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Show DYES AMENDMENT HAS BEEN REJECTED Washington, April 10. The senate late today rejcc.ed 41 to 25 an amendment amend-ment by Senator Lodge to Include a tariff on coal tar dyes in the bill providing pro-viding for :etentlon of the present tariff of a cent a pound on sugar until 1920. Senator Norrls of Nebraska, Nebras-ka, was the only Republican voting with the Democrats against the amendment. The senate made rapid progress on the sugar measure, which is a substitute substi-tute for the house resolution repealing repeal-ing the free sugar provision of the present tariff law, and was about to pass it when Senator Works of Cali' fornia announced that he wished to offer an amendment which would not be ready until tomorrow. Under an agreement reached Friday a final vote will be taken before adjournment. adjourn-ment. Senator Lodge in offering his dye-stuffs dye-stuffs duty amendment declared he would submit it to a vote without argument, but a lively debate followed follow-ed Senator Simmons, on learning that the duties proposed were similar to those In the HJ11 bill, pending in the house, declared they would approximate ap-proximate 75 per cent and urged that the amendment bo defeated. Senator Underwood, author of the present tariff law, explained that the 30 per cent duty now imposed on dye-stuffs dye-stuffs had existed since enactment of the Diugley Iiw by acquiescence of the dye manufacturers. Textile manufacturers, man-ufacturers, chief purchasers of dyes, he said, had urged that the duty be lowered instead of increased. Senator Smoot and Senator Bran-degee Bran-degee urged the passage of the amendment, the former asserting that the labor cost of German-manufactured dyes was not more than one-fourth the "cost In the United States. The Germans also, he said, had many advanced ad-vanced processes by which they could make dyes at less expense. |