The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-24
ALDRICR LOSES
/ ON PINEAPPLES
Florida Senator's Secure
Higher Duty.
LUMBER ALSO BOOSTED


: Senate Rejects Mccumber's Efforts to
Restore House Rate Of u Per
~ Thousand Feet on Sawed Lumber
: and Fixes Duty at atst:5o-knoeks OF
Seven Cents a Ton From Bitumi-
nous Coal as Agreed to by House
snd Eliminates Reciprocity Clause.
washington, June 24.-In unexpect-
edly short order the senate took up
and disposed OF the lumber schedule.
and then entering on the discussion
of pineapples. put behind It the pro-
vision regulating the rates OF duty on
that article.
Mr.. Aldrich asked that the lumber
schedule should receive first atten.
tion. He had no sooner taken his
seat than Senator McCumber, who in
the interest of the treeless northwest
has been persistent advocate Of
free lumber, arose and presented an
amendment reducing the finance
committees rate of $3.50 per thou
Sand son sawed lumber to the house
rate OF 81 per thousand. This was
generally recognized as a test prop
osition, as sawed lumber has been
the bone Of contention from the be-
ginning. The North Dakota senator
permitted his provision to go directly
TO vote.
The result was against him and
was another triumph for the Aldrich
rates, the vote standing "a in favor
Of and ~ against the reduced rate.
Party lines were obllterated on this
vote.
The entire wood schedule, making
9 reductions Of about 25 per cent from
the present law rates and Increasing
the house rates of the pending bill to
about the same extent, was then
: agreed TO.
The sailing was not so smooth
when II came to pineapples. The
contention in this connection was for
higher rates, and came from Demo
cratic sources. The objectors in this
case were Senators Taliaferro and
Fletcher of Florida. The house had
fixed a duty of s cents per cubic foot
on pineappIes in barrels and of IS
Per thousand. but the senate commit
tee on finance. reduced this rate to
cents and 81 respectively, thus re,
storing the provisions of the Dingley
law.
Mr.. Taliaferro presented an amend
ment restoring the house rate OF sS
H,,N ,ha 10 nth hAr
portions of the provision so as TO re-
quire the payment Of half a cent a
pound for pineapples in bulk. The
contention was for and against this
increase. and the fight was mainly
between the Florida senators, repre-
senting a pineapple producing state,
and Senators Smith and Rayner OF
Maryland. in whose state there are
large pineapple canning establish
ments. Disavowing all championship
Of the Gamers. the Maryland sena.
= tors made q strenuous fight on gen
eral principles against the increase
of the duty. Mr.. Rayner charged the
Republican party with bad faith in
promising to lower tariff duties.
After debate extending over
about four hours the Taliaferro
amendment was adopted, "a to 80.
This was a defeat for the finance
committee, but the amendment was
not strenuously resisted by the com
mittee and several of it's members
voted for It.
A new schedule was presented by
Mr.. Aidrich as chairman Of the
finance committee reducing the house
rate on bituminous coal from 81
cents per ton to so cents. and elimi.
mating the house reciprocity clause.
Numerous attempts were made to re-
duce the rate and there was one ef-
fort to obtain free coal, but all were
voted down and the committee's