, 1890-09-11
THE LUMBER TARIFF.
Washington and Oregon Are
Heard From.
EFFORTS OF THEIR SENATORS
The Attempt TO Place Lumber on
the Free List Fought
Successfully.

1"oSossiuiiy.
WASHINGTON, Sept. A gentlemen of
stout built, profusion of black side
whiskers and the hearty manners of a
thoroughbred seaman, stood near the
Ebbott entrance and told about the
Puget sound country. He was Captain
X. Glover, of the revenue service, and
has his headquarters at Port Townsend.
us there much smuggling going onT'
"a great deal of II" answered Captain
Glover. "Ihe rascals are extremely
hard to catch. We give them frequent
chases, but unless the breeze fails them
or some accident beialls, they
generally elude us. A swift
launch or craft, on the order of
torpedo boat, is what we need to cope
with the smuggers. They can tell our
cutter aiur OIL and make gool their es-
cape. Opium is the principal article
snuggled In. AS the duty Is $40 a
pound, the temptation to evade the Gus
toms dues is great. We have to con-
tend, TOO, with Cinnamon who try to
cross over from British Columbia con-
trary to the law. Across the border
every Celestial has to pay 81 as resi-
dencc tax. Their receipts for this tax
they conceal about them In the most
cunning ways, for when we catch them
on tho American side before sending
them back, they are thoroughly searched
and all their papers that can be found
destroyed"
WAsurSGros, Sept. s.--Hon. Benjamin
Butterworth, secretary of the world $
fair commission, walked into the senate
chamber with grip sack in his hand
this afternoon. He talked with one OF
two senators few minutes and started
TO thc train. IL am going to the great
Mort rthwest," he said. II shall stop a
few days in Chicago to talk over the
fair, and then ] am going straight away
To the coast states. ! anticipate good
deal of pleasure in Spokane Falls, where
the exposition made up of four states,
opens, and expect to get n good deal
OF valuable information regarding that
portion OF the country"
MIR. Butterworth, it is said, has pre-
pared very carefully the address he will
deliver at Spokane Falls October /, at
the opening of the exposition. 1t he
has time ne wants to 10 TO Puget sound
while he is in in Washington state.
An UnfavorabIe Report.
The house committee on public lands
to-day voted to report uniayorably the
senate bill requiring the commissioner oil
the general land office to send to the sew.
eral land offices in the Western states
lists of all uncallcd Tor patents. 1t is
shown that for the states of Minnesota,
the Dnkotas, Kansas, Montana, Wash
iugton, Oregon aud California the work
imposed by this bill would require an
additional appropriation of several
thous sand dollars for work which would
be of comparatively little use when com
pleted.
The Helena Recount
Special Agent Woods has tclegraphed
tho census office that the citizens COM
mittee of Helena are well satisfied with
tho recount just completed. Woods
h IS been instructed by tho census office
To make public in Helena the result of
the recount, ii he has the accurate foot
ings.
WAsHIN0roS, Sept. 5.-Among those
VINO defended the duty on lumber in the
rather lively debate to-day were Senator
Allen. of Washington, and Dolph and
Mitchell, OF Oregon. Senator Allen said
that the lumber industry was one of the
greatest in his state and quoted statistics
to show the growth of the business.
From 1922 to 1910 tho production was
6,OOO.O0O feet; from lsf0 to 1870, l25 OOO, =
600 feet; from 1870 to 1880, 250.OO0, coo
feet, and from 1850 to 1890, 400 900 900,
and perhaps 500 O0O. 900 feet. The ship
ment of shingles alone was 1000 cars
last year. Senator Dolph aimed that
the tariff was for all tho states, or the
several states. There were many in
dustries that Washington was
not directly interested in, yet
she was for protection. Lumb ber
was that In whicn she had great in
terest involved, and he expected that 1t
would be protected by the paternal
government on the basis that what
helped one helped another. He had no
patience with the men of his side of the
chamber who were trying to undermine
the protection system. Senator Mitch
ell referred to the cheap Chinese labor
of British Columbia which came into
competition with tho people of the Pa
cifc coast, and the costly transporta-
tion would endonger the lumber indus
tries OF both Oregon and Washi ngton
without protection. Only three repub-
licans voted for the free list amend
mont, Messrs. Washburn, Plumb and
Paddock The democrats were also
against free lumber
Fish for tho sound Country.
Senator Squire has received a letter
from Fish Commissioner Mcdonald in
reference to a request from the Seattle
board of trad~, which the senator in
dorsed, asking that Lakes Washington
and Union, Washington state, be stocked
with fish. The commissioner says that
alter a careful consideration he has de-
cided TO take favorable action in the
matter, and has made arrangements to
send u carload of black bass to the waters
named. There will be sent 800 full
grown fish. which will be freed next
summer, and there will be enough to
fully stock the rivers. The commissioner
further says that there will be large de-
mNnd on the Pacific coast for the report
of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, and
that the regular supply will be made
qua,e. Senator Squire will introduce a