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Show I FINANCE GROUP 1 MEETSDEFEAT Senate Limits Duty on Foreign For-eign Gloves to 75 Per Cent of Value WASHINGTON, Julv 21. In voting Thursday. 38 to 17, to limit the duties I on cotton gloves to n maximum of 76 per cont ftd valorem, the senate administered ad-ministered to the finance committer majority the most decisive defeat It lias sustained since It brought in the .lrlmlnistratlon tariff bill exactly three months ago. Twenty Republican-", Including In-cluding Senator Lodge. Massachusetts, the majority floor leader, voted aff&tatt the committee. The other 19 wen Borah of Idaho, ('upper of Kani Camming Iowa, Hale Maine, Harreld Oklahoma, Jones Washington, ICelldg -Minnesota, Key s New Hampshire, j i i.bl North Dakota. I.er.ror.t WIscOll- , Bin, M.-Cormlck Illinois, Mosc-x SrW Hampshire, N. Nun Minnesota, New I Indiana, Newberry Mlchlrnn. PhippS Colorado. Rawson Iowa, w irren Wyoming, Wyo-ming, and Willis Ohio. mo Democrat. Broussard. Louisiana, Louisia-na, voted with the committee majority (il UMAX COMPETITION ,j Senator Lenroot led the ficht for the niu-xlmum limitation He declared aonsjrsss should not Impose a greatei duty than 75 per cent nd valorem on :iny article of such general use J gloves In order to stimulate domestic production . Senator Wadsworth and Calder Republicans. New York. ).! tlic ".pl'O-H ".pl'O-H Kltlon to the I. en root maximum ninend- H inent. contending that unless the do. mestlc manufacturers were protected Germany would get a monopoly of the American business and then charge fl every cent the tariff would bear H Senators romerene of Ohio, and H Simmons of North Carolina, Smith of B South Carolina and Hitchcock of Ne- H braska, Democrats, argued that the H (acts showed the committee rate were too nign. FIBER RATES StSt The senate approved a rate of cents a pound o nhackled hemp after rejecting, 32 to 18, an amendment by 1 Senator Robinson. Democrat, Arkansas H to make the rate 1 cent a pound. Next H Is approved a committee duty of 2l H per cent ad Valorem on sller and r- H vlns flax, hemp or ramie. Senator H Koblnson sought to have the rati r - H duced to IS pr cent, as at present. Action of these three items ..nsti- H tuted the senate's work on the H Thursday, the first three hours of the fl session being consumed ,n discussion H of the ship Subsidy nlkn property and Muscle Shoals. |