The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
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The Senate was in session only an
hour and fifteen minutes Thursday and
adjourned until Monday. Practically
all the time, except fifteen minutes
spent in executive session. was devot-
ed 10 the Introduction of bills. resolu-
tons and memorials. The only action
taken was the passage of a resolution
allowing the rotunda of the capitol to
be used for the ceremonies connected
with the transfer Of the remains of
Major fEnfant from a farm in Mary
land TO the Arlington National Gene
terry. 4 voluntary admission by Mr..
Nreeland of New York that he was to
some extent responsible for the reten-
ton in the Payne tariff bill of the
countervailing duty on oil was the eli
max of the days discussion of the tar
If in the House. Mr.. Vreeland had
sat for some time and heard various
insinuations that that duty. which some
have characterized as Il Joker" was TO
be levied solely il the interest of the
Standard Oil Company This he denied.
and explained that his action was In
response to requests from thousands Of
his oil-producing constituents and in be-
half of 100000 others engaged in the
same business. The debate on the oil
schedule called forth some bitter criti-
cism of the Standard Oil Company by
Mr.. FISHERMAN of Wisconsin and 9th
ers. Numerous speeches were made
touching the tariff question generally.
The arguments from the Democratic
standpoint were for a tariff for revenue
only, while Republicans attacked such
schedules as those on wool. wood pulp
and print paper and crude petroleum.
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The Senate was not in session Fri
day. The monotony of the tariff de-
bate in the House was relieved for a
time by clash between Messrs. Ford
ney of Michigan and Byrd of Missis-
sippi. which came near ending in
blows. Mr.. Fordney had been MAX
ing an exhaustive discussion of the
lumber schedule. when he was inter
rupted by the Mississippian. who in
sisted that the lumber manufacturers.
of which Mr.. Fordney was one. were
in trust. Mr.. Fordney peremptorily
denied the statement and said that
Mr. Byrd didn't know Il d--n thing
about it," The Mississippi member
made move toward Mr. Fordney
and was in the act of removing his
coat when some of his Democratic
colleagues took hold of him. Later il
developed that the incident grew out of
a misunderstanding and both men
made mutual explanations and apollo
gies. Mr.. Fordney made notable
speech on the subject of lumber and
pleaded for better protection on that
product i'm the rough. Dramatically
opposed to him was Mr.. Rowland Of
Ohio. who wanted the product placed
on the FIRE list. Others who spoke
were Messrs. Pou of North Carolina
and Macon Of Arkansas. both of whom
arraigned the Payne bill for not ac-
complishing what it was claimed it
would do, while Mr.. Humphrey of
Washington pleaded for tariff on
shingles and lumber sufficiently high
to enable the lumber and Single
manufacturers of his State to compete
with those of British Columbia, en-
ploying cheap oriental labor.
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The Senate was not i'm session Satur-
day. Debate on the tariff bill in the
House was largely devoted to an aca-
demic discussion of the issue and the
political questions involved although
MIR. Gardner Mass thoroughly re-
viewed the question of free hides and
a tariff on leather goods Mr.. Long
worth (Ohio) and Mr. Harrison of
New York, the new Democratic member
OF the ways and means committee. were
the only Representatives of the tariff
framing committee who made speeches.
Representative Ansberry (Ohio) advo-
Gated free lumber and Mr. Keifer
(Ohio) and Mr.. Slemp (va.) conclud-
ed the speechmaking for the day. the
House adjourning at GIG u. m. to
meet again at 10 o'clock Monday. This
was in accordance with the motion of
Mr.. Payne IN. " that until the con-
clusion of general debate on the tariff
bill the House meet for ten and one
half hours each day. The hours agreed
upon are from 10 in the morning to
6 at night. when a recess of two hours
Is TO be taken. the House to continue
in session from s 10 10 80 at night
There have been nearly 100 requests for
time under general debate made up to
the present