New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-21
Even Advocate of High
Protection Balks on ll0
Per Cent Duty on Cot
ton Product in Report
Defeat for Calder
And Wadsworth
Hale, Keyes, Warren, New
and Moses, Conserva.
tives, Join Senate Revolt

YIN, july 2O.-Even Sem
"tor Henry Cabot Lodge, leader of the
Senate Republicans and stanch as
plymouth Rock in his allegiance to
protection, rebelled against the Finance
committee to-day on the tariff. With
nineteen other Republicans, he baked
when it came to fixing the duties on
cotton gloves as high as the COM
mittee wanted them and Joined with
the Democrats in adopting an amend
ment by Senator Lenroot which limits
the maximum duty under the cotton
glove paragraph to 75 per cent. The
vote for the Lenroot amendment was
3S to II.
Republican Senator'S who supported
the Lenroot proposition were Borah,
Capper, Cummins, Hale, Harreld, Kel-
logg. Keyes, Jones, of Washington,
Ladd, Lenroot, Lodge, Mccormick,
Moses, Nelson, New, Newberry, Phipps,
Rawson, Warren and Willis.
This is the most pronounced in.
surgent movement yet made against
the Finance Committee rates. Not
only was it striking because Of the
vote OF Senator Lodge, but because a
number of other conservative Republi-
cans lined up with him. such as SEN
ators Hale, Keyes, Moses, Warren and
New.
Defeat for New York Senators
The outcome was defeat for Sem
ators Wadsworth and Calder, who were
especially active in urging the Finance
Committee rates and opposing the Len
root amendment. 1t was brought out
in the discussion that former Repre-
sentative Lucius N. Littauer, of GLOW
ersville, N. Y, was foremost in seek
ing high protection for gloves from
the Finance Committee.
Before the vote was taken Senator
Lodge spoke briefly saopg he disliked
to differ from the r afce Committee,
but he was convinced Is per cent ought
to be enough to enable the glove in.
dustry to get along. He said he was
reluctant to support duty as high
as 119 per cent, which, it had been dis
closed, would be provided on some
varieties of gloves.
The duty on gloves in the cotton
schedule occupied the consideration of
the Senate much of the afternoon. SEN
ator Smoot for the Finance Committee
proposed a series of rates on cotton
gloves, ranging from 25 to so per cent
ad valorem. On some styles specified
rates were provided, however, which,
it was disclosed, ran much above SO
per cent and Senator Lenroot showed
part of the rates reached l19 per cent,
others 1C4 per cent and still others
921a per cent.
q 10 a
graph was taken up offered his amend
ment providing that in no case should
the duty exceed rs per cent.
Payne-Aldrich Rate Lower
In the protracted discussion that fol-
lowed Senator Lenroot said some in
creases were justified over the present
rate of So per cent, and the only ques-
tion was how high rate should be
permitted in order to protect American
production. He held that protection
above 70 per cent was not justified.
He recalled that the Payne-Aldrich
rate was 80 per cent.
Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
protested against permitting as high a
duty rs 75 per cent.
"This is the simplest form of weav-
ing known" he said, referring to the
varieties of gloves covered in the para
graph.
He called attention to the fact that
on much higher forms of cotton manu-
facture the Senate had provided rate
of 45 per cent and he held it was in
defensible to provide in the case of
cheap and cotton gloves a duty of rs
per cent.
He charged that America could COM
pete in the manufacture of cotton
gloves, but that certain American man
ufacturers had imported enough gloves
to last year or SO and now have set
out "to mulct the American people"
Senators Calder and Wadsworth de-
Tended the cotton glove paragraph and
opposed the rs per cent limit proposed
by Senator Lenroot.
Senator Wadsworth said the leading
manufacturers of these gloves were in
his state, but that the industry was in
the worst shape of any industry in the
country with which he was conversant.
Both Senators Lenroot and Simmons
referred to Mr.. Littauer as appearing
before the Finance Committee seeking
the glove duties. Senator Simmons
quoted Mr.. Littauer as saying "we have
been able to make the best silk glove
in the world. Germany cannot compete
with u.s."
Senator Simmons said the Saxony
manufacturers had secret process of
finishing which the American manu-
facturers could not meet and that no
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