New-York tribune., 1922-07-26
Tariff Doomed
BY High W ool,
Saws ellsworth
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wool, but Senator Wadsworth said he
believed it was practicable.
Senator Gooding, who is impatient
of any criticism of the wool schedule.
sought to make a point of the fact that
| rs per cent Of the coarse woods come
! into the Port Of New York and are
manufactured in New York.
Locality Doesn't Figure, He Says
"Tts utterly immaterial," said Sena-
tor Wadsworth where these are
brought in or where they are manu-
factured They're used all over the
United States. 1t will BIZ very difficult,
say in all seriousness, to explain why
wool used in rugs and carpets pays no
duty and when used in clothing pays
100 per cent"
In conclusion, Senator Wadsworth
said:
4 am sincerely interested in these
agricultural rates. think agriculture
! entitled, generally speaking, to the
treatment given in this bin and that
the treatment should continue over
period of years, as long, at least. az
present economic conditions, expressed
in world-w conditions, prevail.
What I fear, and = address these
remarks in all kindness to those Sena-e
tors which have had special charge
of the agricultural rates and upon oc-
casion are termed the agricultural
bloc" what I fear Is that in spite Of
the great good that has been done
by or through them in the writing of
these rates in this tariff bill, due to
some glaring error which will arouse
happen to be engaged in agriculture
there shall be a revulsion Of feeling,
and instead of making a correction
here and and there the whole set of
schedules will be attacked and de-
stroyed and the farmer put back where
he had to start from some years ago
before he was given protection to
amount to anything. That is the kind
of thing that is apt to destroy the
agricultural schedules. I fear the eff
feet Of this thing"
Willis Hits World Bankers
Senator Willis, of Ohio, defended the
wool schedule and charged propaganda
against it was engineered by the in
ternational bankers. He declared that
if the farmer had to sell in a free
trade market he would see that all
others had to do the same. He opposed
the Lenroot amendment
Senator Lodge, upholding the wool
Tateb, warned senators that II the wool
schedule failed the whole bill was
likely to fail; also that if the bill
failed, the Ascent rate of the emer-
gency tariff on wool would be in effect.
Senator Gooding asserted that un-
less conditions were improved for the
wool industry, the great manufactur-
ing plants of the East would be moved
West. He also said that this bill was
the first in which the farmers
ever got Square deal from the Re-
publican party"
Walsh Predicts Strike
Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts,
protesting against the high rates, de-
clared the people would strike against
high prices" and would wear cotton
clothing instead of wooden. He pre-
sented table, prepared by the tariff
commission, showing Excessively high
rates levied on the materials that are
to be used in making the finished
product" He said it showed the ex-
tent to which the clothing industry S
to be burdened by increased duties on
the materials used in making Clothes"
He referred to trimmings, buttons,
liRings and the like.
"On four articles" said, Senator
Walsh. "the duty is increased more
than 200 per cent; on FIVE from 100 to
200 per cent; on two. more than so per
cent, and on two, less than so per
cent.
"In view Of these very substantial