The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-23
SENATE RESTORES
D|NGLEY TARIFF
ON HIDES
DUTY OF FIFTEEN PER CENT is
AGREED TO.
Burton In His Argument for Free
Hides, Said Duty Benefited Only
the Beef Trust.

Washington. June 22.-Late toda,
the senate reached the voting stag,
| on the hide schedule and after sev
| eral amendments had been defeated
the amendment Of the finance com
miHtttSSes tiAing a duty eof l51 per cent OF
hides was agreed to by vote of sc tc
S0.notlbGoo 9m;Tq - ed ,F9G7 1a1l
This is the rate Of the present law
but under the rulings of the treas
ury department is applicable only tc
hides weighing more than twenty-five
pounds
The house placed all hides on the
free list. but the committee restored
the Dingley policy by adding them tc
the non-dutiable list
Senator McLaurin undertook to
have the provision amended so as Ia
make the duty apply to hides weigh
ing less than twenty-five pounds, but
failed, his amendment being voted
down, 81 to rs. An amendment by
Mr.. Stone placing not only hides, but
manT of their products on the free
list was also lost.
Senator Aldrich On behalf OF the
finance committee presented the com.
mittee's new lumber schedule and
also a number of amendments relat-
ing 10 the linoleum and oilcloth The
committee proposed a rate of $150
per thousand on sawed lumber. a so
cent increase over the house rate
Previous to the balloting. more
than six hours was devoted TO speech
making, beginning at | o'clock, with
an argument by Mr.. McCumber for
duty on hides In which he was sus.
tanned by Messrs. Gamble and Hey
burn. They took the position that
the effort to make hides free was
solely in the interest of the manufac.
turers. and Mr.. McCumber contended
that this was monstrous injustice
growing out of the protective sys.
TEN.
Mr. Burton. and, incidentally. Mr.,
Page. supported the free hide pol.
icy, the former in a speech OF some
length He declared that the beef
trust obtained ali the benefit to be
derived from a hide duty.
A feature was a speech by Sena-
tor Bob Taylor OF Tennessee, which
attracted much favorable attention
and established good nature Mr.. Tay-
1orICpleaded for adtariff for revenue
and took a decided position against
fire. raw materiatH WeSagaz
Senator Beveridge piled the Idaho
senator with questions with the in
tention of showing that John Sher-
man and President Mckinley had ia
vored free hides. Mr.. Hepburn in
reply emphasized the declaration of
Republican platforms. Senator War,
rem, however undertook to reply. He
said Mckinley could have put free
hides in the Dingley law il he had
cared TO do so
Mr. Beveridgc contendcd that it was
as reasonable 10 make hides free as
it was to make horns and hoofs free.
Declaring that he had voted with
Mckinley for free hides in 1890,
Senator Burton said that the subject
had been very carefully considered on
that occasion.
The beef trust he said, prob
ably tans sixty TO seventy per cent
of the hides. and the whole tanning
industry is threatened by the oper-
ations of these packers. / think il /
requires great deal of ingenuity To
show that the farmer is benefited by
this duty on hides"
After speech by Mr. Taylor. Mr.
Aldrich appealed TO Mr. McLaurin to |
withdraw his amendment to the pro- |
posed amendment Of the finance com.
mittee the purpose OF which was TO
include as dutiable. small as we'll as
large hides Mr Aldrich suggested
that the amendment was moi conSiet
ent with the free trade Ideas OF the
senator Mr. McLaurin
replied that II the duty was to be lev
led on hides. 1t ought to be levied on
all hides,
MT McLaurin's amendment was re.
iected 81 to 49,
Before the vote was taken on the
amendments for a duty
OH hides, there was an exchange of
opinion among senators as 10 what
would be done respecting the general
leather schedule. Mr.. Aldrlch eX-
planned that those paragraphs had
been held up until the dubH on hides
had been fixed Former Governor
Douglass of Massachusetts figured
argely In the debate, and Statements
rom him were read to the effect that
Il he had free hides he could com.
pete with the world In making shoes.
Mr. Aldrich replied that he did not
propose to be guided by one business
n liking the duty on boots and shoes.
I have heard" he said, that Mr..
Douglas was elected governor of
as part OF his ad.
'ertising scheme"
BY an aye and nay vote an amend