greased, their shrieks serve as a bally- enormous volume of indebtedness abroad | hoo. |and the fact, often emphasized, that foreign nations cannot be expected to pay iheir debts to us unless they can trade freely and ship their goods to us. Again, it is made the more trouble- some by reason of the amazing deviop- ment of American industry, with its perfected machinery and its mass pro- duction, giving it a capacity which far the home market and makes world | markeis indispensable. Transportation Factot in Problera. Among the other factors that have to be taken into account, in addiiion to tariff, are ocean and railroad transpor- | tation rates, cost of labor in foreign countries as compared with labor costs | here, the cartel system of Europe and | the weakness of the American merchant | marine as compared with that of rival commercial powers. It has been suggested, in fact, that before the tariff is revised the commit- | tees of Congress should make a close study of transportation problems which | affect importations, but there is little |indication that such a study will be | undertaken. A tariff revision is aiways more or less of an adventure. It is impossible ‘When the 1922 tariff revision was made sort, notably one by Senator Simmons. ENDany | by new 3=second way | NO excuse for painful corns and calluses. Only one drop of | amazing liquid eases them scien- tifically. Deadens pain in 3 seconds. Then shrivels up corn so you can peel it off. 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