The Washington herald., 1921-05-10
Moses Charges Covington
Got SIS, 900 for Service
As Counselor.
SCOR E s EMBARGO
AS DANGEROUS LAW
States Certain Interests
Seek Control Through
Protection.

Senator george II. MOScs' VI 49,
Hampshire, in a speech in the Sem
ate yesterday against the tarif Dill
charged that Judge ]. Harry Cow
ington, of Washington. received
325, 900 a year from the American
Dyes Institute as counselor.
Judge Covington was out OF the
city last night but is expected to
return this morning.
Quotes License Figures.
okotins an article in the Knit
Goods Bulletin" of April, on The
High Cost of Getting Dye Licenses
the Senator declared more than $7O'-
900 was spent for legislative ex-
penses in one year, items includ-
ing: Hotel bills. $3.50; Tips, meals
taxis, etc, 1915; fee to Joseph II.
Choate jr.. s25.0OO; fee to Judge j.
Harry Covington. s25.oOo; travelling
expenses to Paris for Joseph H.
Choate. jr., S1.5o5; payment on ac-
count Paris trip (Joseph H. Choate'
jrD. s3,494: Evarts, Choate, Sherman
and Leon. $1,000: distribution Of
pamphlets. ss72; expenses of dis
tribution by legislative committee
s4e7; article prepared and published.
S301; Congressional Record and
printing. s32S; supplying. address
ing and mailing postals and enVel-
opes in Congressional dyestuns s
hearings. $3.50.
Senator Moses characterized this
tariff bill as a hodgepodge AFFAIR,
wholly sectional in it's elements and
selfish in its purpose. His action
marked the first rift in the Repub-
Iican ranks over the measure on
which leaders had expected a solid
party vote.
Opposed II Before.
The Senator was one of the four
Republicans who voted against the
legislation in the last session. In
beginning his remarks he asserted
that he had hoped that the Amer
lean valuation plan and anti-dump-
ing features which have been
added to the measure would enable
him to support it. He added, how
ever, that upon examination he had
found them purely nebulous and
utterly subversive of every prin-
ciple of a protective tariff.
While Senator Moses wrath vent
itself on the entire bill. the Knox
amendment placing an embargo on
the importation of dyestuffs. pro-
voked a particular attack. He as
serted that while Republican lead
ers were refusing to sanction other
amendments to the omnibus bill.
they were permitting the insertion
of legislation that could be Of no
possible benefit to the agricultural
ure is intended.
Charges Monopoly.
This proposal" Senator Moses
declared relative to the Knox
amendment. lis not protectionism.
1t is monopoly. 1t is class legisla-
ton of the most vicious and danger
Gus kind. 1t comes over to us as a
device of the last administration.
designed as a war measure and
seized upon by the rapacious who
are only too eager to continue the
system under which they already
have made enormous profits, and as
the result OF which they have en-
tered into agreements of world
wide scope to assure them gigantic
and undisturbed profits in the fu-
ture."
In his opinion, the Senator con-
tinued. the tariff bill could not be
regarded as an administration
measure. He had looked in vain,
he said, in the Presidents message
for any suggestion that 1t was to
be included in the tariff legisla-
ton he recommended. Moreover.
the Senator asserted. it directly
contravened the executive dictum
of more business in government
and less government in business"