Show I I SELLING Of DUTY fREE PJ Plea a of KentucKy Senator in Discussing Tobacco Schedules i H I I r H H J.- J. 1 4 1 WASHINGTON May 12 4 Smoot moot made a st sense sense- usa usa- to J attack on retail dealers 4 today He lie t said aid that tho the manu manu- fHt were not tuot to be ur charged 4 4 with responsibility for the 4 4 burdens which rest on the 4 consumer bait that the retailers 4 t. 1 a added ded enormous increases and 4 I Imade made exorbitant profits 44 4 Z 4 5 Senator Senates Gore Goro of of Oklahoma i rebuked Mr 11 Smoot telling him 4 that ho he believed behoved the retail X 4 4 dealers in Utah were honest 4 oI- oI just as he knew they were in 4 1 t Oklahoma iH i 1 H IX I IH HH H WASHINGTON MI May 12 Pleading Pleading for an amendment to the tariff tat bill to permit the tho producer of tobacco to sell tobacco without the payment of a duty of 6 cents a pound Senator Paynter of Kentucky today laid before the hc senate the history of the tho tobacco industry industry industry in in- I in this country Ho no declared that the tobacco growers believe they are aro in tho the I grasp I grasp of oC a a. conscienceless I monopoly Adverting derting to the tobacco troubles in Kentucky he expressed tb the hope that the tho enactment of tho the proposed law law would remove remo the causes aus s which ha have hae e provoked these troubles Continuing he be said The Tue manufacturers have havo no ri right bt to demand dinand as a matter of protection to them that tho the farmer should not be he permitted to sell his hill tobacco in the tho natural leaf to whomsoever vu he ho pleases When the internal revenue laws were enacted the government made no promice promise prom prom- ice ise to manufacturers that the tho farmers should not be permitted to sell their tobacco in the natural leaf to the tho con eon coni i sinners motors through h the tho instrumentalities of I Ith th their r vendors venders I I When hell Senator hall had concluded I ed tul hi his uk Senator took I the floor for brief comment on Gmt count d de decisions i ion i in in is I litigation iti ga n against oct t t the I I lint id Oil on pug I. I SELLING OF Continued d from front page 1 tobacco corporation instituted by the tho department of justice He lie said that four circuit jud judges es of the United States had expressed tho the opinion that this trust was was a n monopoly l and existed in violation of the laws of tho the Unit United cd States Up to Wickersham I I tb do not know what may be the purpose of tho the present attorney in re respect to this suit said Mr lr Culberson Culberson Cul- Cul berson but but ho he has made mado a speech recently re no- in New York ork in which great groat doubt is thrown upon the course he ho proposes proposes pro pro- poses to take with reference co to the tho enforcement en en- of this anti law I want to call attention to the tho fact that the attorney general of the United States in a case brou brought ht by his department depart depart- ment mont which is now pending before tho the supreme court of the United States criticises crit ent- the tho opinion of the court count below in in favor or of the tho government and against ag a monopoly and suggests if I know the meaning of the tho English Inglish language c that if that opinion of the lower court courtis is a proper construction of the law the administration proposes to amend tho the law on that subject AIr Mr Ir then Uen asked askea to have o the speech that Attorney General Wickersham Wickersham Wickersham Wicker- Wicker sham delivered in New York April April 30 30 printed In the congressional record and the request was granted Chance Chance- for a Deal A touch of humor wall waft introduced when Senator Gallinger er laid laid eforo the enato a petition from froni his bin constituents in iu New Hampshire praying that a a. reduction re reo re- re of 10 cents a bushel be made in inthe inthe the tho duty on wheat As the title of the petition was read Mr Ir lanced glanced toward tho senators sena sena- tors tons from tho the wheat growing states many many of whom have e fi figured prominently in the tho movement mo for lower Ion duties on I tho the manufactured products of New Eng Eng- land Senators Nelson Burkett and lien her and others exchanged significant smiles with the tho senator from New Hampshire but no comment was made malIc Aldrich Alarich Scents Something Senator Simmons offered an amendment amend ment to the window glass sebe schedule lule reducing re reo re- re ducin tho the rates below those su suggested osted by Senator Cummins in his amendment to the same game para paragraph raph yesterday 4 The The rates proposed b by you arc are the rates of the Wilson bill are they not said Aid Mr Ir Aldrich addressing the senator sena sena- tor from North Carolina Well Veil replied Mr Ir Simmons smiling smil smil- ing that that should not be an ar argument a against i n t thorn thom I think if that is the tho ease case it would rather be bo a commenda commenda- tion Mr Ir Simmons then addressed ed the senate son sen enate ate at some len length th upon tho window glass industry to demonstrate that the glass manufacturers could prosper with duties much below those provided pro in inthe inthe inthe the pending measure Prices on Glass Mr Ir Simmons contended that the rates of the e glass schedule were too hi high h and afforded much more protection than the American manufacturers manufacturer needed to make up for th the difference in cost coat of production in America and Eu Eu- ro Mr Elkins dett defended the interests of the fhe American manufacturers and declared de de- de dared a reduction in the proposed duties would result in lowering the waK wages I of the operatives which in turn be he said would result in a strike and possibly the destruction of the window glass industry in this country Smoot Enters Debate Mr Smoot said that since the debate in the senate seDate yesterday he had bad telegraphed tele tote graphed to New York to find the wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale and retail prices on a pane pue of glass glans 12 by U 11 inches which is ia the article artille largely affected by the schedule under consideration The The wholesale cost coat of that pane ne of glass s with duty added Mr lr Smoot moot said Mid was was wa 4 cents De appraiser went to a picture frame store and aDd found the I price there to be IS 16 cents Then he be j f I I went to a department store and the price of the 25 pane woe cents That declared Mr fr Smoot advancing ad ad- I to the center of the chamber and speaking with emphasis is in ill per cent I am willing to allow 50 per peront I o-nt o profit but that u is per cent We We seldom find nd that the retailer makes much money suggested Mr I lapp Clapp |