The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-09

... .ansuming and industrial east.
uu written By a republican
...tY bloc" FAR more influential
..r sarmldablo IN congress than the
r... lrtlsan agricultural bloc has
,., auccecdcd in being
tf II the republican leaders OF
.A. .rricultural bloc" have Joined
d., ,as tariff bloc" movement for
d.. . .1,ged purpose ~ writing Into
,. .1I schedules whioh Will Nir-
....v act as embargo against the
,....r.ltion Of those things upon
,,... The farmers and the livestock
,,.u u the west and middle west
J,.. for their bank accounts.
executive committee OF the
as.tf bloc" consists, In the som
.,c II Goodlng, OF Idaho, chair
Gamer, OF Kansas tchAirman
II f.r senate agricultural bloc'D
OF oregon. Nicholson or
cef..r TO- and Johnson OF California.
r...Inr along with them are
...e,4rs like Poindexter and Jones.
20 N.4.nlnEton: Stanfield, OF ore
-.. 4hortidge Of California; Bur
s.. 20 New Mexico; Cameron, OF
Ars.nl. warren, OF wyoming;
E aaror. ~ Missouri; New. Of In
d.m sterling and Noresch, S,S,,, 4, OF OF
pn...a. ~ Colorado; Ladd OF North
nssug. Harreld OF oklahoma, and
no, rr.nd, Of Michigan.
a strange Company"
s.Iapsf company, when " ~
rn....,red that some arc staunch
Members Of the agricultural bloc,
o,b.a who have stood stcadfastly
az most Of Its activities.
between tho Alleghenies and the
Atlantic coastllne are millions Of
.aA
tanned and pQcketed together
y5ors OF them jostled together than
su .he rest ~ these United states
So'l In tho way OF population. They
, ana tnclr employers nay the greater
\ ,srt of the taxes which pour into
he treasury to keep the country
Their representation In the house
f,r exceeds that Of the sparSely
settled west and middle west, but IN
tho senate-where the new tariff
XII 4 bclng made-thcy must re-
main content with two senators for
each Of their states-the same num-
bor AS. for instance. the thinly-
nonulsted states OF Nevada and
wyoming enjoy.
There Ia Senator Smoot OF Utah,
and the new wool scedules, for eN-
annie. Senator Smoot Is recognized
As one OF the ablest and most eN-
perienced members OF the senate II i,
nance committee, which wrested
with the new tariff bill for weeks
before 10 was voted satisfactory py
the tariff bloc"
Best for Wool Growers.
Daily iolnt sessions were held by
republican members OF the senate
man for the tariff bloc wanted
senators belonging 20 the tariff
bloc" before the new wool sched-
ules were worked out. Senator
smoot held out successfully against
the maximum demands OF the
tariff bloc" but eventually ne
wrote n specific duty OF 80 cents
nor Mound ON wool OF "clean con-
tentf into the measure, which 10 the
wool growers of his part or the
country is, perhaps, the best thing
they have ever been able 70 get INTO
senl.T Goodlng. as chief spokes-
mon Tor the tariff bloc" Wanted
the 45-ccnt-per-p pound du.V carrier
by the present emergency tariU iaW
retained u the new tar,t plll' lh1l'
law was put over by the 'agr.cuI,, ,
tural bloc" and as cents was tNed
as a duty on "Washed" wool when
the sheen men OF the west were IN
a deen financi1l hole, and a Wool
EMBARGO was Thought necessary u
save all Of them from bank'tEteE.
Gooding offered - c0lnp 'omlsa "
the ascent duty were cafrlei On
during the first ycir after inc on
actment OF the new piu. When n'
found Smoot adamana he stEs'Sl
ed that the 45-can. rate Wonli 90
until this springs "sneari1s sen
ton was over. SmuOs still heli ouL
and sS.cent duty was finally
Acts as Embargo. .,
But members OF the tariff bloc
DO not deny that the 33-cent rave
will act as an embargo against ".
wool OF Australia, New Zealand the
Argentine and South Africa.
But from their viewpoint such aI
embargo is all right, no matter nov
much Il may boost the living c4s.S
OF the eastern consumer ana to,Les
After all. the agricultural bloC
was Intended TO benefit. primarily
the farmer first and the consumer
secondly. But the tariff bloc
aruges, as did the agriculture
bloc" that the consumer is bound tl
suffer when the producer sure s1
and the consumer cannot neheli
unless the producer does, That u
tho KEYNOTE OF the contention Una
the tariff bloc Is az neS'ssul
even more so, than the agrlcultu ura
bloc" The members OF both DEM
Indignantly that theirs Ia class leg
islatlon; that. while admltttai !
sectional, It will not help the whoi
country.
Wool ls, perhaps, the best example
OF what the tariff bloc Is up lo
Under the old Payne-Aldrich hl'
which the late Senator Penr
used 20 swear by-there was uhue
the famous schedule X" duty
II cents per pound on 'unwasnt.
VOL" The present proposed duI
OF 78 cents per pound on washed
wool IS represented as the equiV,a
lent 4 the Payne-Aldrch scheuul'' n
but as a matter OF fact, II materia, !
increases the old tariff on WooI y y
the simple process OF assessing III
duty on the "scoured basis
Claim Duty Ii Fair;
Tho wool growers OF the wes
claim that such duty is reasoI ],
able and fair" because of the au
vantage. they claim, their Austral
Tan and other foreign competllol
have In being able 20 produce Wu.
that possesses high average OF ~
tur8l "clean content due 70 u
favorable climatic conditions uhue
which IL is grown. ,.,ur,
In the west wind and sandstoru
are among the obstacles nhtu.
places IN the way OF growing 'cleau
WOOL The large percentage OF l1l
elgn substances Accumulated
mlll1pg ~ abaan ig an lmUulliI