New-York tribune., 1922-07-27
Only 8 Republicans Vote
: for First Amendment
of Lenroot; Further
lnsurgent Defeats Seen
Coodingg g Admits He
Had Pool Interest
Wadsworth Loses in Two
Moves TO Lower Rates
ON Washed Fleeces


WASHINGTON, July 26.-By vote
of 43 to 20 the Lenroot amendment to
| hold the duties on coarse woods in the
first paragraph Of Schedule X down to
60 per cent was beaten late this after
noon in the Senate. This was the first
test Of strength on the wool schedule
of the tariff bill.
Seven Democrats lined up with the
high tariff Republicans in opposing the
amendment. Senator Pittman, of Ne
vada, was also paired against it. Eight
Republicans and fourteen Democrats
voted for the amendment and num-
Der Of other Democrats were paired
in favor of it.
After this action and adoption Of
the first paragraph, the committee
amendment to the second paragraph,
modified by the Finance Committee,
was adopted after Senator Wadsworth
had tried in vain to lower it. AS
modified and adopted, the committee
amendment provides for a duty of 33
cents on washed and secured wool with
80 cents when imported on the skin.
These rates are about cents higher
than the House rates. The vote on
adoption of the committee amendment
was 3S to 16.
Wadsworth Amendments Lose
Before the vote Senator Wadsworth
proposed that a 2S-cent rate be adopted
III place of the House paragraph. This
was defeated, 81 to 6, the Democrats
lining up against it. Senator Wads-
worth then proposed a 28-ccnt rate in
place Of the Finance Committee pro-
posal. This was beaten, So to 10. Six
Republicans, Senators Borah, Kellogg,
Lcnroot, Mccormick, Wadsworth and
Jones, of Washington, voted for the
Wadsworth amendment. Six Demo-
Gratis, Senator's Ashurst, Broussard,
Kendrick, Ransdell, Sheppard and
Jones, of New Mexico, voted against it.
The result of the voting to-day is
significant. 1t means that the effort
of the insurgent Republicans, who are
protesting against extreme rates in the
wool schedule. will probably, come TO
little or nothing and that the Lenroot
maximum rate as to other paragraphs
will be defeated when it is brought up.
AS Senator Lenroot has repeatedly
PORTED out, some of the rates in the
schedule as it stands mount as high
as 1877 per cent.
Senators Borah, Cummins, Kellogg,
and Wadsworth were the eight Repub,
licans who lined up with the Democrats
for the Lenroot amendment. Senators
Ashurst, Broussard. Jones, of New
Mexico; Kendricll, Sheppard, Ransdell
and Walsh of Montana, were the seven
Democrats who lined with the Repub-
licans for the wool rates as fixed by
the Finance Committee.
McCumber Accuses Publishers
To-day's vote came at the end of a
long and heated debate, in the course
of which there was a discussion of the
causes that led to the defeat of Taft
in 1912. Senator McCumber charged
that it was largely due to the fact that
publishers were refused free print
paper.
Another development Of the day was
the admission by Senator Gooding,
chief champion of the high wool rates,
that he himself has been in a million
pound wool pool in his own state,
Idaho. He made this admission after
Senator Hefin had read an editorial
criticizing Gooding's connection with
the wool industry and after Senator
Hefin himself had criticized it,
This criticism prompted Senator
IOOu1ng 10 make q statement saying 1t
had been whispered" about the cham
Der for some time that he was in a
wool pool and had been Selling mil
lions of pounds Of wool and making a
great deal of money out Of it,
Senator Gooding said there was a
wool pool in his state Of about 1000 900
pounds, that he was the smallest owner
in it and that it sold it's wool for 80
cents pound, while all the other pools
in the West sold Tor ), cents and 38
cents. He asserted he knew nothing
of it until ne read IL in the newspapers
and that his brother had thought it
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