Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-07-14 | Page 10 | Iowa Solon Defends Bill

r SOLON J r DEFENDS BILl Tariff Debate Is Nearing Conclusion WASHINGTON July 14 The H.-The The house ran und under r high pressure Wednesday In ill its consideration of or the N tariff bill hIll with the intent t on of ot concluding the general debate debato T tomorrow I Outstanding In tho the discussion was a a. defense of ot the bill b by Representative the live Green of ot Iowa ranking Republican f lican ln on the ways was and means com com- who contended that It would L result In a t reduction of ot American f trade and a l criticism of several veral of ot Its provisions pro b by Representative Ca- Ca feW of ot Now New York a Democratic member of ot the committee 1 Mr Care Carew attacked ed the main zaIn valuation l policy embodied In the bill billand and nd Incidentally he declared that the country's Interest In tho the tariff was jigging to the point where It no ij- ij 7 longer regarded congressional action Ton t-Ton tho measure In a serious manner Representative Hawley of ot Oregon member of the other another Republican o committee read statistics to show It- It L that farmers had left Jeet tho the land 4 Jn jn in the last Jast decade and Inquired whether It Jt was vas not time limo to let them f fr now knOW that the tho government go was Int In- In t forested In their problems He cited the tho agricultural schedule fin OR an exI example exl ex- ex II l ample of oC practical aid ald Tho possible effect the rate rale would have on the war built merchant I I marine was touched on I Representative Kinchelo Dem of or Kentucky Inquired whether the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- I publican party w was ws s going oln to kill Idil tho the II fleet again Xo No ships could 1 contInue continue con con- con 1 In operation If It they were able 3 to handle cargoes ont only outbound he heg e g contended explaining that the prohibitive pro I J rates drawn by tho the f. f would have that result I U The Republicans were also taken to task by Representative Huddleston I of ot Alabama for tor what he described as A n willingness on their part to open the tho treasury to the railroads again The party party- leaders hI ho declared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap not to be content with the raids allowed b by the transportation oct act net and would not refuse the unlimited unlimited un limited ed demands which the rail rail- roads now are making We Ve have the spectacle he ho con- con of or the the president practically directing the senate not to pass tho bonus bill bitt We e will also have havethe the ithe the spectacle It If the party follows the White While House direction of giving Snot not not one cent to the soldiers but to the railroads j The fight on tho oil duties In the ther f r tariff bill opened when Representative tive Byrns Dem Dern ot of of South Carolina bad read to tl the e house hous what was said to be a letter Jetter from President Harding Hard- Hard ing opposing the tho action of ot the ways and vand nd means means' committee In taking oil I off otc off the free tree list The letter recently was published In some newspapers but It still sun rep re- re p mains nains' a n. mystery how Its text leaked i out Chairman Fordney declared he 3 f did id not make mako it Jt public No ann an- an I an-I anIn n n regarding the Jetter has 1 been made by the White to House i Fordney declined to state whether the text read to the house was was' au au- au i