The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-23
HARD FIGHT ON
LUMBER RATE.
IN SENATE TO-DAY
Mccumber Led the De" "s>'ts
for Reduction of Finance
Committee Rates
I|LlMAN GOT INTO CLASH
WITH the SENATE LEADER

Claimed q Statement Made by Aldrich
Was Not True, But All Efforts to
Get Amendments Passed We're
Quickly Voted Down.
Washington, June 23.-Without
sign of speech the senate today be-
gan voting on the lumber schedule as
soon as quorum had been procured.
Whether due to the hot weather or
to the exhaustion of the orators or
from other causes, the change was ac-
cepted as good omen. by those who
are anxious to crowd the tariff bill
to final action and have the session
come to an end. The first vote was
on an amendment by Senator McCum-
Der proposing rate of 81 per thous-
and on sawed lumber instead of the
rate decided upon by the finance COM
mittee, which was $3.50 per thousand.
The committee was sustained by a
vote of a. to "a.
From the beginning Of the session
there has been decided contest over
the lumber rate, and one of the hard
est fights made by the northwestern
senators has been for free lumber. In
the house the reformers succeeded in
reducing the Dingley law rate from
81 to 81. They continued their efforts
in the senate but. finding Themselves
unable to make any impression there
in the interest Of free lumber, they
would have been willing to accept the
house rate. So stiff, however, was the
sentiment against them that they sue
ceeded only in getting a reduction Of
twenty-five per cent from the Dingley
cuty. The majority against the reduce
Aon, as shown by today's vote, indi-
Gates not only that the committees
schedule will remain unchanged in the
senate, but that the sentiment for q
pronounced duty! is SO strong there
that It will be difficult to change the
senate rate In conference. Among the
Republicans who voted in support of
the amendment was Senator McCume
ber Of North Dakota.
p Insisting that tho difterentials on
planed or finished lumber provided by
the finance committee were unneces-
sarily high, Senator McCumber offer
ed an amendment reducing them
33 1-2 per. and reducing the duty
on sawed lumber to $1.25 per thou
sand Get. The action on this amend
ment was not so prompt as the pre-
ceding one. North Dakota's orator
sought an opportunity to explain. He
claimed that modern methods had re-
duced the cost of planning when more
than one side of the board is planed
SO that by single operation, and at
noor1v tho eoYna avnonco onV number
of sides could be finished. Con-
troverting this statement, Senator
Aldrlch had read a letter from a Ver-
mont saw mill man showing that the
mills charged four times as much to
on four sides as to plane 1t on one
side.
Jumping quickly to his feet Sem
ator Tillman denied that such differ
ence of cost would exist.
Anybody who has ever been in "a
saw MILL" he declared, knows that :"
He vociferously chided the Rhode
Island senator, who, Tillman insisted,
was the whole senate" for not
promptly passing the tariff bill. AS
Senator Aldrich protested that he
wished to vote as soon as possible,
the South Carolinian in apologratic
for taking up any time in debate add
ed, when the senator makes the
statement like that I cannot sit here
like an ass, as If I agreed with 1t.
when I know it is not true
An extended discussion concerning
the cost to finished lumber followed
Senator McCumber's amendment was
rejected by a vote of 80 to 49. On
vote Senators Dolliver, DUPONT and
ohnson, Republicans, who had voted
no" on the former ballot, changed to
the affirmative, as did Senators Ba-
con, Owen, Rayner and Stone, Demo-
Gratis.
The Mckinley Law.
Declaring that he had voted with
Mckinley for free hides in 1890, Sen
ator Burton said in the discus
sion yesterday, that the subject had
been very carefully considered on
that occasion. "The beef trust" he
said, probably tans 60 to 20 per cent
of the hides and the whole tanning
industry was threatened by the opera
tions Of these packers.
II think" said Mr.. Burton, 1T re.
quires great deal of ingenuity to
show that the farmer is benefited by
this duty on hides" ,
The idea Of an increased value of a
carcass sold by farmer on account
of duty on hides, said Mr.. Burton,
was q mere phantom. This resulted
from the fact that the hide is but two
per cent of the animal and was sold
by the farmer along with the carcass.
He did not believe there was any
necessity for imposing this duty. Its
continuance, he said, threatened the
tanning and boot and shoe industry
and bid fair to make greater a great
monopoly. -.--,.-,
After speech by Mr.. Taylor. Mr..
Aldrich appealed to Mr.. McLaurin to
withdraw his amendment to the pro-
posed amendment of the finance COM