South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-29
G. SENATORS.
JOIN DEMOCRATS.
In TARIFF FIGHT.
Assaults on Wool Schedule
Bring Vigorous Responses
from Proponents.
LENROOT LEADS ATTACK
Chairman and Members of
Finance Committee Defend
Proposed Rates.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-As-
saults on the wool schedule OF the
tariff bill were continued Friday
from UptE sides of ne senate with
proponents striking back vigorously
and s-T'sR cut cn each % tho
;hrea roll calls taEen during the
seven hours session. Discussion
was so extended that committee
amendments Ia only paragraph were
disposed of. but the senate was
ready for a vote on another para
pragh at the finish. and leaders
were hopeful, but not all confident,
that consideration of the schedule
could be completed Saturday.
Sen. Lenroot, republican Wiscon-
sin. created something of d stir
early in the day by asserting that
there was Intentionally concealed
protection in the schedule for the
manufacturers of wooden cloth,
while late in the day, sen. Nelson.
republican, Minnesota, made char
aoteristically vigorous attack on the
wool rates in particular and the
whole bill In general.
Loves Labor Lost
This is loves labor lost" Sen.
Nelson said in summing up. I'VE
are in the hands OF wool Philis-
tines They have us by the throat,
and perhaps il would be wiser 10
take the medicine in silence and
turn your head toward Providence
and hope to get relief from that
source"
Onslaughts from the democratic
side were made by Sens. Walsh OF
Massachusetts: Simmons. North Ca
rolina, and Pomerene. Ohio. Calling
attention TO the fact that the n
nance committee majority upon
reaching the wool schedule, had
ceased TO make appreciable cuts in
rates as Il had done with a number
of other schedules, Sen. Simmons
said wool was the very keystone
which had bound the republicans
together in "a hard and fast COM
pact" that II the rate on raw wool
were cut down look out for re-
belHon on the part OF the agricul-
tural bloc: look out for the slaugh-
ter OF your high rates upon the
manufactured articles"
Charging that Sen. Gooding. re-
publican, Idaho, was the master
mind" in connection with wool sched-
ule. Sen. Simmons declared he had
forced terms upon the republican
party IN the senate and he was not
going TO let them out"
Defends Duties.
Defending the protective duties
proposed on cloths, Chairman Nc
Cumber of the finance committee,
said they were lower than the tariff
commission and other experts had
calculated would be necessary 70
equ4lize conversion costs in this
country and abroad. AS TO the COM
pensatory rates. he asserted they
were necessary because of the raw
wool rate and that this must be con-
ceded by all those informed on the
subject.
Sen Smoot. Utah, in charge Of the
bill Tor the committee majority. de-
Tended the rates on cloth for mems
suits and overcoats, and presented
a translation OF a copy OF a wage
contract between manufacturers and
their employers in the German
2hineland, showing that male work
ers received weekly wages expressed
in American money rangiEE from
74.s cents for II year old boys. 20
$3.50 for grown men. and from S.
cents 10 s21S a week in the case
OF female operatives.
Sen. Watson. republican, Indiana,
also placed into the record figures
prepared by the tariff commission on
wages paid by workers in various
Industries in is cities in Germany.