The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-07-13
TARIFF BILL HIT
TWICE IN SENATE
Move 10 Enforce Cloture on II
Fails, and II Is Attacked by
Majority Member.

icnn natian for cioture ~ the admin
isfratl3n tariff bin and 8 dramatic at
tack au that measure by senator La
Toilette II Wisconsin a Republican
member u the committee that report
81 il featured the proceedings IN th'
senate The vote % invoke the exist
Ing ciature rule was - 10 S5. or nine
less than tile necessary iw0thlrds ma
joriiy The Democrats were unit
against the motion. which was apposed
also b. i've Republicans
The ron eaIl follows
For the motion Republicans Ball
Bursum Calder Capper, Curtis, du-
Pont. Edge. Elklns. Ernst, Fernald
France. Frelinghuysen, Goodlng, Hale
Harreld Johnson, Jones Of WASHING
ton. kellogg. keyes. Ladd, Lenroot,
Lodge. McCormlck, McCumber, McKin.
ley. Mclean, McNary, Nelson, New
berry. Nicholson. Norbeck, Oddie, Pep
per Phlpps, PoIndexter, Rawson,
shortr.dge. Smo0t. Spencer, Sterling,
Sutherland, Townsend, WadswOrth,
Warren and willis i5
Against the motion Republicans
Borah Brsndegee. LaFollette, Moses
and NorrIs-5. DemOcrats-Ashurst
Brous-ard Caraway. Culberson, Dial,
Fletcher Gerry. Harris, Harrison. Hef-
lin. Jones Of New Mexico, kendrick,
King. Myers, Overman, owen, Plttman,
Pomerene. Ransdell, Robinson, Shep-
pard Shields, Simmons. Smith, Stan
ley, swanson, Trammell, Underwood,
walsh of Massachusetts and Walsh Of
Montana 30. Total against, 35.
-Four senator's. all Republicans, pres
ent were unable 20 vote because Of
pairs with absent Democratic senator's
They were Cameron. Dillingham;. New
and Watson Twelve senator's. six Re
publlcans and six Democrats, were abb
sent
Delivering the first OF promised
series OF attacks on the tarifr, Sen
stor IaFollette declared the only way
the Rpublican party could be saved
from defeat in the congressional cleo
lions In November 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 merely equalizing the
difference In the cost OF production at
home and abroad II that could not
be done, he added. the legislation
should be abandoned.
Characterlzing the bill as even worse
than the Dlngley And Payne-Aldrich
laws. which, he declared had caused
the political upsets in 1910, 1912, 1914
and 1915 Senator LaFJ1lette asked his
colleagues II they thought the people
had forgotten: II they thought the peo-
pie would calmly accept the burdens
in 1922 which they So declslvely re
fused to carry In 1910 and 1912"
Powerful. indeed, must be the in
fiuences which can bludgeon through
this legislation. he said when the
political leaders responsible for II
know that II means the defeat Of their
party and the end of the political
lives OF most Of the leaders responsible
for this bin"
Taking up specifically the cotton
schedule In the bill. Senator LaFollette
declared the rates as reported 10 the |
senate In many instances were from
II 70 90 per cent higher than those in
the Payne-Aldrich law and from 100
TO 2co per cent higher than those in
the existing statute He said the com
mite majority had removed zone of
the many iokers slipped into the cot
ton schedule" and lowered some rates /
- that tables of comparison he had /
we're not exactly accurate |
He added. however. that he understood /
the committee majority did not intend |
10 lower the rates below the level OF
the PayneAldrich law and presented
many tables 20 show that the cotton
had prospered under
the Underwood Law rates
senator SmoOt % Utah. ranking
Republican on the finance committee.
defended the cotton schedule.