The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-01
FAYORS FREE
! COAL AND
LUMbER R
Senator McCumber Would
Not Agree to Tariff on
Exhaustible Products

Washington. April S0.-An extended
speech BIZ Senator McCumber favor
ing free lumber occupied several hourS
in the senate today. His remarks pro-
voked an extended controversy among
the advocates OF tariff on lumber.
Mr. McCumber said that while he
was thorough protectlonist he would
not agree to a tariff on products such
as coal. iron ore. lumber and oil, that
are being exhausted and cannot be re.
placed. Senator Aldrich reported from
the committee on finance additional
amendments To the bill, and the sen
ate adopted motion made by him
that until further notice the senate
shall meet " IL o'clock daily.
Mr.. McCumber said that tariff re-
vision this wear is universally under
stood to mean revision downward. He
asserted that lumber needed no pro-
lection, and that no other industry
had produced more millionaires for the
amount invested than the lumber in
dustry He believed, however, that the
bill "does for the most part meet the
just demands Of the people"
He remarked that the southern
peals for protection than the Repub-
lcans of the old school, and Senator
Tillman interrupted him to say:
1--WE are getting so badly mixed thai
it is hard to tell the sheep from the
goats. and | am afraid that before we
get through there won't be trough
enough for all the hogs to get their
scraps"
Senator Tillman said some Repub-
lican members were making speeches
in accordance with Democratic prin-
ciples, while some Democratic men,
bers were delivering excellent Repub-
lican speeches He argued that the
United States can compete in the open
market of the world for steel rails and
other stee, manufactures, yet Carnc-
gle, Schwab and Corey and Gary and
that crowd have influence enough to
have high rates of duty retained
Mr.. McCumber replied that he would
be glad TO vote with Mr. Tillman on
any schedule, the rates of which Mr..
Tillman could prove were higher than
were necessary to protect the differ
ence in labor and cost In America and
abroad.
Il DENY that there is any one policy
that can make one-half oil the Amerl-
can people rich and the other half
poor said Mr., McCumber suggesting
that Mr. Tillman would agree that
there is no way of feeding a pig so
that one side would be lean and the
other side fat
z The senator from South Carolina. he
said, seemed 10 have an idea that no
one could be honest but himself
Mr.. Tillman took exception TO this
and asked
Does. hog ever get grown
The senator from North Dakota re-
fused to answer this question directly,
and provoked another colloquy. in
which Mr.. McCumber referred to Mr..
Tillman as a cornficld lawyer, to which
the latter replied that the senator from
North Dakota was not corniield law
yer, but some other kind
Mr.. McCumber presented statistical
estimates to show that the coal OF the
United States dt the present rate Of
consumption would last one hundred
wears. iron ore fifty years. lumber
thirty years and oil from twenty to
fifty years. and maintained that the
best way to conserve these supplies
would be to permit the free importa-
tion of such products.