Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-07-12
DELAY.TO MAnSsGROWS
EDESPITE FEDERAL MOVE
VIRGINIA NEWS
AT CAPITAL
By George II. Manning
Especial Correspondence

the Republican Senator's continue to
"flop" away from the Fordney-Mc-
Cumber tariff bill now before the
Senate at the rate they have dur
ing the past two weeks 1t IS entire
" possible that it may result IN de-
feat of the measure.
A stampede seems to be under way
bv republican senators, on the eve
of election, to declare their opposi-
ton TO the bill in order to escape
the wrath of the people who recog-
nize the harm it will do to all classes
except a few manufacturers and big
business" men.
The speech made in the Senate
Yesterday by Senator Walter h.
Edge of New Jersey calls attention
to the fact that within the last ten
days seven republican senators have
openly declared their intention to
! vote against the bill in its present
form and that several others are
known to favor complete rewriting
of it.
Senator Edge declared that the
bill as it now stands may bring about
a national calamity and asserted he
would not vote for it unless provI-
sion is made giving the Tariff Com
mission authority to investigate all
its schedules and rewrite them down.
ward as well as upward.
| Edge gave warning that the bill
may bring about stagnation IN our
: export and import business and may
! fail entirely to effect the improve
ment in business claimed for it.
Last week Senators LaFollette
and Norris declared themselves abb
: solutely against the bill. Senators
Cummins, Townsend and Borah have
from time to time asserted that this
is no time to revise the tariff. Cum
minis has insisted that instead Of ef-
fecting an entire revision of the
tariff the republicans should re-enact
the emergency tariff bill of a year
I ago with changes to meet changed
conditions.
Senator Lenroot threatened last
week to vote against the bill if the
republicans do not stop loading 1t
down with high rates on every article
that is a living necessity for the
| American people.
Senator Joseph s. FreGnghuysen
of New Jersey, member OF the
Finance Committee. while still stand
ing by the bill. delivered speech
on the Senate three weeks ago urg-
ing that the tariff be taken entire
ly out of politics and placed In the
| hands of scientific tariff commits
sion.
In the face of this growing oppo-
sition to the tariff bill on the part
of the republican senator's who have
the framing Of it, the Republican Ma
tional Committee is flooding the
country with literature pralslng the
measure and urging its speedy pas
sage.
The committee became alarmed
ten DAYS ago at the favor with which
the general public appeared to re-
ceive the proposal that the tariff be
taken out of politics and turned over
to a non-partisan scientific tariff
commission. 1t sent out editorial
matter to all the republican editors
in an effort to stiffen their support
Of the Fordney bill.
Meanwhile the Senate drifts along
week after week and month after
month talking and talking about the
thousands of amendments but max
ing practically no headway on the
measure. The republicans have been
working on this bill 16 months and
now il is entirely possible the whole
measure may be discarded and the
entire work commenced all over
again.
If a few more republican senators
desert and poin the democrats IN
opposing the measure it Will become
necessary to send the entire bill back
to the Finance Committee to be re-
G. II. NJ.