The Washington herald., 1913-07-24
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Dear proper relation TO the duty Of the
raw materials. But Senator Jones
amendment was also lost. and he did moi
demand roll call Senator 6moot gave
notice that later. he would offer IN
amendment 70 put all balsams. such q
Copeiva, mr.. Peru, toiu, and the Ike
coming IN their natural state. on the
When paragraph u. relating to bleach.
ING powder. was reached. Senator Town
emo OF ASchigan made q Plea for the re-
tention Of the duty in the Payne-AIdrich
law. He reviewed the history of the
pieeehing powder industry in the United
ntAtee which began. he declared, with
the placing Of q duty on the product.
Two iactories were established in 1909,
one at Niagara Falls and one in Michi.
gan, with the result that the price of the
product. has been reduced greatly. until
now bleaching powder il sold in the
United States as cheapdy as it Is abroad,
The Senate bill gives duty Of Ito cent
pound Senator Townsend did not
that he would propose It later.
Senator Smoot gave notice that he
would offer amendments later on in the
consideration of the bill to paragraph
IA. which places a duty on caGein OF 81
Per pound. and on the compounds of
caffein Of Is per cent ad valorem. He
reserved the right to amend this para
graph and paragraph 10. which carries
choral hydrate, safol. acetanelid, and
other coal tar products Senator Smoot
demanded and secured a roll call on
paragraph q of the bill. which imposes
a duty Of 5 per cent on coal tar distillates.
He proposed to restore existing duties
Of the Payne-Aldrich law. but was voted
lou e.
Present Duties Defeated.
On paragraph "a. providing duties on
large number Of coal tar products nj
the rate Of 10 per cent. Senator Smoot
again lost in his effort to retain the
present duties by vote Of 20 to 80
One OF the interesting struggles Of the
day came hear the close when Senator
Lodge made a fight to secure the reten-
ton Of the Payne-Aldrich duties on col
lidion and other raw materials used in the
manufacture of celluloid.-
The Senator from Massachusetts ad-
dressed the Senate at length, in which
he declared that the duties carried BY
the Senate bill. although they represented
increases over the House bill. were still
insufficient to protect the industry. He
declared that s14.0o0O0O of capital was
invested in the four manufacturing
plants producing celluloid in the United
States. He attacked the figures given
in the Democratic handbook as to the
amount of importations, and quoted from
the German Official report on exports Of
celluloid. to show that the exports to
the United States from Germany alone,
were twice as large as these stated in
the Democratic handbook as representing
the entire importations from all parts of
the world into the United States
Senator johnson of Maine, who had
charge of the chemical schedule. explain
ed that the figures on importations was
prepared at the Treasury Department.
but he admitted that he placed very little
reliance on any of the official figures or
estimates furnished to the committee
Senator Lodge lost in his effort to restore
he duty on the celluloid products and
he materials entering into their manu-
acture by vote Of q to IS A number
4 his Republican colleagues voted against
t. among them Borah and Brady. of
daho; Crawford. of South Dakota; Gron-
IN. of North Dakota: Norris, of Ne
'raska, and Poindexter. Of Washington
lodge.
Ersot Ia sim Taxed.
Senator Lodge made a stand later to
nlarge the free list. by moving to strike
ut a proposed duty of 10 cents per pound
n ergot. He lost by a vote of 81 to %.
The final vote of the session came on a
notion by Senator Smoot to change the
of others SO that the amount
4 alcohol allowed might be 10 per cent |
instead Of per cent. as proposed in para
raph 30 of the bill. This amendment led \
0 interesting discussion on the manu- |
acture Of others. in which the two, ply |
iciars OF the Senate. Lane. Of Oregon. |
nd Gallinger. of New Hampshire, en-
aged in hn interesting scientific debate |
8 to others. in which each called on |
is experience as a physician. Senator |
moot lest. and the Democratic members |
the Finance Committee were again sus-
aimed by the Senate.
So satisfactory was the progress made
nth the bill that at the conclusion of !
he session the Leaders of the Senate
ere predicting that the vote on the |
leasur would be taken in the Senate not !,
tier than August IS.
1t was manifest that the Republicans
ad no compact organization and that
lany of the progressive Republicans will
ote with the Democrats for reductions
duties. The Democrats on the other
and appeared to be thoroughly united,
nd voted together on every roll call
1t is not likely that much progress will
. made with the schedules tomorrow, as
.veral Senators will be ready to make
rin speeches.
Senator Weeks Of Massachusetts, has
ven notice that he will address the
enate today. and Senator Works of
alifornia will also speak IL his Massa-
nusetts colleague concludes in time.
CHARGED AS HORSE THIEF.