The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1922-08-03
WOOL TARIFF
RATES COMPLETE
DIVIDED OPTION AS TO WHEN A
FINAL VOTE ON THE MEAS.
URL COULD BE HAD.
BILL TO Be PASSED
SILK SCHEDULE Is TAKEN UP
WITH REPUBLICANS SURE
OF BILLS PASSAGE.

Washington of the
wool schedule which has furnished the
one big fight on the administration
tariff bill, has been completed by the
Senate after the approval without
change Of import duties proposed by
the finance committee majority on
blankets. wearing apparel and floor
coverings. The silk schedule then was
taken up and leaders were hopeful
that committee amendments to this
could be disposed of soon.
After the silk schedule will come
those dealing with paper and books
and sundries, including threads and
laces; the free lists and the admins
!tration provision with the flexible
tariff plan proposed by President
Harding. When the Senate winds up
work on these 1t must 20 back over
the entire bill, paragraph by para
graph, for action on individual amend
ments.
There still was divided opinion MS
| TO when a final vote on the measure
| could be had, but Republican leaders
were unanimous in declaring that the
| Senate would pass the bill.
Taking cognizance of report pub
| lishcd in Washington that the Senate
would abandon the measure, Senator
Lodge Of Massachusetts, the majority
leader, made this statement:
This bill is going to be passed by
the Senate, and that Mt the first op.
portunity. We are going to stick to
1t and pass 1t MS soon as we can get
a vote. Reports that it might be laid
aside or allowed to fail are absolute
ly without foundation. The bill will
be passed and put on the statute books
us soon us possible"
As was the case recently, the Sen
ate had difficulty in keeping Il quor-
UNI, with a result that the sergeant at
arms was directed to require the pres.
ence OF absenteeS. After quorum
had been obtained, Senator McCum.
Der. Republican. North Dakota, in
charge of the bill, said he wanted II
sentees was to stand for the remain
der of the present legislative day
now more than three months old-ii
that day lasted until next March T.
Later kilograms were sent to absent
senators urging their presence.
| While the split in the Republican
ranks was noticeable, there was only
one stable controversy over wool
duties, some Republicans and most OF
| the Democrats voting against the du
ties on clothing. Senator Sm0Ot, Re
| publican, Utah, in charge Of the sched'
ue, said, and Senator Walsh, Of Massa
chusetts, conducting the fight for the
minority agreed that only novelties
were imported; that the American
ready-madr clothing industry could
compete with the world. Senator
Walsh argued, however that the duties
were an invitation to domestic manu-
facturers to combine and increase
their prices to the level of the tariff
Opening debate on the silk SEIZED
ulc, Senator McCumber said that since
the government had lost S300,OOO,00t
in revenue yearly through the opera
ton of the prohibition amendments
added funds had to be obtained from
some source and that there was no bet
ter source, in bis judgment, than lux
uries such ms silk.
In considering the silk schedule, hi
explained. it would have TO be borne
in mind that since 1914 the manufac
ture Of silk had been moved from the
Occidenl to the Orient, and that as
consequence the committee, in fran
ing the rates, had to take into account
the very cheap labor of Japan ant
China.