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Show SMQOT MAKES TARIFF DEFENSE No Excuse for Raise iii Wool Clothing Prices, Says Senator WASHINGTON, sept. i. Denying the olalm of the Democratic leaders thai the tarirf bill would erect o tar- Iff wall around the United St.-ites Senator Sen-ator Smoot, of I'tah. ranking Republican Republi-can on the finance comrnltle, declared declar-ed in the Knat- debate today it would ufford merely reaeondble protection t. Anierican Industry and labor. He Also denied that the 111 1 'a rates were f.;en-erally f.;en-erally higher than those of the Pnyne-AJdriCh Pnyne-AJdriCh net Referring to the 1 cents a scoured pound of wool rate, the Utah senator ilt rl.i rod this was lower than the duly in ibf emergency law and consequently consequent-ly would afford no valid excuse for an Increase In clothing prices, "Every cent of protection in thl.s bill i'- open and above board," he declared. "There is not a bit of concealed protection pro-tection in it of the kind that made schedule K of the payne-Aldrlch bill obnoxious to the American people." 00 |