Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-05-04
Attacking the New Tariff Bill.

istration tariff bill came under the G
of Senate Democrats in the second day
Of general debate on the measure.
Reviewing the rates in the first
schedule Of the bill Senator King.
Democrat, Of Utah, said that the in
creases proposed ranged from $50 10
600 per cent He presented statistics
to show that imports Of the commodi-
ties that were protected were neg
lible and charged that the result of
enactment Of the proposed duties would
be TO increase the "already swollen
fortunes of drug and chemical manu-
facturers at the expense of the Amer.
lean people"
Attacking what he characterized as
the dye monopoly, Senator King de-
clared that the propaganda which he
said it had circulated was "fa'se, de.
ceitful and designed to mislead the
American people for having erected
the embargo which it succeeded in OBJ
tanning"
The Senator asserted that some drug
manufacturers, naming Parke Davis &
Co., as one, had "gotten rich, beyond
the dreams OF avarice by extortionate
charges levied on the sick" He want
ed to know if the E. |. Du Point de
Nemours Company which he said man.
ufactured many drugs and chmicals and
had capital of S253,OOO,OO0, was
"an infant industry" to be protected
not only by high rates but in some
cases by an embargo.
"The Allied Chemical and Dye Cor
poration, with capital of S3sO,OOO,-
600, is one of the chief beneficaries I'M
derd this schedule" he continued
"This stupendous octopus that sends
its tentacles into the homes of the
people throughout the land is a de-
mander Of high rates and even an en-
barge On some Of its products"
Reading from the chemical schedule,
Senator King stated that under the
Senate tariff dues on castor oil were
to be increased 300 per cent; on chic
reform 400 per cent; on citrate OF
lime 600 per cent; On citric acid 300
per cent; on inks 200 per cent; on for.
maldahyde 200 per cent; on rochelle
salts 200 per cent; and for ammonia
phosphate 200 per cent, and that there
was to be an embargo on carbolic acid.
zone would think" he added, "that
we could have cheaper medicines, but
it is not to be so. The rates in this
bill are infinitely higher than in the
despised Payne-Aldrich bill. They can
put over this Infamous measure, but
there is forum to which we can ap-
peal and then the Republican Party
will meet an ignominious defeat"
Senator King said there were many
jokers in the measure, which mot even
the tariff bloc has discovered"
1--WE may fly the flag at the mast
head Of our navy" he continued, "but
the economic policy Of the Republican
Party, as exemplified in this tariff bill,
will drive the flag Of our commerce
from the seven seas and make us COM
mercial and industrial hermits."
Mr.. King warned corporations and
business men generally that unless
they treated the consuming public fair
ly, the people would rise up in their
wrath and pull down the temple" of
business.
Summing up a three hours attack on
the pending tariff bill in the Senate,
Senator Simmons, Democrat, North
Carolina, declared that it was his ode
liberate judgment" that the measure
was "fraught with more danger to the
people Of the country and the institu-
tons under which they live than any
bill which ever crossed the Threshold
Of this chamber"
The Senator said he supposed the
measure would be passed, not because
it met the judgment of the Senate, but
because a considerable part Of the ma
jority Of the Senate care willing to
forego their opposition to what they re-
gard as unjust impositions upon the
people in order to get concessions for
those in whom they are especially in
terested."
Senator Simmons, who was chairman
of the Senate finance committee when
the present Underwood act was framed,
was given close attentinon by about
score Of Senators, one Of the largest
attendances on the floor since the
debate ON the tariff measure 0nened