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Show TARIFF BILL OF C.O.P. EXPECTED HUB SESSION Republican System of Taxes On Imports Coming Up For Discussion. INFLUX OF UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS IS FEARED Producer Gets All Attention.! Consumer None. Grain Dealer Asserts. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. Plans for' the introduction of a new Republican' tariff bill soon after the convening j of the Axtra session of congress Presi-! dent-elect Harding is expected to call in. March, were announced today by Chairman Fordney. of the house ways and means committee. Mr. Pordney said it was prbposed lo continue hearings on tariff que--! lions with only brief Interruptions until un-til all interests had been given an op-' port unit) to lay their views before the committee. Tomorrow the committee will begin j formal consideration of schedule A of the U'ntlerwpod tariff act. embracing chemicals, oils and prittt I I l' ol IMMIGR VI l The. 1 ifmmgrnlioti problem fs thr. "most vital confronting the nation.") Frederick VYallis. nmivioner "f Immigration Im-migration 0t Ellis Island, New York, declared today before the senate lm-i migration committee which Is con-: sinering legislation to stop temporarily tempora-rily the flow of aliens into the coun- i try He added that ine more dan-i gerous phase of the problem was in ! "the Immigrant himself" rathei than in immigration as a whole. "All Europe is bending this way." Mr Wallis caid "Conditions there have not improved greatly since th.' war. You cannot blame the people for coming, but that does not mean they can come. Tho question is transportation. trans-portation. Only 1,300.000 can get here, in a year. 'We have a perfect right to skim ! the cream of those who come, but that skimming should begin on the CONSUMER FORGOTTEN. Congress at this time is apt to "run i lop-sided in the Interest of producer Without giving heed to the eighty mil-lion mil-lion people dependent upon them for food" A E. Reynolds, a grain dealer,; of Crawfordsville, Ind., told the house agricultural committee today hi op-posing op-posing legislation designed to out an ! extra lax on speculative grain tr.tu-j lng . The witness was sharply questioned ; by Representative Tincher. Repuoli- can, Kansas, who wanted to know If the farmers derived any benefit from the fact that the wheat crop was sold 14 times on the Chicago board of trade before it was harvested. Mr Reynolds said ho could not aiiswei that. Calling attention to whit he regarded regard-ed as dangerous provisions of reyulat-j Ing measures, the wit-ic-s- -aid thty might, open the way for somebody toi step in and attempt to buy up the visi-! bio supply. DISARM wri NT PLANS Another discussion of world naval disarmament before the senate foreign for-eign relations committee today was without result The committee adjourned ad-journed subject o the call of the ohaJrmsn, expected within a few davs j Snaio." Walsh. Democrat. Montana, appeared to support this resolution! requesting President Wihon to ap-! point an American representative to sit with the league of nations disarmament disarm-ament commission and Senator Eornh, Republican. Idaho, presented his resolution reso-lution looking to an agreement between be-tween Ih United States. Crc it Eritaln and Japan to reduce naval construe-1 tlon by one-half during the next five veal's. o l PRI4 I PROB1 l High prices paid by the arm) for its' coal during the shortage scare last' summer were inquired into again to- day by tho senate committee on rer I m ontinued on Page Two Tariff Bill of G. 0. P. Expected in New Session it on Untied 1 rum Page one.) construction. Ijleutenunt Colonel I James 11. Barney, in charge of eoal piirch.i-es i fir the army testified only three bids tor 0 total f 7,600 tuns, were received when the department advertised lor a million tODM for tht leaetcrn department last July i. The prices ranged From $4.50 to )J6.oO a ton and since bidders hud offered of-fered to supply coal In the west and on the Pacific coast for as little as $2.70 a ton, the eastern bids were rejected. re-jected. I . i(a I FT! R sl iCKERS ' Attorney-General Palmer Informed tho house Judiciary committee today that the department of Justice had made every effort to arrest and on-j on-j vlct violators of tho selective service act and that he did not believe any! 'considerable number hud escaped. Chairman Volstead, of the commit-' , lee, said lie believed adequutc efforts! .had been made to arrest violators that it eras unlikely that Secretary Maker or Mr. Palmer would be called to' testify as requested yesterday by s W. Jalbiulth, national commander r.f the' American Legion. .Mi Volstead -aid ho did not believe men should be1 branded as 'slackers' In pflbllshedj lists untu convicted. |