The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
Four Republicans Stand
Strongly Opposed to
FOrdney Bill.
MEASURE SCORED
FOR SECTIONALISM
Moses, in Scathing Words,
Says Farm Interests
Alone Benefit.
BY ROBERT BARRY.

Amid scenes that sometimes bor-
dered on the farCical. the Senate
last night passed the Fordney tarin
bill-S measure condemned by Re
publican Senators as the most IN
scientific tariff legislation ever ap-
proved by a Republican Congress
The vote for passage was 45 10 30.
| -Four Republicans voted against the
] bill; nine Democrats supported it.
As it goes back 10 the House. the
I tariff bill, instead Of carrying high
! protective duties on agricultural
products suffering from falling
I prices, carries q hodge -pOdEe OF
schedules, most Of them higher than
the Payne-AldriCh bill with a
sprinkling Of industrial protection
Features Of Bill
The bill. for example. carries com
pensatory duties on manufactured
leather-sboes, harness. betting. ctr-
but the Senate. after adopting the
proposal, declined TO extend TO the
manufacturers OF wool similar pro
lection TO equalize the duties on raw
wool
Nine Democratic Senators cast to
the political winds their traditional
opposition to protection They were
Senators from the sugar, the cotton
and the wool States. who held The
views Of their constituents IN Erca'-
er esteem than the teachings Of
Thomas Jefferson and Oscar Under
] wood.
! There was occasion for serious
doubt that the Fordnsy bill would
have passed the Senate last night.
Except for assurances of the most
positive nature that President Will
Z son would veto it.
Republican Senators opposing tho
3 bill were Edge. Of New Jersey:
y heyes and Moses. OF New Hsmp-
. shire. and Colt, Of Rhode Island
The nine Democrats who voted
. with the Republican majority were
Ashurst. Arizona. Gay. Louisiana
E HENDERSON. -Ns~dds: fJuvS5 -ysw
Montana. Pittnan. Nevada; Rams
I reiI, Louisiana; Sheppard. Texas.
Horse Play seen.
2 Closing debate enEcndered horse
. Uisy and bitterness among Senators.
q mocratic supporters OF the bill
. ~ re invited to move over TO TIE
! Republican side Of the Senate cham
\ frT. sponsors OF the legislation
! WeHc fayed in merciless terms 10y
Senator George n. Moses. ReDUbli-
can. Of New Hampshire Erstwhilc
free traders quoted from a speech by
Governor James NJ. Cox in-CaIuoI
mia, favorinE a lemon tariff, to jus
tlil their alliance with Pcnrose and
. proteCtiOnists.
The immigration hill was offered
as an amendment. but rejected. TIL
Tayne- -AIdrich tariff act was SUI
gested as a substitute by a Repub-
lican but il commanded but two
votes out OF eighty. when senator
P Spencer. Republican. Of Missuur..
, urged high duties on suRhoweT seed.
3is Democratic colleague, SenaIur
, Reed. declared the people Of tEe
show me" State were being shown
the great boon resulting from Re
publican success to which they con-
tributed in November. The sun
flower seed went unprotected de
8 spite Mr.. Spencer's heroic struggle
against the laughter OF the SensI,.
Reed also blamed the food admin
istration for the plight Of Amcri-
can farmers" and INDUCED in q
personal attack upon Herbert
/. Hoover, former food administrator.
speech by Moses
I or all the bitter attacks upon lhe
tariff bill none was so effective as
! that which fell from the Sips ur
: =, nstOr Edge had announced Jndl
his Republican prOtectiunist theories
could not induce him 10 sWalloN
. the 4ilI. the Moses attack Caus.-G
Senator McCUmbcr. OF North Daku-
Ia, TO verge on a rage. He shook
| his fists. while Democrats hOWlCd.
and waved defiance at all Of indus.
, trial New England.
i Senator Moses in effect charged
u his Republican colleagues with
l doing what thev had held against
the Democrats who held their noses
and closed their eyes" when voting
2 for some Of the unsCientihC and in
s eQuitabIa revenue bills devised uy
: Claud EitChin.
c This hill is regarded as a meas
70 lure which is absolutely y indefensiblc-
T. said Senator Moses. Private con-
. versstion among Senators shows that
- TO be the fact. II has been admitted
almost in terms by Senators who
e have spoken on the floor, il rs a
s bill which grows out OF an unwise
q yielding to pressure which was ap-
z piled at the other end OF the Capitol.
= 1t is the offspring Of a union
= between the cotton fields. the sugar
d cane brakes. the rice paddles. the
1, sheep run, the cattle range and the
l. wheat neldS. 1t Is a uiSShapeu bra
a at best II is lopsided. il is blind,
h il is deaf. il is bsndy-leEEed. and
it suffers from congenitsl economic
= ricketts, II is miscoBceived. haE-
n bonn. ditch delivered. We Repub-
.e Ilicans cannot go to the country upon
It such a proposition.
n sure Of Rebu1.
u This bill is sure to be rebUfcd at
the other end OF the Capitol. The
President, who was so strikinEly re-
buked on election day, now will have
his chance in dealing with this bill
to excoriate the Republican party
lbecausc Of this misshapen thing
Which they propose to send TO him
q And rightly so, because the bill docs
lie not represent the traditional Re
n publican position on the tarif."
e After adopting Senator Lodges
amendment TO afford protection q
the shoe industry and denying IL "a
, the clothing manufacturers, ths
Senate approved amendments by
Ir Senator Johnson. Of California
le carrying protective schedules OF
Re lemons. olives and olive oil. FlAI