Show PUBLIC WANTS JANTS LOWER TARIff By Mark Sullivan Early Darly this week your correspondent correspondent correspond correspond- correspond correspond- ent stated that the proposal to postpone postpone post post- pone fone pone consideration of ot the tariff bill until the tho Indefinite future l had ad adnot not received any support among Republican lican ican leaders distant from Washington Washing Washing- ton and by business men whose suggestions suggestions' are commonly taken seriously seriously seriously seri seri- by the Republicans it had not receIved Deceived any attention within the i senate mate That statement is no longer I true A few senators who vho are regulation regulation regula regula- tion party men have turned a kindly kindly kindly kind kind- ly ear to the sugg suggestion Nevertheless less the number is small and It is still a fact that there Is no proba- proba a- a whatever of this suggestion being being acted upon i Reductions Proposed E The attitude of the Republican leaders and of nine nine nine- out of ten tea of the Republican senators senators' Is s that having gone jone so far as they have with the tariff ariff bill they should now go on to to I Ithe the ho the end and that to stop now would make the whole tariff performance seem oem so futile that it would add greatly to the adverse judgment from rom which congress and the Ithe party are ire already suffering What is more likely to happen is that hat a group of what may be called the road Republicans senators will bring pressure to bear hear bearo to o make considerable reductions in inthe the he the schedules as they now v stand and otherwise to make the bill more acceptable ac- ac to the country than it was wasn in n the form in which the senate finance committee under the leadership leadership leader- leader ship hip of Mr McCumber introduced It I From now on the country may expect to see a steady and successful successful success- success ful ul pressure on the part of at this group roup of senators to make niale the rates Jower ower and the bill altogether more reasonable As a result it may be expected that the bill will be pushed push- push e ed d forward toa to a a. vote as rapidly as is consistent with normal opportunity or or debate on the part of the Demo- Demo rats Public Interest Slight r Y This result Is the first response of senate lie to Interest to shown by bythe bythe the he public throughout the country in n the tariff discussion Up to every ev ev- Ivery very ery recently the most conspicuous response response of the country to the tariff discussion has been Indifference The public has not seemed to take the bill seriously and has shown shown- less les interest In n it than in any other previous tariff ariff at the same stage of develop develop- meat ment Vote Voto Far Fur Off Of The bill cannot yet et be said to be bein ben In n sight of a vote vole The Democrats have ave still a good deal to say and ands considering the time always consumed consumed ed by the opposition In debate on a tariff bill pill It cannot be charged that dil dU dil- dil the Democrats are unreasonably atory It is the Republicans who have been conspicuously responsible for the extreme length of time during durIng during dur dur- ing which the tariff bill has been under under under un un- un- un der discussion Chairman Fordney and the other Republican members of oti the house ways and means committee began their hearings on the bill more than thana a year and a half sago iago agO on January 1 1921 The bill was first reported into the house a little over a year ag ago on July 6 19 1921 21 Thereafter passage of the bill through the house was fairly speedy but after after after af af- af- af ter the bill bUl was sent to the senate senate- Republican members of the senate finance committee spent more than Ithan than Uran eight months In rewriting it It was on April 11 last that the bill came into the senate with 2082 changes made in the original house draft of the bill The debate in the the open senate began on April 20 and the two months and three weeks which have passed since then have been heen by no means an extraordinary length of bC time for fora a tariff debate in inthe Inthe inthe the senate 0 0 STATE STArE ISSUES NOTES FOR TEMPORARY LOAN IoAN The state board of loan commissioners commissioners commissioners commis commis- has issued five notes In the name of the state of ot Utah for each and bearing 4 per cent In Interest Interest interest In- In terest to the Irving National bank of ot New York the low bidder when tenders from Crom various financial Institutions Institutions for this million half dollar loan west weft rece recently opened The notes are dated August Augu 1 an and will be due December 31 1922 A point of law in regard to the states state's Indebtedness limit which has been heen discussed somewhat In tho the public press of late Is thus disposed of at In Inthe Inthe inthe the resolution of ot the board of loan commissioners The he anticipated revenue to the state from Crom general taxes for the year 1923 will exceed and it is held by tILe the attorney general gener gener- al that these revenues may be appropriated appropriated ap ap- ap- ap In anticipation of their receipt as effectually as when actually actual actual- ly b in the treasury and the borrowing borrowIng borrowing borrow borrow- ing of such money In fn anticipation of or such revenues Is not any increase In the limited Indebtedness of the Ithe state as contemplated In tho the |