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Show UTAH SENATORS IN TARIFF ROW King and Smoot Take Lead ing Parts in Sharp Wrangle i WASHINGTON, May 13 -Rspubll-i can and Democratic leaders In the SSnatl got Into another row Friday over the tariff, the controversy center-ling center-ling around the nttneks of Republican neu-Hpnpers on the measure and on tho duty of 10 cents a gallon prop ed on uood alcohol by the finance committee. com-mittee. There were rhn of B filibuster fili-buster from the majority Bide and rial dsnlale from the Democratic side with counter-charges that the members of the committee vrere refusing to give the senate Information about the' rates on which 'i eouM act Intelligently. The editorials were presented by Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, the Democrats leader In the fight, who concluded a general assault on the bill With the prediction that if It were passed in its present form. It will take us a quarter of a century to rescue res-cue It, and the. dire consequences of which the American people cannot measure In words or Hg"urefl." ACOITPT RKSPONSIBILrTY Senator McCnmber, Republican of North Dakota, in charge of tho bill, countered with a enargc that the editorials edi-torials were a part of a "propaganda" and tho assertion that the prediction Of Senator Simmons as to the result of the passage of the bill was not "onr half as startling as would bo the dire 'results" if the Tnderwood tariff law remained in effect for anothor year. j He added that tho Republicans were going to put a "protective tariff bill" Ion tho statute books and would "tak-the "tak-the ronsoquenoos-" Asserting that there was a "combination" "combi-nation" on the Republican side to put tho bill through without 'oven considering con-sidering tho schedule" Senator Hitchcock, Hitch-cock, Democrat of Nebraska, .vald thi' if there wore no Republican senators who would stand up and fight thi- hill as did Snators Dolllver. Beveridge and others when the Payns-Aldl mi nre was up. the Democrats would make the fight and would continue to make It until the bill was passod. BORAH AGAINST CHANGES Senator Rorah, Republican of Idaho, Ida-ho, remarked that If the Democrats would present reasonable rates In substitution sub-stitution for the committee rates, "you will get some votos on this side " Ho J added, however, that those on the Re- ; publican side would not ' vote for free I ra oe Declaring 'here was no information on which to base a tariff at this lime, Senator Borah said he would vote un- I hesitatingly to postpone consideration Of the bill, adding that he would sup- porl an amendment to the emergency tariff Law to take care of the situation until world conditions had become more Mttled and there was Information Informa-tion on which tu act. Senator Hitchcock Insisted that the committee had failed to give the Ben-information Ben-information about the rates, and. In r plj to changes of Democratic delay, de-lay, he demanded to know what cx-cua cx-cua the finance committee could glvo fur keeping the bill In rommltte-- from 1 last July SB to April 10 He. said tho lime was not taken up with hearings, but largely with "necret meetings of the Republican members of the committee." com-mittee." SMOOT DEFENDS RATE Senator Smoot, of I tab. ranking Republican on the finance commitltts, charged there wa a filibuster on the chemical schedule and defended the committee rute of 10 cents a gallon on wooa alcohol, which w;us approved, approv-ed, saying that Canada was building up a wood alcohol Industry', and Im-posed. Im-posed. a tax of $3 20 B gallon on it. saiui Hit ii ock I' i'l u tariff commission commis-sion statement that the wood alcohol Industry in the United States was one of th- laif -.t In th-- world, and Insist- ed that ihe commodity should bo on tho free list as in the I'oync-Aldrich and Underwood laws In presenting th metropolitan newspaper editorial to the senate. Senator Simmons said he did so because be-cause he wanted the newspapers of the country and the people of the country "to begin to study this question." ques-tion." "This is a meaaure in the Interest of tho profiteers and in the Interest of the monopolies In this country." he declared. "It overlooks the rights of the people and is not framed on any principle that Is demanded by the usages us-ages in the Industries. "I am charged with filibustering because be-cause I did not Bit hero quietly and meekly and permit them, tthe Repub- J Means) to puss these items one after another" Kl. RARs LOBBYISTS Denying that he was conducting a filibuster, S nator Simmons declared that, on the Contrary( he had advised Democratic senators he should make tho Democratic position on the bill ' clear to tho country, and us soon as that had been done. If the Republican- persisted Lhey should be permitted permit-ted to pass tho bill, tho minority showing their disapproval of It by their votes in opposition to the various vari-ous Items and the bill Itself. Senator McCumber charged that the editorials were the result of a propaganda prop-aganda carried on to dlscrodlt the bill. Senator King. Democrat, Utah, i declared that Senator McCumber ought not "try to stem the fountain of light coming from Republican newspapers." "Speaking of propaganda," he continued. con-tinued. "If the senator from North Dakota will go out Into the corridors he will find propagandists of the special spe-cial Interests; lobbyists In large numbers, num-bers, they sit in tho galleries of th senate chamber and look down upon us with approval or disapproval, ac-j ac-j cording to their sentiments, however, I that Is their right They are demanding their pound of flesh, not their own flesh, but tho flesh that Is to bo grafted In strips from the bodies of the American people." peo-ple." RENEWS ASSAULT Renewing hLs assault on the metro-I metro-I polltan newspapers, Chairman McCumber Mc-Cumber challenged them to point out specific rates In the bill which werc too high, adding that thoy should not make merely a general attack on the whole bill. "If these papers believe In protection protec-tion let them say so and nay so honest- : ly ". ho declared, reiterating that the views of importers were being repre- I sonted. Turning to department stores, which ho attacked the other day, the North Dakota senator said he could present to the senate, "the awful spread" between be-tween what those stores paid for and charged for goods, and asserted that thoy were making profits from one hundred to flvo hundred per cent ns great as "any of those i-vcess profits you are talking about In this bill." He added that lie did nr'' want American Amer-ican manufacturers to mske unreason- able profits, asserting that they were not making such profits now. because if they were, their mills would be open. KTN'G VOTED DOWN Pointing out that the senate had met ut 11 a- m. and that it had taken nearly alx hours to dispose of one Item, Senator McCumber said he expected ex-pected "this reading of editorials to continue and delay the bill for many weeks." "And yet, senators on the other side," ho added, "disclaim anv pur-poso pur-poso or Intention to delay the bill and speak earnestly of a doaire to facilitate Its disposal." The 10 cent n. gallon on wood alcohol al-cohol was agreed to after an amendment amend-ment by Senator King to reduce the figure to one cent had been rejected. 17 to 87. After sharp fights the senate approved ap-proved committee rates of 3 cents a pound on amyl butyl alcohol and 10 cents n gallon on ethyl alcohol for nr,n-reerxp- purposes. ' |