AMERICAN TARIFF

Evening Star, Issue 18034, 31 July 1922, Page 9

AMERICAN TARIFF

FIGHT OVER WOOL SCHEDULE.

Press Association- -“By Telegraph —Copyright,

WASHINGTON, July 29. (Received July 31, at 8.5 a.m.) Intimation that the Republican insurgents will abandon the fight against the Tariff Bill was given in the Senate, when Senator Lenroot announced that ho would eeek a test vote on tbs wool schedule, and if he was defeated he would allow the remainder of th rates to pass without delay. .Senator Nelson (Republican) then made a bitter speech against high tariffs, declaring that the wool schedule was being dictated bv Senators from the wool States, and that the agricultural produce rates were purposely made high to blind the farmers to the rates provided on manufac- * tured nroducts. Senator Nelson termed the wool tariff as Protection gone mad, and declared that wool was the keystone of a hard-and-fast compact formed by interested parties for the purpose of forcing the Fordnoy- ‘ M’Cumber Bill through Congress, Uproar followed 'the' introduction in the Senate fay Senator Carraway (Democrat) of a resolution directing that'the Senate’s Judiciary Committee should investigate a report that certain Senators were financially inercsted in the tariff schedules, which they were openly supporting. Senators Bursum and Gooding admitted that they had wool holdings, but they denied that there was anything wrong in their voting for protective duties. They pointed out that they were better able to judge of the needs of the wool growers from the fact that they were wool growers themselves. .. .... Senator Ward called the measure a “damu fool resolution,” and Senator ' Wadsworth objected to consideration being given to it; but the Democrats declared that they will continue their efforts to : pass it.—A. and N.Z. Cable.