Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-16 | Page 5 | Porters of Foreign Oils Assail Tariff

l I OUTERS OF REIGN REIN OILS TARIFF e Body Told Most Cheap rude Coming Corning From Texas Field 4 C B Br United Tresi April Apri 16 The Thc The oil 01 r resources of the United last lat a scant cant decade Im- Im of foreign oil oi told the senate c committee today They were t ing in opposition n to t the te pro- pro ito to lg levy an oil oi tariff tarU as part of few w billion dollar dolar revenue bill bi 1 H. H Harwood arwood vice vie president of American tn-American Petroleum and andrt andI I ort rt company which operates cla oil oi wells well denied the 42 a barrel levy y proposed in the ue bill bl would produce the etre esti- esti et- et i rc re venue jg g decreased oil oi imports Import in i 1931 creased field feld pro- pro 3 Harwood said that the i crude which is swamping the thele lean can market comes not from fromI le J I but from the cast Texas Texa field jig ig g bt part of the territory sought i U. U p protected by the proponents proponent of wood rood estimated the 1 cent a alevy alevy alevy levy on imported gasoline cost cot the American public D a year a large part of which be paid by bj the farer farmers nty major companies control- control J J per cent a of the bart bar bar- ba- ba if t oil stored in the United States oi get most mot of Or f the said sid Asserting that Amer- Amer I Amer-I pital went abroad in search of the request of at the Wilson Wison and ding eding ig administrations Harwood fair ir examination of the te facts fact B that the proposed tariff will wl Cause C ue a deficit rather than cre- cre venue Create a privilege for or the ma- ma that need no rio help Raise the price of oil al and gaso- gaso tb all aU consumers k Penalize that branch of the lean dean lc oil oi industry that has ha heed heed- official admonition and g to save the day for American standards by securing oil oi reS rei re- re I s in i other oter lands 1