Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-08
c. D P. MOVE To
INVOKE: CLOTURE
ON TARIFF BILL
IS VOTED DOWN

(By The Associated Prebs)
washington, July 7.-Defeat OF
the republican motion for cloture
on the administration tariff Dill
and a dramatic attack on that
measure by Senator La Toilette OF
Wisconsin, a republican member OF
the committee that reported H.
featured today's proceedings in the
senate. The vote to invoke the eX-
listing cloture rule was 40 to SO, or
nine less than the necessary two
thirds majority. The democrats
were q unit against the notion
which was opposed also by five re-
publicans.
First Broadside Fired.
Delivering the first of a prom
ised series of attacks on the tariff
Senator La Toilette declared the
only way the republican party
could be saved from defeat In the
congressional elections in Novem-
ber and from disaster" in the
presidential election in 1924, was
! to recommit the bill for rewriting
on the basis of "the old republican
principle" of equalizing the differ
ence between the cost in produce
| ton at home and abroad. If that
could not be done, he added, the
| legislation should be abandoned.
Characterzing the bill as even
worse than the Dingley and Payne
| Aldrich laws, which, he declared,
had caused the political upsets in
| 800, 1912, 1914 and 1916, Senator
| La Toilette asked his colleagues IL
they thought the people had for
gotten if they thought the people
would "calmly accept the burdens
in 1922 which they so decisively
refused to carry in 1910 and 1872
Means Defeat.
Powerful indeed must be the
influences which can bludgeon
through this legislation" he said,
when political leaders responsible
for it know that it means the de-
feat of their party and the end Of
the political lives of most of the
! leaders responsible for this bill"
Taking up specifically the cot
ton schedule In the bill, Senator
La Toilette declared the rates as
reported to the senate in many in
| stances were from II to 80 per
cent higher than those in the
| Payne-Aldrich law and from 100
to 200 per cent higher than those
in the existing statute. He said
the committee majority had re-
moved zone of the many jokers
| slipped into the cotton schedule"
and lowered some rates so that ta-
bles of comparison he has pre-
pared were not exactly accurate.
He added, however, that he un-
derstood the committee majority
did not intend to lower rates below
the level of the Payne-Aldrich law
and presented many tables to show
that the cotton manufacturers had
prospered under the Underwood
law rates.
Defends Cotton Schedule.
Senator Smoot, of Utah, ranking
republican on the finance commit
| tee, defended the cotton schedule,
declaring that the average of the
rate was not above the average in
the Underwood law, though some
were higher. Others, he added,
were lower. He said the commit
| tee majority still was working on
the schedule and would bring in
new amendments and at the proper
time he would present an analysis
of the schedule to the senate.
Returning to his attack, Senator
| La Toilette expressed the wish that
senators would consider the tariff
| bill not as owners of stock in cot
ton mills, wooden mills and other
industries, but as Representatives Of
the people, giving attention to the
effect of the rates on the consum-
ers. If this were not done, he
present senators would be re-
moved ''in revolutionary way
by the ballot, Of course"
Supports Cloture Motion.
Before the vote on cloture. SEN
ator Watson, of Indiana, delivered
a vigorous address in support of
1.-THE cloture motion, charging that
the democrats were conducting an
"adroit" filibuster so as to prevent
passage of the bill until just be-
| fore the November elections with
out time being given either for tn"
effects of it's operation to be felt
or for the republicans to explain
it adequately to the country.
Senator Watson declared the
question at issue was whether the
senate was to function; whether the
party which came into power with
majority of 100000 votes was tC
keep it's pledge to the people that
/ the tariff would be revised.
| Foxes On Free List.
After the cloture question had
! been disposed of and before Sena-
tor La Toilette began his three
hour attack on the bill, the senate
disposed Of number of committee
amendments relating to duties or
! fish, and also voted to place on the
! free list black and silver foxes
i brought into the country for breed
| ing purposes. Such foxes for other
purposes would be dutiable at IS
; per cent ad valorem.