Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-05

cation vas referred to tho financ,
| committee.
AT 2;l5 the consideration OF the
tariff BIZ was resumed.
The first Paragraph OF the Wood
| schedule relating to bewu tim err,
etc, was ngrecd to at l3c per cubic
loot, tho new rate proposed by the
com mitieo.
When tho next paragraph, sawed
boards, planke, ETC., was ronchcd Vest
sail no would later move to place the
articles OF this paragraph and those OF
tho previous one on the free list.
Allison then perfected tho provlso
relating to the addition OF the export
iuty upon saw logs coming from
countries paying export duty, go thai
the ptoviso will apply also to "booD
stocks used in towing logs" This
amendme was agreed to.
Jones, Ark., referring to the heavy
burden 1t imposed on the pei pie OF the
West, said the rates OF the bill wer.
the rteult Of u determined and syt-
tenn alto effort oy the lumbermen, and
In this Con neoti1n no read a letter
from the national lumber convention
that Issued from an tffice In WASH.
lngton urging that petitions to senators
nhd iicihbSin ot pitpaicu btuTlDy TUG
ames OF workins men. This, Jones
declared, was the means by which the
high rates weIo beiug urged.
Vest raid there was not single
item In the bill 30 utter y incefensible
ae that taking white plhe rom the free
list ana placing rate OF 81 per thou.
sand feet up n 1t. Waite pine was
justly caiIeu ''the king OF conifsrous
wouds" and yet the clear intent OF the
fiamtrs OF this bill was to make the
ratss absolutely prohibitory on this
wood.
Ii was due TO some extent to a cor
bination between the lumber inter.
etis OF the West ami the South and he
had been confronted by this combiua.
ton during his last CANVASS. The gei-
ator feierred to the manner in which
the Maine deleg etion-tbe ableat one
In the Congress-had succeeded for
yeaf8 In Keeping spruce ON the dutia-
bic list. 1t was a credit to their
capacity, which they displayed In all
directions, securing nmoug other
things more public buildings than any
9th or state.
Vestdeclared that the proposed rate
ON white pine was In the interest OF
the lumber barcns, who have accumu.
lated millions upon millions0 at the
expense oil the people. As evidence OF
this the senator read a letter from
michigan giving the nsmes of Mjchi-
gan pine kings. In fervid tones Vest
re.erreu to this aoued burden on tn,
ponr, to whom every penny was al.
most dollar and every Idoilar almost
o crop OF blood. 1t was, he said,
me most indeiens'ble itsm OF the bill,
withtut qualification or palliation.
Jones (Arkansas) warned his
Southern associates against the atgu.
ment that the lumber interests OF Inc
south would be benz fitted by the ex-
clusion OF Canadian lumber. He
read letter irem an American lum.
prrman on the border saying that the
result OF the rates wuul be to com pei
the Canadians to reuuce the price O,
their lumber and It eventually would
come into the United States cheaper
than Mt present.
McLanrin (Dem. 8. C.l, who recent.
entered the Senate, made his In
!tiai speech chnracteriziog the rates Of
Tue weod schedule, saying they were
NOT designed to benefit any Southern
industry and that II there was any.
ming OF the kind 1t was merely In.
cidental,
Vest moved an amendment except.
ing white pine from the operation OF
the paragraph.
Bscon (Dem., Gal expressed his
uinerences with Vest. The later, he
said, had advocated rates increased.
iOo per cont, while in this schedule