The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-31
FEW MEMBERS PRESENT
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were receiving royalties on the produe
I ton of their wells.
Are the Independents in greater need
of protection from foreign competition
or from the Standard Oil company's
lawless methodist inquired Mr.. James
of Kentucky.
Mr.. Vreeland replied that until the
Mexican field developed the American
producer needed no protection from
any spot on earth.
The Democrat platform was right
in demanding free lumber" said Mr.
Kitchin of North Carolina in opposing
the bill. The great beneficiaries of the
tariff on lumber. he said. were the big
syndicates of stumpage holders in the
northwest and on the Pacific coast.
Mr.. Kitchin accused those favoring
a duty on lumber. including some of his
Democratic colleagues. of having been
scared by Mexican. Canadian and Aus
stralian lumber ghosts. He declared
that as matter of fact each of those
countries shipped to the Tn ted States
a little over million feet of lumber
a year while the exports to Mexico by
the United States reached a total of
900 feet a year. and TO Australia
100 eco 900 feet. And yet" he said,
you let these ghosts appear before
your eyes and YOU say. We'll, gentle
men, we demand protection.
Dwelling on the theory that Presi-
dent Taft would not be intensely parti
son on the tariff, Mir. Cox of Ohio de-
ciared that in the future public opinion
based on the results of the tariff bill
would either be confirmatory of that
theory or the view would gain ground
that the administration, with TheodoT,
Roosevelt far away, has resumed the
old. beaten paths of the Republican
party
In adopting the amendments sug-
gested by him, Mr.. Cox declared that
congress would show due considcTat ton
for the great working masses of our
people, who have had ne Their the
means nor opportunity 20 maintain lob
bies here, to give lavish banquets and
conduct a systematic and expensive
pTOpa ganda in their interest.
A spirited discussion among Messrs.
Kitchin. Dies (Texas). Graham and
Burke 1Pennsylvania) came next. The
Texas member accused Ktchin OF
being free trader. which brought the
retort that those Democrats who were
asking fer protection for their sections
on the plea that it was for revenue
only should come forward and admit
that the Republican party had been
right and the Democratic party wrong.
Mr. kitchin said that under Cleve-
lands free trade policy there were
shipped to the United States but 5.0O0.-
600 more feet of lumber than came in
under the Mckinley law.
They did not have the money to buy
it," interjected Mr. Graham. Demo-
cratic applause met the reply Of Mr..
kitChin that only a year ago even
bankers and trust companies had no
money. He mentioned in particular
Pittsburg. that citadel of protection"
He declared that Pittsburg sent to
congress representatives who would
vote for special interests.
This utterance aroused Mr.. Burke
who vigorously denied its accuracy.
Mr.. Kitchin declared that the final
tariff bill would be made by four men,
two I'm the house and two in the SEN
ate. You know who they are" he
explained, facing the Republicans
That is the bill you are going to SWal-
low he said. and for that reason they
have put things in the Republican
house bill TO please those western Re
Dublicans. and they are going to take
off I'm the senate so you can go be-
fore your people and say well. now
We have done the best We could We
passed il in the house. and that dog
goned senate just IMPLY ripped il up. 80
Taking up the question of Oriental
labor employed in the lumber mills. Mr.
kltcnn insisted that despite the con-
tentions 80 the contrary of Mr.. Hum
phTey of Washington. there were more
Orientais employed in the lumber IN
dustry I'm Washington state than in
British Columbia and that the wages
in the latter country were about as
high as in Washington.
At the night session Mr. Mckinley
of California advocated delioeratiOn i'm
removing dut es from articles involv-
ing possible Oriental competition.
Mr. BoTlsnd Of Missouri character
lied the Payne bill as a "manufactur-
ers measure exclusively He de-
manded an honest revision of the tariff
downward on behalf of the great army
of producers and consumers in the mid
die west. He said they had long since
grown tired of the old Dingley bill. He
declared the bill mot only picks the
pockets Of the American consumer but
1t sandbags the American producers"
Mr.. Byrd of Mississippi advocated the
free admission of lumber.