Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-01
FINISH
 CONSIDERATION
 IF WOOL RATES
Big Fight Is Ended After Approval of Imports as
 Proposed by Committee


 WASHINGTON, July 31.-Conseder. action of the wood schedule, which has furnished the one bigh fight in the { administration tariff bill, was com pleted today by the senate after the
 approval without change of imports proposed by the finance committee ma
 jority on blankets, wearing apparel and floor coverings. The silk sched-
 ule then was taken up and leaders were hopeful that committee amend ments to this could be discharged to- morrow.
 After the silk schedule will come the schedules dealing with paper and books and sundries, including threads, and laces; the free lists, and the ad- ministration provision with the flex- ible tariff plan proposed by President Harding. When the senate winds up work on these, it must go back over the entire bill, paragraph by para graph, for action on individual amend ments.
 There was still divided opinion to- day as to when final vote on the measure could be had, but Republican leaders were unanimous in declaring that the senate would pass the bill. Taking cognizance of a report pub lished in Washington that the senate would abandon the measure, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the majority leader, made this statement:
 ''This bill is going to be passed by the senate and that at the first op- portunity. We are going to stick to it and pass it as soon as we can get a vote. Reports that it might be laid aside or allowed to fail are absolutely without foundation. The bill will be passed and put on the statute book as soon as possible"
 While the split in the Republican ranks was noticeable, there was only one sizeable controversy today over wool duties, some fthe Republicans and most Democrats voting against the duties on clothing: Senator Shoot Republican, Utah, in charge of the schedule said and Senator Walsh of Massachusetts conducting the fight for the minority, agreed that only nov cities were imported; that the Ameri- can ready-made clothing industry could compete with the world.
 Senator Shoot told the senate the NUSiSo ollCSI Scles lnOSe Americans who sought to "ape the English dude" by wearing only clothes made in London. He said al- so, there were Americans whe de sired to ''ape the Prince of Wales, wearing baggy trousers when he wears them"
 In the principal Democratic argu- ment against the silk duties. Senator Sheppard of Texas showed the enor- nous growth of the American silk industry since 1914 declaring it now to be the largest in the world with production valued at $1S5,000,000 in 1919. Against this production he said. were imports that year of only 53,000. 900, about half of which was imported in bond and not intended for domestic 
 "If anything could be more astoud- ing than this expansion" he contin- ued 'it would be- the audacitv of the proposal in the pending tariff bill to enlarge the tariff duties on silk i'm ports 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 use among the American people that to matrial and growing sense, they might be classed as com forts and in some instances necessi- ties.