The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-01
Does Not Believe in CHASING
Product With Lumber, Iron,
Coal and Oil.
CONTROVERSY OF TARIFF
ADVOCATES PROVOKED
Senate Will Begin Next Week
TO Put in Some Extra
Hours Of Labor.


tended speech by Senator McCumbcr
favoring free lumber occupied several
hours in the senate today. HIS re-
marks provoked an extended contro-
versy among advocates of tariff on
lumber
Mr.. McCumbcr said, while he WAS a
thorough protcctionist, he would not
agree TO tariff on products such as
coal. iron orc. lumber and oil. that are
being exhausted and cannot be re
placed. Senator Adrich reported from
the committee Of finance additional
amendments TO the bill and the senate
adopted motion made by him that un-
til further notice the senate shall meet
at | o clock daily.
Fayoring, . tariff for revenue only,
Senator Fletcher of Florida today
lumber now provided by the Dingley
bill and on long staple cotton and other
southern products.
Takes Shot at Bryan.
Mr.. Johnson of North Dakota made
his maiden speech in reply to a state
ment during the campaign by w. j.
Bryan, who. he said had been fooled -
by the countervailing clause in the pc
trolcum schedule by which petroleum
brought into this country pays the
duty levied on American oil imported
INTO Russia.
Mr.. johnson severely criticized Mr.
Bryan AS having been largely response
bic for such clause remaining in the
Wilson bill.
No resources Of the country which
when once utilized. cannot he repro
duccd, and which arc certain Of ex
baustion in q comparatively few years
has been protected against Importation
declared Senator McCumber Of North
| Dakota.
NO tariff. - he added. ssbould bt
levied upon iron. coal, oil or timber
Except for these, he said, he was 4;
| strong advocate of American protection
| as any senator.
| Mr.. McCumbcr said that tariff revi
! sion this year is universally, under
| stood To mean revision downward, III
asserted that lumber needed no protcc
tion and that no other industry hac
! produced more millionaires for th
/ amount invested ti.dn :bo lumber in
! Gustry. He believed. however. that tn
bill "does, for the most part, meet In
Just demands of the people.
Tillman Gets Busy.
lie remarked that the southern Dem
ocrats are making stronger appeals fo
protection than the Republicans of th
! old school. and Senator TillmsD inter
rupted him to say:
eve are getting so badly mixed tha
! it is hard TO tell the sheep from tn
! goats and i am afraid that before W
| get through there won t he tTougI
enough for all the hogs to get thci
scraps.
Senator 'rillpan said some Republi
can m,",hars were making speeches il
/ accuro rtC with bemoeratie principles
I "ailc ,Jme democratic members wert
4 delivering excellent Republican speech
RS. y argued that ire United State,
can con. pete IN th, open market OF th-
| world for steel rails and other SIR
! manufactures. yet 4rnCg'e ans
Schwab and Corey aud > and ihat
crowd have influence enough hsy,
high rates of duty retained.
Mr. McCumber replied that ~
would be glad to vote with Mr.. T..
man on any schedule, the rates g
! which Mr. Tillman could prove wert
higher than was necessary 10 protect
the difference in labor cost in Amcri
Cd and abroad.
Direct Question Dodged.
'T deny that there is any one policy
| that can make ouc-half of the Amcri
! can people rich and the other hall
poor - said Mr.. McCumber, suggesting
| that Mr.. TilIman would agree that
there is no way of feeding a pig SO
that ono side would he lean and the
other side fat,
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 thus
and asked:
"Docs 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 Il cornfcid lawyer, 10 which
the latter replied that the senator from
| North Dakota WAS not cornheld law
! ycr. .'but some other kind.
Mr.. McCumbcr presented statistical
! estimates TO show that the coal Of the
! United States, al the present rate of
| consumption, would last 100 years, iron
oye fifty years, lumber thirty years
and oil from twenty to fifty years, and
maintained that the best way to con.
serve these supplies would be to per
| nit free impOrtation of such products