AMERICAN TARIFF.
BATTLE OVER WOOL DUTIES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 27, 9.45 p.m. Washington, July 26. The high tariff Senators won a sweeping victory, defeating by 43 votes to 22 Senator Lenroot’s amendment to fix 60 per cent, as the maximum ad valorem equivalent of the specific rate of wool duties. Eight Republicans voted for the amendment and seven Democrats against it. Senator Lenroot admitted that the battle for lower wool tariff rates had apparent!} 7 been lost and he warned his colleagues that the adoption of the proposed rates must result in the defeat of the Republican Party. The Senate also defeated, by 38 votes to 16, Senator Wadsworth’s amendment to reduce the proposed . scoured wool rate from 33 to 28 cents. per pound.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1922, Page 5
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126AMERICAN TARIFF. Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1922, Page 5
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