The Portland daily press., 1897-06-08
LUMBER DISPOSED or.
Most SlubbOrnly Fought Schedule Of
the Bill.
MOTION TO PLACE ON FREE LIST
DEFEATED 20 TO SO.

DEFEATED 20 TO SO.
On Final Vote Eight Democrats Voted in
Favor of the Paragraph-The Sugar
Schedule Which Comes Next
VIII Go Over Pending Amendments
to BE Offered by Committee.
Washington, June THE Senate today
disposed of the lumber paragraph which
has been more stubbornly contested than
any feature of the bill thus far, by defeat
ing the motion of Senator Vest to place
white pine on the free list, yeas 20; nays
3S. The contest was mainly significant
in breaking party lines which have been
maintained with few exceptions during
final vote eight Democrats voted against
Mr.. Vests proposition, namely Messrs
Bacon and Clay of Georgia; McEnery of
Louisiana; McLaurin and Tillman of
South Carolina; Martin of Virginia;
Rawlins of Utah and Senator White On
and Messrs. Cannon and Mantle, Silver.
Republicans, voted for Vests motion.
Following this vote to substitute the
Wilson lumber schedule was defeated,
21-37, and the schedule was agreed to as
reported.
Washington, June I'm the Senate to-
:,
amendments to the tariff bill One of
tn EN- proposes to strike out the duty on
teas and substitute duty of ten per cent.
ad valorem on small articles proposed by
the bill to be placed on the free list.
Those duties to continue until June /,
1901, after which the articles shall be ex-
empt from duty Another amendment
proposes proviso to the paragraph fixing
a duty on iron ore so that all iron ore
from foreign mines owned by American
citizens and imported for their own use
and not for sale shall be exempt from
duty.
The consideration of the tariff bill was
resumed soon after the session opened and
the discussion proceeded on the paragraph
placing duty of 50 per 1000 feet of lum-
ber.
Mr.. Allen, Populist,of Nebraska, moved
to substitute the provisions of the Wilson
bill, which placed lumber on the free list.
| The Senator spoke in particular against
restoring white pine to the dutiable ';s.
| urging that the rates were designed to: be
prohibitory against Canadian pine.
| There was nothing he said, in the
"clap-trap argument" of American high
wages, as the wages of lumbermen in
Canada were on the whole, higher than
in the United States. This was simply
an attempt to pay back to the lumber
syndicate the advance which it had
possibly made less than q year ago
Larceny, he said, was larceny, no matter
under what name it was disguised and
any law that permitted one class of people
to take from another class its honest earn.
ings, was in the eyes of every honest man
nothing short of absolute larceny, legal
lied larceny. Mr.. Allen referred to the
various interested elements, clamorine
like jackals for the benefit to be conferred
by this bill. Mr.. Berry. of Arkansas
spoke against restoring the duty on white
pine.
| Mr.. Berry expressed his astonishment
| that any Democratic Senator would sup
port this restoration of duty on lumber.
Mr.. Bacon of Georgia, who is support
ing the lumber duty, reminded Mr.. Berry
that his (Banco's) support was due to the
fact that the duty was a revenue rather
than protective rate.
| 4 Mr.. Berry responded with vehement
arraignment of the bill, framed he said
| in the interest of every trust and combi
nation in the country. When he saw in the
bill that it gave large increase of duty to
sugar trust and to every other combina-
tion of capital this satisfied him that the
measure was framed distinctly on the
lines of protection and not of revenue.
Mr.. Caffery of louisiana, opposed the
duty on white pine and incidentally criti
cized the position of Mr. Bacon of Georgia
who, he said, favored q protective duty.
This the Senator from Georgia denied.
| He could not understand how Mr.. Bacor
could defend the duty as revenue duty.
''The platform I stand on" interposet
Mr.. Bacon, 'the orthodoxy of which
subscribe to (Mr. Caffery supported the
indianapolis gold ticket, warrants my
position. The Chicago platform said We
| favor tariff for revenue with duties 81
adjusted as to operate equally throughout
the country and not discriminate as tt
| class or section. LII is that plank in the
platform upon which stand" said Mr.
Bacon.
Mr.. Caffery said there might be dis
crepancy between the Chicago and India
napolis platforms, but the essence Of
Democracy was opposed to tariff on raw
materials because such tariff necessarily
required compensatory duties on manu-
factured articles. ''If one wrong is con
ceded, he asked, "shall we multiply it
Can error be SO corrected? That may b.
the logic Of your democracy. 1t is no
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my position, said Mr. Bacon, "i
that if duties are to be levied on manu-
factured articles for revenue purposes the,
should be levied also on raw materials
that no favors should be shown.'
Mr.. Caffery sat down but Mr.. Hoar o
Massachusetts, brought both him and Mr.
Bacon to their feet. 81 suggest" sale
he, "that the Senators from Louisiana
could save the time of the Senate if the,
could agree upon terms. The Senatol
from Georgia should apply his protection
principles to sugar and the Senator from
Louisiana his protective principles tt
lumber.
''If the Senator will substitute revenu,
| nrinciDleS for protective nrincinles - OBJ