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Show LEGISLATION FOR THE WEST. Responding to a nation-wide de-jpand de-jpand the lower house of cong'ress has passed a bill imposing a high enter-gency enter-gency tariff on many agricultural products fo voting on the measure, part) llnei were not maintained, although the overwhelming vote in favor was Re-publican Re-publican But lb re an- Republicans H in the eastern manufacturing centers who objected to the measure, pharglng that it was class legislation, tending to increase the cost of legislation. Democrats who voted for the bill were subjected to criticism from their leaders who accused them of being disloyal to part It should be a source of relief in Og-lien, Og-lien, where so many wool men make their headquarter-;, that the section applying to wool was retained in the bill after Representative Rainey had denounced it as representing increases of from 50 to 200 per cent over the rates in schedule K of the Payne Aldrich tariff law Representative Madden of Illinois was one of the Republicans speaking against the bill. He said that while it was claimed the woolgrowers would benefit from the bill, the actual ef-lect ef-lect would be to increase the value of wool in the haade of others than wool- i growers. He said It would double the price of clothing. "Information was brought to the committee that 90 per cent of the sheep on the western ranges are mort- ! gaged for $9 a head, which is more than they sell for in the present mar- j Kct," said Mr. Fordney. "Information ' was brought, to the committee, also, ibut 90 per cent of the cattle on the western ranges are mortgaged for 1 more than they will sell for. "The farmer today is suffering because be-cause of lack of protection for his I products, resulting in an inability to obtain anything like ihe cost of production." pro-duction." I The Standard-Examiner has pointed out these same facts. In parts of Idaho banks have loaned on sheep up to $15 a head and wool up to 30 cents a pound and even higher There mutt I be some relief offered, such as con- grcBS is attempting to give, or the j sheep and cattle industry will col lapse. H We do not think the price of cloth ing will be materiall affected, as men's clothes today have not dropped j at the same ratio of the drop in the price of the raw material, and, there-fore, there-fore, the price of wool may be ad-vanced ad-vanced without causing suits to be ML marked up. The big object sought lo I be attained is to inspire confident' by reachiug a condition of stability m 'prices Today, although the wholesale 'prices are down SO per cent on many articles of general use, there no assurance as-surance l here will not be another liay slump. To overcome this un certainty would mean to re-establish buying and again start the wheels of industry. After thai prices will take I care of themseh eg n |