Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-07
TARIFF BILL HELL
WARREN DECLARES
Wyoming Senator Says Farm
ers Are Subjected to Un-
fair Treatment.

| Charging the democrats with hedging
and with being doubtful Of the success
of their tariff program, Senator Warren
of Wyoming today criticised statements
| made by democratic senators to the ef-
| feet that republican senators were in a
| conspiracy to bring about hard times
during the consideration or following the
passage of the pending tariff bill.
Il myself would many times rather see
the present dominant party retain the
reins of government for a long time. with
continued prosperity equal to that which
the nation has enjoyed under republican
rule than again to endure the hardships
of the period following the election Of
1892 and continuing until 1885," said Sen
/ ator Warren.
Senator Warren said that he had re-
ceived thousands of letters during the
last three months containing expressions
of fears for industries Of this country
should the democratic tariff bill become
a law. He referred to promises made in
the past with reference to placing arti-
cles on the free list and the reduction
of prices to the consumer. Hides, he
said had been placed on the free list
with a promise that shoes would be
cheaper. Instead, he said, the prices of
shoes had increased. He predicted this
would be the case in the finished prod
| ucts where other raw materials are
placed on the free list. Free wool, he
| said. would not result in cheapening
clothes to the consumer, but would
merely harm the farmer producing wool.
Farmer Disseminated Against.
Senator Warren declared that the farm
er had been woefully Disseminated
against in the pending tariff bill. He
+l,a
| tariff Of the republicans the farmers had
fiourished. He showed that in the twen-
ty-year period from 1890 until 1910 the
| average net ownership of the farmer had
increased in this country from 1920 to
$4,574.
Il assert without fear of contradiction
that If the fiat of the White House pre-
scribing free sugar were withdrawn there
would be no difficulty in obtaining an
amendment to the pending bill which
would eliminate the free sugar provision,
said Senator Warren.
Down with the farmer is practically
the sentiment Of the dominant party, as
read in the proposed tarifr law. Many
of the products Of the farm are placed
on the free list, all of the large i'm
portant ones, in fact. including cattle,
sheep. wheat, meats, wool and sugar
One of our great war leaders has
| said War is hell'' continued Senator
| SO far as the farmer of the northwest
is concerned"
The time has passed when men with
technical knowledge of these indus
tries and large interests in them can
come to Washington and write the tex
tile schedules into the tariff law"
shouted Senator Stone of Missouri, re-
plying yesterday afternoon to a speech
made by Senator Lippitt of Rhode
| Island. in which the latter charged that
the democrats had framed the textile
schedules in ignorance of real condi-
tions existing in the trade.
Before the senator from Rhode Island
came to this Senate he was before the
| Senate and House committees when
| tariff bills were being framed. He is a
| large manufacturer of these goods and.
think knows more of the cotton and
| other textile industries than does the
| average senator" said Senator Stone.
But the present committee do not in
| tend to have any OF the scnedu!es or
the bill written by interested parties.
Senator Stones outburst came after
| Senator Lippitt had made a detailed
criticism Of the democratic textile sched-
1 ules.
| Says South Is Favored.
Senator Lippitt charged. too. that the
cotton schedule framed by the democrats
| favored the cotton manufacturers Of the
south and Disseminated against those of
MED by Senator Hoke Smith Of Georgia
/ a member of the subcommittee which
handled the cotton schedule. Senator
| Smith said that the bill was not sectional,
| and pointed out that plushes, chenilles
| lace curtains and other items in the bill.
made in northern mills, carried high du-
| ties.
| When the bill was taken up for amend
| ment the metal schedule was under con-
\ NJ YNnvad
| to reduce the duty on breech-loading
! rifles from 35 per cent ad valorem to 25
per cent. which. he said, was the present
law BY a strict party vote this amend
ment was defeated. Senator Smoot said
| that 20 per cent had been ample prOtec-
| ton, and that no one had ever asked for
1 more duty
] Senator Mclean Of Connecticut offered
an amendment increasing the duty on
needles from 70 per cent ad valorem to
40 per cent ad valorem. This was defeat
| ed by vote Of 50 to IS. many OF the
progressive republicans voting against
the amendment. Senator Gallinger Of
| New Hampshire offered an amendment
increasing the duty to Is cents a thou
| sand needles. with an additional 20 per
cent ad valorem. This. too. was defeated.
] The finance committee amendment de-
creasing the House bill duty OF 25 per
cent to 20 per cent ad valorem was
agreed to.
Senator Penrose OF Pennsylvania pro-
tested against the Is per cent ad valorem
rate on railway wheels proposed by the
Senate finance committee. The House
rate was 25 per cent. He said he would
not offer an amendment. because 1t would
be useless to do SO.
A protest against the proposed tax on
foreign books In the tariff bill was filed
today with Chairman Underwood Of the
ways and means copmittee by DIR. An
drew ID. White, former ambassador to
Germany and minister to Russia and for
mer president of Cornell University
DIR. White declares that such tax
would yield an amount of disgust out of
all proportion to the revenue to be OBJ
tanned by means of 1t. He said that the
proposed u per cent tax upon all books
in foreign languages. not imported for
institutions of learning, would work a
hardship upon those students who after
leaving college wish to continue reading
original publications In German, French
and Italian literature.
To illustrate the methods OF the plume
hunters who serve the feather millinery
trade of America and Europe series
of motion pictures will be exhibited at
the Capitol laboratory, SVuth Capitol and
streets. this evening from 5 to 1O
o'clock. They will be shown by DR.. VIII
liam L. Hornaday and T. Gilbert Pierson,
, who are leading the fight to prohibit the
Importation into this country OF feathers