The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-23
OINGLEY RATE
RESTORED BY
UPPER HOUSE
Hides Imported Into United
States Will Pay Duty of IS
per Cent AID VaIorem.
VOTE TAKEN AFTER SIX
LONG HOURS OF DEBATE
FEATURE OF MAKING
WAS TALK BY "FIDDLINe BOB"
TAYLOR OF TENNESSEE.
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= Washington. June 22.-Western =
= senator's are particularly well :.
= pleased with their victory this =
= evening. when by a vote of IS to =
= so the senate adopted an amend =
= meHt Of the finance committee re- =
= storing to the tariff bill the present =
= Dingiey rate of 10 per cent ad va :.
- loren duty on hides. In the final =
:: alignment party lines were we'll -
= nigh Obliterated, and the struggle =
= was a straight fight between the :
- CatJle-gTOWing states Of the west !:
= and the manufacturing states of ::
= New England, In which thirty-six :
= Republicans and ten Democrats ::
= voted for the western interests and :
= sixteen Republicans and fourteen ::
= Democrats for New England ideas :
= Of the western senator's. Hughes :
= and Newlands, Democrats, voted ::
= for dutiable hides. The only west :
= ern senator sustaining the free =
= hides proposition was Chamberlain, Z:
= Democrat. Of Oregon. Although the ::
- house voted by an overwhelming :!
= majority to place hides on the free :
- list, western senators and repre- =
= sentatiVes are hopeful that they :
:: can retain the Dingley rates in :
= conference and on the final vote of :
= both houses :.
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Washington. June 22.-Iate today the
senate reached the voting stage on the
hide schedule, and after several
amendments had been defeated the
amendment of the finance committee
fixing d duty of Is per cent ad valorem
on hides was agreed to by a vote of 80
to 30.
This is the rate of the present law.
but under the rulings of the treasury
department is applicable only to hides
weighing more than twenty-five
pounds.
The mousse placed all hides on the free
list, but the committee restored the
Dingley policy by adding them to the
nOn-dutiable list.
Amendment Voted Down.
Senator McLaurin undertook to have
the provision amended so as to make
the duty apply TO hides weighing less
than twenty-five pounds, but failed,
his amendment being voted down-S1
to As. An amendment by Mr.. Stone
placing not only hides, but many of
AAANiA RAOOuNL05 C4A NAAC 4ACC AAoN W do clloN
lost
Senator Aldrich. on behalf of the
finance committee, presented the COM
mittee's new lumber schedule and
also a number of amendments relating
to linOleum and OilclOth. The commit
tee proposed a rate of $3.50 per thou
sand on sawed lumber a so cent in
crease over the house rate.
Sly Hours of Sneeches.
Previous to the balIoting more than
six hours were devoted to speech
making beginning at 10 o'clock with an
argument by Mr.. MCCumber for a duty
on hides. in which he was sustained by
Messrs. Gamble and Hepburn. They
took the position that the effort to
make hides free was solely in the in
terest of the manufacturers, and Mr..
McCumber Contended that this was d
monstrous injustice growing out of the
protective system.
Mr. Burton and, incidentally, Mr..
Page supported the free hide policy, the
former in a speech of some length. He
declared that the beef trust obtained all
the benefit to be derived from a hide
duty.
A feature was q speech by Senator
Bob Taylor Of Tennessee, which attract
ed much favorable attention and estab-
lished good nature. Mr.. Taylor pleaded
for a tariff for revenue and took a de-
Cided position against free raw ma
teTial.