The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-24
LUMBER RATE
CONTEST ENDS
Duty Of $3.50 Placed on
Sawed Lumber.
COMMITTEE IS SUSTAINED
Senators Do Business Without Sign
Of a Speech.
Evident That Haste Ia To he Made
In Trying To Get the Tariff
BIZ To FINAL

Washington. June 23.-Without q
sign of speech. the Senate today began
voting on the lumber schedule, as soon
as quorum had been procured
Wheeler due &c the hot ~ea s.loE o: tas
exhaustion OF the orators from other
causes. the change was accepted as a
good omen by those who are anxious
to crowd the tariff bill to final action
and have the session come to an end.
The first vote was on an amendment
by Senator McCunibcr proposing q rate
OF 81 per thousand on sawed lumber
instead Of the rate decided upon by the
finance committee. which was $3.50 per
thousand. The committee was sustain
ed "a to "a.
From the beginning OF the session
there has been a decided contest over
the lumber rate and e;.c 1T the hard
est fights made by the Northwestern
senators had been for frse lumber.
In the House the reformefs succs eded
IN reducing the Dingley law rate from
r$2 TO VI. They continued their efforts
In this Senate. but finding themselves
unable to make airy impression there
in the interest Of free lumber, they
would have been Wiling To ecsspt the
House rate. 10 stiff. however, was the
sentiment agains+ them, that they sue
ceeded only In getting q REDUCTION Of
rs per cent. from the Dingiey duties
and the majority against any reduction
as shown by today's vote, indicates not
only that the committees schedule
Will remain unchanged in the Senate.
but that the sentiment for a pro-
nounced duty 10 so strong there that 1t
Will be dificult to change the Senate
rates in conference.
The Senate Surprised.
When at 10 o'clock President Pro
Tenn Frye raped for order. there were
comparatively few Senators In their
seats and a call for a quorum was
made az soon as Mr.. Aldrich had indi-
Gated his desire to have the Senate
proceed. with the consideration of the
lumber schedule. A quorum once OBJ
tafned. Mr.. McCumber presented his
amendment. To the surprise of all,
no one rose to speak, and Senator Frye.
always especially prompt In the chair,
Immediately put the question to a vote.
There was demand for ayes and noes
and the ballot resulted In q total Of IS
votes, OF which only 20 or little moro
than one-third. were cast for the prop
osition. OF the Affirmative votes. only
ten were cast by Democrats, as follows:
Bankhead, Clay, Davis, Gore, Hughes
Johnston, McLaurin, Overman, Paynter,
and Tillman. The Republicans who
cast their vote In support OF the
WCEUs 1bGVSEluRC, bF1SLOW.
Brown. Burkett, Burton, Clapp, Craw-
ford. cummins. Curtis. Gamble, LaTroi-
iette, McCumber- ana Nelson. The DEM
ocrats voting against the amendfuent
were; Bacon Bailey, Chamb erlnin,
Fletcher, xEostenv Mastin, Money. sim
Hohs. Smith. Of; Maryland. Taiiaferro
and Taylor. 49,
Insisting that the direrentiais On
planed or finished lumber provided by
nnQnHA mi
sarily high, Mr.. McCumber offered an
amendment, reducing them 80 1-s per
cent. and reducing the duty On sawed
lumber to s1.26 thousand feet.
Action on this amendment was not
SO prompt as on the preceding. rna
South Dakota Senator sought an oppor.
tunity to explain. He claimed that
modern methods had reduced the cost
OF planning when more than one side
Of board is planed. 30 that by
single operation and az nearly the
same expense, any number of sides
could be finished. Controvertins this
statement, Mr.. Aldrich had read let
ter from Vermont saw mill owner.
showing that mills charged four times
as much to tongue and groove and
plane board on four sides as to plane
1t on one side. Jumping quickly 10 his
rect. senator Tillman denied that such
difference Of cost would exist.
Aldrich the Whole Senate.
Anybody who has ever been in
saw mill" he declared, KNOWS that y
He vociferously chided the Rhode Is
land senator. who, he insisted. was
the whole senate" for not prornntIv
passing the tariff bill.
As Mr.. Aldrich protested that he
wished to vote as soon as possible the
South Carolinian. in an apologize man.
ner for taking up any time in debate
added: When the senator makes a
statement like that 1 cannot sit here
like an ass, II I agreed with It, when
I know 1t is not true. An extended
discussion concerning the cost to finish
lumber followed
Mr.. McCumber's amendment was re-
jected by 80 to 40 On this vote Sena.
tors Dolliver, Dupont and Johnson, re-
publicans who had voted no on the
former ballot, changed to the afirma-