The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-17

clared that the methods the refining company pursues in beating down the price at which they buy the sugar from the Louisiana producers are "damabie." Colonel C6icock favored protection. contcnding that the greater can afford to pay for the raw sugar.
 Tobaece Men satisAed.
 On. the whole the tobacco growers of the South expfessed satisfaction with the duty on thetr product. A. B. Car rington representing the Tobacco As- sociation of Dsnvilie. Virginia. urged that the duty on THrNish tobacco, be in- creased from 35 cents . pound to Sl.s5 cents . pound. which is the duty im- posed by the Dingley tariff on sumatra leaf. a -, -
 The further claim was made that the Turkish tobacco is in . large measure supplanting the bright tobacco raised In Virginia. North Carolina and South Carolina, and that the Turkish govern ment prohibits the importation of this American tobacco
 Florida growers of Sumatra wrap per tobacco presented strong argu- ments to the committee In favor of the retention of the duty on their product. Millions of dollars have been expended in the United States in equfpping lands with shade structures and developing the wrapper tobacco industry to its high state. of efficiency according to. the growers.
 Our American tobacco, isN grown from seed imported from Sumatra, and this tobacco Is worked and sold by the manufacturers as impopted tobacco" said one of the tobacco raisers. The industry has not yet reached a point where the tobacco can compete in the open market on its actual merits"
 The Importation of wrapper tobacco in 1907 under the rate of S1.s5 per pound of the Dingley tariff amounted Ito over 6,000.000 pounds producing a revenue of $I2,oo0,0o0 The tobacco growers strongly protested against the proposition to admit tobacco from the Philippines free of duty.
 The Peanut Schedule.
 The peanut schedule was the subject for an interesting hearing at which Representatives Maynard and Lassiter. of Virginia, and Clark. of Florida, ap- peared to support the contentious of various peanut growers. The delega- ton asked for an increase in the duty on peanuts to two cents pound.
 The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee took oc- casion to banter the Southerners for requesting protection to the extent of an increase of 300 per cent in the duty.
 Champ Clark the Minority Leader of the House. was not pleased with the requests of the peanut growers and did not take kindly to the opportunity of- fefed for Republican criticism of thu requests for protection made by Dem- ocrats. x
 tThe situation Is just this." said Mir. Clark. when we get the Republicans on this Ways and Means. Committee in favor of revising the tariff downward you come up here and not only get them back to where they were. but lift them out of their shoes.'
 Lumber in the South.
 Representatives of the lumber indus try in the South presented strong ar- guments in favor of the retention of the duties imposed by the Dingley tar if on lumber. They claim that the removal of the tariff would bring them in c0fnpetition with the low grade of lumber of Canada and other countries. and low wages paid in other countries.
 It was also stated that the stumpaKa cost in this country is greater than In Canada and in other foreign countries Figures. were submitted to show that the South now produces practically one half of all the lumber produced aunu- ally in the United States. r Mica. which Is mined in Alabama Georgia, South Carolina. North Caro- lima and Virginia. was one of the ar- ticles on which increased duties were sought. It was claimed that the principal competition would he from India, where labor cost is from six cents to fifteen cents per dav.. A new classification was also asked for this article. Higher duties on crude barytes