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Show I BRANDS CHARGE AS POLITICS Gooding to Demand Airing of All Senatorial Interests WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 Senator Gooding of Idaho, chairman of the Republican Re-publican agricultural tariff bloc and one of the senators charged with having hav-ing a flnanolal Interest In the wool rates recently voted Into the tariff bill, announced today In the senate, that he would Introduce perhaps today, an a lutloa proposing an Investigation of the interests, If anv. of all senators in j tariff Bchedules n Intimattfd 'ii.it the inquiry might be ext nl-.l in i ropolitan papers opposing the tariff j mefl -ure. "I am going to demand an investlga Hon.' declared Mr Gooding "I want to know whether there Is to be any exception in this bodv. I want to know if a man who unfortu-i unfortu-i Italy owns a few sheep hn-n't the rlg'it to advocate nnd vote for protection protec-tion for the Induslry 'The senator trom Nebraska (Mr Hitchcock), owns a ncwspap.'i and stands here lor free wuod pulp. Where Is the line to be drawn? Th hardest fight I have been In has been j j for vegetable oil protection and I nev- er saw a cotton plant growing In iny Ufa, I stand here for a principle. RAPS NEWSPAPERS, "I understand the Intention here and that Is to besmirch a ten senator! oil this (the Republican) Ride. The 0W1 papers are busy doing it now. It's just politics, that's all." Senator Gooding Charged 'hat the H metropolitan newspapers had started a fight on the tariff bill just as soon B as they learned that for the first time agriculture was to get protection. He added that "as long as we could be given Schedule K (the wool fetfhddule of the Payne-Aldrich law) that was crooked and dishonest not a single I metropolitan paper raised a voice against it. Senators Harrison of Mississippi,! and Hitchcock of Nebraska, Demo-1 Demo-1 crats, 6aid Senator Gooding had taken H a courageous stand. The latter ex-, H pressed the hope the Republican Gftod-i fl ing would be able to remove the ob 1 t lection on the side to such an Inquiry ! I CHARGE IS DENIED. Senator Harris of Georgia, in Charge) of the pulp schedule for the minority.! told the senate he had asked Senator I Hitchcock to interest himself In the: schedule, but that the Nebraska senator sena-tor had declined because of his In-, lerest In a newspaper The senate completed consideration of the silk schedule re-written last week by the finance committee majority ma-jority and took up th scheduh Ing with pulp, paper and book;- The controversy over the -proposed Ht per cent duty on chemical wood p lip, the first in that schedule was In prog-1 ress when the senate recessed Oppo-i nents of the duty claimed, and Borne , advocates of it conceded, that they i had the necessary votes to return thl? I pulp to the free list. The first against the silk s)udule was all from the minority side, but Senators Lenroot of Wisconsin, and Kellogg of Minnesota, who opposed the wool duties, voted against several of the silk rates as did Senator Borah Republican, of Idaho- Senator Shep-pard, Shep-pard, Democrat of Texas, sought to' have each of the duties proposed reduced re-duced to the level of thfl existing law, but his amendments were rejected by substantial and, at times, over-sv helming helm-ing majorities. |