The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-11
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Aldrich and Beveridge
Engage id Verbal
Combat

Washington, May l0-A tilt between
Senators Aldrich and Beveridge was
the opening feature in the senate to-
day. That body had no sooner been
called to order than the senator from
Indiana took the floor. He spoke of
the address OF Senator Carter last
Saturday, in which the Montana SEN
ator referred to the abundance OF in
, formation to the pending bill available
TO senators,
Il think the senate understands
this speech" said Mr. Beyeridge. "but
In order that the country may under
stand II. | will ask the clerk to read
an extract from the Congressional Re
cord
The extract read was from a speech
by Senator McCumber. in which COM
plant was made that no information
was available for senators showing
the comparative cost of articles In
the tariff schedules in our country and
abroad, and in which it was suggested
that bureau 10 provide such in forma-
ton should be created
Mr. Beveridge then sent to the desk
for another extract from a statement
p1 AluilCI W Dt lcdu Wy luC tlGl n,
the chairman of the committee on a.
nance being quoted as saying:
Il have no knowledge whatever Of
anything that transpired upon tho
ways and mans committee" etc.
Mr.. Aldrich said his statement had
related only to the hearings of min
erals under consideration when he
spoke, and did not refer to the hear
ings as a whole because he had read
much of the report of those hearings.
II have given thirty years to the
consideration of these matters" said
Mr.. Aldrich. "and while | may not
have the ability of the senator of In
diana, yet, such as / have, / have
brought to this question. and IL the
senator Will give a fraction of the time
to the consideration of these matters
that | have given, he will serve his
constituency and the country better
than by proclnlming to everybody the
lack of information"
Mr.. Hepburn, having the floor. de-
clined to permit any further interTup-
ton He spoke at length in discussing
the lead schedule, explaining mining
methods and the systems OF treating
lead ore. In order to demonstrate the
necessity of differential duty on pig
ore and other products of lead ores.
All the industries of Idaho. said Mr..
Hepburn, encircle the lead mines. and
disaster to the mines would result in
general business stagnation. He
claimed that without the protection
to pig lead. provided by the act Of
the committee on finance, the lead in
dustIy could not continue, Smelling
in Mexico, he said, costs but one half
as much as mere, and mining about
two-thirds.
AS compromise between the con-
tention of senators who have contend
ed against giving any differential for
pig lead and those who have insisted
in the proposition of the finance COM
mittee, Senator Cummins offered an
amendment, fixing the duty at S-S
OF a cent pound. in addition to the
duty of one and oDe-half cents pound
on the lead in lead ores.
Statements by Mr.. Cummins, re-
garding the freight rates on lead ore
from western states to New York
were disputed by Messrs- Aldrlch,
Borah, Sutherland and Smoot. Mr..
Smoot was particularly emphatic In
stating that the rate was about $25
a ton and not Sc or 81, as claimed by
Mr.. CumminS.
The Iowa senator declared. how
ever, that If there was any railroad
charging rate of S25 a ton on lead
ore from Salt Lake to New York. con-
H. al Il aaI1 10. 10
ments from the consideration of the
tariff and deal vigorously with any
such railway.
In the opinion Of Mr. Borah. no form
OF legislation would hurt the lead and
smelter trusts 1t was idle he con.
tended. for any one to say there werc
no such trusts. So thoroughly in
trenched were they, he said. that they
easily could avoid the provisions of
the bill by transferring their bases
of operations.
Referring 20 the criticism, which he
said had been heaped upon certain sen
ators. Mr.. Nelson said he was tired OF
being lectured about the schedules of
the bill and The orthodoxy of the Re
publican party
Let us recognize the fact" he said.
that the tariff bill is just like the
rivers and harbors bill. You tickle me
and I'll tickle you. You give US what
we want on rhe Pacific coast for our
lead ore and cur citrus fruits, and We
will tickle the people of New England
and give them what they want or
their cotton goods"
Mr. Nelson said all comparisons
were being made on the basis OF 'tho
poor laboring man in his competition
with the poems OF Mexico and In other
ways" He said he wished some of
the senators who were interested In
smelling and refining trusts could be
compared with the Mexican poems.