TIIE MORNIXG OREGOXIAX. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 21, ? 1920
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BITTER FIGHT LOOMS
OVER TARIFF- ISSUE
itself at this time upon so an Impor
tant a question of DrinclDle as that
which the tariff proposals involve."' .
"Let me say to my friend from Mis-
sissippi," Senator Thomas, democrat,
Colorado, interjected, "that .1 sym
pathize -with - his view and between
us we may be able to keep some part
of the democratic party in line."
Representative Ralney. in present
ing the minority views, warned -of
dangers which he said would beset
Antagonism h Met . in Both K .mnVLr-
Houses of Congress.
clared that the measure amounted to
an embargo and that 1t' would "in
evitably" lead to retaliatory tariffs.
Trade Treaties Discussed. '
"All commercial treaties ; between
Till Hnn wava nnntlnDllv annillll hv
EACH SIDE IS CONFIDENT .hB war" Mr- Ralney's report said.
auu luuajr uew comineruHi unuo ao
In process of formation. Every com-
YEAR IN J! IS
GIVE
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Democrats Want to Go Slow But
Republicans Declare Farmer
Situation Is Serious. ,
WASHINGTON, Dec 20. Presenta
tion of the Fordney emergency tariff
bill in the house and decision of its
supporters to call It -up for considera
tion Wednesday was followed today
by expressions of open antagonism
both In the house and senate.
The opposition, hitherto manifested
only to a slight extent, was intensi
fied by the filing of minority views
by Representative Rainey, democrat,
Illinois, denouncing the measure from
beginning to end, and by decision of
the senate .democratic steering com
mittee to resist hasty enactment of
any. such legislation.
Chairman .Fordney of the house
ways and means committee, in re
porting the measure, urged action
not because it was perfect, but be
cause it was the best obtainable
under the circumstances. The report
declared that remedial legislation
was urgently necessary to correct a
situation which was described as rap
idly becoming worse and likely to
bring ruin to the agricultural In
dustry. The filing of the committee's report
disclosed that the measure had been
made applicable for a period of ten
months from passage Instead of the
one-year period previously fixed.
Chairman Fordney submitted with the
report estimates of the treasury de
partment showing that on the basis
of available import figures, approx
imately $130,000,000 in revenue would
be derived from the duties to be im
posed under the measure. The com
modities enumerated .in the Dill now
produce less than $3,000,000 annually.
Commodities Duties Listed .
As finally approved and reported
to the house, the bill carries -import
duties on commodities, which, to
gether with the rates agreed to in
committee and the estimated revenue
ti come therefrom, follow: Wheat,
proposed duty, 30 cents a bushel, es
timated revenue, $2,109,520; wheat
fiour, 20 per cent, $657,000; corn, 15
cents a bushel. $137,625; beans, 2
cents a pound, $3,091,760; peanuts, un
shtlled. 3 cents a pound. $642,540;
peanuts, shelled. 3 cents a pound.
$4,405,410; potatoes, 25 cents a bushel,
$1,560,000; onions, 40 cents a bushel,
$72,7.040; rice, cleaned, 2 cents a
WHAT CONGRESS DID AS ITS
DAY'S WORK. y- -
- Senate,' '-.
Concurrence wsts, given-in the
house amendment to the resolu
tion reviving the war finance
corporation,' eliminating all ref
erence to the federal reserve
board.
A resolution was offered de
claring the sense of the senate
to be 'that no recognition of
any kind be- given the soviet
government of Russia.
The nomination of Senator
John F. Nugent, who was de
feated for re-election, to be a
member of the federal trade
commission, was received and ;
confirmed in open session.
The nomination of John F.
O' Bryan of New York to be
a major-general in the officers'
reserve corps, thereby making
him eligible to become head of
the militia bureau, .was re
ceived. Democratic senators held a
conference and decided that
emergency tariff legislation is
not required, but that careful
study and debate must be given
the pending proposition for the
benefit of. agricultural prod
ucts, i
Laughing at the refusal of
the house to join in the usual
holiday recess, the senate laid
off work until Thursday, and
thus will solve the problem by
a series of three-day adjourn
ments. House.
Ways and means committee
reported the emergency ' tariff '
bill for relief of farmers; inter- '
state and foreign commerce ,
committee had a hearing of (
Sheppard-Towny maternity bill
urged for immediate considera
tion by the national league of
women voters. " "
Census committee met and
decided to have hearings on the
reapportionment bills for the
house based on the last census.
