The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-23

iectei last year from importations of shoes. while more than s5.o00.000 in duties were collected on hide importa- tions.
 Mir. McLAurin insisted that congress had never intended to tax larger hides and said the construction of the para graph, by the treasury department to l that effect was without Justification.
 NO assurance has been given that any benefit whatever will accrue to the consumer of leather goods. by the ad- mission of hides free of duty" said Mir. his speech favoring a duty on these l.articles.
 The boot and shoe industry. MT. Gam ble said had prospered under the duty on hides In the Dfngiey bill In twelve years, he said, exports of boots and shoes had grown from si.4se,ooo to s11, 46e.0
 Senator Hepburn also favored duty The Senate late today adopted the finance committee's amendment placing . duty of Is per cent. ad valorem on hides by vote of 4s to 90. Senator Beveridge piled question af- ter question to the idaho Senator with the intention of showing that John sherman end President Mckinley had been favorable to free hides, but Mir. Hepburn in reply merely placed em- phasis upon the declaration of Repub- lican party platforms. Senator War rem. however, retorted that Mckinley could have put free hides in the Ding 1ey law if he had cared to do so. Mir. Beveridge contended that 1t was as reasonable to make hides free as to make horns and hoofs free. Voted With Mckinley.
 Declaring that he had voted with Mo Kinley for free hides in 1890 Senator Burton said that the subject had been very carefully considered on that oc- casion. The beef trust" he said, prob ably tans 60 to 70 per cent of the hides and the whole tanning industry was threatened by the operations of these packers. T think" said MT. Burton, Tt re- quires a great deal of ingenuity to show that the farmer Is benefited by this duty on hides"
 The idea of an increased value of carcass sold by farmer on account of duty on hides. said Mir. Burton, was a phantom. This resulted from the fact that the hide is put 2 per cent of the animal and was sold by the farm CT along with the carcasses. He did not believe there was any necessity for imposing this duty. Its continu- ance, he said, threatened the tanning and boot and shoe industry and bid ldlF 70 uldhe greater a great iflOnOpoiy'
 After speech by MT. Taylor, MT. Aldrich appealed to MT. McLaurin to withdraw his amendment to the pro- posed amendment of the Finance Com mittee, the purpose of which was to include as dutiable small as well as large hides. Mir. Aldrich suggested that the amendment was not consistent with the free trade ideas of the Missis- sippi Senator. Mir. McLaurin replied That a dufu f0 ha leyfod m h ideS 1t ought to be levied on all hides.
 Mir. Beveridge said the McLaurin amendment included class of hides that had never been on the dutiable list under any party.
 MT. McLaurin's amendment extend Ing the duty on hioes to skins of all sizes, was rejected by 31 to 48, the following Republicans voting with the Democrats for the amendment:
 Borah, Bradley, Clapp, Crawford, Dick, Jones, McCumber and Nelson, and the following Democrats against 1t:
 Daniel, McEnery and Owen.
 Amendment Rejected.
 By a vote of 26 to AS the amendment offered by Senator Stone placing hides, leather, harness, shoes and belting on the free list, was rejected, only four or five Republicans voting with the Democrats on this amendment.
 substitute by MT. McLaurfn plac- ing hides and shoeL, boots and leather on the free list was rejected by an aye and no vote.
 Before the vote was taken on the committee's amendments for 8 duty on hides there was an exchange of opin- ion among Senators as to what would be done respecting the leather sched- ule. MT. Aldrich explained that those paragraphs had been held up until the duty on hides should be fixed.
 Former Governor Douglass, of Massa- chusetts, figured largely in the debate and statements from him were read to the effect that if he had free hides, he could compete with the world in mak- ing shoes.
 .Mr. Aldrich replied that he did not propose to be guided by one business in fixing the duty on boots and shoes.
 T have heard" said he. that Mir. Douglass was elected Governor of Mas sachusetts as a part of his advertising schemes and l assume 1t was not true"
 Explaining that Missouri was the second boot and shoe manufacturing State of the Union, MT. Stone said he had received communications from some of these manufacturers saying they would be willing to see boots and shoes on the free list If hides were put there.
 By an aye and nay vote an amend ment by MT. Cummins fixing the duty on hides at 10 per cent ad valorem, was rejected
 Removed From Free list.
 The Finance Committees amendment re- e-enacting the Dingley rate of Is per cent ad valorem and thus removing hides from the free list where they were placed by the House. was then adopted, 46 to 30.
 The Democrats voting with the ma jority were:
 Bailey. Culberson, Fletcher. Foster, Hughes, McEnery, Newlands, Smith (Md.), Stone and Taliaferro.
 The Republicans who voted against the amendment were.
 Briggs, Burnham, Burrows, Burton, Clapp. Crane, Cullom, DuPont. Frye, Johnston, LaFollette. Lodge. Nelson, Page, Root and Smith (Mich)
 Reverting to the leather schedule, Senator Deliver offered an amendment which was accepted by Chairman Aid rich, placing a duty of 15 per cent ad valorem in addition to the rate provid- ing for the leather in them on leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps or other forms suitable for conversion into man ufactured articles.
 Mir. Aldrich then reported from the- Committee on Amendment increasing the duty on lumber to S1.50 per thou sand and additional rates of from 37 1-2 to 50 cents, according to the number of sides upon which 1t was planed.
 These rates. Mir. Aldrich explained.