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Show BslBsi HnGENBfiRTH IS I FIRST WITNESS BEFORE SENATE Penrose Declares He Will Sup-port Sup-port House Emergency Traiff Bill SM00T RAPS S0L0NS WHO FAIL TO APPEAR Head of Wool Growers Says Measure Will Open Up : Market in U. S. WASHINGTON'. Jan. 6. Sejiatc-Penrose, Sejiatc-Penrose, chairman of tiie senate fi- H nance committee, announced toddy ho ' H would support the house emergency tariff bill, although he hoped for cer- H tain modifications of the rates. H The senator's announcement was made at the conclusion of first open hearings on the measure by his com-ralttee. com-ralttee. He said he deirc-d to correct H "n misunderstanding which seemed to H havi gotten obroad concerning the status of the so-culled emergency tar-iff." tar-iff." He denied that there was any difference of opinion among Republi- H tans upon this measure. H The senator said there was also au anted Irapri rh airy be H tween the east, with Us manufactuv- H Ing industries, and the agrlcultumi south and west as regards the emerg- H lenty bill- Eastern sections were In H f adequate protection for the H fanning Interests as for any other in- H d us try, he said. H pn only seven members the committee whep the hearing epefe d. It 1 Senator Smoot. Republican. H Utah, to remark that he "would like for a record to show that, none of the senators who Insisted on these open H hearings arc present." He added that the hearings wcr "nothing more or less than a device to delay and attempt to kill this bill." P. J Hagenbarth, of Salt Lake, president of the National Wool Grow-ere1 Grow-ere1 association, was the first witness. It was his opinion, he said, that the bill would stabilize prices and afford a market which does not now exist. |