Representative Stevenson of
South Carolina introduced a
resolution to turn German and
Austrian property in the hands
of alien enemy custodian over
i to thel war finance coTppration
until congress' is ready to dis
tribute it.
Two ' Others Sentenced for
Concealing Paper's Owners.
ALL THREE TO. APPEAL
pound. $2,900,660; rice, uncleaned, 114
cents a pound, $235,575; flour, meal mercial nation is today prepared with
ana broken rice, Vi cents a pound, the means of quick retailiation, and
$5037; rice, unhulled, cent a there is grave danger that they will
pound, $70,672; lemons. Hi cents a quickly respond to the challenge we
pound. J8S1.250: oils, peanut. 26 cents give them in this bill.
a gallon, $4,333,420; oils, cottonseed. The Rainey report also charged
20 cents a gallon, $2,479,400; oils, that the bill had been framed without
soya bean, 20 cents a gallon, $3,837,- hearings and that no experts had
000; cattle, 30 per cent, $5,851,500; I been examined. It asserted that the
sheep, $2 a head, $102,484; lambs, $1 majority in congress proposed pro-
a head, no estimated revenue; mut- lection as tne meaicine ior every ecu
fun mil limb 2V. cents a Dound. I nomic evil, adding that "this bill is
$1,656,792; wool, unwashed, 15 cents a protection mad." The republican plan
pound. $9,900,000; wool, washed. 30
cents a pound, $28,500,000; wool, man
ufactures of, 45 cents a pound, $11,
250.000; wool, scoured. 45 cents a
pound, $45,000,000.
Vote Divides Committee.
of protection in this instance, the re
port declared, offered a remedy
worse than the ill it sought- to cor
rect.
Production Blow Alleged,
After, reviewing the trade figures
I In avnnrtn i ni4 fmnArta that minnrltv
On the vote in the ways and means .... ,,',..,,-,- r
committee, on reporting the bill two hibitive tariff ratea meant event.
republicans and four democrats voted lowering . of : production, in
m me negative. fiepreseniaiives i mgrjca
Connecticut; were understood to have "Of course Europe can paj only In
ihn rmihii-n who Btonrf gold or goods, he continued. They
against- the measure, while Repre- cannot pay in sold and they are not
scntatives Rainey, Hull. Tennessee; manufacturing at the present time
Oldfield. Arkansas and Collier. Miss- enough goods. kven if they were,
issippi; were the democrats who op- we propose in this bill to make im
posed the legislation. ports less and less. If we are to re
The republican committee members niain a creditor nation, and we must
were said to have opposed the bill on do that or suffer now immeasurable
the ground that if tariff legislation financial calamities, we must import
was to be enacted it should include more than we expoVt.
protection for manufactured commod- ' u might be possible to report out
i.f , , .hhi, oii,.i , I a more hastily prepared, ill-consid-
remain in the final draft. This con
tention appeared to have gained some
ered measure than this, but up to
the present time it never has beee
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strength among representatives from ""in.; r concluded ni
expres4-
a? viawn nroii'tinir that- thA
tricts and I is expected to precipitate report 8ubmltted by Chairman Ford-
heated debate.
Blrtrr Opposition Expected.
Representative Knutson, republican,
Minnesota, chairman of the recently
organized conference of representa
tives from farming districts, said he
waa sure there would be bitter oppo
sition from the urban representatives,
but added:
ney "would not venture tar irom
shore" and that the republican sup
porters of the bill woftld merely de
mand that "everybody vote for this
legislation whether he believed it
right in principle or not."
F. I). Roosevelt Gets Job.
BALTIMORE. Dec. 20. Franklin D.
"We members who see the need of I Roosevelt candidate of the demo.
the farmers for help are prepared for cratic party for vice-president in the
a battle royaL We think we can last election, will assume charge of
muster 200 votes for the bill and I the New York office of the Fidelity
personally serve notice on those peo- Trust & Deposit company of Mary
pie who seek to defeat this bill that land on January 1. Announcement
they will sweat blood before they get that Mr. Roosevelt had been elected
anything for their Industries when vice-president of the pompany was
it comes to a permanent tariff unless made after a meeting 'of the board
mey ao me iair tnmg now. of directors today.
