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Show BIG TARIFF FIGHT L00M1H FORDNEY SAyJH HOUSE WON'M ACCEPT PLAN M Smoot Declares Conferees Will Stick for Foreign Valuation DEMOCRATS LINE UP Long Days of Controversy Loom for Members of Congress WASHINGTON, April 12 nerc If the history of the tariff bill: Hearings stnrted by house ways and moans committee January 6 lf2l H concluded Februarj IJB, Introduced In house Job Taken up Jul ". passed Jul) 81, Hearings started by the i-emite rin H .nice Committee .Inly 2.V. continued In H termittcntl to January S, 1022. Iteportod to senate April 11. WASHINGTON, prll 12 The d' - jiaration bj Chairman Fprdney of in house ways and means eommlttee ih'c the house never would yield on Amer-lean Amer-lean valuation has revived discussion ot that tariff question at the capik"! With opponents and proponents est I matiqg their possible strength when the bill gels to conference between the senate and nous SMOOT DIFFERS. Chairman Fordney is of the opinion that the conferees Will accept the Am-erlcan Am-erlcan valuation, but Senator Smoot of I tah ranking Republican on ihe sen- H ate finance committee, does not mi -scribe to this view As the situation now stands It would appear that the H conferees would be at least seven to three against the proposition. Smopt, who piade the fight H fOi f,"-eiKrt valuation before the sonar 'committee majority, says ho will nvi ot. for American valuation In th-conference th-conference or anywhere . Isr Senator J LaPolleitc- of Wisconsin, the second ranking itepublican on the finance. committee, voted against this valua-tion valua-tion In the committee. Representative Green of Iowa, ranking Itepublican on the ways and means committee, saya he never has been very favorable t 1 ihe principle and the four Democratic conferees , two from the house and two H from ih' senate ure counted ug.nn-ft f.'' FORD NET OUTSPOKEN, Iff Chairman Fordney is outspoken for American valuation. Chairman Mc-Cumber Mc-Cumber of the senate committee .ind represent itlve Long-worth of ihio, the 'other two conferees, have made no statement as to their position since th" senate committee majority def-Inltely def-Inltely adopted foreign valuation. Senators generally were studying tho ii. v tariff bill as reported yesterday H to the senate In preparation for tho long days of controversy that are ahead on the senate floor Several H amendments to rates in the bill al-'ready al-'ready have been offered from the Rej Ipubllcan side, while Democratic lead-I lead-I ers arc preparing to make a general jassault, on the measure as well as sep jarcte attacks on many of the rate Democrats on the finance committee have been given ten days in which lo file their minority report oii B-SBS |