The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-21
DEMOCRATS
 GAIN POINT Cotton Seed Oil on Free
 List. SENATOR ALDRIcH GIVES IN Southefn Senators Make Fight op
 Tariff. = Senator Daniei, Of virxinia, Declares His Policy Is To Protect Ameri- can Interests--Myers High
 Duty On Quebrsebo. 

Washington, May 2o.--A recommene dation by the committee on fivance of a duty of three cents gallon on cot ton seed oil, in connection with the tar if bill. proved to be a firebrand on the Democratic side of the Senate to- day.
 Replying to Mir. I.ilmaa. MT. Aldrich explained that the Dinglcy law pro- yided for a duty of four cents gai- Ion on cotton seed oil so that the rec l ommendation caused a reduction Of one cent a gallon. This did not pacify the Dem ocratic Senators. Messrs. Tiilmcn, Bacon and Money insisted that they wanted no duty whatever. Mir. Aidrich then proposed to withdraw his amend ment but that did not end the criti- cism. Finally, at 1:4b D. n.. hecapse Of this criticism from certlIa Southern Senators, MT. Aldrich withdrew tho cotton seed oil amendment. Tn the debate that led to this witi.- drawal, Mir. A1drich said Ger -iany and other countries were offering jounttes | for the production of cotton reed oil and he believed if the American mar ket were not protected. tt would bc overhowed with the foreign product. He had been appealed to by Southern | men engaged in this industry for the protection he suggested.
 Mir. Bacon declared ths American cotton seed oil needed no protecrion but he feared such duty would result in having maximum duties imposed tn cotton seed now 3dmitted to those countries free of duty as well ns on other duties on American products, put Mir. Aidrich would not conceds the l point.
 MT. Tillman wanted to keep up the markets abroad for cotton seed and when asked by Mfr. Aldrich If he would see the cotton seed oil made abroad | and then imported into the United States, be replied:
 psof course would if we get n high | CT price on cotton seed. Tho farmers are entitled to some consideration.
 Mir. Shoot suggested that tcheap la- bor abroad would produ5o cotton seed l oil cheaper than in the United states and Mir NTiliman, with energy -otorted:
 ''Cheaper than in the South: Cheap 1 CT than we can produce 1t with our ne- l gro labor of fifty to seyenty-fivo certsa l day? Who ever told the Scratcr mat lied ana he knsw n:S M ss ,oo. gao lyinss sss.. are some countries in which ;abor is paid even less than fifty cents a day" Mr. Money sarcasticalfy observed:
 Tt is gratifying to the pc ople of the South to find the Senators from ithode Island and Utah 70 sot'citous about cotton although they could not grow cotton and know nothing about it."
 Mir. Money said the South needed no protection on cotton seed oil
 Mir. Beveridge Inquired whethLr 1t was fully understood that tle arnend- ment was withdrawn and that cotton seed oil was on the free list as pro- vided in the Payno bill. Mir. Aldrich nodded assent and the clair 30 sn- nounced.
 Mr. Simmons then reiterated his he- lief that small duty should Dc placed on cotton seed oil.
 Senator Daniel Speaks.
 q want to protect American inter sRts. That is my policy. I don't care what name you caII it. am for 1t " This was the statement with which John w. Daniel (Va.D today began speech in the Senate in support of a high duty on que6racho, which Is chestnut bark extract used in tenning and which is produced In nj. State. The Senate committee on nnance has reduced the House rate and he wanted the House figure retained.
 The Virginia Senator aroused much interest on the Republican side of the chamber and Mir. Aldrich gave especial attention to his remarks. a; times nod ding a smiling assent tn the proposi- 4tion of the Virginia Senators.
 A voice from the South offsctting the protective declarations of MT. Daniel came promptly from Mir. Smith $. e.,
 
 the Senate. Ills thvIne was the evil of destroying the forests and watersheds of the Caroiinas and Virginia by strip ping the bark from the chestnut tree for the purpose of manufacturing que bracho extract Recent destructive floods in his State, he said. had result cd from stripping the up.ands and mountains of their forests.
 Incidentally Mir. Smith discussed what he declared were the inequalities of the protective tarifr system. The preservation of the forests. he con- tended, was more important than the encouragement of an industry in pro. ducts for which substitutes could be obtained cheaply from abroad. Destroy the forests. he argred. and the great cotton crop of the South would be en- dangered.
 Carolina, Mir. simraons, of the old North State, rstorted in support of the principles favored by Mir. Daniel. He denied that the forests were being de- nuded by either the tan bark extract industry or by the making of wood pulp.
 oYering an amendment to further reduce the duty on quebrasho to one- fourth of cent 6 pound. Mir. LaFol- Iette declared that the tanning indus try was being driven to Capada where 0uebracho is admitted free of duty.
 
 have been killed on so that now only the inferior chestnut is left which can be used successfully to make an ex- tract to mix with the imported que bracho By a vote of 20 to SS, the La- Toilette amendment was reiectec, Sem ators LaTollette, McCumber, Nelson. smith of Michigan, Bsveridge. Borah, Brown, Burkett, Cummins, Clapp. Dol- liver and Gamble. Republicans voting with the Democrats. in favor of the reduction, while Senators Goster. Mar tin Simmons, Daniel and Smith of Maryland. Democrats, voted with the Republicans, against the reduction.
 By viva voce vote the duty rec commended by the committee of half a cent pound was agreed to.
 Trusts are Ghosts.
 "The trusts are ghosts" declared Mir. Hepburn. in replying to sugRes- tions that the Head trust" was In- terested in the duty on lead.
 Mir. Nelson taunted Mir. Heyburn on the former attitude of his State on the silver question.
 q never followed the silver god out of the Republican party" replied Mir. Hepburn.
 You are following a lead god now" retortsd Mfr. Nelson, amid general laughter.