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HOUSE APPROVES
TARIFF CHANGES
Fight Over Sugar By-product
Rate Splits G. 0. P. Ranks I
as Westerners Bolt.
Br the Associated Press.
Another batch of amendments to j
the tariff bill were approved yester- j
day bv the House, but not until after
a series breach in Republican ranks |
had threatened to disrupt the plans of
the ways and means committee majority
to amend the sugar schedule.
The committee, which has priority
tinder the rules to offer amendments, i
precipitated the controversy in propos
ing to strike out the Increase to slightly
over 2 cents a gallon, the rate on
blackstrap molasses for use in the
manufacture of Industrial alcohol, and 1
lo restore the existing duty of one
aixth of a cent a gallon.
Representative William E. Hull, Re
publican, of Illinois, proposed an
amendment to the committee amend
ment raising the duty to 8 cents a
gallon and won out by the vote of 132
to 130. His victory was only a temo
rary one, however, for the committee
amendment later prevailed instead by
a vote of 136 to 116.
Racked by Corn Belt Bloc.
Hull was supported by Republicans
from the corn-growing States, includ
ing Representative Ramseyer of lowa,
a member of the committee which
framed the bill, who contended the
8-cent rate would open a market for
40.000.000 bushels of com a year as a
substitute for blackstrap in the manu
facture of industrial alcohol.
Opponents, led by other committee
Republicans, and a group of Michigan
Representatives, argued that the higher
duty would increase the price of al
cohol more than 20 cents a gallon and
result in no benefit to the com farmer
because manufacturers could not afford
to make alcohol at the present price
of corn.
Blackstrap, a waste product of sugar,
comes principally from Cuba.
Used in Making Lacquer.
In offering the committee amendment.
Representative Timberlake of Colorado
said it was the opinion of the committee
that the little more than 2 cents it
originally had proposed would serve
only to increase the price of alcohol
and be of no benefit to the farmer.
He added that Henry Ford had claimed
it would add $1,000,000 a year to his
production costs. Blackstrap is used
in the manufacture of lacquer.
Representative Cole, Republican, of
lowa, advocate of the 8-cent proposal,
inquired if such an increase was too
much for Mr. Ford to pay.
During the discussion, Represents
time Michener, Republican, of Michi
gan, declared he thought Hull’s pro
posal was not to help the farmer, but
to open the distilleries of the country,
now closed down. Hull denied the
charge and Michener said if he had
made a mistake he was sorry.
An attempt by Representative La
Guardia, Republican, of New York, to
change the committee amendment to
reduce the proposed Increase duty on
sugar was blocked by a point of order,
the chair sustaining Chairman Hawley
in his contention that the proposal was
not germane to the committee pro
posal.
Earlier in the day. La Guardia, in
opposing a committee amendment in
creasing by 3 cents the 2 cents a
pound duty on figs, appealed to those
dissatisfied with the sugar duty and
other rates to join him in an effort to
amend the sugar schedule by forcing;
the reading of the entire bill.
The fig duty amendment, along with
another raising the rate on preserved
figs to 40 per cent from 35, was ap
proved. Others adopted would:
Increase the rate of 45 per cent to
SO per cent on unbleached spun silk.
Decrease the proposed rates of 70 and
75 per cent to 60 per cent cm silk vel
vet ribbons.
Restore the protection to rayon man
ufacturers accorded by existing law
and w-hich the pending bill had re
duced.
Representative Chindblom of Illinois,
who headed the subcommittee that re
vised the silk schedule, declared the
committee started out to make sharp
cuts in rayon rates but found prices
were generally on the decline and
thought manufacturers should not be
subjected to drastic reductions in
duties.
The average protection in the present
law was around 52.7 per cent on rayort
products, he said, while the pending
bill would have reduced this to 45.27
per cent. The amendment, he ex
plained. merely brought the rayon
duties back to the present level. He
said the rates as amended would ben
efit chiefly the small manufacturers.
La Guardia Opposes.
