The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-05
4 AMENDMENTS ID
 TARIFF ADOPTED
 BY THE SENATE
Senator Penrose, In Charge of Measure, Declares Pros
 poets for Passage Next Week Are Promising
By Associated Press

Washington, FeDruary 4.--Ine oenASe got down to business with the For1ney emergency tariff bill today and before
 the session, which convened at Ii o'clock. ended, four amendments had been adopt ed. Votes on the amendments. where a record was made, showed supporters or the bill to have a majority ranging from 10 to IS.
 As the situation stood tonight it ap- peared that the bill would be for the most part actually as well as technically reached. Senator Penrose, republican, Pennsylvania In cnarge of the bill, de- clared that it had good prospects of passage next week.
 Under the programme, the early part of the sessions will probably be devoted to consideration of appropriation bills, but later the tariff measure will be de-
 bated, as it was today, to the exclusion of all else.
 | The committee amendment to establish an import duty of 40 cents bushel on l wheat was twice adopted today. It was l first taken up with only nine senators | in the chamber and accepted without a dissenting vote. Then Senator Harrison, tdeniocrat, Mississippi, one of the bitter est opponents of the measure, discov- cred what had happened and forced a call for quorum. He said he was under | the impression the Senate stil was con I sidering minor Indian bill 1 AMENDMENT TWICE PASSED l After the quorum call and an hour or desultory debate, Senator McCumber, re- l publican, North Dakota. asked for re- l consideration of the wheat amendment and it again was agreed to by vote of
 B to 2S.
 1 The amendment, also from the commit | tee exempting from tariff duty rice to be used in the manufacture of canned \ goods, likewise was adopted
 l The committee amendments fixing du- l ties of two cents pound on fresh ana l frozen meats and of 25 per cent ad va- lorem on prepared or preserved meats and exempting from import duties all live stock imported exclusively for breed
 ing purposes also were approved. l ATTACKED BY UNDERWOOD l Consideration of the duty on meats
 brought from Senator Underwood of Ala 1 bama, democratic leader, an attack on
 what he described as the iniquities of the
 proposed legislation. He assaulted ths republican position. inQuiring whether re- I publican senators had absolutely for l gotten that the government had need for l revenue" and whether the present bit ] could be accepted as an indication oi their intention to build a tariff wal about the country during the extra ses' sion.
 The Fordney bill. MT. Underwood as
 serted, could be construed as none -otheI I than consumption tax He accuset
 supporters of the bill of being willing
 to legislate money from the consumer:
 ] into the pockets of spectators, ana
 !ouoted figures from summary of tariffs
 I compiled by the republican House way'
 T and means committee to show that i'm
 ports so much complained of exist oni, 4 in air.
 The programme of the leaders to at
 tempt the fixing of date for vott
 went into the discard. temporarily
 l least, with the arrival of Senator VII
 tliams. democrat, Mississippi, who re
 newed hts declaration that he would no
 be bound by any private agreements. MT N Williams spoke heatedly of "macnina
 Itions going on. around here," adding
 ..I would be fool to agree to some ,l thing do not believe in and sometnin,
 the result of which already know. The House ways and means committe' concluded hearings on the Silk schedui
 In it's consideration of a revision of tn " permanent tariff. It plans tomorrow U
 hear discussion of tariff rates on pape
 and books