The New York herald., 1922-07-30
BILL TO INVESTIGATE
SENATE WOOL GROUP
| OPENS BITTER fight
Caraway Resolution Is
Blocked by Wadsworth
After Stormy Debate.
HARSH WORDS USED
Liar. Damn Fool and Jack
ass Are Employed in
Discussion.
WIDE SPLIT ON ETHICS
Members Interested in Sheep
Defend Votes-'New York
Herald Editorial Read.
SPLIT ON ETHICS
Special Dispatch to THE New YoRK HnRALD-
Neu Work Herald Rureau

New York Herald bureau. [
Washington. ID. c.. July 20.
A definite move was made in the
Senate to-day to force sweeping In
vestigation of the activities of those
Senators who. although personally in
terested in the raising Of sheep. voted
for extremely high duties on wool In
the Fordney- -McCumber tariff bill.
This was brought about directly by
an editorial in THE NEW York HERALD
of July 26. which. when read to the
Senate, was made the basis for the
demand for an Investigation. The
scenes that followed were the storm
lest in the Senate in many months.
Liar damn fool" and "jackass"
were some Of the words employed in
the bitter exchange among the Sem
ators. Charges and counter charges.
many of them of highly personal
nature, thing seldom heard. in the
Senate. were made necessarily during
the hour and half that the storm
ragged on the floor.
Senator Caraway (Dem., Ark.) Of
fere the resolution for an investiga-
ton after THE New York HERALD edi-
torial was read to the Senate. 1t called
for an investigation by the Senate
Judiciary Committee as to whether
any Senator Is or has been financially
or professionally interested in the pro-
duction, manufactufss or sale of any
article or articles mentioned In either
the emergency tariff law or the Ford
ney-McCumber bill. S.
Introduction Blocked.
Senator wadsworth (Rep.. N. 10
blocked the Introduction Of the reso.u-
tion. His objection was sufficient to
prevent its being presented to the Sem
ate, since unanimous consent Is re-
quired for the transaction at this time
of any business other than the tariff
bill In hand. f4 f-s 80 Y !;
But the fight Is not over. The Demo-
Gratis intend to bring 1t up again next
week with the presentation of evidence
intended to show that some Of the SEN
ators who demanded the high rates on
wool are the owners Of great flocks OF
sheep and will in consequence benefit
Niy Wy lHc WoOi Qulico lInpOScQ nc
affair is rapidly developing into q scan
dal In which 1t may be impossible for
the Senate to continue to block such an
investigation.
Some of the Senators--GoodinR (Rep..
Idaho). Bursum (Rep., N. NJ and
Stanfield (Rep.. Ore.). notably-made
no effort to conceal their interest In
wool growing. They defended their
course on the ground that being familiar
xrsifh n fr16 OF a
position to Know what was required in
the way OF tariff to keep it alive.
Senator Smoot (Rep.. Utah) denied
vigorously that he ever was Interested
in raising sheep. This was In line with
his statement earlier in the week that
twenty years ago he had sold the stool,
he had held In wool manufacturing
concern. Senator Oddie (Rep.. New
whose autobiography in the Congress.
sional Directory sets forth his interest
IN tie live stock industry, denied that he
was In any way interested In the grow.
Ing Of wool.
Charges in Editorf.I..
Senator Caraway. after reading rrr
NEW York HERALD editorial. cold Of :
similar editorial which appeared on July
2s In the Washington D1ilv Ne,1s
Other newspapers, he added. are carrv.
ing the charge.
Il. OF course. make no comment m ~
whether II Is true or false" Senator
Caraway said. II shall leave the Sena.
tor, OF course. as will be compeIIed
TO do. to determine for himself how n,
he may consistently. on his own homo,
and the public good. vote for measure
that directly enriches him.
THE laws everywhere forbid a yv6v.
or juror to SIT in a cause In which
he might be interested or In which 1
near relative OF his might be Interested
Now. can we say that we are r,or1
concerned for the honor and integrit,
of the courts than we are for the Ieeis.
lative honor?
"A Judge may be dishonest ana nj,
decision may AFFECT only few people
the litigants before the court. II can.
not be said that this body can be IN.
fuenced by a personal consideration
and affect the welfare Of few people
only. because we legislate' for all the
people and the honor and the dignity
and the respect and the. confidence O,
this country must be reposed In thu
integrity and honor OF the Senate a,
one of the bodies of the iegisIativ,
branch of the Government. or else the
Government ends.
A Hypothetical Case.
IF decision had been handed dowr
by the Supreme Court Of the United
states. we will say. In Smith versui
Jones. and II should be charged In rep
utable papers that five members o.
that court were interested In the de
cision and that their wealth was In
Continued on Page Two.
THE GREENBRIER.
white sulphur Springs. w. Va.
lust overnight from New York. Spccia
compartment sleeper daily. Ample supple
drawn from surrounding country insur
splendia auan.y TOOL roricc. @ sos.. tne 40 20
lures and DANCING nighty. Cool nights