The Holly chieftain., 1922-08-03
WOOL TARIFF
RATES COMPLETE
DIVIDED OPTION AS TO WHEN A
FINAL VOTE ON THE MEAS
URl COULD BE HAD.
B!LL TO Be PASSED
SILK SCHEDULE is TAKEN UP
WITH REPUBLICANS SURE
OF BILLS PASSAGE.

Washington.-Con 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 fioor
coverings The silk schedule then was
taken up and leaders were hopeful
that committee amendments to TINS
could be disposed of soon.
After the silk schedule will come
those dealing with paper and BOOKS
and sundries, including threads ana
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 it must go back over
| the entire bill, paragraph by para
graph, for action on individual amend
ments
There still was divided opinion as
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
| lished 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 at the first OPP
| portunity. We are going to stick to
| it and pass it as 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
AS soon as possible"
AS was the case recently, the Sem
ate had difficulty in keeping a quor-
um, with result that the sergeant-at-
arms was directed to require the pres
ence of absentees. After quorum
| had been obtained, Senator McCum-
ber, Republican, North Dakota, in
| charge of the bill, said he wanted 1t
| understood that the order about alb
sentees was to stand for the remain
| der of the present legislative day
now more than three months old-if
| that day lasted until next March 4.
| Later kilograms were sent to absent
senators urging their presence.
Willie 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 Smoot, 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-made 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 sched-
ule, Senator McCumber said that since
the government had lost 100000, 900
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 his judgment, than lux
uries such as silk.
In considering the silk schedule, he
explained, it would have to be borne
in mind that since 1914 the manufac-
ture of silk had been moved from the
Occident to the Orient, and that as a
consequence the committee, in franz
ing the rates, had to take into account
thesvery cheap labor of Japan and
China.