The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-24
BEVERIOGE hit
LITTLE TOBACCO
PACKAGE STEAL
Says American Tobacco Com.
pany Is Getting We
Belonging to Governms.ete !
lumber ANO COAL RATES
FIXED BY the SENATE

Coal Gets Seven Cents Under the
House Schedule and the Committee
Rate on Lumber Sustained-Pine.
apples Get Protection.
Washington, June "a. - Senator
iBeveridge addressed the senate at
length today in support of his amend
ment changing the size of tobacco
packages. The present size of pack
ages have been in use since the
Spanish-American war tax was levied.
AS the result of the repeal of the tax
the senator asserted that the Amerl-
can Tobacco company, by keeping un-
changed the sizes of the packages,
had been the recipients of many mil
lions of dollars 1t should not ha re
received. The manufacturer kept OF
collecting the war tax, he explained,
after 1t had been taken off and instead
of paying it to the government he paid
1t to himself. Senator Beveridge de-
clared that II his amendment is adopt
led the government would receive more
than S21 100000 of revenue and correct
Ia wrong which people had suffered
for eight years. The American tax on
tobacco. he added, is only fraction
of the tax Of most other civilized
nations.
The entire wood schedule, making
reductions Of about twenty-five per
cent from the present law rates, and
increasing the house rates of the
pending bill to about the same extent
was then agreed to yesterday.
Pineapples Protected.
The sailing was not 40 smooth when
1t came to pineapples. The contention
in this connection was for higher
rates, and came from Democratic
sources. The obpectors in this case
were Senators Fletcher and Taliaferro
Iof Florida. The house had fixed q
'Iuty Of cents per cubic foot on pine
apples in barrels and Of 50 per thous-
and, but theu senate committee ON
finance reduced this rate to cents
and 81 respectively thus restoring the
provisions of, the Dingley law.
Mr.. Taliaferro presented an amend
'ment restoring the house rate of $S
per thousand, but changing the other
quire the payment of half cent q
contention was for and against this
increase, and the fight was mainly
between the Florida senators, repre-
senting pineapple producing state
and Senators Smith and Rayner of
Maryland, in whose state there are
large pineapple canning establish
ments. Disavowing all championship
Of the Gamers, the Maryland senators
made strenuous fight on general
principles against the increase of the
duty. mir. Rayner charged the Re-
publican party with bad faith In
promising to lower tariff duties.
Coal ffate.
The finance committee, through Mr..
.Aldrich, reported an amendment fix
ing the duty on bituminous coal and
shale at 60 cents per ton; on coal
slack or sculm at IS cents per ton;
coke and compositions used for fuel at
twenty per cent ad valorem. A draw
hack equal to the duty is allowed ves-
sells in the foreign trade.
This scale, Mr.. Aldrich explained,
was reduction of cents ton on
coal under the house rate. The amend
ment, he said, also left out the house
reciprocity provision. He did not be-
lieve. however, that the house would
remove it's duty on coal, even If the
reciprocity provision were left in the
bill.
Explaining at length the manner in
Which the coal duty bore upon the diff
ferent sections of the country, he said
to remove the duty would injure the
Wyoming and West Virginia interests.
"The Democratic party" he said, has
always been in favor of q duty on
COAL"
He did not agree that free coal
would benefit New England, as was
popularity supposed, because the mills
of that section demand the better and
more expensive coal of West Virginia.
II the reciprocity provision we're en-.
acted and went into effect, he said, the
coal consumers of West Virginia.
western Pennsylvania, Ohio and in
some parts Of Indiana, would be great
" benefited. On the other hand, the
coal deposits Of Wyoming and Utah
would not be developed under free
coal.
Senator McCumber, declaring that
he was in favor of free coal, offered
hn amendment reducing. the rate Of
duty reported by the committee on
fiance to 40 cents ton. The amend
ment was voted DOWN, % to A,
whereupon the committees amend
ment was accepted without change
and without division.
An amendment by Mr.. McCumber
reinstating the house reciprocity
clause in the committee amendment
was defeated under division. "a to
q, while free coal amendment by
Senator Crawford was rejected on
viva voce vote. The committee amend
hent was then agreed to by a viva
Goce vote.
THREE DEAD BODIES FOUND
Killarney, ireland. June 24.-The
bodies of three Of the women who lost
their lives In the voating accident on