The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-16
Senator's Who Favor Revision
Downward Pleased by the At
tjtude of AIdrich.
ENTIRE SESSION TAKEN
UP BY ONE SUBJECT
Senate Agrees to Put in More
Time Daily to Hasten
It's Work.

ASHINGION, May 15.-The low
cring Of duties in the case Of eight or
len classes of wire goods contained i'll
the steel schedule, upon motion of Sen
ator Aldrich, in CHARGE of the tariff
bill, gave great encouragement today
to senators who are advocating re-
vision downward. With evident grail
iication, Senator Beveridgc greeted
these proposed amendments bv the
chairman Of thc fuauce committee by
declaring:
Good; that s making progress.
The entire session of the senate was
devoted 10 the steel schedule. the sec
tiou relating to penknivcs being under
consideration when the senate adj
lourncd TO meet at 10 O'Clock Monday
morning, one hour earlier than the sen
ate has been beginning business during
the last ten days.
Gore Stirs Up Storm.
As soon as a quorum was announced
in the senate today, Mr.. Gore, the blind
senator from Oklahoma, precipitated a
lively debate by asking immediate con-
sldcration of Il resolution instructing
the committee on finance to obtain by
investigation the import prices Of vari-
ous articles of general and ordinary
consumption and also the Wholesale and
retail prices Of such articles when used
in this country. The object of the
resolution Is to determine whether the
retailers Of the country are practicing
eXtoTtion.
In moving the resolution be referred
10 the committee on finance, Mr.. Hale
said it conferred no new authority on
that committee and could only embar
raSS It,
La, n
dealers had been held up before the
country as practicing eXtortion, and he
wanted to have the facts TO determine
whether that was true.
Calls Retailers Robbers.
''Thc retail men are robbers and. -
he said, ''tbev should be held up 1o
the wrath and eXecratiou of their coun-
trvmen,
Mr. Gore said he had investigated and
found that the pitchers referred TO by
Senator Scott as selling at wholesale at
80 cents a dozen, rctailed at ID and
sometimes 10 cents each. instead OF %
cents, as stated.
Consideration of the resolution was
postponed until Monday.
Mr.. Johnston OF Alabama treated the
tariff humorously, He congratulated
the majority that it had placed
"spunk'' on the free list, aud said that
if there was more of that article the
Republicans would make better tariff
bill.
$50 far as | have Observed said
Mr.. Johnston, ''not a single Democrat
has advocated protection for IL single
article, and in no case, so far as J. have
observed, has proposal been made TO
impose a revenue duty greater than 90
per cent, whilst the average rate under
this bill is nearly 40 per cent. Reduc-
IL. H. Ill
only three schedules and it is notice
able that two of these include articles
largely produced in the south, and in
the other the reduction is less than one
per cent
Sins of Protection.
, Protection has enough sins 70
answer to without adding to them un-
fair discrimination.
When the steel schedule WAS taken /
up. Mr., Aldrich withdrew the amend
ment of the committee on finance IN |
creaSiug the duty on structural steel /
from thrcc-tenths to four-tenths of a
cent a pound and the house provision of !
thrce-tcnths Of one cent pound was
adopted.
Referring to this amendment to this
not permitting structural
steel 30 be assembled when imported,
Mr. Adrich said;
.FThc rates Of duty in this indus
try have been cut nearly one-h half aud
] desire TO place on record the great
that we may be commit
ting a grave injustice to this great iu-
1ustry. -
He said the manufacturers of Belgium
and Germany. may be able, under these
rates, 10 send in their structural iron
and steel when they have surplus or
The conditions warrant such action,
Fight for Reduction
Senators Cummins, Ncwlands and
smith (South Carolina) contendcd that
wen with the reduced rate the duty
vas TOO high
Reading from the testimony of Mr..
Carnegie before the ways and means
concernInG profits in the
tcel industry, Mr.. Tillman declared Mr..
.arnegle had made vast amount of
money by favoritlsm in legislation. 81
will not say by dishonesty, said Mr..
rillman, because he has only taken
dvaptagc Of the laws VIC pass. But
c has made more money than the en-
ire bunch Of us here put together. and
lie has given away more money than !
II The Democrats OF this body pos
times as much | expect -
Mr.. Ncwlands declared Mr., Aldrich
roposcd to increase the duty ON struc-
ural steel, but that the explanation
iven of the new rate showed the cf
Get would he TO reduce the rate from
10 TO SO per ton. The paragraph was
assed over. I
Some Special Protection. s
When the paragraph on steel bars, 7
lates and sheets and pressed steel was
cached. Mr.. Culberson desired jnforma. t
on regarding several additional values n
steel which were provided with
Ugh duties by the finance committee. a
lr. Aldrich explained that the addi. 81
onal brackets were put in to provide h
'ir rates of duty on several new kinds n
stecl-eXpensivc high speed steel, ST
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