Cheyenne Wells record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1???-1969, 1922-08-03
WOOL TARIFF
RATES COMPLETE
DIVIDED OPTION AS TO WHEN a
FINAL VOTE ON THE MEAS
uRL COULD BE HAD.
BILL TO Be PASSED
SILK SCHEDULE Is TAKEN UP
WITH REPUBLICANS SURE
OF BILLS PASSAGE.

Neutrality-suspicious. OF the
wool schedule which has furnished the
one biz fight on the administrator
tariff bill, has been completed by the
S.nute after the approval without
change of import duties proposed Dy
tbe finance committee majority on
blankets. wearing apparel and floor
coverings. The silk schedule then was
taken up and leaders were hope1u'
that committee amendments 10 this
could be disposed of soon.
After the silk schedule Will come
those dealing with paper and DOCKS
and sundries, including threads anu
laces: the free lists and the admins
tration provision with the flexible
tariff plan proposed by President
Harding. When the Senate winds up
work on these it must go back over
the entire bill, paragraph by para
graph, for action on individual amend
ments.
There still was divided opinion as
to when final vote on the measure
could be had, but Republican leaders
were unanimous in declaring that the
Senate would pass the bill.
Taking cogniZance Of report pub
lshed in Washington that the Senate
would abandon the measure, Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts, the majority
leader. made this statement:
This bill is going to be passed by
the Senate, and that Mt the first Op.
portunity. We are going to stick to
it and pass 1t as soon rs we can get
vote. Reports that 1t might be laid
aside or allowed to fail are absolute
ly without foundation. The bill will
be passed and put on the statute books
rs soon as possible
As was the case recently, the Sem
ate had difficulty in keeping quor.
um. with Il result that the sergeant-at-
arms was directed to require the pres.
ence of abSentees. After Il quorum
had been obtained. Senator McCum.
Der. Republican, North Dakota, in
charge of the bill, said he wanted 1t
understood that the order about nb.
sentees was to stand for the remain
der of the present legislative day
now more than three months old-if
that day lasted until next March l..
Later te!egrams were sent to absent
senator's urging their presence.
While the split in the Republican
ranks was noticeable. there was only
one siZable controversy over wool
duties. some Republicans and most of
the Democrats voting against the du-
ties on clothing. Senator SmOOt, Re
publican, Utah. in charge of the sched-
ule, said. and Senator Walsh, of Massa.
chusetts. conducting the fight for the
minority. agreed that only novelties
were imported: that the American
ready-made clothing industry could
compete with the world. Senator
Walsh argued. however that the duties
were an invitation to domestic manu-.
facturerS TO combine and Increase
their prices to the level of the tariff.
Opening debate on the silk sched-
ule, Senator McCumber said that since
the government had lost $30O, 100000
in revenue yearly through the opera.
ton of the prohibition amendments,
added funds had to be obtained from
some source and that there was no bet
ter source. in his judgment, than lux
urics such aS silk.
In considering the silk schedule, he
explained. it would have to be borne
in mind that since 1914 the manufac-
ture Of silk had been moved from the
(lrli1Anf - hn lpin lnt
consequence the committee, in franz
ing the rates. had to take into account
the very cheap labor of Japan and
China.