Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-14
Senator Scott Says He is Receive
ing Letters Daily Begging Sen
ate to Get Through With 1t.
ENDORSED ]. j. HILLS ADVICE.
That Oratory he Suspended and That
Congress Promptly Pass tic
Tariff Eli.

Washington, May 14.--Asking that an
interview with j. j. Hill be read TO
the senate Immediately after that body
convened today, Senator Scott endorsed
its advice to Congress that orator. be
suspended, and that Congress promptly
pass the tariff bill.
"This." Nlr. Scott said. sis in line
with letters / am daily receiving beg
ging and praying that these gentlemen
(wavng his hand over the senate
cliamber), get through with their wind
tanning land let the country go ahead
with its business
Senator, Beverage spoke in support
of an amendment offered by him re!u-
tive to the5intcrnal revenue tax on to-
Lacco and its products contendng thai
the government has lost S1Si, 100000 in
tho last eight years through the repeal
of the war time tax Of 1898, Mr. Berer-
idgG undertook by his amendment 10 In
crease the present rate or internal
taxes ON tobacco, snuff. cigarettes anil
cigars worth more than 10 cents Mt
Bevcridge declared that the tobacco
strus which, he said. was the American
Tobacco company, had derived great.
benefit from the loss of revenue, which,
Z he said. was due to the law repeating
the increased rates Of 1898. The law
providing for the high rates of 1895 per
united the manufacturer to'reduce the.
size of the packages in which the to-
&bacto is sold to the people, according.
ito Mr.. Beveridge. in 1901 this In
creased tobacco tax was removed" said
The, but the short weight packages Of
to bacco We're continued by the Very
law that removed thetaX. The manu-
ffacturer still collects the war time tax
from tlie2people, but instead of paying.
1T to the government, he keeps 1t for
himself
Mr.. Beveridge declared that his:
amendment would not affect the cigar
makers OF the country, because, hesaid.g
st docs not enhance the tax on any
cigars except those which sell FOR 10
cents or more.
Claiming that his amendment would
increase the revenues to the extent
of over, 81, 100000 Mi. Beveridge as.
serted thata5tile tobacco trust is NOW
reapiflg ;lyast benefit through failure;
to enact such legislation AS he pro
posed. d. M ;sssst5 Il
Mr.. ;ayeridg e4cnntroverled the idea
. that, the continue ton by law OF the
shortweight war time packages after.
the war tax had been remover did tnot
affect the plug tobacco business. 1.-THE
law" he said, does not fix the size
tof the cut that is sold. but the man.
5ufacturer5 of plug tobacco got the wtlr3
gtaN3on this article out of the people by
selling q smaller cut than the plug and
this practically still6continues. When
II box of plug tobacco is sold by the
trust TO the retail dealer. there is
marked upon each plug a place for the
cut. BY decreasing the size of these
cuts very slightly, the tobacco trust
Through the retailer gets the wai. time
price for IL cut from q plug of tobacco
by marking the cut a little smaller
Upon taking up the iron and steel
sections OF the tariff bill. Mr.. Aldrich
asked that the senate pass over the
paragraph relating to pig iron as the
committee ON finance wished to con-
slider All amendment affecting. the duty,
on cast scrap iron. i,i