Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-30
SENATE HAS TAKEN UP
 TARIFF ON F0oDsTUFFs

Washington, June 29.-Tariffs on food stuffs occupied the attention of the senate again today with committee rates on milk, cream, poultry and honey receiving overwhelming endorsement despite fights from tine democratic side and some oppo- sition from the majority side in the case of rates on cream.
 ? Duties approved were:
 Milk, fresh, 2 1-2 cents a gallon house rate l cent sour and buttermiik, cent gallon, house rate 1-2 cent; cream, 22 1-2 cent sa gallon. house rates from to 10 cents; milk powder, 5 cents a pound, house rate cents.
 Poultry, alive, 3 cents a pound, house rate cents i; dressed, cents a pound, house rate 4 cents; all other poultry, dressed, cents per pound house rate 20 per cent. ad valor rem poultry, prepared or preserved, and not specially provided for, 35 per cent. ad valorem, house rate 22 per cent.
 Honey cents a pound, house rate 1-2 cents.
 Debate over the milk and cream duties developed a controversy among New England senators, with Senator Walsh, democrat, Massachusetts, leading the fight to reduce the rates and Senator Dilling- ham, republican, Vermont, supporting the committee duties.
 Senator Lodge, Massa chusetts, the re- publican leader. sought to have reduced the rate on cream used for household purposes, but his amendment. to provide for 10 cents a gallon on all imported cream not used for the manner of butter was rejected. 35 to 19.
 Explaining that New England did not produce sufficient cream to supply the de- mand during the summer months Sena- tor Walsh argued that the duty proposed would be penalty on the people of New England, amounting to $1S,756,000 annu- ally. He charged also that this was only another evidence of the policy of the re- publicans 2@ exemolified in the tariff bill to destroy trade with Canada and pre- sented figures designed to show that the operations of the emergency tariff had cut that trade in half.
 Senator Lodge took issue with this statement, asserting that the falling off of trade with Canada was due to an ab- normal world trade condition, which had affected commerce between ail the na- tions since the period of stimulation im- mediately following the war The repub- iican leader declared that the United States had no intention of being isolated commercially and argued that the pend ing bill would not bring about such a re- suit.
  up our prosperity under this bill D he continued, adding that the first thing the United States should do in order to maintain her position conlmereialIy and economically was to see that her people were employed.
 Discussion of the proposed duty on honey brought forth considerable sar- casm from the democratic siee. Senator Stanley, Kentucky, remarked that no doubt the duty was designed to sustain the higher standard of living of the American honey bee, and he declared that the utter indifference in the demo- cratic party to the American honey bee is pathetic"
 Senator Hitchcock Nebraska, gave as his opinion that the duty was designed to protect the American bee from the Ger man bee, which, he said. necessarily en- joyed a much lower living cost than the American bee.
 Senators Johnson and Shortridge of California, republicans. defended the committee rate.