The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-01
It Was a Real Lemon Senate
Handed the People Yester-
day in Showing Up Tariff on
That Fruit.
SENATOR ROOT SAID
WAS GIFT TO TRUST
Legislation, He Said. Was On
" in Interests of Combine
Of California Fruit Men
Consider Wines.

washington, June 1T was rear
lemon which the senate yesterday
handed to the American people in
the form of an increase of so per cent
in the present duty on lemons.
Senator Root. of New York, former
secretary of state, denounced 1t as
pure gift to a combination of Califor-
MIA growers, otherwise known as a
fruit trust" which would enable
them to control the American market
and prevent competition from abroad.
The present duty is one cent a pound
and this the house raised to IL cents.
When Senator Flint. of California.
in attempting to reply to the sharp
criticism of the New York senator.
said that the combination was one OF
farmers, he evoked the retort from
Root that it was mot a corporation OF
angels" but the protest of the New
Yorker was in vain. the schedule be-
ing adopted by a vote of As to 2S.
Fighting Its Way.
Fighting it's way slowly through the
dregs of the agricultural schedule, the
senate found itself late in the day con.
fronted with the heavy increases pro-
posed in wines and liquors.
With scarcely a 'murmur 1t cleared
this schedule as easily as former Pres
ident Roosevelt's prize jumper takes a
five-barred gate. Stopping only to add
stout to the liquors dutiable at As
cents gallon, If in jugs and bottles.
and % cents a gallon II otherwise
held, it stood proudly at the head of
the cotton schedule.
Not being DESTROYS Of getting into a
clinch that would hold after dark, Sen
ator Aldrich proposed to postpone the
reading of the cotton paragraphs until
today. Then the senate turned back
er the duty on bacon. hams and lard.
No Increase In Bacon.
An increase from four cents to five
cents pound on bacon and hams. and
from 1k to cents a pound on lard,
which had been reported by the COM
mittee on finance. was snuffed out by
the withdrawal of the amendments.
The senate then adopted the house
rates for these products. The in
creases at first proposed for the SEN
ate were in each case the rates of the
Dingley law. The senate declined to
reduce the rate upon fresh beef, veal,
mutton, pork and venison from 2
cents a pound. proposed by the COM
mittee, which is the Dingley rate, to
the rate of TX cents, which had been
voted by the house.
Reduce Dried Peas.
Dried peas not specially provided
for in the bill were reduced from 30
cents q bushel. as fixed by the house,
to Is cents bushel.
Before the reductions were accom-
plished there were some sharp inter-
changes. Senator Hepburn, of Idaho,
opposed the reductions on bacon,
hams and lard SO vehemently that he
knocked large piece Of cuticle from
his hand. There was a clash between
Senator Tillman. Of South Carolina,
and Hepburn over the diplomatic form
of address for live pork.
"Pig is baby hog" argued Tillman,
lone of the little sucking things that
squeals for its milk when it cannot
get hold OF teat.''
OF course, everybody especially the
visitors in the galleries. were shocked
at such a homely definition.