Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-06
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS TELL
PRESIDENT SENATE OBJECTS;
LoEB's FRIENDS SAY HE is TO
BE COLLECTOR.
INTEREST FELT IN
CUMMINS' MOVE
SENATOR'S REPUTATION AS "TAR.
IFF REEORMER" LEADS SENATE
TO BELIEVE THAT OTHER
MOVES ARE TO FOLLOW.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 4.
Two striking amendments to the
senate rules, prepared by Vice
President Fairbanks, were intro
duced in the senate today by
Lodge. Their effect is to prevent
a senator from referring often
sively to Gather the president,
the courts or the house OF repres-
entatives, and to put an end to
the reading OF documents which
have no bearing upon the sub
jects under discussion where
such reading is for the sole pur-
pose Of advancing a filibuster.
Washington. D. c., Feb. 4.-Con.
gressional leaders have informed Pres
ident Roosevelt that there is little
chance of statehood for New Mexico
and Arizona getting through at this
session. Opposition in the senate is
given as the reason.
Loeb to be Port Collector.
Friends of William Loeb, .Jr., secre-
tary to the president, made the defin-
lite statement today that he is to be,
come collector of the port of New
York at the beginning of the next adj
ministration. 1t is also stated Loeb is
to become the confidential political ad-
wiser Of the next president on New
York matters.
Publisher Talks on Tariff.
John Norris of the American News
paper Publishers association sent to,
day to the house ways and means com,
mittee a letter wherein he charged
that the International Paper company
in presenting it's argument for the re.
tention of the tariff on paper had de,
liberately misrepresented to the com.
mittee the amounts paid by the paper
company as wages to papermakers
He charged that in making COMPARE
sons with the Canadian mills to show
the relative pay for labor the Internal
tional company had understated the
amounts paid by the Canadian mills
and that 1856 rates out of 14S cited by
the International, purporting to cover
its own payrolls were over estimated
He declared the comparison of the
wages paid to American and foreign
labor as set up by the paper manufac
turers at the tariff hearing was wrong
and that the manufacturers should
have known it was wrong
Interest in Cmmins' Resolution.
Considerable interest was expressed
bv the senators today on the action OF
Senator Cummins of Iowa. who or
yesterday began his fight in favor OF
a specific Instead Of advalorum duties
on imports. The Cummins' resolution
calling on the secretary of the treas
ury for information showing the cost
Of collecting duties under these two
forms and levying a tax will be con-
sidered by the committee on finance
and will probably be reported to thu
senate at an early date.
This data is expected to throw ligh
on the expense involved in the collec-
ton of advalorem duties on accoun
Of the fraud frequently involved in thu
declaration of value and will be uset
by Cummins in the extra session O
congress to show that specific duties
are simpler and more to the advantage
Of the government and to honest i'm
porters than is the advalorem tax
The resolution is the first of many eX
pressions on the tariff which are ex
pected to come from the Iowa senator
who for SO many years before his cleo
ton to the senate had made a recor,
as tariff reformer.'