The Colorado statesman., 1922-08-05
OPPOSES VOTE
ON TARIFF BILL
SENATOR LENRooT UPSETS THE
PLANS FOR FINAL VOTE ON
AUGUST SEVENTEEN.
ASKS PROBE OF PRESS
GoODiNG OF IDAHO INTRODUCES
RESOLUTION FOR PROBE
OF PRESS.

Washington.-Upse plans of
Republican and Democratic leaders for
a final vote on the administration tar
iff bill on Aug. II, Senator Lenroot,
Republican, Wisconsin, gave notice in
the Senate that there would be no
unanimous consent agreement for a
final vote, at least until all important
committee amendments to the measure
had been discussed and acted upon.
The Wisconsin senator said he was
anxious to limit debate and proposed
an arrangement under which discus
sion would have been confined eXclu-
sively to the tariff with each senator
limited to ten minutes talk on amend
ments on the bill after Aug. IL. SEN
atOr Lodge, the Republican leader, OBJ
iected to this, however and the effort
to come TO an understanding in the
| open senate ended.
Senator Gooding of idaho, chairman
of the Republican agricultural tariff
bloc, introduced his resolution direct
ing special committee of five sena-
tors to inquire into and report to the
Senate on:
The financial interests of senators
in the wool and sheep industries.
THE financial interests of Mr..
Frank A. AIunsey in European indus
tries which compete with American
| industries; the amount and percentage
of his income derived from advertise
ments placed in his newspapers by the
importing department stores which
have financed campaign of defama-
ton against the pending tariff bill and
which will profit by the defeat of the
bill.
"The number of senators owning or
controlling or financially interested in
newspapers, the amount of revenue OBJ
tained by these newspapers from its
importing department stores, which
will benefit financially by the defeat
Of the pending tariff bill.
1.-The financial interests of all men,
bers of the senate, or their relatives,
in any American industry or in any
| property in any community in the
United States which may be affected,
| directly or indirectly, either by the
| passage or defeat of any proposed
schedule ir the pending tariff bill"
The preamble of the resolution re-
| cited that charges had been made by
the New York Herald, owned by Mr..
Munsey, that members of the senate
are engaged in the sheep industry had
thereby been financially interested in
the wool schedule of the tariff bill"
Senator Harrison and Senator Sim
| mons, Democrats, North Carolina, con-
tended that the Gooding resolution
seemed to propose an investigation of
no publications other than the Mum
sey newspapers, and suggested that
the inquiry be extended to all dailies
attacking the tariff.
Chemical wool pulp was restored to
the tariff free list by the senate,
which rejected, 80 to %, an amend
ment proposed by the finance commit
tee majority to make it dutiable at 3
per cent ad valorem. Three senators
who publish -Capper of
Kansas, Glass of Virginia and Hitch
cock of Nebraska-withheld their
votes.
Opponents urged that duty on this
pulp would result in the denuding of
American forests, and also that it
would constitute IL tax on the dissem-
nation of knowledge. Proponents ar
gued that only a small proportion of
the timber cut annually went into
pulp; that the industry needed protec-
ton from Canadian mills and, finally
the tax imposed, while only small
burden on the newspapers, would yield
the government $3,000,O0O in revenue