Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-25
Battle Over If
 Opensi theSenate
old-fnshioned Debate Mark ed the Beginning of the Discussion of the Adn1inis- tration Measure.

Washington. April 24.-Thera was an old fashioned tariff debate today in tho sen:Lte, t marked the real beginning of the weeks and perhaps months. of bat- ting over the administration measure, which the finance committee reported two weeks ago.
 The discussion was opened by Senator Smoot, republican, Utah, with a detailed explanion of the elastic tariff proposals written into the bill at the suggestion of President Harding and it included an attack oh those proposals by Senator Jones, democrat. New Mexico, and the l opening Of a general assault on the whole measure by Sentor King, democrat, Utah. 1 Characterizing the measure as more 1 tniquitous" than the Payne -AlGrich and Dingley measures. Senator King charged tthat it was a biu to increase the price of eVerything the people buy" and was framed in the interest of the, dye trust, the steel trust. the chemical trust the woolen mill trusts, some of the cotton manufacturing trusts and the multitude of great organizations that in the past have preyed upon the people and that in the future will continue their policy of ex- ploitation.'
 Senator King declared that the address of Chairman McCumber of the senate f. nance committee in calling up the meas ure last week, was "an appeal to the pre-. dactory interest of the United States tc be merciful to the poor consumer and said that when the nation was at wal and the very fate of civilization seemed 10 be at stake, some of the same vul- lures that dictated schedules in this bill were ropoing the American people ant the American government"
 l. (, Chairman Mcd Inn her later denied tba his address was an appeal" He sai( that in discussing conditions in the worit and in this country. he thought the tim'
 opportune to call attention of manufac turers, retailers and factory laborers tlla
 the American public could consume onl,
 as much as it could purchase and that i
 production was to be increased price
 would have to be brought down to within
 the reach of the consumers pocketbook
 ,I In, the course of his remarks Senate
 King took 8 fling at the agricultural-tar
 If bloc the manufacturers bloc and wha he described as other ,blocs and groups
 He declared that the death llnell of politi
 cal parties was sounded when there va a division into farmers groups work
 mems groups and manufacturers
 groups
 Reading from an announcement. of tn Southern Tariff association that 1t ha,
 laid its apDeal for hioher rates than con tained in the senate bill before the "tar
 if. bloc . Senator King demanded t know what had become of the fable sen , Eators who constitute the finance commit tee and. who are supposed to write tarii bills"
 "The tariff bloc is supreme" he add cd. land I suppose the manufacturer:
 bloc and the tariff bloc squeezed the f
 nance committee as a strong ma
 squeezes clay in his hands, or sought do so."'
 Referring to American valuation Ser
 ator King warned that the senate woul r he in session many weeks if not man months before an American valuatio c plan is written into this bill"
 Its infamous enough without tha ' provision" he asserted. '1t would | , intolerahle with that provision"
 As to the elastic tariff provisions Ser
 ator King said they would ooerate '
 make the tariff commission "a football z :. the predatory interests" would make fc ] instability and would result in the pel
 manent presence in Washington of a tai if lobby which would dangle before Sena tors and representatives all "the spet tres the brains of the interests could COT jure up"
 Germany and the threat of German il
 vasion had been the spectre held up 7 the committee room when the bill wa rr drawn, he continued, adding that thel 2 never was "a more hypocritical demar e for legislation" than~t that for protectio { against a nation that was bankrupt LII r. able to meet it's reparations and saddle s with taxes such as no other nation ha I- ever known.
 "In his prepared address, explainir
 the elastic tariff proposals Senator Smo
 declared theyS,not only offered a solutic
 Of the particular tariff problem now b 2 fore congress. but also suggested a pra ' tical basis for continuing scientific al
 justment of the tariff in the future"