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Show SENATE PISSES AMERICA'S HIGHEST TARIFF ACT HUGE THRONG SEES SOLONS VOTE ON BILL Senator Borah of Idaho Only Republican to Oppose Op-pose Measure SMOOT IS CONFEREE Observers Believe Act Will Undergo jR.pwrit.infr in Conference WASHINGTON. Aug. 19 With only one Republican. Senator Borah of Idaho, voting against the measure. the administration tariff bill was passed late today by the senate after four months of debate. The bill. known officially as 'the tariff act of, 19-.'." now goes to con fere nee. Three Democrats Broussard, Kn-drick Kn-drick and Ransdell voted for the meaxu re. It was stated thM had Senators La-FOllette La-FOllette and NorriS been present, they would have voted against the measure, mea-sure, while the other 12 Republican absentees would have voted for It. Senators Lonroot. and Jones of Washington, Republicans, announced that they supported the bill became of the provisions giving the president broad authority to increase or decrease de-crease rates and In the hope that the 1 senate and bouse conferees would re- dues rates which they considered excessive. ex-cessive. Senator I. enroot said that if this were not done he would vote against the conference report. LAFOLLETTE Ol'T. Enrmedlately after' the passage of tho bill. S.-nator Cummins or Iowa, president pro tempore, announced the appointment of the senate conferees rnalrman McCumJber, and Senators Smoot of Utah and McT.ean of Connecticut. Con-necticut. Republicans, and Simmons of North Caroling and Jones of New Mexico. Democrats. Senator sfcLean Is the fourth ranking rank-ing Republican on the finance com-I com-I mlttee and was named In place of Senator Sen-ator LaFollette, who, ynder the usual rule, would have drawn the assignment, assign-ment, but Who Is opposed to the bill The measure will be r turned to the house Monday With B formal request for a conference. Republicans of the house ways and means committee, at a meeting today, decided to have tin-measure tin-measure sent to conference under a special rule, instead of to the ways and means committee for preliminary consideration, a course that was sug-gested sug-gested some time ago. American valuation WlU M the biggest issue in ' coil I OH 'nee. u.ii ui s" nwiati - the capitol Is that the house will yield on this, accepting the senate "flexible" tariff plan as n substitute. FORDXEY HOLDS OUT. Chairman Fordney said today b- would hold out for American valuation, valua-tion, asking Instructions from the . house. Under this plan the house i would decide the Issue by a direct vote! and the conferees would then proceed With their work of adjusting the :'000 odd points In dispute between the two, houses Mr, Fordney thought the I work could be completed wlthm a month and the same view was rn-j tsrtaiped by senate leaders. There still was gossip at the capltr-l j that the bill might get into ft dead-; ! lock in conference and there die, but I maiority leaders declared the con- I ferees would renort the measure out and thai it probably would be ready or the on sioToni next month. REWRITING LIKELY. The general Judgment of leaders, however Is that It Will be rewritten' I In conference. If so. It will be the : third rewriting since It passed the 1 , hour..- on July 21, 1921. Final action on the bill by the sen-, 'ate was witnessed by crowded gal-, gal-, lerl-s and many members of the hous I who found places on the senate floor, j With the approach of 4 p. m when 1 debate nnd amendments automatical. Iv were CUt Off under a Special agree, i ! ment half a dozen senatcrs were on their feel at one time, clamoring for, pci .i-nltion to offer proposed changes , As rapidly os thev were presented. ! thev were voted down by swelling 1 choruses of "noes." Each chorus was greeted with general laughter from floor and galleries and It was with ! difficulty that the senate was brought i to or. It for the final and decisive roll call. CENTER or STORM. This measure the first Republican protective tariff to be written In 13 years, became an even greater stnrn center In the senate- than did the Payne-Ablrleh bill of H'OS. From the sta rl . Democrats assaulted It In full f( , , as " . n higher than the 190 fav nnd as the debate developed, op- poaltlon to Individual sections began to find expression on the Republican side. Soon after senate consideration bs-(Contihued bs-(Contihued on iHgc Tw.. SENATE PASSES TARIFF OF 1922 Prediction Made Bill Will Be Rewritten in Conference (Continurxl from Pnc One) gan on April 20, the finance committee commit-tee majority, which had labored with the legislation for eight months, be-gan be-gan to rewrite many of the rates Occasionally Oc-casionally the senate added 'to their work by direct voto with a result that j as passed thp bill differed Widely I from that reported to the senate last April 11. MrOLMBER CI MM ENTS. Chairman McCUmber of the finance I committee, who piloted the measure through the senate, in a formal statement state-ment tonight, reviewing Its provision said It was estimated that it would vleld more than $4 00 000,000 In revenue reve-nue during the first year it was in operation op-eration This Ih half a million more .than has U-.