The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-08-05
ArizOna'S Representatives In
 Congress Vigorously Assai|
 Proposed FOrdnoy Tariff BiII

that requires tensile strength to hold the stream-is made from the Anne. rican Egyptian, Pima Sakellaridis long-staple cotton, which grows in Arizona and California. Tn addition to that, MT. President, there is manu- factured from this American Egyp' tian cotton a superior grade of cloth. 1 will give the names of some of the fabrics that are made from the Art- zona Egyptian cotton. Listen to these names and then ask your wife if any thing more expensive in the way of fabrics made of cotton are to be found in the dry goods stores: Sateen, ply voile, semivoile, dimity, transparent organdy cotton null, sheer nainsook, French lawn, batiste, chiffon null, poplin, warp print, fine shirting poplin, fancy pique vesting, fancy stripped voile, sateen brocade, thread stripe organdy fancy leno voile, Jac- Quard, clip spot lawn fancy swivel voile. These trade names are taken from list made up to show the kinds of fine fabrics which are manufact- ured from that cotton.
 If a Democratic Congress were writ ing a tariff for revenue bill, surely the raw material to make up these high-grade fabrics would not be placed upon the free list.
 Now, it will be perceived that the fabrics I have named are comparable to silk. Indeed, garment made from one of these fabrics tears with great difficulty It resists wear, and it's texture is so fine and glossy that it requires skilled eye or the finger Nf .>f1 n,t fn 6ic4ir ic11 ticular fabrics from silk.
 So we perceive that the long-stap1e
 Americana Egyptian, Pima, or Sakel. laridis cotton so called and not the cotton generally referred to as Hong staple" is made into the remarkably fine fabrics that I have named is
 made into the automobile tires requir- ing great tensile strength, into bal loon fabrics, and into airplane wings. ! It is also at times used for some otheH purposes, like very strong sewing |, thread.
 Formerly, Mr President, our coun- i try produced none of that class Oi cotton in the West It was produced on the sea islands-that is islands off the coast of Georgia and South Caro- lima and along the mainland. the lit, toarls of those. States: but as I said before, the boil weevil made it's ap,
 pearance some years ago, and the former production of 111.716 bales of 1 sea island cotton dwindled in six 1 years until it reached 1868 bales last i year. In the meanwhile, however, the ! Arizon3California Egyptian produc- 1 tion went forward from 375 bales in : 1912 to about 15O.00O bales last year until nearly one-third of all the Egyp. 1 tian cotton used in the United States
 for purposes of war and of peace was | grown in Arizona and California.
 At considerable length, and know with tediousness to the Senate i 1 pointed out some two months ago that 1 1t is impossible in California or in
 Arizona to grow longtstaple Egyptian
 or Pima cotton under 46 cents a | pound.
 The freight rate from Phoenix,
 AriZ.. to Boston is s10 per bale The ] steamship rate from Alexandria, | Egypt. to Boston is $3 per bale. So i at the very outset. the growers of ] the long staple Pima or Egyptian cot. l ton in Arizona and California are i handicapped in freight rates I re. | peat. the rate is s10 per bale from Fhoenlx. Yuma. or from the Imperial i Valley to Boston while it is S3 per l bale from Alexandria Egypt. to Bos. i ton. The Government of the United
 States within the past 15 years has l spent large sums of money in testing ! soils sending out experts. and urging farmers to plant the Egyptian cotton 1 and thousands of acres of lands have been tested and investigated by ex petitions sent out. at huge expense to 1 the Federal Government. to locate
 the soil where this particular cotton
 would grow
 After 10 years patient work and