The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
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 FREE>LUMBER Lawmakers Hear From South. EASTERN REPUBS ARE BUSY They Want to Control Tariff
 Legislation.
  As1ss.lsy rysdies.a Trad. war Be tween the sections--Lieutenant Wiley l. Back Home
 From Cuba.
EASTERN REPUBS ARE BUSY
BY ALFRED ,. STOPPER

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 BY ALFRED '. sTOFER.
 Wash hington, Feb. 2e.-(Special.)-
 Members of Congress from most of the Douthern States have been receiving Tor. some time Letters from business firms and others. asking them to use their influence to prevent lumber from being placed on the free list in the fariff bill that Is to be passed during the extra session. As Memphis is the great hardwood number market firms there have been unusually active in communicating with the lawmakers. Not only have Representative Payne. of New York. Chairman of the Ways and Means Com- mittee. but they also sent them to Rep- Fesentatives from the, surrounding States.
 General Gordon has been the recip- lent of about as many or more than the>others because of the fact that he represents the Memphis District. But fhe other Congressman from Tennessee. Alabama. Mississippi. Louisiana. Geor- gia. Florida, Arkapsas.. Oklahoma and Missouri are also getting their share. General Gordon says he has been Hooking into the situation. but so far he Is unable to ascertain just what will be done with lumber by the Re- publicans who wifi take the responsi- bflity of arranging the various sched- ules. All soxts of rumors, of course. are floating around. Pressure Is un- doubtedly being brought to bear upon the comrnattee to either place lumber on the free list. or reduce the duty to ie0 cents per thousand.
 MT. Money Kept Busy.
 Are you getting any letters on the subject of the lumber dutiesT Senator Money, of Mississippi, was asked.
 Bushels of them." was the reply. Tt looks as if lots of people in the South are greatly interested in the matter"
 Senator Money thinks from what is going on that the Republicans of the House will be ready to report the tar fir bill to that body day or two after Congress meets In extra session on March 15. He says that just as soon as 1t Is printed, the Senate Finance Committee will commence to consider it, and in all probability will be able to report within a few days after the measure is passed In the House. The Senator admits that he would not like to undertake to predict just how long 1t will take to pass the bill in the Sem ate. That will depend largely upon the disposition of Senators to discuss the features of so important a piece of legislation. Senator Money is sa member of the Finance Committee to which the tariff bill will be referred.
 # lumber Is placed on the free list st win be due largely to the demands of the New England Senators Up In that section of the country they are Known to be simply bowling for the, removal of the duty on articles they consider free raw material. They want free hides for the benefit of their. shoe and leather factories they want free coal and free iron ore and a num- ber of other things they claim will benefit them and enable them to com pete with foreign manufacturers.
 Prediction of Mckinley.
 When in Congress twenty years ago Major William Mckinley used to fre- Quentiy remark that in less than quarter of century the people of the New England States would be almost ready to go to war if they did not get free raw material. He predicted also that gradually strong protection sent fment would grow up in the South. on account of the development of the re- sources down in Dixie. = 4
 The late President. 1t is we'll to re- member. was himself about as ardent a protectionist az ever served in pub-. lie, life. Hea used to, often tell me in i: private conversations that the time would come when the manufacturers of tho New England States would in self defense have to favor low tariff duties and cry for the removal of all duty on certain things in order to be able to compete with the West and South.
 Twenty years ago he seemed to see what was coming in the way, of iron furnaces and cotton mills in the South, and even that long ago he remarked that the day would come when Pitts burg would begin to feel uneasy over the Iron and steel question. and that the cotton spinners of the East would be moving their plants to the Southern States in order to get the benefits of that more favored section.
 Pay of Army Engineers.
 Army engineers who are stationed In the South are writing to Congress- nen that their compensation ought to De increased. Members from Alabama, Tennessee. Arkansas, Georgia and Mis- ,issippi are receiving lots of letters on the subject, and other people are back ng up the officers in this demand.
 It is contended that they have great ieal of extra expense while detailed | ipon these works of Improvement, and hat as the tendency has been for sev- sral years to increase the allowances | hose who are trying to benefit navi- | yation on the rivers ought to be re- .ognized.
 Representative Wiley of Alabama and | General Gordon. on account of being l members of the House Committee on | Military Affairs, are receiving probably | nore than their share of such letters. | They are inclined to think that this | S rather poor time to get raise for | he engineers. owing to the fact that | he estimates at the Treasury just now | indicate that a deficit of something like ] ,15. 900. 900 a month is piling up and | he Government experts hardly know where 1t will stop.
 Lieut.. Noble Wiley. son of. the late | .ol, A. A. Wiley. Is expected in Wash ngton with the troops that have been | ordered to return from Cuba. These roops will be in the parade on the 4th | # March when Judge Taft is inaugur- tied as President.
 Lieut.. Robert Allen Burford. nephew if Mrs. o. c. Wiley wife of Repre- tentative Wiley. is with the naval fleet | hat is just completing its world tour md scheduled to reach Hampton Roads lext Monday. He was born in Troy, Ala.. but has lived most of his life at )caia, Fla. his father being attorney