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Show : GENERAL ATTACK ON TARIFF BILL Democrat Says Burden Falls Chiefly on Housewife WASHINGTON, June 13. The administration ad-ministration tariff bill was subjected to another general attack Tuesdaj In the senate by Senator Simmons. Dem-pcrat, Dem-pcrat, North Carolina, who declared the committee duty of 60 per cent ad valorem on reed nd willow furnl-tur' furnl-tur' which subsequently was approved ap-proved was illustrative of the plan of the majority p.a outlined in the v hole bill. "You start In the kitchen, levying heavy duties on kilchen utensils and ware." :-aid the senator. "Next you impose, a heavy lax ou tableware and then you go after the fuVnlture in the borne, levying a duty of 60 per cent on furniture In common use throughout through-out the country. "if you can tell me anything of consequence con-sequence entering into the household or the building of the homo or that goes on the backs of the people on which you have not increased the duties, dut-ies, I don't know what it is. If this tax Is Tor rev, nue, then I say to you do not go into the homes of the people peo-ple to tax the necessities to raise revenue." rev-enue." The furniture item furnished the only real fight of the day in which unusually good progress was made on the bill. LusposiiiK ot i-ver.il remain- ing minor amendments In the metal i schedule, the senate got through with the wood schedule. |