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Show l If "tl Senator Gooding of Idaho Flays Propaganda Sent Out By Clothing Manufacturers j yl . WASHINGTON. July 8. There W9S another and wide split today among the Democrats on the tariff, a number of them Joining with tho Republicans Re-publicans in rejecting the lower rates on rieo vw-itten into the bill by the finance committee, majority 'I he house rates were approved on motion of the committee, which receded from its amendment. While the ric paragraph was before be-fore the senate throughout the day. the debate took a wide range. Senator Sen-ator LaFollette renewed his attack on the bilL-and particularly on the cotton cot-ton schedule. speaking for three hours. He declared this was not the time to revise a tariff because of fluctuating fluc-tuating conditions in the business WOrld Also, he Inveighed against the present system of tariff building, under un-der which, he sald, "the tariff grabbers grab-bers went before a congressional committee, com-mittee, asked for the rates they wanted want-ed and as a rule wire given exactly what they asked for." Wool was brought into the discussion discus-sion by Senator Gooding of Idaho, h aJrman of the Republican agricultural-tariff bJoc. Ho presented a let- I tei signed by "ohen, Goldman and Company, clothing manufacturers of X' w York C'ty and sent to .a I otitic., otit-ic., dealer In his state, in which it , was declared that the proposed duty 1 of 33 cents a pound on raw woo! ! would result in an Increase of about j $4 in t he price of a suit of clothes. The letter explained that the tariff rate would be increased to $1 by the (time tho woo! reached the clothing 1 wearer, because of the overhead and j profits of the successive handlers. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the Republican leader, suggested that thr. wool rate proposed was eight cents lower tha'n that no.v in force I and under hlcn clothing vh.; being manufactured. Senator Gooding said that was the j case and added: j "If what this letter says is true, every wool dealer, eveiy manufacturer manufac-turer of cloth and of clothing, and every retailer Is a profiteer and a crook. if what it says Is not true the m.n who sent It Is a criminal and should be prosecuted. 'That is the kind of propaganda I that has been circulated against this I bill by the importers and o'thers." |