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Show WALSH ATTACKS DUTIES ON WOOL Bay State Senator Claims $200,000,000 Burden Will Result WASHINGTON, July 2 4. Enactment Enact-ment o the wool duties proposed In She pending tariff bill would result In I a burden upon the people at least U lrge as that Imposed by schedule K of tbe Pnyne-Aldriah liw, Senator walsh, Democrat, of Massachusetts declared Sunday In a ti'rrnal statement. state-ment. Senator Walsh, who la In charge of the Democratic fight In the senate against the wool duties, 1 onttaded that th' 33 cents .1 pound duty on raw wool -alone would increase the nation s Slothing ""I by $200 000,000 annually. Senator w .iish said he would not ar-frur ar-frur mat the woolen lldustry did not hcd protection but said this protection protec-tion .should be moderate and that the nroM to the public should bp t.iken into m nslderatton. U In a statement Issued, through the committee for a nonpartisan scientific tariff, Senator Tuwnsend, Republican, Z6C .Michigan, announced his support jfor the 1-rcllnguhuyscn amendment to Lhi pendiug bill proposed a "scientific" -tariff to be based upon flivllnps of the Jjarirf commission. Senator Towns-nd -was quoted as saying th;it BUob. 8 tar-ili tar-ili making system would oe of grat h. n i: to th- country, winch. In con-4endod, con-4endod, "suffered beyond calculation (Very time there Is a general change In gd ministration,' with a resultant rewriting re-writing of the tariff. |