Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-12
SENATE DEFERS
VOTE ON TARIFF
Sugar Schedule Is Approved
Without Amendment.
RAW WOOL ON THE FREE LIST


Efforts to Restore Duty and Lower
Rates on Wooden Manufactured
Goods All Meet With Defeat.
Amendment to Allow Farmers to
Manufacture Denatured Alcohol Is
Agreed to Without Opposition.
Washington, Sept. 9.-The senate
will vote finally on the Democratic
tariff bill this afternoon at o'clock.
Democratic lines stood solidly
against the final onslaught of the tar
iff
, With party leaders urging their col.
leagues on to approval of the bill the
ranks closed up against the anti-free
wool and anti-free sugar forces and
defeated all amendments to the bill
as fast as they came to the vote.
Attempts to restore a duty on raw
wool and lower the duty on wooden
manufactured goods. made in success
sive amendments by Senators La Fol-
lette, Catron and Penrose, were de-
feated without the loss OF party vote.
An amendment by Chairman SIM
mons of the finance committee to en-
able farmers to manufacture denatured
alcohol was agreed to without opposi-
ton.
The sugar schedule. without amend
ment and including the provision for
free sugar in 1916, was finally agreed
to.
Among the amendments defeated
was that of Senator Norris for a
heavy tax on inheritances. This was
beaten, So to II, the following Repub-
ucans joining the Democrats in voting
against it.:
Senator's Brandigee, Catron, Clark
of Wyoming. Colt, Fall, Gallinger,
Jackson, Lippitt, Lodge, Oliver, Pen
rose. Perkins, Root, Sherman and
Sutherland.
La Foliette's Efforts Fail.
Two attempts by Senator La Fol-
lette to procure the adoption of sub
stitutes for the Democratic wool tar
If failed by strict party votes.
There remained the prospect of a
final wool vote when the single item
of free wool was reported in the free
list of the bill.
Senators Bristow and James engag-
ed in a lively debate over the tobacco
tariff which aroused applause from the
crowds in the gallery.
Senator Warren called the vice
presidents attention to rule that
there should be no applause.
81 am very grateful to the senator
from Wyoming for calling my attel-
ton to the rule" said Mr.. Marshall.
but on careful inspection of the rules
| fail to find it,"
Senator Bacon, Democrat, took is
sue with the vice president, declaring
that while he had the profoundest re-
spect for the vice president and
wished to give no offense, he earnest
~ wished him to revise his statement
that there was nothing in the rules
of the senate giving him authority to
preserve order.
"There has been as much disorder
here at the instance of senators, some
Of whom are the most insistent about
the rules, as there has been in the
he added.
"As to following precedent the
chair is not one of those to be bound
~ any precedent"
Final Fight Over Wool.
The first hint of the final fight over
'ree raw wool came when Senator
"a Toilette introduced general SUBJ
,titute for the wool tariff sections of
he Underwood-Sim bill.
The La Toilette wool plan came as
/ surprise to the Democratic side.
Instead OF the expected Is per cent
iuty on raw wool after Jan. l next
lis substitute proposed a general cut
If the wool rates, based on 80 per
,ent raw wool duty for 1914; IS per
;ent duty for 1915 and Is per cent
luty after Jan. 1, 1916.
While the high wooden tariff rates
If the present law came In for much
# Senator La Follette's criticism he |
insisted that the Democratic bill did |
rot treat the wool raising industry !
airly.
He declared the wool duty was
bout the only tariff duty from which |
he farmer profited.
When the vote came the substitute
vas defeated, Al to %, and i'm I
nediately afterward Senator La Fol |
cite offered another amendment 70 |
tx a straight Is per cent duty on |
WOOL and this was promptly voted
Iown, 80 to 90. The wool substitute
vas defeated viva voce.
The debate over Senator Norris in
leritance tax amendment brought ,
trong condemnation from him and |