Arizona republican., 1913-07-25
Every Amendment to the Chemical Division is Met by a Solid PhalanX and Rejected by a Party Vote. Bill Upheld
THE REAL TEST
 IS YET TO COME
Senators Week and Works Engage in Set and Sar- castle Speeches Against the Underwood Simmons Bill Without Effect
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPATcHI


 WASHINGTON, July 24.-Republi-
 can senators continued to offer amend ments to nearly every paragraph of the Underwood Simmons tariff bill when it's reading was resumed today ! and the democrats, in a solid phalanX voted them down.
 As a result of the prolonged discus | sion, little progress was made in a 1 two hours consideration of the meas l ure after the general debate had pro- ceded throughout the afternoon, Sena- ! tors Works of California and Weeks of Massachusetts, criticising the bill. When the adjournment came, the sen ate had barely made an impression on
 the chemical schedule, the first sched- ule in the bill.
 An amendment by Senator Smoot to transfer saffron and safftower from the dutiable list at ten per cent, to the free list upon which he demanded a call was voted down 40 to 2 by strict i party vote. Another amendment by | Senator SmoOt to increase the rate on | formaldehyde from one to two cents | a pound encountered republican oppO- | sition when Senator Gronna of North [ Dakota, declared that a cent was high | enough because formaldehyde is essen | tial to farmers. Smoot withdrew his amendment.
 Senator Lodge protested against the proposed duty of five cents a pound on camphor and declared that he would demand a record vote later on an amendment to place it on the free list. Weeks said the democratic party had promised to correct all existing cOndi- tions with the end in view of better ing all mankind
 That party said Weeks "is to re- duce the cost of living. strangle the trusts, make the rich poorer and the poor richer. Their plan to do this is by a new tariff bill but the people will find that to change conditions in the way now suggested will only increase the injury to all classes of citizens who at the first opportunity will proceed to dispose those who have been humbug- ging them and restore to power the party which on the whole, managed the cOuntry's affairs with justice and hon. esty."
 The statements of Secretary Redfield and Democratic House Leader Under wood that the government would in- vestigate anW manufacturer who closed down his shop because of the tariff bill was denounced by the senator as dH attempt 10 lnLl1IlQdtc managers or American industries"
 Reference made to the report on the Taylor shop management system by the committee of the house of repre- sentatives in 1911 upon which served Secretaries RedfieId and Wilson.
 That report Senator Weeks said was submitted to the house by these new cabinet members on March 9, 1912 and stated that conditions vary in different shops and the system which would be effective in one might not be so effective in another" yet the secre- tary of commerce attempts to bulldoze American manufacturers by putting into effect a condition which little over a year ago he declared could not be made uniform. If it is impossible in the government shop to determine what IS efficient management how can the government determine whether a priv ate concern can conduct itself with profitable result. T suggest added Weeks, that the secretary of com merce call upon Governor FToss of who announced publicly , since the pending bill has been reached in the senate that he will be compelled to transfer his industry to Canada in I order to meet the new trade cOndi- t tons f
 Senator Works in a long speech de- S lending a protective tariff on citrus I fruits assaiIed the president for exec | utive interference Tn framing the tariff Y bill he denounced his action as a dang I erous precedent. The senator also de- | clared that a foreign lobby conducted ! exclusively in the interest of foreign lemon growers to procure the free list a ing of lemons had been in evidence in | a long time. |