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Show THREATS HEARD, SAYS LENROOT Underhand Methods to Keep Cotton Schedule Up Charged in Senate WASHINGTON July 18 A charge, by Srnntor Lenroot, Republican Wis consln. that threats to slash rati thf QR-rlcultural schedule had b I n used In an effort to k-fii Republican enators In line on rate In the. cotton cot-ton schedule of the pending tariff bill, enlivened senate debate Tuesday on that measure. In this connection, BenatOT l.i nroot took to task some of his colleagues for what he termed "blindly following' the finance committee com-mittee majority on rats In the bill, ursine that tricy form ,,indopenden; Judgment Senator Lenroot who his bei n leading Republican opposition to many of the rates In the cotton sec- i tlon, had Just lost the fight to cut the committee duty on knit cotton underwear from 50 per cent ad valorem va-lorem to 40 per cent adyalorem. The voto was 29 to 26. with seven Republicans- Borah. Idaho; Capper. Kansas; Kan-sas; Jones. Washlny ton . Kellogg, Minnesota. Min-nesota. Lenroot, Sterling, South Dakota, Da-kota, and Willis, Ohio voting for the lower latf. After his charge about the threats, Benator Lenroot offered a second amendment to make the rate ' per cent and that was approved, 28 to 27. with 11 Republicans supporting it. The four Republh-aii votes gulped on this roll call were cast by Senators Ladd. North Dakota; Nelson, Minnesota; Minne-sota; Norbeck. South Dakota, and Rawson. Iowa. This was the only case In whlcb the commltteo was overturned TuOs-dav, TuOs-dav, but on all items except handkerchiefs handker-chiefs and mufflers, substantial reductions re-ductions In tin- orlirin.il rales wore. proposed by the committee majority, The dutf on underwear also was a revision of the original recommendation, recommenda-tion, but Senator Lenroot argued that the proposed Increase of 20 per e.-nt over tho present rate was unjustified as the dutv now In force practice lly was prohibitive. BASIS OF CHARGES. '.Last week," said Senator Lenroot, "there was a very considerable break on this (tho Republican) side in the beginning of the consideration of tho cotton schedules and the committee was defeated in a number of Instances. In-stances. Immediately word went around the Republican side of this chamber that there would be retaliation retalia-tion If that wero continued, that If these cotton rates wore to bo disturbed disturb-ed and If tho commltteo wore not blindly followed with reference to them, the aRrlcultural schedule would suffer when this bill cornos into tho senate." |