Show BY MOBLEY BUREAU special to the park record washington D C foreign farm goods are vaulting the american tariff wall and furnishing such s a barrier to better farm conditions that the federal farm board has discussed with several members of congress the prospect of blanket increases la in tariff duties on these products although the agitation for additional duties on farm goods has been largely under cover Auto caster service has established the tact fact that the next session of congress will witness a determined fight for these increases so pronoun pronounced ced is the feeling here that to it I 1 Is s traced much of the desire of senator borah of idaho and the forces which he Is leading for an extra session the rising demand tor for barring all imports from russia also has its basis tn in the same fear of foreign dumping of low priced products chairman legge of the farm board the 0 ther other day told newspapermen that con giess ought to put a stop to imports of all kinds ot of agricultural commodities that are climbing in over the tariff wall every day nobody else can stop it tall loose limbed square jawed and with his clothes bagging at appropriate places the chairman grew earnest when he was asked if the board favored the andresen bill to automatically increase the tariff on schedule seven of the tariff law that Is a way it could be done said legge we are not favoring any procedure we have no hobby they can do 1 I 1 j I 1 I 1 it by addition or subtraction action or long dilli slon just as long as they do it pressed as to whether an extra session its Is needed lor for this legge said that the banners fan ners could be given real relief by congress in 15 minutes it if they were so disposed nevertheless there still Is a distinct possibility that one will be held lit if it is necessary that it be called by president hoover one ot of the first things it will be called on to do will be dealing with growing imports passage of a bill which will almost shut off imports from russia will stop some grain dumping as well as a little meats and oils Is predicted in some quarters quarter 3 although the current session Is now too short to make it likely I 1 the andresen bill sponsored by rep andr andresen e sen minn would raise by 50 per c ent cent tor for one year every agricultural commodity in the tariff law there Is no j question estion it will command heavy support in n to both 0 th houses of congress the senate we went nt on record two years ago as believing industrial tariffs are disproportionately high compared to farmer tariffs and the 1 heavy vote by which this resolution was passed Is indicative of the backing thel the new move may have i although detailed figures on impo imports I 1 of individual products have not been published Auto caster has obtained corn com I 1 1 merce department tables which show i some remarkable increases since the hawley smoot act was passed this act was adopted in june fil almost most exactly midway in the calendar calenda ir year among the figures are included the he following the first column showing imports tor for six months the act was passed and the second for the six months after ast 1st 6 months I 1 pork salted pickled etc ib cattle hides pc dried beans lb ib sugar lb ib stemmed leaf tobacco cigarettes ib 1 tah potatoes lb ib I 1 butter ib and 2nd 6 months I 1 pork salted pickled etc ib cattle hides pe pc pried aled beans lb ib sugar I 1 ib b med lead tobacco cigarettes lb ib irish potatoes lb ib butter lb ib the s significance of these figures which could 0 u lit be added to by further investigation Is that even in the case of such things as butter and dried beaw beans w where h ere imports have fallen off the tariff baan has not t i maintained the american market tor for american farmers in the case of both butter and beans as well a as 9 of many other commodities the united states has enough to export of its output yet it must sell these ex 1 ports at a lower price than it gets tor for them in this country meanwhile the imported goods are still coming i in nearly always at lower cost than Is p profitable bitable tor for american farmers |