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10532 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JULY 22, The following-named boatswains to be chief boatswains dn Ashurst Harreld McLean Smoot Borah Hefiln McNary Spence1· the Navy, to rank with but after ensign from the 27th day of Brandegee Jones, N. ¥ex. Moses Stanfield March, 1922 : Broussard Jones, Wash. Nelson •.rrammell Thomas M. Buck. Cameron Kellogg New Underwood Capper Kendrick Nicholson Wadsworth William Martin. Cummins Keyes Norbeck Walsh, Mass. Gunner Charles A. Kohls to be a chief gunner in the Navy, Curtis Ladd Overman Walsh, l\Iont. to rank with bnt after ensign from the 8d day of December, Dial Lenroot Phipps Warren Fernald Lodge Rawson Watson, Ind. 1921. Frelinghuysen McCnmber Willis .. The following-named gunners to be chief gunners in the Navy, Gooding McKinJey ~~WEard to rank with but aft.er ensign from the 16th day of December, The VICE PRESIDENT. Forty-seven Senators have an 1921: swered to their names. A quorum is not present. Daniel McCallum. Mr. McCUMBER. I move that the Sergeant at Arms be Robert Semple. directed to procure the attendance of absent Senators. Gunner Jesse J. Alexander to be a chief gunner in the Navy, The motion was agreed to. to rank with but after ensign from the 7th day of March, 1922. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Sergeant at Arms will execute Machinist Cyrus S. Hansel to be a chief machinist in the . the order of the Senate. Navy, to rank with but after ensign from the 17th day of· Janu- Mr. POMERENE, Mr. STERLING, and Mr. SWANSON entered the ary, 1918. · Chamber and answered to their names. Machinist Ernest J. Leonard to be a chief machinist in the The VICE PRESIDENT. Fifty Senators have answered to Navy, to rank with but after ensign from the 28th day of De- their names. A quorum is present. cember, 1920. Mr. McCUMBER. r ask unanimous consent that when the The following-named machinists to be chief machinists in the . Senate closes its session on this calendar day it take a recess Navy, to ran.k with but after ensign from the 30th day of No until Monday next at 11 o'clock a. m. vember, 1921: The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair Alfred E. Raue. hears none, and it is so ordered. · Albert H. Meilien. Mr. McCUMBER. I now ask that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the wool schedule, and I desire the attention CONFIRMATIONS. of Senators for just a few minutes. Mr. SMITH. I had intended to ask that I might be permitted .Ea:ecuti'l1e nominations con"fi,rmea by the Senate JW/,y 2l ( legi.s- to read a short editorial which appears in one of the newspapers lative da11 of April fO), 1922. of South Carolina pertaining to the cotton industry, which is CoLLECTOR oP CusTOM:B. so closely allied to the wool industry, but if I can obtain the John A. Royse to be collector o.f customs, district No. 40, In- :floor after the Senato-r from North Dakota shall have concluded aianapolis Ind. his introductory remarks on the wool ·schedule I shall then ' REGISTERS OF THE LA.ND OFFICE. read the editorial in question. Mr. McCUMBER. Mr. President, in the act of 1909 we im- Robert E. Patterson to be regu;iter of land office, Dulut;ii. ~n. : posed a duty of 11 cents per pound <>n imported wool in the T Claude C. Turner to be register of land office, Dickinson, grease. The purpose of that law was to give to the producer of N. Dak. wool in the United States a p:rotection of 11 cents per pound., PosTMASTEBS. It was assumed in giving that protection that there would be a CONNEC'IICU'l'. loss of about 66i per cent between the wool in the grease and Carleton W. Tyler, Southbury. the scoured content, including other losses. Therefore we· gave NEW JERSEY. to the manufacturer Of woolen products a differential equivalent to 33 cents per pound U}>on the scoured content, or three times John A. Campbell, Highwood. the amount accorded to the producer of wool in the ·grease. NEW YORK. The actual working out of that law was thi.S : The importers John C. Banschbach, Hicksville. did not import wool that lost '66i per cent in scouring, but, on NORTH CAROLINA. the contrary, as they imported the article the wool o:tr the belly, Robert r.;. Strowa: Cha_pel Hill. the legs, the neck, and so forth, of the sheep had been skirted Oscar R. Simpson, Duke. away, so that the allowance for scouring loss was entirely dis- Clarence c. .Ro.we, Spray. , -proportionate. So, while we gave the manufacturer a compensa- . tory duty equivalent to 33 cents per pound of the scoured wool, PENNSYL'VANIA. he actually in the importing ha.d to pay only about 18 cents, Benard Peters, Brackenridge. and had the advantage of the difference between 18 cents and William E. "Reed, Duquesne. 