Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-20
Penrose and MARITIME in Ex-
change as to Campaign
Contributions.
TAX ON SPOOL THREAD
is SUBJECT OF DEBATE
Committee Yields in One Instance to
Senator Lippitt Of Rhode
Island.

Senators Penrose and MARITIME enlivened
the tariff debate today by a spirited ex-
change of personalities. Mr.. MARITIME
quoted Rudolph Spreckels as believing
free sugar would not ruin the beet sugar
industry in the west; that the Hawaiian
industry would continue and that the
Louisiana cane industry had been toe
long protected.
THAT the Senate may know the i'm
1 wish to call attention to his contribu-
ton to President Wilson'S campaign
fund.-" interjected Mr.. Penrose. He
added that Mr.. Spreckels was interested
in free sugar.
1.-The senator from Pennsylvania has
lived SO long under the shadows of a
boiler factory that the welding of plate
and the riveting of a boiler have more
attraction for him than the cries of suf
fering humanity" retorted Mr.. MARITIME.
Consideration of the cotton schedule
limiting spools to 600 yards. proposed by
Senator Hoke Smith, was adopted
Foreigners Fear Big Cut.
Senator Lippitt offered an amendment
to provide that spool threads should pay
the same rates as the single yarns OF
which they are composed, but not less
than Is per cent. The Rhode island
senator insisted that the schedule dis
eliminated against thread in favor Of
yarns Senator Gallinger read state
ments from foreign manufacturers ex-
pressing alarm at the drastic cut in cot
ton on the ground that 1t would not be a
duty and would be overturned
in four years.
The Lippitt amendment was rejected,
SO to 33.
Senator Lippitt succeeded. however,
in amending, with consent OF the
finance committee majority. the para
graph relating to plain cotton cloth.
be dutiable at TIA per cent the yarn
content should average" not to ex-
coed No. 9, instead of nine being the
highest" number, as the committee
had proposed.
Sliding Scale Rejected.
average" was substituted also for
highest" with relation to yarn con-
tent in bleached or colored cotton
cloth at 10 per cent ad valorem.
An amendment by the Rhode Island
senator which would provide for a
sliding scale Of the rate on cotton
cloth instead of what he termed the
committees stepping stone" system OF
rates. was rejected.
Senator Hoke Smith, in charge Of the
cotton schedule, announced that the
committee had in contemplation an
amendment reclassifying cotton table
damascus and other advanced cotton
manufactures This led Senator Lip
pitt to urge that the whole schedule be
passed for further consideration, but
this suggestion was not fruitful.
Penrose Offers Wool Substitute.
Senator Penrose today introduced his
substitute for the wool schedule. which
Is the same as he proposed last year In
substitution for the Underwood bill. Sen
ator Smoot already has proposed a wool
schedule substitute, and Senator La
Toilette will submit a third substitute.
The Penrose schedule Classics wool into
three grades-merfnos. ETC.; angOras and
alpacas and dOnskoi and South American
woods.
Glasses one and two would be dutiable
at Is cents pound, unsecured and 20
cents pound, secured, on the clean wool
content: class three. cents pound, un-
secured, and 10 cents, secured; tops. %
cents; top waste, % cents; WOODEN cloth.
from IL cents a yard and % per cent ad
valorem additional to IS cents a yard
and 35 per cent additional; women's dress
goods, from cents yard to So per cent
ad valorem, according to grade.
FREQ Sugar Program Wins.
Free sugar In 1916, the program Of
President Wilson and other democratic
leaders, won in the Senate yesterday
afternoon. It is expected that demo-
Gratis will be equally successful In put
ting through the free wool provision Of
the tariff bill.
The Bristow amendment providing for
mi duties 81 e. on WAS
ators Ransdell and Thornton of Louisi-
ana leaving the democratic alignment
to vote with the republicans. Senator
ment striking out the provision for free
sugar at the end of three years. This
was defeated by viva voce vote. Sem
ator Norris did not ask for a roll call
notice that he intended to offer the same
amendment when the tariff bill reaches
the Senate from the committee of the
whole.
An amendment to abolish Immediately
the Dutch standard color test for sugar
was adopted during the fight It was
proposed by Senator BristOw, republi-
can. and accepted by Senators Simmons
and Williams, the democratic managers
of the bill. Under Its provisions the
sistent fight has been waged since 1909,
will be abolished as soon as the tariff
bill becomes law, instead Of next March,
as the measure would otherwise have
provided.
A hard fight was made for the Bristow
amendment for compromise duties on
sugar. but when finally forced to a vote
it was defeated 80 to "a.
Close Vote Margin Not Alarming.
But for the absence Of Senators Works,
Sterling and Lippitt, republicans, and
Senator Poindexter, progressive. the vote
probably would have been 80 to So.
This close margin did not alarm the
democratic leaders, however. for on a
definite canvass of the entire member
ship they were certain Of majority
On a subsequent motion by Senator
Gallinger to strike out the provision
to make maple sugar and glucose free
Of duty In 1916. was beaten, 81 to 35.
Before adjournment the Senate had
disposed of the schedule devoted to
rates on spirits, wines and liquors, with
the exception OF that provision,relating
to the tax on fortified wines. and the
cotton schedule was taken up and
briefly debated. Senator Lippitt at
tackled the proposed system OF fixing
ad valorem duties on thread and yarn
based on the trade number of the
product
House Seat for Progressive.
The House elections committee today