Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-25
WRANGL INC OVER
Administration
TARIFF MEASURE
IS ON IN SENATE
Smoot Opens Debate Which
May Last for Weeks, or
Even Months; Elastic
Proposals EXplained,
JONES OF NEW MEXICO
TAKES FLING AT BILL
General Assault ON the
Whole Document is Made
By Senator kingi CharaC-
terizeS as ''InSidiouS,o


Washington. April 24.--There
was an old-fashioned tariff debate
today in the senate. 1t marked the
real beginning of the weeks, and
perhaps months of battling over
the administration measure, which
the finance committee reported
two weeks ago.
The discussion was opened iy
Senator Smoot, republican, Utah.
with u detailed explanation of the
| elastic tariff proposals written into
the bill at the suggestion of Presi-
| dent Harding and it included an
attack on those proposals by SEN
ator Jones, democrat, New Mexico.
and the opening of a general as-
sault on the whole measure by
Senator King, democrat, Utah.
VIII Increase Prices.
| Characterizing the measure 80
more iniquitous" than the Payne
Aldrich and Dingley measures.
Senator King charged that it was
a bill "to increase the price of
everything the people buy and
| was framed in the interest of the
| dye trust, the steel trust. tho
| chemical trust, the wooden mill
| trust, some of the cotton manu-
| featuring trusts and the multitude
of great organizations that in the
past have preyed upon the people
and that in the future will contin-
ue their policy of exploitation.
| Senator King declared that tho
address of Chairman McCumber Of
the senate finance committee, in
calling up the measure last week.
was IAN appeal to the preda tory
interests of the United States TO
be merciful to the poor consumer
and said that when the nation was
at war and the very fate of civili-
zation seemed to be at stake some
of the same vultures that dictated
schedules in this bill were robbing
the American people and the
American government
Agricultural Bloc.
IN the course OF his remarks
Senator King took a fling at the
agricultural tariff bloc, the manu-
facturers' bloc and what he de-
scribed as other blocs and groups.
He declared that the death knelt
of political parties was sounded
when there was a division into
| ldFlnClS groups, workman ~
groups and manufacturing groups
Reading from an announcement
Of the Southern Tariff association
that 1t laid its appeal for higher
rates than contained in the senate
bill, before the tariff bloc" Sena-
tor King demanded to know what
had become of the liable senator's
who constitute the finance COM
mittee and who are supposed to
write tariff bills"
American Valuation.
Referring to American valuation,
Senator King warned that the SEN
ate would be in session, many
weeks IL not months before an
American valuation plan is written
into this BILL
TITS infamous enough without
that provision" he asserted. '1t
would be intolerable with that pro-
vision"
As to the elastic tariff provi-
sions, senator King said thev
would operate to make the TARIFF
commission "a football of tho
predatory interests" would make
for insta ability and would result in
the permanent presence in Wash
ington of a tariff lobby which
would dangle before senators and
representatives all 'the spectors
: the brains of the interests could
conjure up"
Germany the Specter.
Germany and the threat Of Ger
man invasion had been the specter
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