New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-15
100 to 10000
Profits Barred
BY Tariff Show
McCumber Offers Horrible
Examples of How Import
or Gougcs Public: Tells
Senators It's Robbery
From Bibles to Pistols
Williams Drops and Breaks
Cuckoo Clock, 81 Gents in
Germany and SD Here

WASHINGTON. June i4.-scna.or
'ecumbcr. Of North Dakota. chairman
o. the Finance Comm ',tee. put on the
boards a. o., Capitol to-day tariff
chow" intended ' impress on his coll
iearuc- the idea that the consumers OF
America erc being unconseionably robbed
bv .hc importers. The remedy for this
state Of things. according to Senator
Sec imber. was to pass the pending
ArlN bill. against which. he charged.
importers had organized "a mighty
fropagsnda."
Senator McCumber spoke at length
an The foreign cost 81 imported mcr-
,sard.sc. as investigated by the
Finance Committee and Treasury oN-
ncrts. and the retail selling prices 10
the United states and declared the
proftr on imporiaiions ranged all the
way rom 100 per cent up 10 $1,000 per
cent Before making his speech ne
minced on exhibition in the Offices Of
the Finance Committee number o.
tables filed with fore-za imported mr.
ticlos and products, rn.Ning all the way
from potatoes 90 te-tiJlcnts ana from
mouth organs 10 S-.omatc pistols
While he was speaking he exhibited
number OF these articles in the senate
and held Them up as horrible exam
pies 60 bis colleagues.
See Daugherty. Says Underwood
Senator Underwood. 81 Alabama, ir
lengthy speech in reply. declared the
conditions disclosed by the Senator
from North Dakota were matters Tor
fle Department OF Justice. Senator
MeCrfnjcr insisted the Department Of
Just.cc had no authority 20 take up
rfoftecring by retail stores. nator
Underwood asserted that the figures
given by Senator MeCumher were not
representative Of the great bulk of inn
poriations.
Senator John Sharp Williams. Demo-
crat. Of Mississippi. who crowded close
10 Senator McCumbcT and listened AnH-
iouslv % his words. got 30 fascinated
By big cuckoo clock which WAS on
con..or McCumbers desk, and which
was cited as an instance OF proficcr-
ing. that be picked Il UP and then
dr0pDcd IT, Il Yell on the floor with
,latter. marrcd the dignity Of the Sen
ate. made fhe galleries laugh and
caused Senator Williams TO blush,
while Senator Pondexter rushed 20
the rescue and gathered the remains
of the floor
Senator McCumber's speech. In add
tion n setting forth charges or eN-
;ra9aCant profits on imporintions, con-
demncd the metropolitan newspapers
Of the country for criticizinc the tariff
bill. To declared the biz Republican
napers OF New York ar4 '.se' orc
we're inconsistent In that toy .ro-
fesscd e. support the Pr den, and
yet assRiled his policies.
Attacks Tribune Article
IN referring TO publication % an
article by The New IOrh Tribune Nr.
McCumber sa!i
"A short time ago (May ~ Senator
Ladd exposed the untruthiul propa-
ganda Of the Washington correspond
ont q The New York Tribune that the
tariff on hides would increase the cost
% shoes S. a pair. The New York
rripure published on page DELHI
crate migstatlmcnts 81 facts about tAe
hide schedule and It's effect upon the
pr.ce 81 shoes. Senator Ladd exposed
and nailed these miss'atcmeuts' but
rot one word OF his reply appeared IN
The New York Tribune Does the SEN
aie Or tie American public need ans
greater proof than this that the New
York newspapers are afraid 20 publish
the truth when il hits their advot-
tisrrs or aeif advertisers Interests?
Vow Nj President. this Is not true
Of the great majority Of newspapers
In the United states. This campaign
m.srcpresentati0n against the tariff
- entered in the big cities, whore the
.-norters advertisements dominate the
p. Hgspapers. But the thousands Of daily
and weekly newspapers throughout The
country whose prosperity depends upon
American prosperity the newspapers