The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-09
PIC LEAD DUTY IS
THEME OF SENATE
Entire Day Consumed in Debate
Without Reaching Agree
ment to Vote.
STRENUOUS EFFORTS
TO REDUCE THE TARIFF
Guggenheim Interests Brought
Into Controversy i'll In
direct Manner.

WASHINGTON, May S,-The senate
tariff debate on pig lead and its
products lasted all day without reach
ing vote.
AS soon as the tariff bill was taken
| up by the senate today, and section 10.
| putting duty Of 25s cents per pound
on pig lead, was read, Senator Bristow
arose to oppose the increase from 2l2
cents a pound as provided in the
house, but saying the increased rate
would make it equal to tho rate of the
Dingley bill Mr. Bristow read from
tariff hearings held by the ways and
means committee TO show that it was
| there coptcnded that this increase, If
made. would ncccssiate an Increase of
duties on other ingredients that are
used in making paint.
ttIt makes no difference what the
house did from time TO time said
Mr.. Aldricb "Wc are here TO do JUS
tice TO this industry in view of the
facts Of the case He added that Mr..
Leishberger, from whose testimony Mr..
Bristow read, WAS trying 10 break
uO"Jl lDS NnplC Jclu SSllGuUlc.
1.-The facts stated by this witness
arc the important, things interposed
Mr., Bevcridgc. land II makes no DIFF
ference what his personal views are on
the tariff, or on the acroplanes. We
are here to know the facts. and if Mr..
Leischberger testimony is not true,
we should know il "
Smoot Breaks In.
Mr.. Smoot remarked that Mr..
Beiscbberger was smeltermap and q
purchaser of lead, and Mr.. Brstow re
torted by saying:
'Ihe purchaser Of lead has more
right than most men who have lead for
sale Mr.. Rristow coutcnded that the
ditlerentlal provided by the duty
recommended by the committee on
She cost of smelling. and unwarrautcd
The reading Of the testimony Of Mr
Brush ef the American Smelling and
refining company provoked colloquies
among senators, during which Senators
Smoot Q-tah), and smith (dich)
suggested that he was influenced By
his hlex1can interests, and by the in
forests Of his business, so that his les
tino1Y should not be taken as salts
factory.
Mr.. Smoot declared that he knew
Mr.. Rrush, and had every confidence
he said. IN anything he might saw. He
was liable 90 he affected in his
views, he said. and in his opinions bv
his interests. as all men are; but he
added: Whatever he says. whether
or not under oath, am certain he saws
what he honestly believes
Roasts Committee s Work.
Mr.; Burkett condemned the method
ny which the committee on finance pre-
pared its bin without hearings.
Business men, be said. Hhave had
70 come here chasing senator's up aud
down these corridors in an effort 10 oct
a hearing.
Senators may think the people are
not watching this bill, But You can
not fool them on these scheduIes-ou
Lumber. wire, nails, steel and iron. They
know about these things and if we are
to 90 out aud defend the bill il seems
to me we ought to have in print the
evidence of men who do know about
these things and ought not to be left
to grope about in the darkness as VIC
have had TO do. -
He declared that sometimes not
even quorum Of the committee was
Gu hand IN the senate TO give informs.
ton and insisted that whenever he
should feel justified BE would vote 10
lower the duties on articles that ap-
F'dLNp W pt 100 D)0U.
There are whole LOT Of neople -
he said, who are more interested iu
having tins bill made right than in hav-
ing 1t finished in hurry, aud / for
one, am willing 10 stay here all sum
mcr to make it absolutely right
Defense of Aldrich.
Replying TO Mr. Burkett, Mr.. Aldricb
SAID with great earnestness that if the
sonatc stayed in session until all the
senators understood every schedule in
the bill they would not only be here all
summer. but for ten years.
Tho Republican members of the com.
mittec on finance, MI Adrich said. had
worked sixteen or eighteen hours daily
{ III framing their amendments to the
tariff bill. a vast number of peoplo had
called on members of the committee
! and 999 out of every 1000 of them had
come to obtain increases in the duties
! III which they were interested.
! 'The senator from Nebraska he
continued, ''talks about the consumers
not being represented before the com.
! mitter on finance. Who are the con
| snpIors? is there any class except a
! limited number who are consumers and
not Produeers7 Are they entitled TO
more consideration than anybody else I?
Tn3 consumers of Nebraska are moro
! interested in the preservation of the
! protective system than they are in any
otEcr public policy which is involved
in the work of congress. -
Bases of Prosperity.
The prosperity Of. the people of Ne
! braska, as Of the country generally de-
pended, he said, upon the maiutainance
Of the protective tariff. 81 have seen
productions of Nebraska and other ag.
ricultnral states mount year by year
until the increasing cost of living ir
this country is owing almost entirelt
TO the increase in the price Of agricuJ q.
tural products" he added.
Mr., Aldrich said he had not intended
TO show any impatiencc toward senators
who had sought information concerning
the schedules Of the tariff, but he was
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