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Show Mi CICEOE EARLY DEFEAT OF TARIFF BILL !Fordney Measure Placing High' Import Tax Has Slight Chances REPUBLICANS PREPARED TO BLAME DEMOCRATS Utah Wool Growers Tell Sen.; King He's Ignoring Wishes of People WASHINGTON". Jan. 29 The Ford-1 ney emergency tariff bill had reached . . the. foundering point when the senate! I adjourned tonlxht until Monday. , Republican leaders a( a conference' i agreed next week to endeavor again I to secure an arrcement for a vote and. if unsuccessful to -attempt cloture DEFEAT I ORESEBNl That both plans were virtually cer-1 cer-1 lain of defeat was stated privately j by Republicans, who said that In i evp-nt of failure they would be compelled com-pelled to lay aside the measure In I favor of other pressing business. Such i j a course, ihey conceded, probably , would mean Its defeat Under the plan decided on by the Republican leaders, Chairman Peh-I Peh-I rose of the finance committee, would I he authorized Monday again to ask unanimous consent for a final vote j It was said he would propose Febru-i j nry IT. Expecting objection from' t Democratic opponents to voting on a ! fixed date Republican leaders snld it i was agreed that, following an objec-I objec-I tlon. Senator Penrose would present la petition Jor cloture. It Is siiid to ' have the signatures of all but six Hopuhllcnn senators here. WILL BLAME DEMQCXR NTS. Wllh a two-thirds vote necessary fo Invoke cloture, comcthlntt which Republican Re-publican leaders admitted probably cOuld not he secured, the vote on It would come Wednesday If the cloture petition Is voted down. Rcpublic::n managers said, it would be di monstrated that passage of the hill would be impossible With this silu- a tlon, it was said Republican leaders would have exhausted every effort at ! pasa-'ce aid v.ould then b prepared! to charge its defeat to the Democratic' opponents and bo ready to lay It aside for appropriation bills. RON EYED STATEMENTS. Honeyed words from the opposition opened today's sennte del. ate on the emergency tariff bill Senator Thomas, Democrat. Colo- rado. opened a long speech In oppo- sltion by presenting a letter from an . American bee keeper pleading for a tariff cn honey. Foreign honey im-i im-i pons were "ruining" the American j bee keeper. it paid, but Senator Thomas declared be WpulQ not act to protect the American bee from 'pauper 'pau-per bees" of Europe despite a BUg-! BUg-! gestlon from Senator Fletcher, Demo-. Demo-. crat, Florida, that he "sweeten the bill" with such an amendment. Senator Penrose. In charge fif the j emergency bill asked that senators . confine their remarks to that SUb-I SUb-I ject. PUBLIC VEGLE4 TED. Suggestions of 'log rolling" and lobbying In connection with the legislation legis-lation were made by Senator Thomas I who said that the interest it sought I to serve were all "necessities" with none of its advocates, apparently, con-! con-! slderlng the interests of the nation as a whole. ReferrliiK to an amendment to' 'place a tariff on cherries. Senator! Thomas declared that cherries were j not u "necessity now that prohibition , li in force " UTAH SENDS PROTEST. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan 29. The National Wool Growers' association associa-tion and the ctan state wpbl Growers1 association have protested to Senator I William H. King of Etah against his I reported action In delaying the vote I on the Fordney tariff bill. The na-j na-j tional organization wired him today as follows: ' Western wool growers greatly dr-' dr-' plore your reported action in senate yesterday. Our office is receiving wlr. s asking us to make vigorous pro- tesb against your action in delaying vote on Fordney bill." I RCH S IPPRCM W The state organization wired him as follows: "If press dispatches from Washington Washing-ton represent the true condition, the Etah state wool growers protest your action In the senate yesterday afternoon after-noon and insist that you do nol represent repre-sent the sentiment of the people of the state of U'tah. The growers demand I that your action be favorable toward the Fordney emergency tariff bill" oo |