Against mis came ine statement oi
tne senate democratic steering com- S. & H. green stamps for cash.
mittee that they did not regard the Holman Fuel Co Main 353. 660-21.
measure as an emergency proposal I Adv.
ana wouia aemana mat it be consid
ered by the finance committee in
regular order when It reaches the
senate. i
Nstlee Served Pnm Floor.
Senator Harrison, '.Mississippi, dem
ocrat, served notice from the floor of
the senate that he would oppose the
bill.
' "The democratic party," ' he de
clared, "cannot afford to stultify
Verdict Cannot Be Accepted Be
cause of ; Knowledge of His
Innocence, Says Publisher. '
NEW YORK, Dec. 20. Dr. Edward
A Rumely, ex-publisherof the New
York Evening' MalV and S. Walter
Kaufman and Norvin LIndheiJn were
sentenced to prison terms of one year
and one day ech in federal court here
today on conv'Ction for conspiracy tc
withhold from the government knowl
edge of the alleged German owner
ship of the newspaper during part of
the war.
Rr. Rumely and co-defendants, who
were bothyNew York attorneys, were
found guilty by a jury on Saturday of
having failed to report to the alien
property custodian a debt of $1,451,700
to the imperial German government.
The charge that tire German govern
ment actually owned shares of the
newspaper's stock was-flbt proved.
All Three Are to' Apeal.
Judge "William I. Grubb of the" Unit
ed States district court sentenced all
three to the federal prison at Atlanta,
Ga. The three defendants announced
they would appeal.
Before being sentenced all three
defendants protested their, innocence
of committing any . "wrong-against
this country." - '-
"Accept this ' verdict . I cannot,"
said Dr. Rumely In a statement, "for
JJefore the tribunal of my own con
science I am innocent.
For. 15 years, in the school that
I founded, in all my public work,
in the progressive movement, as in
my newspaper, I have given my best
to further the things that would be
helpful to my country. I have never
knowingly done any act to harm it-
America ' Declared ' First. t
"My grandparents .of, German
blood, myself a' student of Germaa
universities, I loved the German peo
ple. In every Issue, however, that
affected this country, I worked for
and advocated the full- maintenance
of tour rights more emphatically
against - German ruthlessness thap
against' the British blockade, and in
the Evening Mail, I was among the
first to urge preparedness in econom
ic, military and social' matters."
Dr. Rumely declared that the last
two and a half years of his life have
been "a black hell," his "resources
are far spent" by continuous federal
prosecution and he has been debarred
from all work.
Deal Held Honorable,
"Today it is hard to visualize our
relations of five years ago with Ger
many, then a friendly nation," he
added. ''Although working against
the British -blockade, my association
with German representatives was on
a decent and honorable basis, It was
nothe damning thing it would have
been with - German aggression
war upon us.
"I knew that Heinrich Albert acted
as banker for . commercial interests
centered in Germany. I believed him
when he said that funds were being
advances for tne account of Herman
Sielcken, who, as an international
shipper, had much to gain from an
opening of the seaways. To my be
lief my report to the alien custodian
was truthful. ,
If with my energies spent, this
remains a legally recorded verdict, I
must ana win submit to the law of
the land; acquiesce I never can."
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Several Societies Want to Present
v Case When'Immigrantion Re
striction Comes Up.
WASHINGTON. Dec 20. First ac
tion since the Johnson bill restricting
immigration for one year was passed
by the house, will be taken tomorrow
by the senate immigration committee.
Senator Colt, Rhode Island, an
nounced today.
The committee will b. asked to de
cide whether it shall open bearings
or report the bill at once, but Sena
tor Colt said that inasmuch as he had
received a number of applications
from societies and Individuals -to be
heard, he would urge the committee
to begin hearings the first week of
the new year. ' .
In addition to the Johnson bill, the
committee will consider several senate
measure relating to immigration, but
differing from that already passed by
the house in the manner ana time oi
the enforcement of restrictions.
Wide differences of opinion exist
among senators regarding the Immi
gration question and- it is probable
that the committee will decide fft hold
extensive hearings.
Candy Company Passes Dividend.
NEW'TCfRK. 'Dec. 2o) The direc
tors of the Continental Candy com
pany today decided to pass the regu
lar quarterly dividend of 25 cents a
share, now due. The company s one
of the many corporations in which
Allan A. Ryan Is interested.
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