The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-10
WOOL SCHEDULE
CENTER Of HOT
WORD CONFLICT
La Toilette Ridiculed by War.
rem of Wyoming in Cutting
Clash
HOUSE RATES ON TOP WASTE
INCREASED TEN CENTS PER lB,

IUUot kAlt5 UN IUP MSlE
INCREASED TEN CENTS PER lB.
Shoddy Paragraph Was Also Passed
Increasing the Rates From Twenty
to Twenty Five Cents Per Pound and
Tops From Eighteen to Twenty.
Washington, June 10.-The woolen
schedule was still under consideration
IN the senate when at $3.50 o'clock last
; night the usual recess was taken.
Several votes were obtained during
the day and thus a number of para
graphs were passed upon. Among
these were the paragraph on top
waste, etc., on which the committee
amendment increased the house rate
on wool top waste and other wastes
from 20 cents per pound to 30 cents
per pound. which on division of the
senate was adopted by vote of forty
to thirty.
This was a finance committee
change and the committee scored it's
usual majority on this as on all other
votes of the day. Senators Gamble
and Crawford deserted the progress
sives" but with these exceptions the
ranks of that contingent remained
unbroken. A vote was also obtained
upon the committee amendment in
creasing the duty on shoddy from 20
cents per pound to 25 cents and that
on. tops from IS to 20 cents, the COM
mittee prevailing in both cases.
Speeches were made during the day
by Senators Warren and LaFollette,
the former advocating, as on yester-
day, generally increased duty, while
the latter contended, as on previous
occasions, for a general reduction.
The two senator's engaged in sharp
controversy during which Mr.. LaFol-
lette said that those in the senate who
believed with him had increased from
nothing to dozen. He said he ex-
pected further accretions from the
east.
Probably the most interesting de-
.velopment of the day was a declara-
ton by Senator Dolliver that a rag
trust" exists. The Iowa senator de-
clared such to be the case, but he was
contradicted by Mr.. Warren, who de-
clared that If such a trust should
exist he would know about it and he
added that ,he had no knowledge
of it.
At the beginning Of the days ses-
sion letter was read from Cover
nor Durbin of Indiana advising
prompt action on the tariff bill.
Night Session.
With forty-six senator's present, MIR.
LaFollette resumed the floor at the
night session taking up the compen-
satory duty of the wool schedule. He
read from comment on the Ameri-
can wool industry by the British
tariff commission in 1905 to the effect
that conditions in the United States
had improved to such an extent that
it was doubtful If Great Britain could
compete with the American manufac-
turers Of mems goods even If the low
rates of duty were restored. 1t also
wages worked both ways and that the
difference did not compensate entire
ly for the increased efficiency of labor
in America.
The experts also stated that the
u16ACl Wd6Co uOic dIIIdCIcu SOL1lC VI
the most competent artisans in Eng
land.
The report declared that the Ameri-
can Woolen company controls sixty
per cent of the woolen industry of the
United States. Mr.. LaFollette read
from decision of the treasury de-
partment, which. he said, emphasized
the extral agance of the compensatory
duty.
Mr.. LaFollette endeavored to show
that the cloth upon which is assessed
a compensatory duty on the ground
that 1t contains four pounds of wool
to the yard. does not as rule con-
tain that much wool. Mr.. Warren,
claiming that he quoted from Mr.. La
Follette's authority, asked if it was
not true that it often took more than
six pounds of wool to the yard of
cloth. A heated argument resulted.
in which Mr.. LaFollette declared that
he was not in the habit of juggling
with facts.
Mr.. LaFollette declared that Presi-
dent Taft could not have carried the
last election If the voters had not
interpreted the Chicago platform to
mean that the Republican party was
pAOu6Cu W IdAlh ICplolOH uOWlWdIu.
He asserted that unless the tariff was
revised downward the work probably
would have to be done over at an
earlier date than the ten years that
is said to be the life of tariff law.
An Increase.
An interesting discussion took place
over an amendment increasing the
house rates on woolen rags. mungo
and flocks from six cents to ten cents
a pound. Messrs. Warren and Smoot
insisted that the lower rate would
displace pure wools with shoddy in
the making of American wooden cloth
for clothing. Mr.. Dolliver. speaking
for the lower rate. said he wanted
the duty high enough to keep rags out
but not high enough to permit the