The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-20
RAzORS USED ON
FLOOR OF SENATE
Not in Battle But as Tariff
Arguments.
sMooT TELLS OF PROFITS
sutherland Argues Against an Income
Tax-Speaker Cannon Prevents
Opening Of Old Civil
War Wounds.

Washington, May 1S.-Razors were
again used in hostile attack upon the
rates of the Aldrich bill pending be
fore the senate. The committee on
finance had increased the rates on
razors in common use from about s.
to 100 per cent. ad valorem, and as
soon as the senate took up the cutlery
schedule amendments offered by Mr.
Simmons Saturday cutting these rates
down, were rejected.
Senator Stone then offered amend
ments reducing the duties on razors to
the rates of the Dingley bill. Senator
Smoot, in opposing these amendments
said If the duty were 200 per cent. il
would not increase the price to the
consumer. He held up before the sen
ate a razor which he said cost to i'm
port 40 cents and which was sold for
So. r.a@t..sts . 80, e..
Tells of Great Profit.
~ "Have those razors which you have
there been sold for So each?" in
quired Mr.. Stone.
There is no question that the
dealer will sell them for that price,
replied Mr. Smoot.
mot after the senator's statement
here" said Mr.. Bailey, laughing.
tua II hope that is correct" replied Mr.
Smoot, because the profit they OBJ
tain is enormous"
Mr.. Smoot exhibited another razor
case, supposed to contain a keen-edged
blade. 1t was from Germany and sold
at retail in this country at $3.50 while
1t cost to import $4.79 a dozen.
Mr.. Aldrich said the most striking
thing to him about the razor indus.
try was that large part of the razors
imported cost to import wholesale ten
cents each or $120 a dozen.
Just before the senate adjourned,
Mr.. Smoot, in response to a question
by Mr.. Stone, moved over to the Demo,
cratic side of the chamber at the same
time taking a razor from his pocket
and deliberately opening it. He
walked up to Senator Stone and then
whirled the razor in his hand as he
explained how the name of the for.
eign manufacturer was obliterated
from the blade.
Stone Is "lntimidated."
Senator Carter suggested that the
senator from Missouri had been in,
timfdated by the razor in the hands OF
the senator from Utah and the senator
from Utah returning to his seat care,
fully replaced his razor in it's case.
During an extended discussion OF
the cutlery industry by Mr.. La Toilette
the senate went into executive session.
A comprehensive discussion of the
income tax by Senator Sutherland of
D Utah and an extended speech by Sen,
ator Depew in support of the pending
tariff bill consumed most of the seq
SIGN of the senate. Mr.. Sutherland
argued against the constitutionality
of a federal incoE.e tax law and de-
clared that such a tax should be left
as a means of revenue for the states.
Senator Owen to-day announced his
intention of voting for a tariff on
crude petroleum unless advised to
the contrary in an authoritative way"
The statement was made in response
to hundreds of kilograms from oil
producers in Oklahoma
q Cannon Stops Hollingsworth.
A ruling. by Speaker Cannon pre-.
vented, perhaps the reopening in the
house of old wounds of the civil war
Mr.. Hollingsworth of Ohio sought to
Z Justify as matter of privilege, his
recent resolution Directing to the
q placing of the portrait of Jefferson
Davis on the silver service to be pre-.
scented to the battleship Mississippi
because of editorials In certain south.
i ern newspapers hurting all sorts of
epithets at him. The editorials were
read
The speaker declared that as the
editorials did not attack Mr. Holdings
worth in his representative capacity
he could not continue. The result of
Mr. Hollingsworth's attempt was to
get into the Congressional Record a
number of uncomplimentary remarks
about himself and with nothing TO
offset them. AS the editorials were
read in turn the house was convulsed
with laughter.
Although its consideration was COM
pieted, the Philippine tariff bill was
not finally acted upon for the want
of a quorum.