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Show WOOL RATE TO BE 33 CENTS. While the tariff schedules are being j, ) made, it is most fortunate that west-era west-era interests have powerful forces In the senate to demand protection in the same ratio as that which is lo be given the east. Every line of industry ulyng the At I antic seaboard is being protected to I i he limit, and, If the west Is not ae-i -corded the same treatment, an injus- j iice will be perpetrated. W'ednesda in the senate the wreel won a most important victory when' the duty on wool was placed at 33 j cents a pound uf clean content, the ote being two to one in favor ol thfl t higher rate. Senator Borah of Idaho wa the only western Republican VOtiHf agalnBt the measure, while six Democrats Demo-crats supported the schedule. Senator Lenroot proposed an amendment amend-ment which, it is claimed, would haw HB Jet In 30 per cent of the imported wool at a duty of only 9 cents on the scoured pound The debate showed rhat wool can be bought in foreign ' 'iountries today at from If. lo 25 cents a pound on the Bcoured basis, and. un ,der the Lenroot amendment, this wool would have come in at from 25 to 40 cents a pound, according to grades ' The tariff board's report was quoted as showing that it costs close to SI a icoured pound io land western wool .n the Boston market, Judex the Len-j root amendment, Senator Gooding I charged, coarse wools would have displaced dis-placed higher grades and 'hat amend l tnent would, in bio Judgment, have' been little belter than free trade. Senator Borah, who supported the Lenroot amendment, and later voted lor lower duties than 33 cents, took i 'w . uo part in the debate, but said later' Uial Representative Fordne had looked upon a duty of 25 cents a pound gS adequate, and personally he felt hat an rate high enough to satisfy Fordney, the high priesi ol protection, iia he described hiiu, was high onough tor him In fact, he said he had dif-1 faculty in supporting fates which are high enough tq satlsf Fordney Ho regarded a 33-cent duty on wools as altogether too high, and on this theo- j i otr.j tor the Lenroot and ether amendments. But Borah should see the wisdom ' of equalizing protection ne distributed1 over eastern and western Industries With all eastern articles advanced in lirice, the west, if neglected, would b impoverished. |