The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-22
SENATOR'S VIEWS
OF UTAH SENATOR
Continued From Page One.

lumber shall not be more than 30 cents
! thousand above the rate fixed on
rough lumber. whatever that may be.
| Declaring that carbons imported un.
der the Dingey law IN two feet lengths
pay duty equal to AZ per cent nd
valorcm. while the proposed rate Of Ga
cents per 100 feet would equal Il rate
lette said "ouy other statement made
here is simply juggling the figures"
Mr., Aldrjch, becoming impatient,
said:
'!I think the senate was as able 10
vote on tins proposition five hours
ago.
Gore Goes After smoot.
Mr.. Gore brought the Standard Oil
company into the discussion, and also
made personal reference to Senator
Smoot.
cit has been charged - he said,
THAT the National Carbon company is
an adjunct of the STANDARD Oil company
trust, and we will hear a great deal of
hostility here against the Standard Oil
company. a sham battle VIII be pulled
off against the great trust. but here is
chance TO demonstrate where senators
stand in respect TO that great monopoly.
'The senator from Utah. the high
priest of high tariff, the anolnted apos
tie of protection, has stated here that
there is a combination between this
monopoly and the electric light com,
panies of the country.
~ challenge the right of that sen.
ator to speak for the people of Okla
homa, and impeach his power to repre-
sent both the monopoly and the cou-
sumer. No man can properly represent
both sides of contest of this kind
1t must be due to the fact that ho
has some divine afflatus, some heavenly
illumination by which he is enabled to
speak for the consumers. ! have rot
heard that the consumers want these
prices increased y.
He said the electric light companies
merely act as a medium for passing
along the charges on carbons to the
people.
Responding, Mr.. Burton said he never
heard in Cleveland, where the National
Carbon company is located, the slightest
lntimation that the Standard Oil com.
pany had anything to do with the car
bon company.
La Toilette "sticker''
Mr.. La Toilette. attempting 10 reply
further 10 Mr. Burton. Mr. Hale called
attention 10 rule 10, prohibiting a SEN
ator from speaking more than twice on
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senator then framed new amendment.
which he proposed TO offer in order
that he might speak upon il. remark
ing that he could have concluded what
he bad to say in less time than was
being consumed in framing the amend
mcnt.
Mr., Hale withdrew his objection. and
MI, La Toilette reiterated what he had
said about the National Carbon com
pany being monopoly.
The committee amendment was sns.
tanned. 43 TO sc, No Democrats voted
in the affirmative. while Senators
Beverldge, Brlstow. Burkett, Clapp.
Crawford, CumminS. Curtis, DolIiyer,
La Toilette and Nelson voted in the
negative.
The amendments in the pumice stone
and window glass paragraphs were
passed over
An amendment by Mr., Aldrich WAS
adopted reducing from 80 to 90 per cent
ad vaiorem the duties on articles not
otherwise enumerated, composed wholly
or IN chief value Of carbon.
Seeking TO have adopted the house
provision providing a duty on cast mol.
lshcd plate glass. Mr.. Aldrich was on.
posed by Senator Oliver on the one
hand. who wanted higher duty and
by Mr.. Cummins on the other, who
wanted IT lowered
After much discussion. the house pro.