Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-31
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FRELINcHUYsENP PLAN GAINS

Washington, July 81. - pho..
static copies Of documents IN M
alleged "wool pool'' formed By A..
ators to gamble in the wool msrt..
after agreement on high woolen schsS.
ules in the pending Tariff Bill. No..
said yesterday by Senator Caraway. W
Arkansas. to be in the possession a. 4 y
Senator who plans to read them ~
the Record soon. The Arkansan .e,ss
the colleague who had obtained N.
copies was absent. but was expec,,a
to return to Washington today.
Senator Caraway asserted he vort
depend on an awakened nnkiI
sentiment TO compel action from ~.
ators who threaten to use a nsr,,ils.
parliamentary situation to DELAY sce;os
on his resolution for an investisstis.s
to determine whether members 81 ~.
Senate are financially interested,,' % -
certain tariff schedules. Request a.
unanimous consent to bring up his resc.
luton Saturday brought immedlst.
objection and stirred up a senator;sli
turmoil replste with bitter personal
.'' SoTawuy VIII not attempt "a
bring up his resolution today. ~
is convinced objection will be voited
whenever unanimous consent IA ALL
for its consideration. He beiis,.s
public pressure will compel obisc,,ss
Senators to bring it up before Sss..kI
on the tariff Is finished, when nnss,s
nous consent would not be reomi..I
Publication of the photostatic cnn,s.
he hopes. will add to the public a.
mand for knowledge of whether S.rs
tors are voting money into their o~s
pockets" w
Frelinghuysen Plan Gainins
Two additional Republican Sena,o..
have pledged their support to the Ers.
linghuysen amendment to take the ts,is
out Of politics. the American Nm.
partisan Scientific Tariff League an.
nounced yesterday. 'rhe Frelinrhuyssn
amendment. which will be offered to ths
FOrdney -McCumber Tariff Bill nov
| under consideration in the Senate, pro.
poses a non partisan scientific method
Of levying duties on the difference n
costs Of production and conversion IN
this country and abroad. The Senator,
are Keyes. Of New Hampshire. and vii.
lis. of Ohio.
! The present system of tariff making.
Mr.. Reyes snid. "is extremely clumsy and
| unsatisfactory. Protective tariffs should
be bnsed upon findings of fact. regard.
ing the difference in the cost Of produc.
tion here and abroad. and the drafting
/ of equitable rates should be free from
political influence and the bias Of
special interests"
Mr.. Willis said the present
\
legislation should be replaced by more
business-like system in order to N.
lieve the county Of the uncertainty
inevitably accompany the formulation Of
new tariff measures. ss' s
Labor Petitions for Tariff
Labor's widespread interest in the
/ tariff il demonstrated. Senator Nc.
Lean. a member Of the Finance Com.l
mittee. said yesterday. by the fact that
| ten international labor unions and
more than 300 labor unions from
scattered sections Of the country have
petitioned Congress 10 speed its enact
ment. The union petitions. Mr.. Nc.
! Lean added. did not include thousands
of pc itions received by members Of
the Senate from factory employees and
/ shop committees. Whlch ne declared
to be "almost entirely the voice Of
| labor N&
Criticism of the Department Of JUS
tice for failure to act more promptly In
war fraud prosecutions was expressed
yesterday by Representative Johnson.
who suggested if Attorney Gen.
eral Daugherty had the volume M
evidence against war grafters BE-
claims to have. several Grand Juries,
in addition to the one in the Dis.
trict of Columbia. might be kept busy
returning indictments. With Repre-.
sentative Woodruff. Mr.. Johnson was
one of the most active advocates Of a
congressional inquiry into war.fraud
prosecutions. &
"The war; frauds Grand Jury, con.
vened here more than a month"; said
Johnson. has recently returned IL
first Indictment. charging certain proml'
nent lumber dealers with grating more
than 81. 900. 900 in purchasing surplus
War Department lumber. That amount.
ms compared with manv other knowl
instances. is small. Indictments should
come thick and fast for amounts total'
ing hundreds of millions of dollars n