The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-15
Delay Is to Enable Committee
to Complete Report on Under
wood Simmons Bill.
M'CUMBER LAUNCHES ATTACK
Defends Farmers of Country
Against Free Listing OF
Products.


tho Senate was postponed to-day from
Wednesday until Thursday This was
done 10 enable the Finance Committee
10 complete its report on tho Under
woodsimmons bill the presentation Of
which will mari. the beginning of
forensic hostility on tho floor In the
meantime. the Senate Will listen to n
speech tomorrow by Senator Thomas
of Colorado, on the relation OF the
tariff to the panic Of the nineties
AS prelude TO the long debate
which is to follow. Senator McCumber
to-day addressed the Senate in oppo-
sition to the bill, speaking. he said.
from q farmers point OF view. AS an
other preliminary. Senator Smoot in
PRODUCED his proposed substitute for
the wool schedule The substitute pro-
posos rates based directly upon the
report of the Tariff Board, and adopt
ing in each grade the lowest rate The
schedule is lower than that introduced
last year by Senator ?enrose as n sub
atitute for the Underwood wool bill,
and is tho lowest OF all wool sched-
ulcs ever introduced by Republican
Senator.
AS substitute for free raw wool.
the Smoot schedule divides raw wool
into three grades and establishes rates
rar ging from 10 l6 cents per pound.
Class ! woods. made dutiable at Is
cents pound il secured. and IL cents
on cleaned content. if imported in the
grease. include mcrino woods. imported
usually from Bueuos Aires. New Zea-
land. Egypt. Australia. Cape of Good
Hope. Russia, Great Britain, Morocco.
down combing woods ana Canada long
" ools
Woods of class .. made dutiable at
il cents pound, if secured, and g cents
on cleaned content in the grease, in
cIudc all hair OF the camel goat alpaca
and Leicester Cotswold, Lincolnshire
and similar long combing woods of
English blood Wools of class g. du-
liable at cents u pound If imported
IN their natural state, and IA cents ii
secured. include Donskoi native South
american Cordovn. Valparaiso. native
! smyrna Russian camers hair. RaCdad
China lamb, Castcl Branco and all such
woods usually imported from Turkey
Greece and Syria y drawback OF %
icr cent is provided for on woods OF
class 3, used In the United States for
the manufacture of carpets. druEgets.
mats, floor rugs. hassocks, art squares.
&c. which would make carpet woods
practically free of duty The duty on
woods or hair on the skin would be
cent less a pound. in every case, than
on the wool content
ON manufactured goods and ,:ools
advanced beyond the natural state tho
rates OF the Smoot bill are correspond
ihsly lower than present rates
The schedule contains provision
that the rates on raw wool should be
effective November l. 1919. and on wool
manufactures January |, 1914
1t was the Democrats. Senator Nc
Cumber declared who told the farmer
that he had been wrongcd by Mr. Taft,
because the former President sought
TO trade off his protection for recipro-
nv 4 mi H., 4
IL was the Democrats who tried to con
vince the farmer that the Republican
party was not to be trusted and that
they. instead. should be intrusted with
ms interests. The reciprocity propo-
sition, the Senator argued had one
virtue. IN that IL proposed TO get some
thing for surrcndering nothing. while
the Democrats proposed TO trade away
the farmers interest in everything for
absolutely nothing"
Competition of World.
The reciprocity proposition" he
continued. subjected the farmer to the
free competition OF Canada only.
You subject him to the com
petition OF the whole world
all of Canada. Australia Venezuela
Argentina. Cuba, the Philippines and
every other country on the face OF the
earth that may want to dump It's prod
ucts into market that belongs by
Senator McCumber asserted that the
Democrats admitted the tariff bill
would injurc the farmer, contending
that he received too much for his
products and must be compelled to sell
them cheaper. and charged that the
Democrats know that your claim that
you are going to benefit the consumer
is false and demagogic in the ex-
IRENE" The Senator submitted statis-
ties seeking to show that the tariff
did not affect the price OF farm prod
ucts to the consumer. and. again ad-
dressing the Democrats. said:
Your ears are closed To every ap-
peal for justice for the tller OF the
soil. You are reaching a point where
your income Is unable to keep pace
with Your extravagances, and YOU are
asking tho farmer to make good the
dcacN by reducing tho price OF his
products. It never occurs TO you that
the proper place to begin economy is
ON the Injuries. the unnecessaries OF
life. You declare to him that the
American people are paying $500. 00G,-
600 a year for meat. and YOU say that
is too much. He answers. They arc
also paying $4,000, 100000 year for
liquors Cut your liquor bill half and
you VIII save enough 10 buy all your
meat You declare they are paying
si35.C 900 year for flour He re-
plies. They are paying $500, 900, goo for
tobacco. Cut your tobacco bill half
and your nCur Is free You declare
they arc paying 1925, 600. 600 n year for
potatoes lie replies. They are paying
s5G0,c0o,000 for theatres and amusc-
ments. Cut your aInuscments half and
your potatoes are free You declare
thoy are paying $500, 600, 900 year
for butter and eggs. He replies. They
arc spending $500. 100000 year for
confectionery His replies are unan-
swcrable They arc so many monu-
mcnts reading In clear black letters
INFO your eyes an indictment OF your
own criminal extravagances and high
living"
The North Dakota Senator asserted
that prices would be lower after the