-n yielded by any tariff in ithe history of the country- "Compnrlng the bill as It goes Into conference with (he bill as it came to the senate (from the house) It will be shown that (he raten Imposed by tho house bin, hnH been greatly reduced," Mr MrCumber mlM Cnmnnrlne (he bill with previous Ftcpubli in proli-c-tlon hills, It will bo found that out-sld out-sld of dye products Whl) h Under existing ex-isting law can onl be Imported when this country cannot supply the demand, de-mand, the average ad valorem duties upon manufactured products are lower low-er than in an previous protective tar-!iff tar-!iff act. "It Is true also, that, while wool and other agricultural products are given greater protection than In any other tariff bill manufacture rs nave been given a lower compensatory rats of duly than in any previous protective1 tariff bill. The result of this tariff Is that every Industry In the country Is fairly fair-ly nnd Justly protected. The duties however, are not made prohibitive " BILL PROVISIONS SUMMARY. Summing up, Senator McCumbsr said the bill, as passed by the senate, would . ' First Insure employment for American Am-erican labor and the payment of a living wage "Second Permit the establishment and continuance of Industries vital to the welfare of this nation. "Third Protect alike the producer of raw materials and the manufacturers. manufactur-ers. "Fourth, permit readjustment of I rates w ithout general tariff revision, to meet changing economic conditions. "Fifth Require the ascertainment and submission to congress of facts affecting competitive condition" DIFFERENT PICTURES, Senator Simmons, North Carolina, and Senator Walsh, Massach us-tts, chief among tho Lomocratlc leaders In tho tariff fight, presented a different differ-ent picture In a formal statement. They described the measure as ' ono of the most abominable legislative acts of an American congress." ' The toll the American people must pa, lander tho operation of this bill Is stupendous,' their statement said, "it will reach Into the billions. Foodstuffs, clothing, practically all of the Very essentials and necessities of life, bear the highest duties over beforo levied and all of this w hile we are demanding demand-ing reductions In the cost of living and capital is deflating Wagi RAISE COST OF LIVING. "Exports of the government estimate esti-mate that if the lncreused duties lev-led lev-led on fresh meats potatoes and i" iris are effective prices, theso duties alono will amount to an increase of $1,250,-000,000 $1,250,-000,000 in the cost of living. Indeed, it is notorious that tho working and I poorer classes are especially to stiff er In consequence of this legislation. "In view of the Indefensible, scandalous, scan-dalous, selfish pork barrel character of this legislation, how much longer can our law-making body retain the confidence and respect of the American Ameri-can public? It Is time for a political revolution against such methods and practices. This bill has made the tariff tar-iff more than a political issue. It has become a great moral issue PEOPTjE ROBBED, t li aim. "This bill takes billions of dollars from the pockets of the public and distributes this ast sum fo those who enjoy sufficient influence to receive an Invitation to thrust their hands Into the plunder pile. j 'The pity of It all i the abandonment abandon-ment of tho century-old tariff prin-c prin-c Iplss by a great political party. B n-ators n-ators from manufacturing, agricultural, agricultur-al, mining. Ktcel and metal states may Im i-s jicc'ed h e r c a 1 1 " h;, the nld-llnm log-rolling methods and pork barrel practices regardless of party affiliations, affilia-tions, to dictato the rates which the favored industries In their respectlvo states demand "If tho method, which has succeeded succeed-ed at this time, continues, It will not bo long before the old part labels in our law-making bodies disappear and blocs, agricultural, manufacturing labor, la-bor, banking and social, are substituted. |