33 cents. The farmer and the producer of wool, instead of get Edward R. Dissinger, Mount Gretna. ting an advantage or a protection of 11 cents, according to the Frederick C. Patten, Narberth. Tariff Commission report, secured an a4vantage, I think, of William S. Tomlinson, Newtown. 7.6 cents per pound. TEXAS. In remodeling the tariff law, in the pending bill we have taken extra precaution to guarantee that the producer of wool Wallace C. Wilson, McKinney. shall ihave the equivalent of 33 cents upon the scoured content. Sallie P. Lunday, Naples. Therefoi;e we have provided for a duty equivalent to 33 cents Robert E. Johnson, Pecos. Lotta E. Tw'lley, Smithville. upon tbe scoured content as it enters the ports. However, in stead of using the exact term of -33 cents it was thought best Mary Lovely, Weslaco. by a majority of the committee to make a large number of brackets, which would allow for a difference of opinion between the importer and the appraiser. Therefore we divided the SENATE. schedule into brackets which would practically be in each in stance the equivalent of 33 cents. .As one of the committee, I SATURDAY, July ~~, 1fm£. am impressed, however, that it would have been better to have simply declared -for a 33 cents per pound duty upon the scoured (Legislative day of Thursday, .A.pr~i 20, 1922.) content ; but the majority of the .committee d-ecided otherwise. The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m., on the expiration of the I think there is very littl(t difference in the matter, at any rate, recess. and it is only a question of administration. THE TARIFF. Mr. President, we have allowed in the compensatory duty to The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resmned the the manufacturer the full equivalent of 33 cents per pound consideration of the bill ( H. R. 7 456) to provide revenue, to upon the scoured eontent, and have also made allowance for regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the losses, so that the manufacturer will secure the same dif industries of the United States, and for other purposes. ferential protection that he secured in the law of 1909 ; but he Mr. McCUMBER. Mr. President, I think before we open np will not be allowed to take advantage of a di:trerence which the discussion of the woolen schedule we had better have a he obtained in importing goods with a very low loss. There quorum. I therefore suggest the absence ·of a quorum. fore the farmer will secure the benefit of the full rate. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will call the roll. Mr. President, there is one exception to this rule, and that The reading clerk called the roll, and the following Senators is in the skirted wools that are used for carpet purposes. answered to their names: Under the Dld law we ascertained that, While the carpet wools 1922. OONGRESSION.AL ~EOORD-EEN ATE. 10533 were upon the free list, some of those carpet wools were '11.C ' M.r. .TONES ot New Mexico. Mr. President, I think the tually used in the manufacture of clothing. Therefore in question -1 asked ean .be '3.ll.swered without going into that. order to -guard against the 11se in clothing of the wool on I realize :that what the Senator .. from Utah says is absolutely which no duty is paid we provide that the carpet wool, which correct, b.ut nevertheless it is a fact that the Payne-Aldrich is a low grade of -wool scarcely fit for the man111'acture of law, the act ot 1909, was framed upon the scientific theory clothing, may be imported in bond, and upon a showing that that the amount -of the .duty on the cleaned content was 33 none of it has gone into -the .manufacture of clothing the duty cents a pound, and the manufacturers at that time thought may be rebated or refunded. that an ·addition of one-thil:d was quite sufficient to make np 'Notwithst.anding the fact, ~Ir. President, that the spread of the wastage in manufactur.e. the wages between the rforeign producer and :the .American Mr. SMOOT. Why, .certainly they did, because 3 times 7 i3 producer 1has very materially widened compared ·with the 21, antl instead of 33 they had 21, or a difference there of -i2 spread in "1009 and 1910, we have .given .a duty for <protection cents, and the.12 cents added to the 11 cents made.23 cents. as distinguished from a duty for compensation which ·will Mr. JONES 'Of New Mexico. Does not the Senator know that average on the ad valorem basis considerably less than the the producers -of this country were told at that time that the law of 1909.