The Holbrook news., 1922-08-18
VOTES HIDES
 ON FREE LIST
LENROOT ARGUED THAT 99 PER CENT OF FARMERS WOULD
 LOSE
SENATE LEADERS SPLIT
MAJORITY OF THE REPUBLICANS VOTED AGAINST MAKING
 HIDES DUTIABLE.

Washington.-Hides, boots and shoes and leather were voted back to the tariff free list by the Senate, which thus concurred in action taken by the House more than a year ago There was only one roll call-on hides-and the result was 39 to 26 against the committee rates of ? cents q pound on green or pickled and cents on dried hides.
 Most of the more marked lines which have developed in the Senate during the tariff fight disappeared on the vote, but about the only surprise was that a majority of the Republic ans voted against making hides dutia- ble. Not only was there split among the majority leadership on the ques- tion, but also in the finance commit tee majority and even in the Repub- lican agricultural tariff bloc, which, through its chairman, Senator Good ing of Idaho had asked for cents on green hides and on dried hides.
 Only two members of then finance committee maj ajOrity-Curtis and SmoOt supported the duties, while four members-Calder, Dillingham;, Freling. huysen and Sutherland-voted against them. Chairman McCumber and Sen atOr Watson of Indiana, the other two members present, were paired and un- able to vote. Five members of the tariff bloc broke away on the ballot Spencer. Willis, New, Keys and Townsend.
 With hides sent back to the free list, Senator Shoot of Utah, for the con- mittee, moved that the senate disagree to the amendment proposing rate of 12 cents pair and ) per cent ad va lorem on boots and shoes and vary rates on band, rough and sole leather, belting and harness leather, and vari- ous other kinds of this product This motion prevailed without a roll | call, and as a substitute the senate ap- proved the house provision proposing | a duty of 20 per cent ad valorem on | chamois skins, pianOforte, pianOforte action, player piano action leather, en- ameled upholstery leather and glove | leather, finished in the white or in the crust.
 In the six hours debate Senator Lodge and Senator Walsh were found | fighting side by side against the du- | ties.
 Senators Lenroot. Republican, Wis | consin, and Pomerene. Democrat, Ohio also made extended arguments against removing hides from the free list while Senators Bursum, Republican New Mexico: Jones. Democrat, New Mexico; McCumber, Republican, North Dakota, in charge of the bill Stan field, Republican, Oregon, and Good ing supported the committees recom- mendatiOn.
 There was sharp disagreement be tween proponents and opponents as tC how much the proposed hide duties would increase the price of shoes, anG as to whether the cattle raisers or the | Chicago meat packers would get the benefit from the tariff. Opponents placed the increase on shoes at from 20 cents pair to p cents. while ad vocates said the increased cost would range from 31a cents to cents pair
 Senator Lenroot argued that go pei cent of the farmers of the country would lose by reason of tariff or hides, as they had only one or two hides to sell year, while they were compelled to buy many pairs of shoes | for their families.