The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04
West Writes Tariffs
 Which East Will Pay

l Washington. April "A tariff bill dictated by the producing West and 1 Middle West is today confronting the | consuming and industrial East. A bill written by a Republican l Tariff Bloc far more influential and | formidable in Congress than the non-
 partisan Agricultural Bloc" has ever 1 succeeded in being.
 | Most of the Republican leaders of | the Agricultural Bloc have joined | in the Tariff Bloc" movement for the l avowed purpose of writing into the | bill schedules which will virtually act
 as an embargo against the importa- | tfon of those those things upon which | the farmers and the livestock men of the West and Middle West depend for their bank accounts.
 The executive committee of the Tariff BIoc' consists, in the Senate, | of Gooding, of Idaho, chairman; Cap
 ate Agricultural Bloc"); McNary, of Oregon; Nicholson, of Colorado, and Johnson, of California. Trailing along with them are Sen Washington; Stanfeld. of Oregon; Shortidge, of California; Bursum, of | New Mexico; Cameron, of Arizona Warren. of Wyoming; Spencer, of Missouri; New of Indiana; Sterling and Nerbeck. of South Dakota; Od- die of Nevada; Phipps, of Colorado; Ladd, of North Dakota; Harreld, of Oklahoma, and Townsend, of Michi- gan.
 "A Strange Company A strange company, when it is con stdered that some are staunch mem bers of the Agricultural Bloc"; oth- CTS who have stood steadfastly against
 most of its activities.
 Between the AlleghenieS and the Atlantic coastline are millions of con- sumers and toilers-packed and jam
 med and pocketed together-more of them post1ed together than all the
 rest of these United States hold in
 the way of population. They and
 their employers pay the greater part
 of the taxes which pour into the
 Treasury to keep the country run ming.
 l, Their representation in the House far exceeds that of the sparsely set tied West and Middle West, but in the Senate-where the new tariff bill is being made-they must remain content with two Senators for each of their states-the same number as, for instance, the thinly-populated States of Nevada and Wyoming en- joy.
 There is Senator Shoot, of Utah, and the new wool schedules, for ex- ample. Senator Shoot is recognized as one of the ab1est and most eXpert- enced members of the Senate Finance Committee, which wrestled with the new tariff bill for weeks before it was voted satisfactory by the Tariff Bloc"
 Best for Wool Growers.
 
 Daily joint sessions were held by Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee and Republican Senators belonging to the Tariff Bloc" before the new wool schedules were worked out. Senator Smoot held out successfully against the maximum demands of the Tariff Bloc,' but eventually he wrote a specific duty of thirty-three cents per pound on wool of "clean content into the measure, which to the wool growers of his part of the country, is, per haps, the best thing they have ever been able to get into a tariff bill.
 Senator Gooding, as chief spokes- man for the Tariff Bloc" wanted the 45-cent-per-pound duty carried by the present emergency tariff law re- tained in the new tariff bill. That law was put over by the Agricultural Bloc" and forty-five cents was fixed as a duty on washed" wool when the sheep men of the West were in a deep financial hole, and a wool embargo was thought necessary to save them from bankruptcy.
 Gooding offered to compromise if the forty-ftve cent duty were carried on during the first year. after the en- actment of the new bill When he found Snnoot adamant, he suggested