As the day wore on committee amend
ments were adopted in rapid order, but
those in charge of the bill struck op
position in proposing an amendment to
raise the existing duty on white pota
toes by 25 cents per 100 pounds to 75
cents.
The amednment was approved by the
overwhelming vote of 87 to 3, but over
the vigorous protest of Representative
La Guardia, Republican, of New York,
who described it as “lousy larceny,” and
predicted its defeat in the Senate
Representative Jenkins, Republican,
of Ohio, also opposed the amendment,
declaring the growers in his section
were dependent on Canadian seed po
tatoes at existing prices.
Representatives Beedy and Nelson,
Republicans, of Maine, supported the
amendment, declaring that while im
ports of Canadian potatoes were small
compared to domestic production, they
were sufficient to unstabilize New Eng
land markets and injure Maine growers.
Speaker Longworth. who was walk
ing around looking for a seat as the
vote was taken, was counted as the
third member voting against the po
tato amendment, but he said afterward
he did not intend to oppose it. La
Guardia and Jenkins voted against it. j
Other amendments adopted placed on
the free list posts, now' dutiable at 10
per cent, and glass mosaics which are
works of art, now dutiable at 60 per
cent.
Rates on silk articles of wearing ap- j
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After Auto Crash.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 25—Comdr.
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as reported "progressing as favorably as ;
can be expected” tonight from injuries
received in an automobile accident.
She is being treated at her home for i
concussion of the brain and contusions
of the eye.
Comdr. Booth was injured when her
chauffeur suddenly swerved his car
across a ditch to avoid hitting the auto
in front of him which turned across
the road. There was not enough room to
pass between the car and a telephone
pole at the edge of the pavement,
The commander was thrown against
the top and side of the car and w’as !
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She was on her way to the army i
headquarters here and was taken back i
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First announcement of the accident !
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| COPELAND TO SPEAK.
Senator Will Address Memorial
Service This Afternoon.
Senator Copeland of New York will
address the annual memorial service at j
j the Stanley Hall Theater of the Sol
■ diers' Home today at 3 o’clock.
The service will be held primarily
for the benefit of all the veteran or.
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| as all other members of the home end
j their friends. It has no official con
nection with the decoration exercises
on May 30.
The United States Soldiers’ Home
Band will play several selections. Rev. |
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home, will officiate.
Australia produced 64.000 tons of
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REPAIRING
Ctocfaif Called For-Delivered -CuMnteed
COUNTERFEIT TICKET
SALE IS CHARGED
I Two Colored Youth* Alleged to
Have Sold Seats to
Cadet Drill*.
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high schools have attempted to solve a
problem which annually confronted
them at competitive cadet drills. Al- !
though accounts were carefully checked, !
I they always lost money on ticket sales, j
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I filled and many sales were made,
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Rudolph Austin. IS, of the 2000 block
of Georgia avenue, whom he alleges
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competitive drill this year. They had
them printed, Piper charged, and sold
them for 25 cents each.
, More than 330 tickets, which Piper
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CONVICTED AS AID
IN HOLD-UP OF BANK
Owner of Car Used in Kansas City
Robbery During Republican
Convention Gets Life Term.
By the Associated Pres*.
KANSAS CITY, May 25 —Maurice !
Nagle, whose automobile five robbers
used last June during the national Re- j
publican convention in the hold-up of
the Home Bank & Trust Co., was found
guilty of murder here yesterday by a
jury and given life imprisonment.
Three men are waiting to die for their
part in the robbery, which resulted in 1
i the murder of J. H. ' Happy" Smith, a 1
traffic policeman, and the wounding of
■ two other persons. A fourth man. Tony
Bonello. Is serving a life sentence in the
Missouri penitentiary.
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for murder are John Messino, Tony
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Sammy Stein, accused as the actual
slayer of the policeman, has never been
captured.
Nagle was not an actual participant
in the robbery and the bullet-protected
escape through streets crowded with
I delegates and spectators on their wav
to the morning session of the Republi-
I can convention June 14. But the State
j contended that he was a conspirator in
! the hold-up.
The State virtually waived the death
sentence when it failed to qualify the
i jurors on it.
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