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Show EXPECT FIGHT ON WOOL DOT i Smoot Reiterates Contention Conten-tion That Lenroot Pro- posal Is Not Workable WASHINGTON. July 2f, There ' was another lively fisht Tuesday, In the senate over the Lenroot pro-! posal to reduce the duties on coarse wool and manufactures thereof, but again the Issue failed to come to a-vote a-vote The first test of strength was expected today with opponent.! of the i amendmenl apparently confident of( victory 'fiujV' had made an informal ( ii a iW expected to secure1 enough strength from the Democratic side to offset the votes cast for tho proposal by members of their own party Senators Wadswnrfh. of New York, and Kellogg. Minnesota, Republicans, entered the fight actively for the Len-root Len-root proposal which also was en-domed en-domed by Senator Walsh Of Massa- j chusetts. und other Democratic ' speakers Arguments against the proposal er pns.-nled by .Senator';' i 'in, i.juo'iinj; "i ion ii o. . wiiiis of Ohio. Republicans, who re- iterated the contention that It was1, not workable 6EYJEN HOURS DL33ATL This was disputed by Senator Lenroot. Len-root. who. In concluding the .seven hours of debate, said If the commit- j tee could not work the plan out so it I could be administered, hi would un-1 dertake to do so. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts said those senators representing manufacturing man-ufacturing states must make, up their minds that the weUbelng of theVwool j prower WBS fully as Important to th.-m as the well-being of the manu-1 facturer: that If Instead of helping each other the manufacturer and grower attacked each other, there could be but one end, the destruction ot the industry. "If we have no American wool," hf added, "there will be no competition with the foreigner and consumers will bitterly rofcTet tb day when the? were left to the tender mercies of for- ln wool Krovvers." Senator Lodge told the senate tariff duties alone would not be sufficient to stimulate the growth of the wool growing Industry and that he hoped to see both state and nation take steps to develop that industry and encourage encour-age the farmers to restr. the small flocks, which, he declared, must In the end be the constant and most trustworthy source of supply. SMOOT OPPOSES RLA. Senator Smoot went into details about th. difficulties in drawing up a wool schedule and said he had worked for hours to frame some plan by which the Ienroot proposal could I be put Into operation but was unsuc- j cessful. He declared manufacturers could take medium grade wool and mix It with that lu to 16 per cent of coarse wool and no expert could 1 detect the presi le of WOOl. The I'tah senator said the committee commit-tee had tried to work out a fairl schedule throughout and had jfivon! different compensatory rates according accord-ing to tho value of the cloth. This was possible he explained, because In the case of the cheaper cloths it was certain that they did not contain all! wool and also that they also con tained coarse wool In spite of the coarse wool, Senator Sen-ator Smoot declared that when tweeds and cheviots again came into style, and he predicted that they would soon, the prices of coarse wool would come up from what he termed present abnormally low levels and ! that then the equivalent ad valorem I duties on it would be much lower, than now when based on present' prices. OH R.ks or SELF-INTEREST. Senator Walsh charged that the "self-interest" of some senators. either as wool growers or manufacturers, manufac-turers, was of "more value and more' consequence" to them In passing upon the rates proposed than was the ,M-lnf ,M-lnf rested" report of the tariff commission com-mission as to the Industry Senator Smoot made known that the finance committee majority had i voted to reduce to 50 per cent the 55 per cent ad valorem protective rates originally proposed on the more cost- j ly grades of wool cloths Before the senate met Tuesday, the finance committee majority took up I the silk schedule. making several, changes The most Important was the decision to give separate treatment treat-ment to Tussah silk, commonlv known as pongee and Shantung. Such silk in j the piece, not bleached, printed, dyed or colored, would bear a duty of 55 per cent ad valorem oo |