The bill further directs the President to issue a proclamation at once raising or lowering the duty named to meet such difference. and the same shall become effective within 15 days from the date of the proclamation. The ad valorem rates in the Underwood tariff bill are the lowest average of any principal country in the world. Mos t men -are opposed to the immigration of the orientals. and our laborers do not want them to compete in our labor markets. That being true. how can such men consistently vote for free trade or a low tariff that will without question bring into out markets the competitive products of the orientals. which certainly will displace just so much American labor. The Ways and Means Committee began hearings on this tariff bill on Tanuary 6. 1921. and reported the bill to the House the last week in June and passed it in the House July 21. 1921.
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