Evening star., 1921-05-09
SENATOR ATTACKS
EMERGENCY TARIFF
Mr.. Moses of New Hampshire
Regards Bill "UnscientifiC
and Unjust"

! y vigorous attack upon the emer-
Sency tariff bill was launched in the
| Senate today from the republican side
OF the chamber. Senator Moses Of
New Hampshire declared his opposi-
! 'ion TO the bill. which he declared
/ was 'unscientific. unjust and sure TO
defeat the hopes OF those who adyo-
! Gated it"
/ The New Hampshire senator's AT
, tack was directed particularly
j against the so-call-d Knox amend
! neht extending the governmental
| licensing of dye importations -
amounting practically to an embargo.
! He opposed the emergency tariff hill
! IN the last Congress-
/ Senator Moses Argument.
| Discussing the bill, Senator Moses
! From the beginning of the move
, ment /" enact this Legislation for the
/ supposed benefit of suffering agricul-
| tuTal interests il has been vigorously
asserted that no amendments were to
| be considered. that its items were sac
| roSanct and that no impiouS hand
/ should be laid upon them. In pur-
| Suance OF this policy. in the last Con
! SreSS We saw an amendment for mild
| ~ compensatory duties in the wool
| Item offered by the distinguished SEN
| dtor from MasSa to be
| Incontinently rejected. We heard the
| pa voice of the senator from
! Missouri crying out in vain for a duty
on Sunf1ower seeds We heard the
! friends of macnesite. of tungsten and
or latch needles vainly imploring the
obdurate senator from North Dak kot a
| to permit few loaves of his tariff
! mama to fall into their empty hands;
| but all in vain.
mere was duty on hides. but
none permitted on shoes. There was
| duty on wool. but none on woolcnS
Ihere was "A duty on cotton. but none
on 'ottonS, There was a duty on
wrappers. but none on cigars.
'1he committee in the Senate was
heaf-"ared and stony hearted until
the Junior senator from Pennsylvania
appeared before the tribunal pres ided
over by his colleague and procured
from its members the insertion in
the bill of title V. which would con-
tinue for the life of the measure the
existing embargo and licensing Sys-
TEN as applied to dyestuffs. BY this
action the hnance committee has witt
at"d the principle upon which the
bill is supposedly drawn. for by no
stretch of imagination can il be adcy
nuately c"ntended that suffering acrf-
culture can be benefited by an en-
barge on dyeStuffS
such IA proposal has been inter
mittently before Congress for more
than year and a half. and during all
OF that time l have perSiStently and
! consistently opposed it.
| ConsistentIy for Protection.
| II am a protectionist-a protection
ist in the nth degree. believing in
protection almost for protection :
| sake. Through tn. operation Of that
doctrine. devised by Hamilton and
handed down to his successors in po-
| Iltical faith. the republican party
: from its birth has stood for the de-
N"lcpment of American industry be-
! hind the shclterinG wall of pro-
tcctive tariff. Our richest cpochs of
| industrial development and national
prosperity have been those during
which wise prOtectionism has held
sway.
; But Mr.. President. when they come
here with a renewed and impudent de-
mand that measures arising from the
cXiSencieS of war time should be con-
tinued for their benefit at a moment
when We are ardently seeking peace
and d return to normalcy my convic-
| tons and my political judgment alike
! forbid acqulescence."
Alleges Cost Of Pressing the Bill.
Senator Moses said it appeared that
the American'.Dyes Institute had ex-
pended Si0i932.6l in pressing the
measure before the Senate. of this
amount. he said. $4,000 had gone in
counsel fees, $25 O00 to Joseph H
/ Choate. jr.. and $4,000 to T. Harry
toNlngton. former associate Justice of
the supreme Court of the District of
Columbia.