The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-07-14
REPUBLICAN REVOLT
KILLS AMENDMENTS
TOTARIFF MEASURE
Fourteen Insurgent Sena-
tors Help Democrats De-
feat Yarn Report.
SMOOT FIGHTS ALONE
Champion of Report Quits
After Being Repeatedly
Voted Down.
LODGE TOO BUSY TO AID
Senate Leader Preparing to
Take Bonus Troubles to
the President.
LODGE TOO BUSY TO AID
By LOUIS sEIBoLD.

BY LOUIS sEIBoLD.
ssecior Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, d. c.. July IL.
A genuir. Republican revolt against
the misfit tariff bill was to-day added
to the schedule of Congressional woes
awaiting the attention of President
Harding
The Presidents time was monopo-
liked by the critical conditions in the
railway and coal strikes. Senator
Lodge, who called at the White House
by appointment TO present an appeal
to the President TO assert his leader
ship in clearing up the legislative
muddle over the bonus. the tariff and
the ship subsidy measures, was .e-
Quested to return tomorrow.
Subsequent developments in the
Senate further accentuated the COM
tplications over the disturbing bonus
and ship subsidy projects. so that Mr..
Lodge will have a much better story
to tell the President than he could
have narrated to-day.
Hope Put In President.
The Senate leader and in fact most
OF his party associates. who privately
admit their inability to cope with the
situation. 'lole 10 obtain from the
President debate statement that
will discourage III. Their efforts to load
the country down -ppith.smore taxes to
xa,. 49, ho,re ..,,H xxriy, y ie ,nVeon< -
postponement o.: the ship subsidy bill.
The outbreak on the Republican side
OF the Senate against the tariff bill
this afternoon viii undoubtedly cause
CONSERVATION among Republican lead
ers in and out 0. tho i gisIat,ve branch
of the Government and caii for the
speedy removal or TIE bonus and other
problems which are increasing discord
over the tariff. ..s,-
In most exciting debate to-day
over the yarn and cotton schedules
prepared BY the McCu;nber Finance
Committee the large-. number of Re-
publican Senator, who ..avc yet regis
tered their disapprova. oi most Of its
features assisted the DsrIocf ats in adj
ministering two decisive rcbukes to
the trainers of it.
The seriousness of tho situation did
not lie so much in the rejection of the
scheduled proposed by Mr.. Smoot. who
took over the management of the tariff
measure from Mr.. McCumber, as in
the prospect of future and more dis
astrous assaults on the measure as a
whole.
Recalls Payne-AIdrich Fight.
The attack on the schedules under
consideration to-day recalled to some
extent the insurgent move against the
Payne-Aldrich bill In the House of
Representatives in 1909, which re-
suited in the Reinforcement of Uncle
Joe" Cannon as Speaker and split the
Republican party wide open.
The most significant feature of the
revolt IL the Senate against the Ford
ney-M1C,.n.ber measure was that 1t
did not ten,ot the opposition of any
particular group. Senators catalogued
as adherents Of the farm bloc, indie
pendents OF the Borah type and stand
patters or the Wadsworth, Townsend
and New schools joyously Joined hands
to vote oown the rates proposed by
Mr. Smoot on behalf of the Finance
Committee.
The Republican insurgents COOP
Grating with the Democrats under
Leader Underwood and Senator Sim
mons were fourteen in number. They
were Senators Borah OF IDAHO Capper
of KansaS. Cummins of Iowa. Jones
of Washington. Kellogg of Minnesota.
Lenroot Of wisconsi.,. Mccormick OF
Illinois. Nelson Of Minnesota. New OF
Indiana. Norbeck and Sterling of
South Dakota, Townsend of Michigan,
Willis of Ohio and, on one test, Wads-
worth of New York.
May Force Redraftfng.
The success of the joint thrust at
the cotton schedules will probably
compel rewriting of the entire textile
feature Of the tariff bill and unques-
tionably delay a Anal vote on the
measure-unless 1t is finally laid aside
In response to growing demand
among Republican Senators.
The fight on the proposed cotton and
yarn rates was led by Senator Len
root, who had previously instanced his
disapproval Of several features of the
Fordney- k.cumber tariff bill. The
new result of the contest was to over
turn the recommendations Of the FL
nance Committee on the cotton and
yarn rates and restore the lower fig-
,r-s as contained in the bill as pass y
by the House.
The only Finance Committee amend
ment relating to the cotton and yam
rates was one placing a compensate Y
tariff of 4 per cent. ad valorem addi-