New Britain herald., 1922-06-23
CLAIMS SOME ARE
 ASKING TOO MUCH
Senator Watson Quotes Prices in
 Tariff Fight

washington. D. C., June 23.-In an.
 other desperate effort to save the
 high rates in the Fordney- -McC Cum be-
 tariff bill, Senator Watson, .republi.
 can, Indiana, has staged the second
 act of the senate finance committee's
 tariff show with more exhibits, from
 shotguns to mineral water. He re.
 vived the charges of Senator McCum-
 Der, North Dakota, chairman of the
 committee, that the opposition to the
 Dill by the New York newspapers was
 due solely to the fact that they are
 under the domination Of the import
 ers," who place advertising accounts
 Senator Simmons, North Carolina
 ranking democrat of the finance com
 mittee and leader of the opposition
 to the bill, denounced Senators Me | Cumber and Watson for making such
 charges, which he branded as the / most serious made before the Ameri- | can congress. The charges amount, l he declared, to the assertion that great republican metropolitan news papers have surrendered their edi- torial and news columns to advertis- CTS to defeat a bill put forward by their party organization
 Simmons Denounces Charges. T assert" Senator Simmons de- clared. that there is no evidence ex- cept word of the two senators who have made the charges. The truth is that both Senator McCumber and Senator Watson are guilty of criminal negligence in presenting the facts to the senate. They attempt to show profteering in goods imported to the United States, silly, inconsequential articles. and they give only the costs of the articles in foreign mar kets and in the United States. They have withheld the cost of similar articles manufactured in America. I maintain that such re- tail prices have nothing whatever to do with the rates established by this bill"
 The purpose of yesterdays exhibi- ton, as candidly admitted, was to try and salvage the wreckage of the tariff bill. which was reported to the from all sections of the country be- cause of the high rates proposed.
 In his attempt to justify the rates in the bill Senator Watson presented to the senate various articles manu- factured in Germany, giving their cost and the selling price in this country and pointing out the large profits by dealers. He declared the American people were not profiting by the low rates in the present tariff bill, the Simmons Underwood law, but that the importers were the real benef1ciaries
 Cites Progress of Bill.
 In opening the performance Sena- tor Watson made the following obser- vations concerning the bill and the progress to date
 There are 2,0s2 committee amend ments to the bill; 516 have been acted on to date: 1866 are yet to be acted on: 415 have been agreed to as re- ported; eighty-four have been reduced by the committee: eleven have been increased by the committee: three have been reduced by action of the Senate; five have been increased by action of the Senate"
 Senator Watson picked up article after article from his desk calling att tention to the cost abroad and the selling price in the New York stores, and indicating alleged profits ranging from 100 to 2,s91 per cent. In many instances he gave the names of the stores where the articles were bought and asserted the New York papers would not dare print the list because of the influence of their advertisers.
 Following is a partial list of the articles exhibited which were bought in Germany, unless otherwise check ed:
 Charges of Profiteering.
 Guns costing 90 cents in Germany, landing price including duty. s1.sO. sold for s15, profit 1,566 per cent; 400 day clock, cost $1.7o, landing price and duty S2.21, sold for $50, profit 1 ,661 per cent; cowhide belt made in cost AIT cents there, land ing price 65 cents, sold for $2, profit POS per cent; aluminium sauce pan cost 29.7 cents, landing price 4o.3 cents, sold for sl.24, profit POS per ,ent; paddock cost 19.6 cents, landing \ ,rice 25.S cents, profit 2SS per cent: ,ird cage cost $1.20 in Germany. anding price $1.74, profit 532 per ent; molding rule cost 9 cents, land ng price 11.4 cents, profit 120 per ent; electric hair dryer cost s2.75, anding price $3.57, sold for $17.50, l rofit S7S per cent; Appolinars water ost 2.4 cents per bottle, landing price z cents, retail price "A cents, profit 36 per cent; cabbage seed cost 1.2 ents per package, landing price Is ents, selling price 25 cents, profit ,S00 per cent; toy box of blocks cost 1.7 cents, landing price 35 cents, re- ail price $4, profit 1,042 per cent; toy monkey cost 19 cents, landing price cents, retail price $2, profit 545 er cent; unperfumed soap from Trance cost 10 cents cake, landing rice 13 cents, retail price 60 cents, rofit S61 per cent; toothbrush made n Japan cost 1.2 cents, landing price 5.5 cents, retail price 50 cents, 21 per cent; amber beads cost 60 ents, landing price 76 cents, retail rice $12.50, profit 1,544 per cent; men towels from Ireland costing PTS per dozen, landing price $3.S2, etail price $5, profit so per cent; costing s2.55 per dozen, etai price $2S5,