The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-23
PRESENT DUTY ON
HIDES IS RETAINED
BY Close Vote, Fifteen Per Cent
Ad ValOrem Is the Figure
Agreed Upon.
SIX HOURS OF DEBATE
BEFORE VOTING BEGINS
Bob Taylor of Tennessee Makes
Good in a Characteristic
Speech for Protection.


day the senate reached the voting stage
on the hide schedule and after several
amendments had been defeated tue
amendment of the finance committee
fixing duty of - per cent ad valorem
on hides was agreed to by vote of SO
to 30,
This is the rate of the present law.
but under the rulings of the treasury
department is applicable only TO hides
Weighing more Than % pounds.
The house places all hides on the free
list. but the committee restored the
Dingley policy by adding them to the
non dutiablc list.
Senator McLauriu undertook 10 have
the provision amended so AS to make
the duty apply to hides weighing less
than % pounds. but failed, his amend
ment being voted down, q 10 IS. An
amendment by Mr.. Stone placing not
only hides but many Of their products
on he free list was also lost.
New Lumber Schedule.
Senator Aldrich. on behalf oG the
finance committee, presented 10 the
committee new lumber schedule aud
also q number Of amendments relating
TO linolcum and oilcloth The commit
tee proposed rate Of $50 per thou
sand on sawed lumber. a 30 cent IN
crease over the house rate,
Previous to the balloting more than
six hours was devoted To spccch.ma king,
beginning AT 10 o'clock with an argu
ment by Mr. McCumber for duty on
hides. in which he was sustained by
Messrs. Gamble and Hepburn. They
took the position that the effort TO
make hides free was solely in the in
tercst Of the manufacturers, and Mr..
McCumbcr contended that this was Il
monstrous injustice growing out Of the
protective system
Mr. Burton and. incidentally. Mr..
Page. supported the free hide policy,
He declared thai The beef trust ob.
tanned I'll the benefit to be derived from
II hide duty.
feature was a speech by Senator
Bob Taylor OF Tennessee, which attract.
ed much favorable attention and eStab-
lisbed good nature. Mn TAYLOR plead.
ed for tariff for revenue and took a
decided position against free raw ma
tcrial.
Some Minor Amendments,
When the senate met today Senator
AIdrich. on behalf of the finance com
mittec, offered amendments 10 several
pa ra agraphs of the tariff bill. which
had been previously passed over. They
were agreed 10 by the senate, the va
rious duties thus fixed being as fol
lows:
Saltpeter. onchaf cent pound;
zinc oxide containing zinc but not lead,
| cent Il pound: kecncs cement, or
other cemcnts in which gypsum is com.
poneut part. from $3.50 10 Slt ton;
iron, steel or other metal glazed with
vitrcous glass, SO Il ton. Asbestos
and chromates of the iron on The free
list The duty fixed on salt peter is
the same as The rate fixed by the house
bill. but the COMMITTEES originally placed
the article on the free list
'' No more striking illustration Of in
gratitude could he imagined than that
which has been shown by the MANN
facturcrs of leather and leather goods
who seek TO deprive the stockman and
farmer Of the little remnant Of pro-
lection left to him on hides, said Sen
ator McCumber of North Dakota. in
defending the proposed duty Of ID per
cent ad NalOrcm on hides IN the senate
today,
Consideration Of the hide schcdule
was resumed as soon as the senate
met.
Argument for Protection.
The fact, Mr. McCumber said, that
the United States docs not produce all
the hides il uses WAS an argument IN
favor of protecting the industry 10 pro.
mote its DEVELOPMENT up to the stage
whore it viii be able to supply the
home demand. His speech was plea
for the farmer as against the manu-
facturcr.
''The gross injustice of this demand
for free hides becomes more startling,
he declared. 'when we remember that
our protective system has built up these
leather manufacturing Industries unit
it has enabled them not only TO dom- !
nate the whole American market. bnr !
also TO enter lnto every market of the
world.
"Having gained these advantages |
and dcfraudcd the American farmer Of
a duty on calf hides, they have had !
their appetitics whetted for further ad-
vantages and with n lobby. amazing IN
ITS power and ir&luence, they seek to !
destroy the last vcstigc of protection. -
Mr. McCumbcr stated frankly that |
he wanted a tariff Of % per cent on
hides
Claims Government Loses.
When Mr.. McCumber closed his re- |
marks. Senator Mclaurin renewed his |
efforts in behalf of a duty on small |
hides, He declared that from 1898 to
1907, inclusive. the governments had lost |
more than S16,000,000 by lis failure 10
collect the duty on the smaller hides
"lf | could have my way. - he said. |
~ would put hides. leather and shoes |
on the free list. Rut if Won put a
tariff on shoes YOU must out the tariff |
on leather and hides -
Mr. McLaurn insisted that congress
bad never intended TO tax only the
larger hides and said the construction
of that paragraph by the treasury de-
partment TO that effect was wrong.
Senator Hevburn also favored q duty
on hides. He called attention to the
fact that the first tariff bill passed by
the first congress had placed u duty Of
. per cent on the article. and he com
mended the precedent as worthy Of I'M
itation, ----~.,.... -