Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-08-01
PROvAL GIVEN
WOOL SCHEDULE
IN TARIFF BILL
silk Clause Is Then Taken
Up and Leaders Hope
That Amendments May
Be Disposed of Today.
Dry The Associated Press.l

Washington, July 31.--Consider-
alton of the wool schedule. which
has furnished the one big fight in
the administration tariff bill, was
completed today by the senate aft
er the approval without change of
imports proposed by the finance
committee majority OIL blankets,
wearing apparel and floor cover
ings. The silk schedule then was
taken up and leaders were hopeful
that committee amendments to
this could be disposed of tomor-
row.
After the silk schedule will come
those dealing with paper and books
and sundries, including threads
and laces; the free lists and the ad-
ministration provision with the
flexible tariff plan proposed by
President Harding. When the sem
ate winds up work on these it must
go back over the entire bill para
graph by paragraph, for action on
individual amendments.
There still was divided opinion
today as to when a final vote on
the measure could be had. but re-
publican leaders were unanimous
in declaring that the senate would
pass the bill. Taking cognizance of
q report published in Washington
that the senate would abandon the
measure, Senator Lodge, of Massa-
chusetts, the majority leader. made
this statement:
Bill VIII Be Passed.
This bill is going to be passed
by the senate and that at the first
opportunity. We are going to stick
to it and pass 1t as soon as we can
get vote. Reports that 1t might
be laid aside or allowed to fail are
absolutely without foundation. The
bill will be passed and put on the
statute books as soon as possible" +"
While the split in the republican
ranks was noticeable, there was
only one sizeable controversy today
over wool duties. some republicans
and most of the democrats voting
against the duties on clothing. SEN
ator Smoot. republican. Utah, IN
charge of the schedule, said, and
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts,,
conducting the fight for the minor
ity, agreed, that only novelties
were imported; that the American
ready-made clothing industry could
compete with the world
Senator Smoot told the senate
the duties would affect largely
those Americans who sought to
APE the English dude" by wearing
only clothes made in London. He
said also there were Americans
who desired to "ape the Prince of
Wales, wearing baggy trousers
when he, wears them"
McCumbcr Opens Debate.
Opening debate on the silk
schedule Senator McCumber said
that since the government had lost
$500. 100000 in revenue yearly
through the operation of the pro-
hibition amendment. added funds
had to be obtained from some
Isource and that there was no bet
ter source in his judgment than
luxuries, such as silk. He ex-
planned, however. that the duties
proposed, ranging from S5 pei
cent TO 60 per cent ad valorem
were for protection of the domes-
tic industry as we'll as for revenue
In the principal democratic argu
ment against the silk duties, Sena-
tor Sheppard, of Texas. showed the
enormous growth of the American
silk industry since 1914, declaring
lit now to be the largest in the
world with production valued at
$1S5, 100000 in 1919. Against this
production, he said, were imports
that year of only 100000, about
half of which was imported in bond
land not intended for domestic con-
sumption.
III anything could be more as
founding than this expansion" he
continued, ''it would be the audac-
|ity of the proposal in the pending
tariff bill to enlarge the tariff
duties on silk imports in the face
of the record under existing rates.
Disputing that silk was a luxury
the Texas senator declared that SILK
or part silk articles were OF such
widespread use among the Amer,
can people that to a material ana
growing extent they might pc
classed as comforts and IN some
instances. necessities.