The Washington times., 1922-10-05
REPLY Of WOOL
GROUP |ND|CTS
CONGRESSMEN
Manufacturers Protest Tariff
as Unfair-Written by
Growers Bloc.

Growers Bloc.
The Carded Wool Manufacture
RS Exchange, through the medium
IF letter signed by Arthur
Wheelock, director, today replied to
IA recent attack by Congressman
w. r. Green on the attitude Of the
organization toward Schedule X OF
the permanent tariff act, recently
put into force.
Accusing the legislator. who is
said to have helped framed the wool
provisions of the tariff. OF being
an adherent OF the machine
system of legislation" the directors
call upon him to introduce in the
House, as soon as II reConVenes,
"a bill for the separate revision OF
the wool schedule on an advalorem
basis, the only basis on which a
protective tariff on wool and wool
goods can be made fair to all pro-
ducers and consumers"
The manufacturers communica-
ton is in answer to a letter from
Green to w. c. Zimmerman. OF
Boston. another director, which.
according 10 the present niissve
is "petulant and acrimonious in
tone" and contains repeated impu-
tation OF unworthy motives"
Green is accused of showing lack OF
technical knowledge in assertions
concerning the relative duties on
'skirted" and "unskirted" wool i'm.
ports. With Senator Smoot and
Congressman Treadway. Longworth
and Fordney. he is charged with
AN incxCusable lack Of underst and.
ixaux Nr
"a final draft was agreed upon in
secret that would tax N" wool
clothing of 110 00O. 900 people,
Errors Are "Inexcusable."
Such inexCusable errors" saws
the letter, ION such important ques.
tions at such a time by men oc.
cupying such responsible positions
naturally arouse deep Indignation on
the part of those whom fate has
placed where they have for years
become familiar with the truth, and
WHO must suffer the direct Conse.
quences of legislative blunders.
THE Fordney wool schedule.
tempered by a 35 per cent ad
valorum minimum, was passed by
the House under a gag rule that
shut off amendments, the manu-.
hands that wrote the Fordney.M Nc.
Cumber wool schedule may have
heen the hands OF Congressman and
Senators of whom you were one,
but the minds that constructed the
framework of the law and dictated
the rates and ClaSSifiCations were
the minds of the worsted and wool
growing blocs inside and outside Of
congress, the same combines that
wrote and maintained Schedule X
from 1867 to 1913"
Denying Green's alleged charges
of hidden and unworthy motives and
desire to gain advantage over
other importers of wool in a differ.
ent line. the manufacturers conclude:
Congress at Low Level"
We want to refer briefly to the
deplorable legislative conditions in
dicated by the Fordney. McCumber
tariff bill, conditions that led Sec
retary of War John w. Weeks re.
Gently to declare that Sixty-seventh
Congress had sunk to the loves:
.evel ever reached by any Of its
predecessors. What is the reason
for this? Is 1t not to be found in
the blind and unreasoning subservi.
ence to a party machine and the
obliteration Of the Individual legis.
lators Judgment. conscience, initia.
tive and industry as factors in zhe
development Of wise legislation?
Last May we appealed to Con.
gressman Luce of Massachusetts TO
stand up for what was right in con-
nection with this wool schedule. and
here is the pith Of his reply:
I'm the course of many years OF
effort by the keen men who have
shaped the affairs OF the House, a
system Of rules has been built up
Of which one Of the Fundamental Oh
jects is to prevent just tho sort of
thing you advise. 1t is not neces.
sary here to present any Of the con.
siderations that have actuated these
men. The fact remains that there
Is nobody now in the House who
seems skillful enough to get through
the trenches. The Notifications
seem perfect
Time to Break Loose.
with such conditions admitted,
we ask you as a man who, we pre-
fer to assume, Is aCtuatci by right
motives, to break away from the
machine system of .Cglslating that
Is now multiplying government bv the
people and for the people. iona
than p. Dolliver, Senator from your
own State. pointed the way in 1VO9.
Will you not follow his example by
introducing in the House as soon az
Congress again convenes b bill for
the separate revision of the wool
schedule on an al valorem basis.
the only basis on which a protective
tariff on wool and WOO goods can
he made fair to all producers and
consumers?
Suppose that by doing this YOU
do lose your standing VITA the party
machine now representing the in.
visible government. What OF IL?
You will gain the satisfaction OF
duty we'll done. What u glorious