Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-10-17 | Page 15 | Washington

Tariff on Shoes aWl raws s Senate nate Fire Eire S j Much uch Discussed Sug Sugar r D Duties ties I i S RODNEY DUTCHER INGTON NEA Some Some of ot S sho shots in the senate 1 bate te will be direct directed cd at nt the Lion Uon of 0 the compensatory t ry are are several instances of or tOry t r d duties in the bill bm pre pre- by the senate senate- finance coin coin- That Is is there aro are quite a n. 01 instances where hero the print prin- prin JL r t compensation n is given n aa as asson son on for increases Increase The centers entera on on tho the question queston 1 of or these duties dutie merely to 1 n oR t whether ther they are arc jve ve a 1 figure w which hick would be H heaviest attacks will be dl- dl against the so C corn corn- l ry 7 tariff on boots and shoes lio s. s and shoes made of ot leather pw v Vi on on the free list but the tho jut oh ut ti h a dut duty of or 20 per cent cent- s senate ratified it This as ns compensatory cori for tor cent rent duty on on hides f lT JT T FAR TOO HIGH J. J Is former ormel member of ted fed States tariff commission ion exporting exporting- for the Raw flaw riff U bureau and whose amS am- am Will be us used d extensively opponents S of 0 of the thc Hawley- Hawley ill V l tays y s that thai if it any corn corn- r rate te Is justified the 20 duty is several hundred t too c. c t rat rate on shoes at al a a. Ip pair lr made of or I Wes es' es at nt at 15 cents per pound r cent he ho says sas The dif dif- between that amount and 20 H t. t in la Js per cent the i the amount of ot protection on Is 8 given to shoes the manu- manu I product product- as against 10 per hides the in raw material Uie farmer produces produces' On Un Valued hi d at a n. n a. a paW and arid hide hido soles Hole and welting IB it compensatory c rate Is it t to The Te difference between d the amount provided in the 1828 per pel cent cerit the amount of or p protection gr to that class clasI or ot shoes The tariff c commission 1 in working out a basis of or duty on hides and a a aco compensatory co duty on leather showed the figures I havo o given S The Tho duty of or 20 9 per cent on shoes is so large larS compared with thy necessary equating compensatory compensator percentage as not to justify Its dis- dis as a compensatory compensator rate Indeed Ut In in indeed deed considering that shoe prices have hae advanced b by per pet cent and nd hides by about 20 per per c cent nt or more p pointedly that since shoe prices arc aro aronow now 30 per cent above normal and tl the e prices of or hides below belo normal it would woul 1 be bo m much ch more moro just to ignore the compensatory than to make It Itan Itan itan an an argument for tOt granting C 20 per Cent 1 d duty All Ail this dope on Ori ri shoes Ii Is 18 given herewith because lIse er e everybody body wears wear them Shoes are one of the things in hi the tariff bill blU in which even everyone nc has a right to get t. t Interested It may maybe be bc that there will m soon oon on be just as much nuch excitement and nd fuss tuss over overshoes overshoes 1 shoes f as ns thero Is about the I duty Increase before beCore tho the tariff fight is over o FARMER WO WOULD lD NOT BENEFIT Some large shoe manufacturers rs told the senate finance committee that the they didn't 5 see sea O an any reason wh why there should b be a a. a duty on either or shoes The They said laId hides w v ro re a a. byproduct and ml that the farmer would ben benefit from the tho hide dut duty hardly at all because the packers bought their animals hides and rind all and sold hides R for what the they can get Thus th the hides dut duty would help the packers rathel than th the tho stock raisers It Jt w was s also alao argued of course that the tho higher her prices the farmer larmer doubtless would have to pay for 01 shoes slices would much more than offset an any increased profits on his f hides The original argument for Cor a n duty on shoes hoes was made b by J J. J Franklin o of Boston Bosto representing the National Boot and Shoo Shoe Manufacturers Manufacturers Manufacturers' Manu Manu- association Mc Mc-Elwain said that pairs of or shoes I were Imported in 1928 worth and that most roost of t th them m mc c came m from Czechoslovakia where low wa wages cs prevailed