South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-16
WEST SUCCEEDS IN
WRITING TARIFFS
TO PROTECT WOOL
Senate Bloc in Thinly Settled
States Puts High Duty
ON Commodity.

WASHINGTON. April IA tar
IN bin dictated b. the producing
West ard Middle West Is today con-
fronting the consuming and indus
trial East
ON written by Republican
Tariff Bloc" far more influential
and formidable in Congress than the
non-partisan Agricultural Bloc"
has over succeeded In being
Most OF the Republican leaders OF
the Agricultural Bloc" have Joined
in the Tariff Bloc" movement for
the avowed purpose Of writing into
the Dill schedules which viii virtual
ly act as embargo against the impOr-
tation OF those things upon which
the farmers and the livestock men
or the West and Middle West de-
pend for their bank accounts.
The executive committee Of the
Tariff Bloc" consists in the Sen
ate Of GOOding. OF Idaho. chairman;
Cappe~. OF Kansas chairman Of the
Senate Agricultural Bloc'D. Nc
Nary. o. Oregon. Nicholson Of Colo
RADIO and Johnson. Of California.
Trailing along with them are Sen
stors like Poiudexter and Jones. Of
washington. StanfeId. of Oregon;
Shortidge. Of California. Bursum. Of
New Mexico, Cameron. OF Arizona;
Warren. OF Wyoming Spencer. OF
Missouri: New OF indiana. Ster-
ling and Norbeck. Of South Dakota;
eddie. OF Nevada: Phipps. Of Colo
RADIO. Ladd. OF North Dakota: Har-
reid. Of Oklahoma. and Townsend.
OF Michigan
"A Strange Company"
a strange company when IL is
considered that some are staunch
|. members Of the Agricultural Bloc;
|others who have stood steadfastly
against most of its activities
Between the AHeghenies and the
Atlantic coastline are millions of
consumers and toilers packed and
damned and pocketed together
more Of them jostled together than
all the rest Of these United States
hold in the way Of population. They
and their employers pay the greater
part OF the taxes which pour into the
Treasury TO keep the country run
ming
Their representation in the House
far exceeds that of the sparseIy set
tied West and Middle West but in
the Senate-where the new tariff bill
f. being made-they must remain
content with two Senator'S for each
OF their States-the same number as.
for instance. the thinly-pOpulated
States of Nevada and Wyoming en-
joy
There IS Senator Smoot. OF Utah,
and the new wool schedules. for ex-
ample. Senator Smoot is recognized
as one OF the ablest and most ex-
perienced members Of the Senate
Finance Committee which wrestled
with the new tariff bill for weeks
before It was voted satisfactory by
the Tariff Bloc"
Best for Wool Growers.
Daily joint sessions were held by
Republican members OF the Senate
Finance Committee and Republican
Senator'S belonging 20 the Tariff ]
Bloc before the new wool schedules /
were worked out Senator Smoot /
held out successfully against the
maximum demands of the Tariff |
Bloc" but eventually he wrote a !
specific duty of thirty cents
per pound on wool Of "clean con !
tent" into the measure which TO the
wool growers of his part of the
country is. perhaps. the best thing
they have ever been able 10 get into
a tariff bill
Senator Gooding. as CHIEF spokes-
man for the Tariff Bloc wanted
the ascent per pound duty carried
BY the present emergency tariff law
retained IN the new tariff bill That
law was put over by the "AgricultU-
raj Bloc" and forty-five cents was
fixed as a duty on washed wool
when the sheep men of the West
were in a deep financial hole. and a
wool embargo was thought necessary
20 save all Of them from bankruptcy
Gooding offered 10 compromise If
the forty-fve cent duty were carried
on during the first year after the en-
aCtment Of the new bill When he
found Smoot adamant, he suggested
that the forty-five-cent rate would
do until after this Springs shear
ing" season was over. SmoOt still
held out. and a thirty-three cent
duty was finally agreed upon
Acts as Embargo.
But members of the Tariff Bloc"
do not deny that that thirty-three-
cent rate Will act as an embargo
against the wool Of Australia. New
Zealand. the Argentine and South
Africa.
But from their viewpoint such an
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