Evening star., 1922-08-09
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ADDED TOSHOE BILL
Senator. Walsh of Massachu-
setts Denounces Proposed
Tariff on Hides.


$110,o00.000 a year, Senator Walsh,
democrat. Massachusetts,. declared to-
day in the Senate in opening the tight
against the rates proposed by the finance
committee majority and supported by
the republican-agrcultur bloc.
Senator Walsh argued that even II the
imports were reflected in the price paid
to cattle raiserS the total benent 10 cat
tlemen would amount to only Sl3,SOO,oOO
q year. He declared that only small
percentage of the farmers of the coun-
try were engaged in raising cattle
Sees Packers Chief Beneficinries.
"Whatever benefit will inure to any
individual or group of individuals by
reason of q duty on hides" he said, will
be chiefly to the packers, as they ham
die IS per cent of the domestic hide pro-
duction.
"The duty will tend to break up If
not destroy the Independent tanning
industry and extend to the packers a
growing monopoly of the tanning
business.
THE benefit to the farmer by the
possible insignificant increase In the
value of cattle which he may receive
through the generosity of the packers
will be more than offset by the in
creased cost which he will have to
pay for boots and shoes. harness and
other leather manufactures.
Consumer VIII Have to Pay.
The domestic manufactured of
boots and SHOES has absolutely no
foreign competition, therefore pro-
tective duty on boots and shoes, ex-
cept for the duties on hides and
leather, are unnecessary and will be
Ineffective. OF course, the duty on
hides Will increase the cost of pro-
duction. which the consumer will
have TO pay.
"The increased cost of boots and
by reason Of the duty on hides will
result in reducing and restricting the
substantial and expanding export
business developed by shoe and
leather manufacturers.
Many of the leading and progress
sive farmers and practical manu-
facturers of boots and shoes desire
and have petitioned for free hides,
leather and boots and shoes, and the
general public welfare would seem 20
dictate a policy of free hides, free
leather and free shoes
Sugar Duty Increased.
The Senate finally passed the sugar
schedule of the tariff bill yesterday,
approving an increase duty to 2.3
cents pound on sugar, a compromise
between the 2.5 cents proposed by
the Louisiana cane and beet sugar
producers of the west and the cents
provided in the House bill and rec
commended by the Senate finance COM
mittee. The duty approved is $40
Of a cent above the duty in the
emergency tariff bill. and les cents
above the duty in the Underwood
act.
The compromise was offered by
Senator Smoot of Utah, ranking re-
publican on the finance committee,
and was accepted by the same vote
that the Senate rejected the 2.5 cents
duty. 81 to 35. The vote on the Smoot
amendment was as follaws:
For the amendment:
Republicans, Ball, Brandegee, Bur
sum, Cameron, Capper. Curtis. Dill
ingham, Ernst, Gooding, Harold,
Jones of Washington. Ladd. Mckin-
ley, Mclean. McNary. Moses, Nelson,
SsW, Nicholson a,Ia sseoHGs Morbeek, sdae eddie
Spencer. Stanfield. Sterling, Town
send, Wadsworth. Warren. Watson of
Indiana and Willis--33.
Democrats, Broussard, Jones of
New Mexico. Kendrick and Ransdell-
4. Total, 81.
Fourteen Republicans Oppose.
Against the amendment:
Republicans-Bora Calder, Colt,
Cummins. Edge, Frelinghuysen Hale.
keyes. Lenroot, Lodge, Mccormick.
McCumber, Pepper and Sutherland
IA
Caraway. Gull
berson, Dial, Fletcher, Gerry. Glass,
Harris, Heflin. Myers, Overman, Pom
creme, Reed, Sheppard, Simmons,
Stanley. Swanson, Trammell. Under
wood, Walsh of Massachusetts and
Walsh of Montana-21.
Total, 35.
Senators Wadsworth. New York.
and Willis, Ohio. who supported the
23 cents rate, voted against the 2.5
cents tariff.
Because of the operation of the 20
per cent tariff differential allowed to
Cuba, the 2.3 cents rate on sugar
would work out at 1.84 cents pound
on sugar from that country rms
rate on Cuban sugar is "a of l cent
above the existing tariff and .16 OF
/ cent lower than proposed by SEN
ator Broussard. democrat. Louisiana,
who led the fight for the 2.5 cents
rate.
Potash Bounty Killed.
The Senate voted down plan for
a government bounty OF S9,5eo,ooo
for domestic potash producers ana
rescinded it's former action in voting
an impost of cents pound on
white arsenic Potash and white
arsenic were placed on the free list
The vote against the bounty on pot
ash was 32 to 80, with twelve repub-
licans opposing and three democrats
Supporting. The republicans were:
Borah, Capper. Cummins, Edge, Jones
Of Washington, Lenroot. Mccormick
Oddie, Sterling, Townsend, Wads-
worth and Willis. The democrats
were Jones of New Mexico, Kendrick
and Ransdell.
Before considering the bounty. the
Senate voted-66 to Ito strike
out the provision by which a tariff
duty would have been imposed on
potash for five years at the same
rates that it was proposed to pay the
bounty, 2k cents a pound for the first
1b cents for the fourth year and l
cent for the fifth year. Senator Short
ridge, republican, California, alone
voted against eliminating the duty,
explaining that he thought the in
dustry should be fostered by tariff
and not by a federal bounty.
VOTE AID TO U. S. MINERS.