The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-13
TARIFF ON GLASS
IS VEX|NG PROBLEM
After Several Hours of Debate
Senate Agrees to Pass Over
This Schedule.
SENATOR CRAWFORD ASKS
PROTECTION FOR RESOURCES
Insists There Should Be No
Duty Upon Products Not
Easily Reproduced.

|
debate of several hours in the senate
today on the window glass schedule of
the tariff bill, Senator Aldrich asked
that the paragraph be passed over.
Some other sections relating to glass
manufactured articles that previously
had been passcd over were agreed to-
! The senate considered sections thai
had been passed over until the iron orc
paragraph was reached. when Senator
| Crawford spoke ut length upon the lack
of wisdom of any tariff that encour-
aged the exhaustion of natural re.
sources which could not readily be re
| produced he insisted that there should
! be no tariff on iron ore, oil, lumber and
coal.
Senator Paynter spoke in favor Of the
removal Of the duty of cents a pound
I upon leaf tobacco as means for free
/ ing the tobacco growers from the con-
! troll Of the tobacco trust.
Wants Cheaper Tobacco.
Pleading for an amendment to the
tariff bill to permit the producer of
tobacco TO sell hand twist tobacco with
out the payment of duty Of 6 cents
per pound, Senator Paynter OF Ken
lucky today laid before the senate the
history OF the tobacco industry in this
country. He declared that tho tobacco
growers believe they are in the "grasp
oil n constituencies monopo1y.'' and
adverting to the tobacco tronbles i'm
Kentucky, expressed the hope that the
enactment OF the proposed law would
! remove the causes which have pro-
| Yokcd these troubles. Continuing. he
said:
The manufacturers have no right TO
demand. as a matter of protection 10
| them. that the farmer should not be
permitted to sell his tobacco in the
when the internal revenue laws were
enacted, the government made no prom
1sc to manufacturers that the farmers
should not be permitted to sell their
tobacco in the natural leaf to the con.
sumers through the instrumentalities of
| their vendors
When Senator Payntcr had concluded
ms speech, Senator Cnlberson took the
floor Tor bricf comment on recent court
! decisions IN litigation against the to.
| pacco corporation instituted BIZ the de-
partmeut OF justice. He said that four
circmt Judges of the United States had
| expressed the opinion that this trus,
| was monopoly and existed in viola
ton OF the laws of the United States. y
In Doubt AS to Purpose.
do not know what may be the
| purpose of the present attoruey-geueraI
IN respect To this suit, - said Mr.. (,ulber
| son, but he has made q speech recently
IN New York, IN which great doubt is
thrown upon the course he proposes to
take with reference 10 the enforcement
or inns antitrust law. / want TO call
attention to the fact that the attorney
general of the United States. in a case
brought by his department which is now
pending before the supreme court of
| the United States. criticzes the opiniou
OF the court below IN favor Of the gov
crnment and against monopoly. and
suggests. II | know the meaning of the
English language. if that opinion of the
lower court Is a proper construction of
tue law thG administration proposes to
amend the law on that ubicct.D
MI Culbersop then asked to have the
speech that Attorney General Wicker.
sham delivered In New York. April 20
printed IN the congressional record. and
The request was granted.
One Touch of Humor.
i touch Of humor was introduced
when Senator Gallinger laid before the
senate petition from bis constituents
IN New Hamshirc. praying that n re-
duction of 10 cents busheI be made
II the duty on wheat,
AS the utie of the petition was read.
''- N'i'''iS'i Slauttu IOW1fU The
at"rS from the wheat growing states
many of whom have figured prominent,
~ IN the movement for lower duties on
Inc manufactured products of New
England
Senators Nelson. Burllett and Nc
Gumper and others exchanged sipnifi-
can't smiles with the senator from Now
anlpSnlrei but no comment was made.
Senator Simmons offered an amend.
rr1rn
reducing the rates below those suggest
cd py senator Cnmmins in his amend
ihcnI 10 the same paragraph Yesterday.
Inc rates proposed by You arc the
rates of the Wilson bill, are they potf;,
SAID Mr.. ,Aldrich, addressing the sena-
'oF 1Tom Wnn North Carolina,
well, replied Mr. Simmons
mont against them. think that if
thai Is the case it womId rather be n
commc ndatiou''
Gould Cut Glass Tariff.
Mr. Simmons then addressed tbe son.
ate at some length upon the window
glass industry, to demonstrate that The
glass manufacturers could prosper with
duties much below those provided in
the pending measure.
ME- summons contcnied that the
rarcS OF The glass schedules were too
80 ;" ''" -,iio'ueu uucn more protection
man the American manufacturers need
rd TO make up for the difference in thc
cost OF production in America and Eu.
rope.
Mr.. Elkins defended the interests of
The American manufacturers, and de-
'lared "A reduction in the proposed du-
les would result in lowering the wages
't the operatives. which in turn. he
said, would result in strike and pos
;ibiy the destruction of the window
glass industry in this country.
Sinoot Gives Figures.
Mr.. Smoot said that since the debate
II tho senate yesterday, he had tele
,raphcd To New York to find the whole
alc and retail prices ON q pane OF