The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-07-14

| the tariff made any other method Of
computation impractical.
| Why any additional duty should bs
proposed on yarn of 40 or less in num-
Der was more than Senator Lenrooi
could understand.
The committee should be unwilling
to make such rate" declared the
Wisconsin Senator "and the Senate
should be unwilling to adopt it. The
rates on the lower numbers in the
Underwood bill are too high and are
prohibitive."
Senator Underwood admitted this
was a fact, but declared that as heavy
cuts had been made in other features
of the tariff he had believed 1t might he
better to refrain from making too
drastic reductions.
rs there any wonder the country
believes this bill is full of unjust
rates." asked Senator Lenroot. when
the committee itself cannot defend
rates lire these? There are only two
paragraphs where any increase over
the rates proposed by the House is
justified, yet the Finance Committee
has brought in many increases and
the rates were outrageous. The rates
on cloth cannot be justified. Ii is just
such things as these that afford the
Democrats an opportunity to go be-
fore the people and justly attack this
bill. The rates proposed cannot be
defended"
Would Not Damn Party.
At another stage of the debate Sem
>ator Lenroot said:
II am for protection and favor a
tariff bill that will grant reasonable
amount of protection to American in
dustries. But l will not vote for the
rates contained in this schedule. /
want to help the Republican party
and not damn It,"
During the heckling of Senator
Smoot by Senators Pomerene and
Simmons the Ohio Senator asked what
industries had demanded the exorbi-
tant duties proposed In the yarn
schedule. Senator Simmons asserted
no cotton manufacturers had asked
duty on yarn. He said he supposed
Mr.. Lippitt did," referring to a for
mer Republican Senator from Rhode
Island, who is cotton manufacturer.
Mr.. Smoot holly retorted that Stuart
w. Cramer. representing an associa-
ton Of cotton manufacturers, had
asked higher rate on cotton and
yarn than these proposed in the House
bill. Mr.. Smoot admitted that as far
as he knew no other request for the
rates had been received. He ignored
Senator Pomerene's question If ANY
consumers had asked for the rate"
Underworld Bitter AIIusion.
Attacking the entire yarn schedule,
Senator Underwood declared that in
most cases the rates in the Fordney-
McCumber measure had been lifted TO
the level of the Payne Aldrich bill.
(which was so dishonest that when
the American people spoke of 1t they
spat." Mr.. Underwood said his ex-
perience in framing tariff legislation
had convinced him that manufacturers
always ask for higher rates than they
expect to get and that 1t was for the
committee to discount the fact.
Senator Underwood said that back of
all the rates on yarn was ''some one
I do not know who, but some one
who is interested in lacemaking. This
bill is full Of prohibitory rates behind
which big manufacturers may water
their stock. 1t is a bill designed to
help certain interests make money by
law and not by honest industry. The
American people have you members of
the Finance Committee sized up. They
want to know why you propose such
rates and they are going to know why.
Unless this Senate honestly repudiates
this schedule it will remain stencil
in the nostrils of honest men and the
Republican party will hear the answer
In November"
Senator Smoot made direct appeal
to his Republican colleagues to stand
with the committee on the duty on vat
dye yarns. Senator Lodge then at
| tempted to help him out, but a storm
of questions drove both to cover, as it
| were.
The sponsors OF the tariff bill
I, frankly confessed tonight they did not
know what to expect in the future.
Encouraged by the revolt to-day, ad-
vocates of the schedule to set the
Finance Committee measure aside UNI
I'll 1t can be entirely rewritten began
to seek recruits.