Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-01
FOR FREE Iron, OIL,
COAL AMI. LUMBER.
Senator McCumber. Protectionist.
And Republican, Says Should &
Be No Tariff on Them.
REVISION TO BE DoWNWARDs.
Asserts That is Universal Understand
ing of What it Means
This Year.

Washington, April s0.An extended
speech by Senator M cCumber favorinS
free lumber occupied several hours IL,
the senate today. His remarks
provoked an extended controversy
among advocates of a tariff on lumber.
Mr., McCumher said, while he was q
thorough protectionist, he would not
agree TO a tariff on products such aas
coal, iron ore. lumber and oil. that are
being exhausted and cannot be re-
placed. Senator Aldrich reported from
the committee OF finance additional
amendments to the bill and the senate
adopted a. motion made iby him that
until further notice the senate shall
meet at IL o'clock daily.
Fayoring a tariff for revenue only,
Senator Fletcher OF Florida today
spoke in favor of retaining the tax on
lumber now provided by the Dingley
bill and on long staple cotton and other
southern products.
BRYAN CRITICIZED.
Mr.. j Johnson Of North Dakota made
his maiden speech in reply to d state
ment during the campaign by w. j.
Bryan, who, he said, had been fooled
by the countervaiing clause in the pes
5troleum schedule by which petroleum
brought into this country pays the
duty levied on American oil imported
into Russia
Mr.. johnson severely criticized Mr.
Bryan as having been largely RESPONSE
bic for such a clause remaining in the
Wilson bill
No resources Of the country which,
when once utilized, cannot be repro-
duced, and which are certain OF ex-
haustion III comparatively few years
have been protected against importa-
ton. declared Senator McCumber of
North Dakota.
mo tariff lie added, SHOULD be fe-
WED upon iron, coal, oil OF timber
Except for these, he said, he was as
strong an advocate of American protec-
ton as any senator.
Mr.. McCaimber said that tariff revi-
sion this year Is universally under-
stood to mean revision downward. He
asserted that lumber needed no protec-
tion and that no other industry had
produced more lnillionafres for the
amount invested than the lumber in
dustry. He believed, however, that the
bill docs, for the most part, meet tho
just demands Of the peonle. =
He remarked that the southern DEM
ocrats are making stronger appeals for
protection than the Republicans of the
old school, and Senator Tillman inter-
fupted him to say:
I'VE are getting so badly mixed that
1t is hard to tell the sheep from the
goats, and l am afraid that before we
enough for all the hogs to get their
scraps"
Senator Tillman said some Republic
can members were making speeches III
accordance with Democratic principles,
while some Democratic members were
delivering excellent Republican, speech
es. He argued that the United States
can compete in the open market OF the
world for steel rails and other steel
manufactures, yet Carnegie and
schwab and Corey and Gary and that
crowd have Influence enough to have
high rates OF duty retained"
Nh. McCumher replied that he
would be glad to vote with Mr.. Till
man on any schedule, the rates of
which MT. Tillman could prove were
higher than was necessary to protect
the difference In labor cost III Ameri-
ca and abroad.
HOG FEEDING ILLUSTRATIONS
II deny that there is any one policy
that can make one-half of the Ameri-
poor" said Mr.. McCumber, suggesting
that Mr.. Tillman would agree that
there Is no way OF feeding a. pig so
that one side would be Lean and the
other side fat
The senator from South Carolina. he
said, seemed to have an idea that no
one could be honest but himself.
Mr.. Tillman took exception to this /
and asked:
Does q hog ever get grown?" ga
The senator from North Dakota re-
fused to answer this question directly
and provoked another colloquy in
which Mr.. McCumber3 referred to Mr..
Tillman as a cornfield lawyer, to which
the latter replied that the senator from
North Dakota, was not "a conf1eld law
yer. ..but some other kind
Mr. McCu1nber presented statistical
estin;etes TO show that the coal OF the
United States, at the present rate of
consumption, would last 100 years. iron
ore so years. lumber 80 years, and oil
from 20 to so. years, and maintained
that the best way to conserve these
supplies would be to permit importa-
ton of such products.