Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-07-21
SENATE REPORT
Continued from Page One)

administration tariff bill exactly three
months ago. Twenty Republicans,
including Senator Lodge of Massa-
chusetts, the ma jority floor leader.
voted against the committee. The
other nineteen We're:
Borah Of Idaho; Capper. Kansas;
Cummins. Iowa; Hale, Maine; Har-
reid. Oklahoma; Jones, Washington
Kellogg, Minnesota; keyes, New
Hampshire Ladd. North Dakota;
Lenroot, Wisconsin,; Mccormick of
Illinois; Moses, New Hampshire;
Nelson. Minnesota; New, Indiana;
Newberry. Michigan; Phipps, Colo
rado; RawsOn. Iowa; Warren, Wy
oming and Willis, Ohio.
One Democrat, Broussar Louisi-
ana. voted with the committee ma
jority.
Senator I.enroot led the fight for
the maximum limitation. He esti-
mated that in the case of some gloves
the committee rates which remained
in the bill would equal 119 per cent.
ad valorem. in the case of others, 1O4
per cent. and in the case OF still
others 80 per cent. He declared
! congress should not impose a greater
duty than IS per cent. ad valorem on
any article OF such general use as
gloves in order to stimulate domestic
production.
Senators Wadsworth and Calder
Republicans, New York, led the op-
position to the Lenroot maximum
amendment, contending that unless
the domestic manufa cturers were
protected, Germany would get
monopoly Of the American business
and then charge every cent the tariff
| would bear. Senator WadswOrth
said the factories producing these
gloves at Gloversville, n. v, already
| were closed
Senators Pomerene of Ohio and
Simmons of North Carolina, Smith of
South Carolina and Hitchcock of
Nebraska, Democrats, argued that
the facts showed the committee
rates were too high. The North Caro-
lima senator said the proposition was
to return to conditions in the trade
when German goods We're shut out
during the war.
He argued also that the process of
making the sueded gloves, popular in
| this country was known only to the
glove makers of Saxony and that the
imitation made in the United
! States could not compare in texture
! and finish with the German product.
After the action on the glove
duties, the Senate turned to the
Jute section. approving a rate of
four cents pound on hacked hemp
after rejecting 32 to IS an amendment
by Senator Robinson, Democrat.
+! Arkansas. to make the rate one cent
| a pounr.
Next it approved committee duty
of 25 per cent ad valorem on silver
and rowing of fax, hemp or ramie.
| Senator Robinson sought to have the
rate reduced to Is per cent, as at
! present, contending that the hemp
| industry was one that could not
| thrive in this country under prcsent
! labor conditions.
| stituted the total of the Senate's
| work on the tariff today, the first
| three hours OF the session being con-
| sumed in discussing of the ship SUBJ
| sidy. alien property and Muscle
| Shoals. Senator Robinson again
| protested against Senators bringing
in "irrevelant subjects" urging that
the tariff bill be brought to vote.
"As soon as the wool schedule has
been disposed Of" he said. II shall
| be ready to place limitation on de-
bate and I shall be ready to agree
to time to vote finally on the bill"
This bill is going to be disposed
! Of" he added. "and is not going to
he sidetracked on theory that the
Democrats. by filibuster. prevented
its passage. We are going to vote on
the tariff and the soldiers bonus and
| then go to the country.
God asve the country"