The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-06-26
RATES UP TO So PER THOUSAND
Mccumber Makes Unsuccessful Fight
- to Reduce Duty-LittIe Hope
Of Conference Making Any
Further Reduction.
q % . = 4 4 4 4 = = 4 = . I
y Lumber Tariff Rates as Adopted =
In Senate.

: kA+A< AuAAoS% oNAOuu1O III t1C oCAoIO
: is that the tariff bill will be sent
to conference with the following
duties on timber products!
=: Rough lumber, $3.50 per thous
and feet
Planned on one side, 81.
=. Planed on two sides, $2.25.
= Planed on three sides, s2.62.
Planed on four sides, SO.
Clapboards will carry duty of
$3.50 per thousand feet, an in
*+screase of 50 cents.
/. >. Duty on laths is increased from
20 to Is cents and on shingles
""from 30 to SO cents per thousand.
s*+ + =
Washington, June 24.-Middle west
ern agitation for reduction in the
lumber tariff made a final feeble
splash in the senate yesterday and
then gave up the ghost when the fin
ance committees schedule on lumber
was adopted by vote of so to %.
The first vote today was on an
amendment :byarSenator McCumber
proposing. = rnts of 81 per 1000 on
sawed: lumber instead Of the rate de-
cided upon by the finance committee,
which was $3.50. per 1000. The com.
mittee was sustained-44 to "a.
OF the Affirmative votes, ten only
were cast by, Observation-Disclosures,
Clay, Davis, Core Hughes, Johnston,
McLaurin, .Overman, Paynter and Till
man. The republicans who voted in
support Of the amendment were .Bever-
idge, Bristows Brown, Burkett, Burton,
Carter, CIappIF Crawford, Cummings.
Curtis Gamble, La, Toilette, McCumber
and Nelson The democrats voting
against the amendment were. Bacon,
Bailey, Chamberlain, Fletcher, Foster,
Martin, Money, Simmons, Smith, Of
Maryland, Taliaferro and Taylor.
q; ;oMccun1lher Leads Flight, -. ~.
= From the beginning of the session
there hasabeen "a decided contest over
the lumber rate and one of the hardest
fights made by the northwestern sena-
tors had been for free lumber In the
house the, :feformers succeeded in re.
ducing the Dingley law rate from 81
to. ST.. They continued their efforts in
the senate, but finding themselves un-
able to make any impression there in
the interest Of free lumber, they would
.haye been willing: to accept. the house
rate. So stiff, however, was the senti.
ment against them that they succeed
ed only in getting a reduction of rs
per cent from the Dingley duties The
majority against any reduction as
shown by today's vote indicates the
sentiment for prnounced duty ns so
strong in the senate that it will be diff
hcult to change the senate rates in
the conference. Yr
w Yesterday Senator McCumber made
q stubborn, hut unsuccessful fight to
reduce the proposed duty on lumber in
the rough and finished states, and he
had the finance committee and the
Aldrich group against him.
- Finished Lumber Also.
Senator McCumber followed his de-
feat on the rough lumber matter by
offering an amendment the effect of
which was to lower the duty on the
various grades Of finished lumber
He said he was trying in his amend.
ment to make the differentials bear
as near relation to the finished pro-
duct as possible. The differentials
proposed in his amendment, he said.
would still be SO per cent higher than
the actual cost, and therefore would
provide ample protection, at the same
time affording some relief to the con-
sumers.