The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-07-21
LIMIT DUTY On
COTTON GLOVES
SENATE ADMINISTERS DECISIVE
DEFEAT TO TARIFF COM
MiTTEE.
Floor Leader Lodge and 19 Otncr
Republicans Vote Against BINS
Trainers.

Washington, july -V'-'iH N"'"'" W
osv IS to is. to limit the duties on
cotton gloves to maximum OF 10 per-
cent ad valorem, the senate admins
tered TO the finance committee major
ity the most decisive defeat II mas
sustained since it brought in the ad-
minis,ratiou tariff bill exactly three
months ago. Twenty Republicans, IN
Guiding Senator Lodge OF Massachu,
sets, the majority floor leader. Votec
against the committee. The othcr
nineteen were: Borah OF Idaho; Cap
ner. Kansas: Cummips. Iowa; Hale
: Maine; Harold, Oklahoma; Jones'
Washington: kellogg. Minnesota;
/ Keyes. New Hampshire; Nelson, Min
resota; New, Indiana; Newoerry'
! Michigan; Phillips, Colorado Raw.
SON, Iowa; Warren. Wyoming. and
/ Willis. Ohio.
One Democrat Broussard, Louisl-
! ana. voted With the committee ma
,iority.
Senator Le3root led the fight for
the maximum limitation. He estimated
that in the case of some gloves the
committee rates which remained IN
the bill would equal 10 percent al
valorem, IN the case OF others 1Ot per
cent and in he case OF still othera ~
ncrcent, He declared congress should
rot impose a greater duty tnan %
percent al valorem on any article el
sucn general use as gloves in order 10
stimulate domestic production.
Warn Of German Monopoly.
Calder
Republican. New York, led the oppoSi-
ton to the Lem DOT maximum amend
n,ont. contending that unless the 40
nestle manufacturers were protected
Germany would get q monopoly OF the
American business and then charge
every cent the traffic would bear
Senator Wadsworth said the factories
producing the gloves at Gl0IersN'Ile'
| \. Y. already we're closed.
Senators Pomerene OF Ohio and
Simmons OF North Carolina, smith oi
South Carolina and Hitchcock or Ne
ihraska, Democrats, argued that the
facts showed the committee rates
> were too high. The North Carolina
senator said the proposition was 10
return TO conditions in the trade when
German goods were shut out during
tho WA. He argued also that the pro-
."exs of making the sueded gloves pop
,uiar in this country was only known
10 the glove makers Of Saxony, ana
that the imitation" made in the
United States could not compare IN
texture and finish with the German
product
Four Cents on Hemp.
After the action on the glove du'
ties. the senate turned to the lute
section and approved rate OF four
C, nts a pound on backed hemp AFTER
rejecting. 50 to IS. an amendment by
Senator Robinson. Democrat. Mkan-
sas, to make the rate one cent n
pound. Next II approved a committee
duty OF % percent ad valorem on
silver and rowing OF flax, hemp or
ramie, Senator Robinson sought 10
have the rate reduced TO 10 percent.
as at present. Contendins that the
hemp industry was one that could not
thrive in this country under present
labor conditions.
Action on these three items constt
the tariff today, the first three hours
Of the session being consumed In dis
cussions OF the ship subsidy. alien
property and Muscle Shoals. Senator
Robinson again protested against
senator's bringing In irrelevant SUBJ
Ijects, urginig that the tariff bill b.
brought to vote.
Wants an Early Vote.
AS soon as the wool schedule has
been disposed Of" he said. ~ shall be
ready to place limitation on debate.
and I shall be ready to agree to o
time to vote finally on the bill.
This bill Is going to be disposed
Of" he added. and is not going to be
sidetracked on the theory that the
Democrats by fllibuster, prevented
It's passage. We are going TO vote on
the tariff and the soldiers bonus, and
then go TO the country.
God save the country