Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-29
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Under u FRI
&. A And DEFENDED
Of Bill Victorious on
Three Roll Calls in
Senate Y

aSWS!ashington, July 29.-Assaults on
SAarrtwooi schedule OF the tariff bill
Klere continued Friday from both
sides of the senate with proponents
Striking back vigorously and winning
out on each of the three roll calls
t4ken during the seven hours session.
Senator Lenroot, Republican, Wis
consin, created a stir Yearly by assert
H9Y that there was. Sunintentionally
contested protection in the schedule
Tor makers OF wooden cloth while late
inE the day Senator Nelson, Repub-
ilcan,SMtnnesota, made a vigorous at
tack on' the o rates in particular
an h whole bill in general.
ex-senator Nelson said in summing
NJ: "We are in the hands Of the wool
Phlistines. They have us by the
throat and perhaps it would be wiser
70 take the medicine in silence and
and hope, to- get relief from that
source"
Democrats in Action.
81 Onslaughts from the Democratic
side were made by Senator Walsh Of
Massachusetts,, Simons, North Caro-
lima and Pomerene, Ohio. Calling at
tention that the finance committee
majority, upon reaching the wool
schedule, had ceased to make ap-
~ SAIo al 1dkCS oS u udu OOlS
with a number of other schedules,
Senator Simons said wool was 'the.
very keystone" which had bound the
Republicans together ";n a hard and
fast compact" and that if the ate
On raw wool were cut down look out
for rebellion on the part of the aEri-
cultural bloc; look out for the slaught-
Ell OF your high rates upon the manu-
featured articles"
Defending the protective duties
proposed on clothes, Chairman Nc
Gumber of the finance committee said
they were lower than the tariff com-
mission n other experts had cal
culated would be necessary to equal
lie conversion costs in this country
and abroad.
Smoot Defends Bill
Senator Smooth of Utah, in charge
of the bill for the committee majority
defending the rates on cloth for
mems suits and .~overcoats. exhibited
samples of cloth and showed how
prices had been decreased, due he
said, to competition in the industry.
He declared the protective duties
proposed were necessary to keep the
wooden industry alive and in that con-
nection presented a translation of a
COPY OF a wage contract between
manufacturers and their employees in
the German Rhineland, showing that
male. workers received weekly. wages
oppressed rinFAmerican money ranging
TOM 74::S cents for IA year old boys,
$3.50 for grown men and from So
fnts to $2.18 a week in the Ease of
&i1a1e operatives.
= Senator Watson. Republican, Indi-
ana, also placed into the record hg-
Wres prepared by the tariff commits
Son on wages protested by workers in.
NArious industries in Is cities in Ger.
many.
Pathetic" Says Walsh.
3 Replying to Senator Shoots argu-
Ment, Senator Walsh, of Massachu-
s1tts, the defense of the clothing rates
Was pathetic"
y Amendments by Senator Lenroot,
Which he asserted would remove at
vast part of Concealed protection"
Pr the manufacturers of wooden cloth
ere approved by the senate after
fpey had been accepted by Senator
Sfnoot for the committee majoritg.
Snder them the full compensatory
dSaty of 40 cents pound would apply
4nly to the wool content of such
&othes.
Mr.. Lenroot had sought to have the
1onate approve a similar amendment
u the case of the forty cents a pound
&mpensatory duty. on women's dress
s0oth costing less than eighty cents
g pound, but his amendment was re-
fcted 33 to. rs, nine Republicans sup
WRITING it and three Democrats OBJ
0osing it.