The New York herald., 1922-07-21
EVEN LODGE ASSISTS
SENATE'S REVOLT ON
COTTON GLOVE DUTY
Rates Favored by Wads-
worth and Calder Cut
From 119 to IS P. G. (
LITTAUER CRITICIZED
Tariff Aimed to Protect In
dustry He Heads at
Gloversville, N. Y.
20 JOIN AS INSURGENTS
Finance Committee Loses 38
to II as Lenroot Amend
ment Passes.
20 JOIN AS INSURGENTS
Special Dispatch to THn New YoRK HERALD
Y s. New York Herald Bureau.
g Washington, ID. c.. July 20.

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a. New York Herald Bureau.
- IA Washington. ID. c.. July 20.
!, The Senate Finance Committee suf-
fered defeat to-day when twenty Re-
publicans joined the insurgent move
ment and voted down the proposed
rate on cotton gloves in the Fordney-
McCumber tariff bill. Even Senator
Lodge (Mass.), the Republican floor
leader. voted to change the committee
duties. which. were sponsored by both
New York senators-Wadsworth and
Calder.
The committee proposal was voted
down. 3s to II. after a long, spectacu-
lar debate. which occupied the greater
part of the afternoon. The question
arose over an amendment by Senator
Lenroot (Rep., Wis.) to limit the ad
valorem duties on cotton glove impor-
tations to 75 per cent. The highest
committee rate was 11s per cent.
The fight was to protect the glove
manufacturing industry at Gloversville.
N. Y. at the head Of which is Lucius N.
Littauer, formerly a member OF Congress
from the Gloversville district. Mr.. Lit
tauer has been attacked many times for
his activities In behalf OF high duties on
gloves. In making their fight for the
high rates both Senator'S Wordsworth and
Calder asserted that they were necessary
tol Nssp the glove mills running. Insist
Ing that cutthroat German competition
was destined to ruin the industry in
An1rica Il rrdtecticn wore not accorded.
lodge Vote surprise.
Senator Lenroot proposed to let the
committee rates stand. but proposed an
graph, which limited the duties to Is per
cent. ad valorem. Interpreted in terms
of nd valorem duties, the committee
rates. which In many instances were
specific. amounted to 25; so. "a. 90 and
119 per cent. ad valorem. The cut
therefore. was on the higher priced
gloves.
On the vote that, followed the long dis
cussions more Republicans broke away
from the committee than at any time
since the Fordney- Mccumber bill came
up for consideration. Here Is the list OF
Republicans who voted against the COM
ment:
Borah (Idaho) Capper (Kan.). Cum
MINIS (Iowa), Hale (Me.). Harreld
(Okla), Jones (Wash.). Kellogg
tMinn.). Keyes en- M. Ladd' IN. d..
Lenroot (Wis), Lodge (Mass.). w. Nc
Cormicl< Cll.). Moses IN. HI. Nelson
(Minn.), New (Ind.). Newberry (Mich.).
Phipps (Col). Rawson Nowa), Warren
(wyo) and Willis (Ohio).
or all the Republican votes cast in
favor Of the Lenroot amendment the
most surprising were those OF Senators
Lodge and Warren. the chairmen Of the
Appropriations Committee. On occasion
virtually all OF the other Senators had
broken away from the Finance Commit
fee on rates. but these two Senators have
stood steadfast with the committee.
johnson with Committee.
Senator Johnson (Rep. CALI voted
with the committee. and that caused an
other surprise. Senator Johnson, how
ever, has been standing by the committee
on recent votes. having obtained the
protection he desired for California prod
ucts. written into the bill by the agri-
cultural tariff bloc.
The Senate got laugh on the vote of
Senator Gooding (Rep. Idaho) chair
man OF tho agricultural tariff bloc and
announced advocate OF tariff wall all
was out Of the Senate Chamber when
the vote was being taken but he got in
barely in time to ask that his name be
recorded.
"Ayer he shouted to everybody's
surprise. as he always has stood with
the Finance Committee. When the
humor Of the situation became apparent
everybody. including the members of the
Finance Committee. laughed.
Mr.. Gooding then, sensing something
wrong. inquired about the laughter.
Somebody told him that he had voted to
cut the Finance Committee rate. A look
OF pain came over his face. ''Mr. Presi-
dent" he called, IT have voted under
misapprehension. wish to vote No."
The word mo" he uttered with such en-
phasis that II echoed through the cham
Der. At this everybody laughed again,
and Mr.. Gooding, whose primary interest
10 wool rates, retired very red in the
face.
Hemp Rate Approved.
When the rolicall was completed on
the Lenroot amendment. the Senate ap-
proved the glove paragraph without a
vote. passing on then to the hemp sched-
ule, which has been Up intermittently
for the last three days. The committee
rate of four cents n pound on hemp was
approved, all but one Republican Sena-
tor Borah. voting with the committee,
and all but one Democrat. Broussard
(Ia.). always protcctlonist, voting
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