Washington, March 21.
At the request of President Harding, whose idea appears to be to avoid any embargo and to limit the Bill to a few items, the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives is sounding the Republican senators in regard to the feasibility of the early passage of the Emergency Tariff Bill.
The Committee has decided in favour of taking up the 'Tariff Bill with a view to passing it through Congress with a. six n.onths' limitation.
ENcOURAGEMENT oF Exports.
The Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Herbert Hoover, intends to appoint a Committee) to study trade rout: for American exports, and to quire into the questions of rail facilities. harbours and steamship lines, and the application of the preferential railway rates section of the Merchant Marine Act.—Reuter.
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