The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-12
HUGE OUTCRY
AGAINST THE
COFFEE DUTY
Would Mean a Gift of $685.
100000 to importers Who
Have Loaded Up.
FORESTER PINCH0T
EXPRESSES OPINION
SAYS REMOVAL OF DUTY WOULD
NOT REDUCE THE PRICE
OF LUMBER.

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Jackson. Miss, March l1.-That the
= proposed revision of the tariff will =
y result in the preparation of 4 fraud y
= on the nation is the opinion expressed y
= by United States Senator J. a. Nc y
= Laurin today. Senator McLaurin y
Z said:
= 1T is not the Republican intention y
= to reduce the tariff to any material y
y extent 1t is the nAiTpose Of the party :
y in power to continue it as a protec-
y tive tariff and in many instances
y even make it prohibitive."
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Washington, March 11.-With the Payne
tariff bill practically ready to be intro
duccd on the first day of the special ses-
sion. newspaper correspondents anxious to
learn what has been done with schedules
affecting the section in which their pa
pers circulate and manufacturers and 9TH
ers who have interests that will be af-
fected by the new measure, gather daily
at the ways and means committee room
in an effort to learn something regarding
the rev bill. No legislative measure has
been so carefully guarded as the docu-
ment now being framed.
Tax on Coffee.
The proposition that has given the COM
mittee the most concern and which has
been the most difficult to determine, IS Inc
plan to tax coffee. Some Republican MEM
bers declare that the taxing of the break
fast table would make it impossible for
the Republicans to carry their districts at
the next election. The National Coffee *
Tea association wrote to the committee
that tax on coffee o. tea would be IN
just to consumers, detrimental to trade.
irritating to the masses and finally would
fail TO produce any material revenue to
the government for nearly two years 70
come.
a duty of cents upon coffee would
mean an immediate profit of at least $3.50
pcr bag upon every bag in the United
States to owners thereof" is the claim
made in brief. There being nearly 100000
bags at present held here by individuals,
corporations and Wall street speculative
interests. such d duty would mean profit
Of Sc, 0t9 coo 10 the owners and holders
tHSre1f but it would not mean one dollar
- into the United States treasury
Pulp People View With Alarm"
Paper and pulp manufacturers have ex-
pressed great alarm over the report that
the committee would inCiuTs in the bill
the changes in the pulp paper schedule
recommended in the report of the Mann
committee, which Investigated the pulp
and paper questions. The American Pa
per & Pulp associa ton through its presi-
dent. Arthur c, Hastings has submitted
a lengthy brief urging certain changes in
the recommendations made by the select
committee.
1--WE cannot too emphaticaly state that
- recommendation OF tn scIecj commit
tee fill US with alarm" SAYS Mr.. Hast
ings and we believe if adopted would
inevitably be injurious 10 our industry.
10 the country, and ultimately to the con-
sumer."
The Mid-Coutinent Oil & Gas Producers
association, claiming to embrace in its
membership the owners of S7la per cent
of the producing oil wells III Oklahoma
and Kansas. which produce 60 per cent
Of the high grade refining crude oil of the
United States, has submitted d brief uTg-
ing that the present cOunteTvailing clause
Of the Dingley tariff imposes on oil inn
ported from other countries the same duty
which they collect IN oil imported to
them from this country.